1. Engaging Faculty in Quality Assurance through Online Professional Seminars (OPS)

2. AACTE OUR MISSION
AACTE leads the field in advocating for and building capacity for high-quality educator preparation programs in a dynamic landscape.

3. OUR CORE VALUES Serving all learners Equity High-quality learning
Professionalism
Diversity
Scholarship and Knowledge Production
Accountability
Infusing Current Knowledge and Practices into Programs

4. AACTE Quality Support Center
Performance Management
Data Initiative
Online Professional Seminars (OPS) and consultants
Quality Support (regional) Workshops

5. Quality Support Center
Goals:
Support Profession in the work of Continuous Improvement
Support for Achieving Accreditation
Professional Development
Organizational Development
Flexibility for Participants
Create corps of Credentialed Consultants

6. Data Driven Decision Making
“AACTE developed the OPS series in response to members’ interest in using data effectively to document success and drive improvement. We’re thrilled by the interest and participation we’ve received thus far and look forward to further engaging groups to participate in the new in-depth seminars.”
Sharon P. Robinson, President and CEO, AACTE

7. OPS Participants
Course 2 on FutureLearn: over 1500 registered this week
OPSs first introduced in June Launched on FL platform January 2017.
Course 1; Run 1 on FutureLearn: 5546 participants
March 20: Course 2 begins.
May 1: Course 1; opens again

8. Future Learn platform (futurelearn.com) founded by Open University
100+ World Class partners
Designed and built by experts from online, mobile, and media
Effective learning design embedded in all aspects of the platform
Uniquely designed for multi-platform use – mobile first
Incorporates the best of social web within built social architecture

9. OPS Course (and Program) Inventory
OPS 1: Designing Assessments to Measure Student Outcomes OPS 2: Using Data to Improve Student Outcomes OPS 3: Creating a Quality Assurance System OPS 4: Making the Case for Accreditation: Standards and Evidence OPS 5: Preparing for Accreditation OPS 6: Leveraging Accreditation for Quality Improvement

10. OPS 1: Designing Assessments to Measure Student Outcomes (May 1, 2017)

11. OPS 1: Learning Outcomes

12. Learner Board from AACTE/FL Course 1 (Assessments)
Learner Matt Broadhead from the UK commented:
“I have thoroughly enjoyed this course and look forward to enrolling in future courses with FutureLearn. I feel that I have learned a lot during the three weeks (of AACTE’s course) and have designed a new rubric last week for summative assessment of a furniture-making course. Thank you for the experience and to all that have provided feedback. I have enjoyed the insight from teachers outside of the UK.”

13. OPS 2: Using Data to Improve Student Outcomes March 20, 2017

14. OPS 2: Learning Outcomes

15. OPS 3 - 6: Accreditation and a Quality Assurance System (Projected Launch Date: Fall 2017)

16. OPS 3: Creating a Quality Assurance System

17. OPS 3: Learning Outcomes

18. Discussion Board OPS 3

19. OPS 4: Making the Case for Accreditation: Standards and Evidence

20. OPS 4: Learning Outcomes

21. OPS 5: Preparing for Accreditation

22. OPS 5: Learning Outcomes

23. OPS 6: Leveraging Accreditation for Quality Improvement

24. OPS 6: Learning Outcomes

25. “As the single accreditor in educator preparation, CAEP commends AACTE’s Quality Support Initiative for helping programs to achieve the rigorous, high standards for professional accreditation”
Christopher A. Koch, President, CAEP

26. Continuous Improvement Model
We embrace the principles of improvement outlined in the Carnegie model (including the AACTE questions) in how we approach continuous improvement in educator preparation.
1. Make the work problem-specific and user-centered.
Are the right stakeholders on hand and ready to participate?
Can the problem be stated simply with consensual definitions?
2. Variation in performance is the core problem to address.
Do the data indicate patterns in performance?
Do the quantitative data produce a normal distribution?
Do the qualitative data provide context for the phenomenon?
Will improvement be measurable and allow comparison?
3. See the system that produces the current outcomes.
Have the stakeholders "visited" the setting?
Can the setting and processes be observed and described clearly?
Can observations pick up on what is not happening?

27. Participants told us through anonymous end of course surveys:
Feedback
Participants told us through anonymous end of course surveys:
Content was appropriate
Content was useful
Strongly
Agree

28. Feedback/ Participant Comments
“I'm just beginning the process of being involved in the process of preparing for CAEP review. It was good to be able to access this information so that I go into it with a better understanding of what others have experienced in the past and will be discussing for the future as we review and update our assessments. 
I can also translate some of this information into teaching my teacher candidates about developing rubrics to use with their own classes of K-12 students.”

29. Feedback/ Participant Comments
Question: This OPS will be helpful to…
“Set the stage for developing a comprehensive viewpoint on assessment and related issues.”
“Guiding optimal practice as we review for CAEP and CACREP.”
“Connect with other educators; share resources and ideas about how to assess/evaluate pre-service teachers and the programs they are enrolled in.”
“Supporting our efforts to revising/building assessments to support our transition towards meeting CAEP standards.”

30. Discussion Board OPS 3

31. QUALITY SUPPORT CENTER http://aacte
EPP Support:
Online Professional Seminar Courses – 6
Online Professional Seminar Courses – future?
Quality Support Workshops
AACTE Consultant database
Performance Measurements resources
Information Privacy resources
Data Initiative support

32. Quality Support Center Next Steps
Online Professional Seminars – 6 courses
Version 2.0 launched in January 2017
New platform (FutureLearn.com)
More interactive and “human”
More videos and audios
Formative and summative assessments integrated for Certificate of Completion (required for consultants)
Global audience

33. Quality Support Center Next Steps
Online Professional Seminars
Course 1: Building Quality Assessments for Student Outcomes
Run 2 in May 2017
Course 2: Using Data to Improve Student Outcomes
Run 1 opens March 20, 2017
Courses 3, 4, 5, 6 (Accreditation Program)
Launched in Fall 2017

34. Quality Support Center Next Steps
QSC (regional) Workshops
Interactive, team-designed sessions
Focus on quality assurance, continuous improvement, and performance measures
Accessible, affordable, and targeted support for assessment and accreditation teams
Dates:
Fort Worth TX, April 24-26, 2017
Minneapolis MN, August 10-12, 2017
Seattle WA, November 9-11, 2017
aacte.org/workshops    

35. Quality Support Center Next Steps
AACTE Consultants
Database scheduled for spring 2017 launch
New group of Consultant Courses (CC 1-3) began January 2017
New cohort added in March 2017 at AACTE Annual Meeting in Tampa
Annual sessions for collegiality and updates at Annual Meetings

36. AACTE Credentialed Consultants
Why? OPSs as a foundation: CC 1: Introduction to the Credential CC 2: Leadership for Consultants CC 3: Communication Competencies Process for becoming an AACTE Credentialed Consultant?

37. Want to learn more or need the services of an AACTE Credentialed Consultant?
Please contact: Linda McKee, Michelle Kotek, Or check out our online consultant application process

38. Engaging Faculty in Quality Assurance through Online Professional Seminars (OPS)
Linda McKee Senior Director of Quality Support Initiatives (preferred) (only if truly desperate and have never used )