FLASQ Webinar Series

Ensuring Quality: Lessons from the Nation’s Top Ranked Online Programs

You are cordially invited to join a FLASQ Webinar/Panel Discussion with a group of Florida’s online education leaders at 2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. (EDT) on April 22, 2021. See detailed webinar information below.

The webinar pre-registration is free but required. Please register and join us on April 22, today!

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021

Time: 2:00 p.m. – 2: 50 p.m. (EDT)

Registration (Free & Required): Follow this web link [fsu.zoom.us] to register

panel discussion flyer
 
Guest Speakers: 

Felix BritoExecutive Director, Instructional Design and Development, Department of Online Education, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Cheryl KohenDirector, Division of Online Studies, Daytona State College

Brian K. MarchmanAssistant Provost and Director, Office of Distance Learning, University of Florida

Kelvin ThompsonExecutive Director, Center for Distributed Learning, University of Central Florida


Description

With so many challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education still manages to fulfill their missions by providing quality instruction and services to students. Many of Florida’s institutions have been highly ranked by U.S. News & World Report for 2021 in the category of Best Online Programs, as well Best Online Graduate Programs. This webinar will feature a panel of leaders from top ranked online programs who will share proven strategies for ensuring online learning quality. They will also discuss the pandemic’s effects on their strategies for ensuring quality, including their post-pandemic plans for doing so. The panel is set to interact with the audience via voice and text chat within the web conference platform and answer questions.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the session, the participants will be able to: 

  • describe top strategies for ensuring online quality; 
  • Identify three online quality strategies that are applicable locally;
  • adopt at least one quality strategy for their online programs.