Straddling the Chasm

Michelle Pacansky-Brock

Innovations Lead, Teaching & Learning Innovations
California State University-Channel Islands

In the digital, networked era, faculty are at various stages in the technology adoption spectrum: some are visionary edTech enthusiasts, others are technology skeptics, while many see the potential technology brings to teaching and learning but are reluctant to change. How can institutions leverage this diversity to create a culture of eLearning that supports student learning, inspires faculty, and recognizes organizational barriers that may impede change?

“I attended an OLC Collaborate about a year and a half ago in Los Angeles and had many wonderful takeaways from the experience. My recent blog post shares some of these with you and provides a glimpse into the presentation I am planning.”

Why Digital Learning

Renee Franzwa

Higher Education Strategy
EdSurge

Join the EdSurge team for a hands-on workshop digging into ‘the why’ of digital learning. We’ll explore what problems you are trying to solve for your institutions and how digital learning practices and products can be leveraged to increase the quality and accessibility of learning for students.

Themes and Trends in Digital Learning – Beyond the Hype

Vanessa Peters

Education Researcher
SRI International

Nori Barajas

Grant Project Director
Online Learning Consortium

There has been a lot of discussion about the promise of digital learning to increase access to postsecondary courses and improve student outcomes, yet there is still much work to be done to demonstrate these outcomes for all learners. Join three different researchers as they share insights from recent work in the digital learning landscape related to faculty, research evidence, and courseware implementation.

Defining “Exemplary” in the Digital Courseware Landscape

Nori Barajas

Grant Project Director
Online Learning Consortium

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) analysis of Digital Learning Innovation Awards (DLIAward) submissions captures the current state of digital courseware implementations across undergraduate institutions of higher education. Strategies to increase student success were identified in undergraduate programs at various institution types with 2-year and 4-year programs.

Leveraging Instructional Designers in Higher Ed

Kristin Powers

Associate Director
Intentional Futures

Ilona Chebotareva

Producer
Intentional Futures

Building on the well-received Instructional Design in Higher Education report, we are in a pivotal position to support the ID field and bring awareness to the impact they can have in the overarching field of higher education. We see instructional designers as the glue between students, technology, and instructors. Instructional designers have the potential to become the go-to people on campus for online and blended learning expertise- but they aren’t currently being fully utilized. This workshop will focus on real problems going on today at higher-ed institutions and the ways that IDs can help solve them. Learn design thinking, best practices, and ways to fully engage the ID on your campus.

Fit over Features: Vetting Tools that Support Student Success

Renee Franzwa

Higher Education Strategy
EdSurge

Join this hands-on session for a guided deep-dive into the unique problems your campus is trying to solve. Leveraging research, data and the EdSurge product index, you’ll walk out with a defensible method to evaluate and choose student success tools for your campus.

Building a Culture of eLearning

David Cillay

Vice President for Academic Outreach and Innovation
Washington State University

Today’s higher education institutions are tackling an array of challenges from waning state funding and calls for greater accountability to overcoming issues of access for all learners. At the same time, these institutions are embracing transformative opportunities aligned with their vision and mission.
In a recently released study of chief academic officers (Jaschik and Lederman, 2017), Inside Higher Ed asked provosts about strategies on which they plan to increase emphasis. Eighty-two percent said expanding online programs and offerings was such a strategy. Provosts at public institutions (86%) were more likely to respond this way than those at private institutions (77%).
Building, sustaining, and growing a culture of eLearning on a campus is multi-faceted. This session will unpack those realities through a number of different lenses.

Open Publish & Flourish: Adopting and Authoring Affordable Learning & Sustainable Strategies to Transform Education

Cyril Oberlander

Library Dean
CSU Humboldt

This talk focuses on a set of high-impact strategies to support student and faculty success with hands-on faculty workshops, and with promoting digital scholarship and open access publishing services. The presentation will provide useful ideas that draw from CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions and from experience developing the Open SUNY Textbook initiative, Humboldt State University Press, and HSU Sustainable Learning faculty workshops, a campus collaboration of librarians, instructional designers, and the bookstore; part of the CSU Affordable Learning Solutions program. Attendees will hear some practical tactics faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and others contribute to making higher education more affordable, scalable and sustainable.

High-Tech, High-Touch: Serving Student Needs at Scale

Kristin Powers

Associate Director
Intentional Futures

Ilona Chebotareva

Producer
Intentional Futures

In this presentation, we will share promising examples of digital learning from diverse institutions across the US. Digital learning isn’t being used to drive more students through courses– it is being used as a tool to meet the student’s needs of flexibility, access, and support. We will focus on student-centered learning and using technology to support better teaching practices, better interventions, and better feedback for students. Adaptive platforms, OER, and active learning are just a few of the examples herein that we’ve included to show how high-tech and high-touch scaled digital learning can be.

Personalized Learning Innovations and Large-Scale Implementations

Meaghan Duff

Senior Director, Professional Learning
EDUCAUSE

An increasingly popular phrase in education circles, ‘Personalized Learning’ conjures very different images in the minds of K-12 teachers and curriculum specialists, higher education faculty and administrators, education technology developers, and especially today’s students. In the gap between our present-day teaching practices and a future with better data-informed instruction that is tailored to the needs of individual learners, educators and institutions struggle to make sound decisions about pedagogical reform, content adoption, and technology use. Join Meaghan Duff as she discusses the variety of approaches postsecondary institutions are using to personalize learning and shares her perspective on how education technology products may evolve to meet the needs of contemporary college students and their instructors.
For the past year, Dr. Duff has been working with large public research universities to implement adaptive courseware, one form of personalized learning, at institution scale in high enrollment, introductory-level courses. Participants in this session will learn how these schools are engaging faculty in efforts to personalize learning and supporting them through the process of changing their approach to classroom instruction, selecting digital tools, and measuring the impact on student performance. Following the presentation, Dr. Duff will facilitate a conversation with the audience guided by participant questions and comments.