DAILY UPDATE for Thursday, November 17

IMPORTANT UPDATES for our Conference Attendees

Conference Registration Desk – Convention Foyer (WDW Dolphin)

Thursday, November 17:                7:00am – 4:00pm

 

Wireless Internet Access for Conference Space 

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Password:  olcwireless

 

Today’s Highlights

Yoga

Join us today for Yoga with Kathryn, a fellow conference attendee and certified yoga instructor.

	Date		Time		Room		Yoga Style
	Thursday, 11/17		6:30am – 7:30am		Asia 2		Slow Flow Yoga*
	Thursday, 11/17		11:00am – 11:15am		Exhibit Hall		Stretch & Renew**
	Thursday, 11/17		2:30pm – 2:45pm		Exhibit Hall		Stretch & Renew**

 

Start your morning right with the OLC Community Breakfast

Fun, Fun, Fun…You’re invited! While munching on your favorite breakfast foods, get to know your colleagues and participate in (or get the answers to) OLC and MERLOT trivia questions with a chance to win prizes. Connect with your online learning community and have a great time.  7:15am, Pacific Hall

Thursday Keynote Session “Pushing The Reset Button On Higher Education: What I Can Do At Minerva That I Couldn’t Do At Stanford Or Harvard”

Immediately following breakfast, join us at 8:00am in Pacific Hall for our Thursday keynote with Stephen Kosslyn, “Pushing the Reset Button On Higher Education: What I Can Do at Minerva That I Couldn’t Do at Stanford or Harvard.”

Regular concurrent sessions begin at 9:00am today.

 

OLC Awards Luncheon

Join us for lunch as we honor OLC Award winners for significant contributions to knowledge, practice, and innovation in online and blended learning. The OLC Excellence Awards, Digital Learning Innovation Awards, Best-in-Strand Awards, and Effective Practice Awards will be presented. The emerging leaders of the IELOL class of 2016 will also be recognized. Tickets for the Awards Luncheon ($25 onsite) are on sale at the Conference Registration Desk (Convention Foyer). All attendees and guests who wish to attend the OLC Awards Luncheon must purchase a ticket. The conference organizers are covering the additional cost of this plated three-course lunch over the ticket fee for attendees. If you do not plan to attend the Awards Luncheon, lunch will be on your own. Guests lunch tickets are $60 onsite.

Today’s Featured OLC Sessions

• What You’ve Been Waiting For – OLC’s Blended Learning Scorecard (Kaye Shelton, Jennifer Mathes)  – Education Session-Individual or Dual Presentation, 9:00am, Asia 2 
• Learn About The OLC Institute Mastery Series Program (Elisabeth Stucklen) – Discovery Session, 9:00am, Nothern Hemisphere Foyer
• Grad Student Discovery Sessions – Discovery Sessions, 10:00am, Northern Hemisphere Foyer
• Putting Courseware Quality in Context: A Discussion With the Developers of Courseware Quality Resources (Rahim Rajan, Gates Bryant, Karen Pedersen) – Education Session-Panel Discussion,  11:15am, Southern Hemisphere 3
• What Do We Know About Online Learning? The Current And Possible Future State Of Online Learning Research (Peter Shea, Terry Anderson, Mark Brown, Karen Swan, Doug Lederman) – Education Session-Research Highlights, 1:30pm, Americas Seminar
• It’s not a Crystal Ball, But… (Kathleen Ives, Karen Pedersen, Russ Poulin, Jill Buban) – Education Session-Panel Discussion, 1:30pm, Asia 3 
• Meet the 2016 Digital Learning Innovation Award Recipients (Nori Barajas, Award Recipients) – Education Session-Panel Discussion, 1:30pm, Southern Hemisphere V 
• Now that the Election is Over – What’s on the Horizon (Karen Pedersen, Kathleen Ives, Russell Poulin, Ken Salomon, Van Davis) – Education Session-Panel Discussion, 3:15pm, Americas Seminar
• DLIAward Individual Discovery Sessions (Award Recipients) – Discovery Sessions, 3:15pm, Northern Hemisphere Foyer
• Town Hall Sessions
  • Town Hall: Leadership (J. Garvey Pyke, Andrew Edmunds, Elizabeth Ciabocchi, Lawrence Ragan, Patsy Moskal) – Featured Town Hall, 9:00am, Southern Hemisphere II
  • Town Hall: Tools And Technologies (John Vivolo, Kate Miffitt, Gary Chin, Jessie Guy-Ryan) – Featured Town Hall, 10:00am, Southern Hemisphere II
  • Town Hall: Institutional Strategies & Innovations (Douglas Geier, Shanta Goswami Varma, Sophia Stone, Gary Chinn, Keith Bailey, Sheila Baker, Cristi Ford) – Featured Town Hall, 11:15am, Southern Hemisphere II

Thursday Special Events

• Technology Test Kitchen Iron Chef Battles Heat 3 will take place on the Technology Test Kitchen (Atlantic Hall) at 10:00am.
• Technology Test Kitchen Iron Chef Battles Heat 4 will take place on the Technology Test Kitchen (Atlantic Hall) at 1:30pm.
• Today’s National Titanium and Diamond level Sponsor special presentations, located in the National Sponsor Presentation Area – Atlantic Hall (located on right side of the Exhibit Hall):
  • 9:00am – ProctorU – Above And Beyond HEOA Compliance – Online Proctoring And The Digital Age (REPEAT SESSION)
  • 10:00am – CogBooks – Creating Adaptive Learning Courses – What Instructional Design Principles Do You Need To Consider?
  • 11:15am – Mirum Learning – How Virtual Reality And Augmented Reality Are Transforming Higher Education
  • 1:30pm – Canvas – Open Up To A Better Learning Ecosystem
• Date change: Growing Programs By Serving Internal Customers (Eric McGee (ProctorFree) – Solutions Showcase, 3:15pm, Northern Hemisphere E1-E2
• Take a look at our Special Events and Sponsorships page for further details!

An Evening at Disney

Tickets need to be picked up at the OLC Registration area (special Disney ticket desk) in the conference space at the Dolphin. Dinner is on your own this evening. Tickets must be picked up from conference ticket desk prior to departure for the event on Thursday. Anyone wishing to sell their ticket may do so with a fellow attendee using #OLCTIXSWAP. 

Following the conclusion of Concurrent Session 9 at 4:00pm, guests who purchased tickets during registration will make their way over to EPCOT or Hollywood Studios (via walking or Friendship boat ride) to be admitted for an evening enjoying one of these Disney Parks.

Note: Magic Kingdom is closed that evening; Animal Kingdom closes at 7pm and is not a recommended choice for that evening.

At 8:30pm, everyone with a green wristband who is not already at EPCOT should enter the International Gate at EPCOT, to be guided by a park employee over to the World Showcase patio. There you will join OLC for our final event of the evening – a dessert reception viewing of the IllumiNations fireworks/laser show, followed by private event access to the newly updated “Soarin’ Around the World” ride.

Additional Items of Note

• The exhibit hall opens at 8:30am today (Atlantic Hall) and closes at 3:15pm. There are no Friday exhibit hall hours.  
• Looking for something different to do during the conference and especially during networking coffee breaks? Don’t forget to visit the exhibitors and enter to win some fabulous Booth Drawing prizes.  Visit our Special Events page and learn about our new goosechase game and our Exhibitor stamp card contest – win an iPad Air 2 32GB and other prizes!
  • New this year, OLC is offering prizes for getting your exhibitor card stamped!
    • Pick-up your card at registration, visit each booth to collect a unique stamp, and turn your card in at the OLC booth (#210) no later than 3:15pm on Thursday. An iPad Air 2 32GB and various gift cards will be awarded to winners at the Friday morning plenary session!
    • One Grand Prize winner will be drawn from those who collect ALL the unique sponsor and exhibitor stamps to win. Grand Prize: iPad Air2 WiFi 32GB.
    • Additional prizes will include a variety of gift cards.
    • Minimum of 25 stamps must be collected to be eligible for gift cards; full card must be stamped to be eligible for iPad drawing.
    • Prizes will be awarded at the Friday plenary.
• Bring your own device (laptop, tablet, smart phone) and visit the Technology Test Kitchen (located in the center of the exhibit hall, Atlantic Hall) to interact with emerging technology, connect challenges to innovative practices through hands-on experimentation, and document your ideas in a virtual recipe book. “Chefs” will be on hand to work with you! Don’t miss the special demonstrations, Chef’s Tables, Walk and Talks and Iron Chef Battles in the Live TTK Space throughout the day. #OLCTTK

 

Have a great day!