We are pleased to announce the program for OLC Accelerate 2018!
Start Planning your OLC Accelerate Experience
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All Sessions are in Eastern Time (ET). All sessions are considered BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).
All Sessions are 45 minutes in length unless otherwise noted.
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Participants will learn to apply the OLC Quality Scorecard metrics, uncover and evaluate quality indicators in key categories, and consider thoughtful recommendations for implementation.
There is a fee for this Pre-Conference Workshop: $205 Early Bird / $235 Full Price. Select both an AM and a PM pre-conference workshop to receive special combo package pricing of $375 Early Bird / $435 Full Price (total savings of $35).
Come to this workshop to meet OSCQR, the OLC Effective Practice award-winning online course quality design rubric and process. Participants will use OSCQR to complete their own online course review and earn the OSCQR Reviewer badge. The OSCQR rubric & dashboard are openly licensed. Participants will take away tools to apply to their own systematic online course quality review initiatives.
There is a fee for this Pre-Conference Workshop: $205 Early Bird / $235 Full Price. Select both an AM and a PM pre-conference workshop to receive special combo package pricing of $375 Early Bird / $435 Full Price (total savings of $35).
It’s time for accessibility to become the “norm”. This hands-on workshop explores helpful techniques and tools to add to your toolkit for becoming inclusive and compliant. Take a deeper dive into the most important universal design principles that will ultimately benefit all students and avoid potential lawsuits. Be proactive, not reactive!
There is a fee for this Pre-Conference Workshop: $205 Early Bird / $235 Full Price. Select both an AM and a PM pre-conference workshop to receive special combo package pricing of $375 Early Bird / $435 Full Price (total savings of $35).
Convening at our OLC Accelerate conference in Orlando on Tuesday, November 13th, 2018, this half-day event will feature presentations, small group discussions, and networking opportunities. Learn more about topics important to online learning leaders, including: Implication of Policies, funding and resources for program development; marketing and promotion; and, alternative credentialing.
After each presentation, we will gather in small groups to discuss, collaborate and tackle the issues at hand. The day will culminate with the speakers participating in a panel Q&A session.
See full agenda here: https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/attend-2018/accelerate/leadership-network/
Registration fee for the Leadership Network Event is $205 early bird/$235 regular price (with purchase of OLC Accelerate conference registration); or $290 (pre-conference workshop only registration). Note: the Leadership Network Event is not eligible for the pre-conference workshop bundle pricing.
Registration fee for the Leadership Network Event is $205 early bird/$235 regular price (with purchase of OLC Accelerate conference registration); or $290 (pre-conference workshop only). Not eligible for bundle pricing.
Through a collaborative statewide process, the Online Student Support Scorecard was designed to assist postsecondary institutions in evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the services available for online students. Participants will practice how to use the scorecard to evaluate services and discuss potential solutions to improve online support at their institution.
There is a fee for this Pre-Conference Workshop: $205 Early Bird / $235 Full Price. Select both an AM and a PM pre-conference workshop to receive special combo package pricing of $375 Early Bird / $435 Full Price (total savings of $35).
This workshop focuses on steps taken by a large, complex institution in implementing the OLC Quality Scorecard. This is a working case study of how to begin the work of holistically exploring the quality of online programs at an institution. The session will support participants in thinking about messaging, creating buy-in and the overall development of a project plan. The session is also intended as an opportunity for participants to share and respond to the plans of colleagues from various sized institutions interested in the systematic exploration of quality as it relates to online.
There is a fee for this Pre-Conference Workshop: $205 Early Bird / $235 Full Price. Select both an AM and a PM pre-conference workshop to receive special combo package pricing of $375 Early Bird / $435 Full Price (total savings of $35).
As a means of accelerating agency and autonomy within online classes, what if we reimagined our roles as students, educators, support staff, administrators as heroes on an epic quest? This ebullient, gamer’s delight will provide an experiential look at the application of monomyth structure within online learning, providing innovative tools and approaches to creating classroom heroes.
There is a fee for this Pre-Conference Workshop: $205 Early Bird / $235 Full Price. Select both an AM and a PM pre-conference workshop to receive special combo package pricing of $375 Early Bird / $435 Full Price (total savings of $35).
CWiC Executive Committee Meeting - This meeting will be held in the Premier Suite (12th Floor, Dolphin Tower). Please access via the Central elevator bank in the Dolphin Lobby.
***This meeting is invitation-only***
Join us for a special evening ceremony and reception as we honor OLC Award Winners and other leaders immersed in the higher education digital landscape. Best-in-Track Awards, Effective Practice Awards, OLC Fellows, and Digital Learning Innovation Awards will be presented. The emerging leaders of the IELOL class of 2018 will also be recognized. Congratulations to all of our award winners!
Tickets are required to attend and may be added to your conference registration or purchased onsite at the registration desk for $30.
Check-in to the conference early during our Tuesday evening early registration hours (5-7pm; Convention Foyer), then join our exhibitors in the Atlantic Exhibit Hall for a special preview event. A complimentary drink ticket and snacks will be provided to all attendees checking in to the conference at early registration. Stop by the Technology Test Kitchen to see what they are 'cooking up' during the conference, plus get an early start on your exhibitor stamp card for some fabulous prizes!
Don't wait in line Wednesday morning and miss portions of a workshop, the Global Quality Summit, or the Research Summit. Check-in at conference registration Tuesday evening from 5-7pm to pick up your conference badge and materials. After you check-in, take part in the Tuesday evening events including: the OLC Awards & Leadership Ceremony and Reception (purchased ticket required for non-award winners; this event replaces past years’ Awards Luncheon), Exhibit Hall Preview, and an evening party sponsored by Proctorio at the Atlantic Dance Hall @ the Disney Boardwalk. Be sure to make your travel plans to arrive early enough on Tuesday to participate in these events.
OLC Accelerate 2018 registration is located in the Convention Foyer in the Dolphin Conference Center. Walk through the hotel lobby to the conference center area, then look for the directional signs.
Dance yourself clean in the time machine with Proctorio at the Atlantic Dance Hall on Disney's Boardwalk. ”Don’t be such a square!” Join us for an evening of drinks and rewind back in time with the 80’s music you know and love. Proctorio invites you to enjoy a fun night on Disney’s Boardwalk Tuesday evening following a day of pre-conference events at the most bodacious conference in town - OLC Accelerate 2018!
We’ll be hitting the dance floor at 88 Miles per hour while, “Great Scott!”, the Illuminations Fireworks can be seen from the Dance Hall. It’s going to be electric! (1.21 gigawatts worth).
Join us, starting at 7pm (immediately following early registration and the exhibit hall preview), at Disney’s Atlantic Dance Hall. You must be 21+ to enter. Conference attendees must show their attendee badge to receive a wristband to enter. Wristbands are limited and can be obtained at Proctorio’s booth during the exhibit hall preview or at the door of the event. If you arrive at the hotel after badge pickup closes, simply show the dance hall door staff your OLC Accelerate registration confirmation email as proof of attendance to receive your wristband. Dress up optional, but best 80s attire is eligible for a prize!
Ready to start the day energized? Join us for a 1 hour slow flow yoga class with Janet Smith, a fellow conference attendee and certified yoga instructor. Slow flow yoga is made up of slow flow (three breaths per posture), including sun and/or moon salutations. Yoga mat (we will have towels on hand if you don't have one), comfy clothes, and water bottled needed.
Note: OLC Accelerate attendees participate in yoga classes at their own risk. In the unlikely event of injury, please note that OLC and the WDW Swan & Dolphin Resort may not be held liable.
PSI Meeting Room - 1/2 day reserved
Canvas Meeting Room - 1/2 day reserved
What if you could change the trajectory of your online learners by strategically supporting them in their first-year experience? This is an important question, but one not often asked for online students. Providing online learners with early supports tailored to their diverse needs can greatly impact both their success and persistence. In this session we will explore online first year experience (OFYE) strategies that meet these learners where they are in order to help get them where they want to go.
Universities are becoming increasingly aware of the need for online learning experiences and classroom-based learning experiences to converge somewhere along the digital learning continuum. While each institution may have varying reasons to pursue this convergence, faculty face many of the same issues. At the heart of these issues is how to envision and develop a digital learning experience that they themselves most likely have not had as learners. This workshop will examine strategies, tips and lessons learned in engaging and motivating faculty to envision and plan digital learning experiences to bring about institutional culture change.
Student-centered learning will be our focus as we explore heutagogical practices and emerging technologies. Attendees will participate in activities that exemplify the characteristics of heutagogical approaches to learning, be given hands-on opportunity to explore various online and mobile technologies and discuss how the technologies benefit the self-determined learner.
Leveraging adaptive courseware is a growing trend. Instead of just pockets of usage, is it time to figure out how you might adopt it on a wide scale at your university? In addition to developing criteria for selection of adaptive courseware, this workshop will also show you how to plan for faculty development, build institutional awareness, develop staff capacity to sustain innovation at scale, and measuring effectiveness of changes.
***This is an invitation only session for 2018 IELOL participants and IELOL Alumni. This session is not open to general conference attendees.***
The IELOL Master Class is an opportunity for further exploration of a specific set of topical issues facing leaders in online and digital learning. The major outcome of this workshop will be the framing of a leadership response to the forces and challenges in online and digital education. These topics will be selected by the IELOL community. Guest invitaitons will be extended to those individuals best suited to address those topics.
The fees for this workshop are:
IELOL Class of 2018 - $0
IELOL Alumni: $125 early bird/ $150 regular (after 9/19)
Begin your 2018 OLC Accelerate experience with leaders in the the field of digital learning research discussing empirical and evidence-based research, as well as providing insights on future areas of research interest.
In our inaugural research summit, we are joined by leaders from Arizona State University, Entangled Solutions, the Online Learning Journal, and others.
We invite both experienced researchers as well as those interested in learning more about research and its applications to attend.
Join us for the Global Quality Summit (GQS) as part of the Accelerate conference. In the GQS, you will have opportunities to learn, discuss and share best practices in online and digital learning with high level representatives from global institutions.
In this interactive and informative summit, our speakers will discuss how quality in digital learning is addressed in their region of the world. You will then have an opportunity to collaborate with other higher education professionals, to identify solutions to current problems and future trends in digital learning.
This event takes place at our OLC Accelerate conference in Orlando on Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 8:30am – 11:30am and is included in your OLC Accelerate 2018 conference registration.
You are invited to participate in a highly interactive, practical, and hands-on workshop to learn how to use various instructional technologies for assessment in online and blended learning that will enhance your students’ educational experiences and your ability to understand what your students know and can do.
This session will provide a unique perspective of both the buyer’s and seller’s journeys, in which edtech companies successfully sell new technology into institutions. How do universities really evaluate new technology and make decisions? How do edtech company’s authentically align their solutions with institutional missions. Entangled Velocity will share proprietary data about the top institutional strategic objectives, analyzed across a large selection of university strategic plans. We’ll also hear several case studies, in which institutions and edtech companies successfully aligned interests to the benefit of students, instructors, and administrators.
For Institutions, you will learn:
For technology companies, you will learn:
Can US-based quality assurance practices for online learning be adapted to culturally and pedagogically different communities? The presenters will share their experience, strategies, opportunities & challenges, in initiating and developing collaborations in Saudi Arabia to establish a quality assurance process for e-learning and distance education in the Arabic-speaking region.
A healthy new opportunity for exchanging big ideas on the move, networking with colleagues, all while absorbing some much needed Orlando sunshine. Join OLC Field Guides for a daily escape and themed discussion (see below) as we look to take a break from traditional sessions and collectively exercise our bodies and minds.
Walk n’ Talks will departs daily (9:00 AM on Wednesday/Thursday & 9:45 AM on Friday) from the Field Guide Base Station, Dolphin Convention Foyer (near registration).
*Note: Walk n’ Talks are inclusive to all! We will offer a long and short walk in an attempt to accommodate as many folks as possible (see below for a detailed look at the planned walking routes).
Themes for Wednesday:
This paper employed cross-cultural perspective and mixed method approach to analyze how an exemplary higher education institution in Southwest China redefined online and continuing education, constructed a unique quality measurement framework, and explored quality improvement pathway to respond to the nation-wide quality oriented transformation of online education.
If you think it's impossible to teach something in less than a minute, think again! Join the Test Kitchen chefs as they walk you through what it takes to capture and share a teachable moment using Snapchat and Instagram. Challenge us to capture YOUR teachable moment, and we will share our effective practices around ephemeral learning with you.
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Can you share about your 2018 OLC Accelerate experience using only memes (i.e. a picture with few words on it)? Come join us in playing with meme generators to learn one way to make meaning out of our experiences and share those experiences with others.
Proctorio Advisory Board Meeting - please take the Central Elevator Bank in the Dolphin Lobby to the 12th Floor. The meeting will be held in the Premier Suite (right off the elevator).
**This event is invitation-only**
Join us for a "brown bag" lunch in the exhibit hall to kick-start your conference networking opportunities. Attendees will be provided a $25 voucher with their conference registration materials in order to purchase lunch in the exhibit hall Marketplace, allowing you to spend time networking and visiting with exhibitors before the afternoon conference sessions start. Vouchers are good for Wednesday, November 14 lunch in the exhibit hall Marketplace only.
Wiley Faculty Fellows Meeting
***This event is invitation only***
Need a quick tool to gather and analyze data? Learn how this FREE, easy to use tool can make your data collecting life easier. Whether in business or academia, Forms can work for you!
If you plan to participate in the OLC Accelerate Field Guide Program, be sure to arrive in Orlando early enough to attend our Face-to-Face Kickoff Session, at 12:00pm -12:45pm on Wednesday, November 14.
Note: Field Guide Kick-off attendees should pick-up their "brown bag" lunch in the Atlantic Exhibit Marketplace at 11:30am, then proceed to Northern Hemisphere C for the Field Guide kick-off event. $25 vouchers for lunch will be provided in your conference registration materials; this voucher is good for lunch only in the exhibit hall Marketplace and only on Wednesday, November 14.
This session will examine competency-based education (CBE) as an instructional model to provide workforce development to STEM students, promote inclusion of students with cognitive disabilities in STEM fields, and foster discussion and potential collaborations on CBE projects between participants.
Two online learning administrators share their process for addressing critical questions related to online program development and institutional support, and facilitate a discussion among session attendees regarding strategies for staying the course, even during changes in senior level campus leadership.
During this session, staff from the Purdue University will discuss the pilot of the recently created peer review product, Circuit. Circuit is a peer review application that is easy for students to use and for instructors to manage. It allows students to upload a variety of file types including: rich text (including LaTeX math formulas), URLs, Video and several more. It then provides a mechanism for students (an instructors) to provide anonymous feedback scores, rubrics, calibrations or a combination.
In this session, the presenters will demonstrate a variety of interactive resources designed for a large-scale asynchronous workshop and discuss how the digital tools embedded in the workshop created opportunities for participants to explore innovations in teaching and learning. Several examples of resources developed using Articulate Storyline will be featured.
It can be challenging to create a scalable online program that provides a high-quality learning experience, incorporates best practices for course design, and fosters teaching excellence. This session describes our journey creating a popular online academic program. Tips for course design, faculty development and staffing strategies will be discussed.
For Fall 2018, The University of Arizona is reimagining its orientation for fully online students to move from an upfront "onboarding" framework to a continual education space providing just-in-time information to all students. The presentation will provide a brief timeline of the project, as well as discuss how the "orientation space" is transforming to a longer-term student resource.
You've probably been hearing a lot about chatbots lately, but have you ever considered making your own? Come to the Test Kitchen to learn how to take the first steps to making your own chatbot for learning reinforcement, gamification, and more. No coding or experience required!
We are not ADA compliance experts. We are, however, a team that is committed to the creation of quality learning for everyone. In this collaborative session, we discuss how we build ADA compliance checks into our development processes, address challenges associated with ensuring ADA compliance, and leverage appropriate ADA resources.
The concept of what it means to be successful is complex and has largely omitted the personal narrative. Results from a mixed methods study exploring how human service students define student success and what may help them to achieve it.
When your students succeed, so do you. Some of the strongest indicators of learner performance can be identified within a learning management system (LMS). So, the use of a smart, flexible LMS can help increase student engagement, improve classroom management, and enable anytime/anywhere learning. This demonstration will focus on how D2L’s Brightspace platform supports student success.
When online instructors don’t receive training to transition from traditional best practices to online best practices that encourage engagement through social interactions, cognitive experiences, and instructor interaction, students may disengage. Leaders must continue developing transition plans, and best practices as technology evolves while encouraging working relationships between instructional designers and faculty.
As the online education space continues to grow, questions of engagement, retention, and experience have come to the forefront. How do we as student services administrators best serve this growing population? How do we provide the same level of support and community to remote students?
This presentation will explore different aspects of the student experience, including best practices for creating an inclusive and engaging experience for online and remote students. Additionally the presentation will discuss what aspects of this experience student services administrators influence, which often does not include much of the course structure, content, and pedagogy. The presenters will explore this tension and highlight ways in which we can collaborate with instructional designers, faculty, and other administrators to create a high quality student experience. Many of these best practices are relevant to the on-campus student experience as well.
Creating videos and other multimedia for learners in an online or hybrid environment requires skills that instructors need to shape effective learning environments. Approaching these skills in a holistic manner embedded in course design helps ensure that instructional objectives and student needs are taken into account.
This session describes results from a maturing three-year research initiative among two organizationally different universities and their common adaptive learning platform provider. Current findings indicated that the underlying pattern of learning in adaptive courses remains comparable across disciplines and institutions. These findings have implications for predictive analytics and instructional design.
This session will share insights from a research project on blended synchronous learning. This innovative approach brings together online and on-campus students to work on activities in real time. Through an iterative process, several principles emerged for designing solutions that may mitigate the feeling of isolation experienced by online students.
Weekly, low-stakes “Metacognitive Cafe” discussions raise students’ awareness of how they learn and their level of understanding while underscoring the need to more actively engage with course materials. This paper discusses students’ participation in, and reaction to, these discussions.
Class management techniques are tools and strategies you can use with a class to accomplish different goals. This education session covers how various face-to-face techniques can be translated to the online classroom to monitor student understanding, engage students in topics, activate prior learning, promote student reflection, and to foster meta-cognition.
Don't get left behind! New 2018 tools to use in your classroom. Venngage can be used by both teachers and students, an alternative, fun, free, and easy way to present Infographics! Use InsertLearning to promote reading engagement opportunities with your students, free and easy to use!
This session will review findings from a five-part survey to measure student perceptions of instructor-personalized materials. The survey was based on a matrix of types of value and teaching presence across five dimensions (text, image, audio, video and interactive web tools). Presenters will review results of the study and relate it to creating a good balance between maximizing instructor presence and incorporating unique personalized learning components. Results are currently pending. The study will be completed by September.
Offering online learning experiences that not only enhance student’s critical thinking but enable students to connect theory to natural situations can be challenging. The data will present students’ reflections on their reactions of content disseminated through Articulate, and their reactions to Articulate barriers that inhibited learning.
Explore the behind the scenes approach to designing, producing, and delivering VR inspired 360 videos in online courses from an instructional design perspective. Use cases along with the technology used will be discussed and demonstrated providing attendees with insight on best practices and challenges related to pursuing a VR initiative.
This session will provide a hands-on, discovery experience into the world of Virtual Reality and how I used the ThingLink platform to deliver an immersive Crime Scene experience to online and face-to-face students. Additionally, attendees will receive tips, tricks and lessons learned on how to build similar projects.
Closed captions enable greater learning and improved communication for people of all backgrounds. However, the cost of third-party captioning services can be prohibitively expensive to many institutions. In-house captioning provides a budget-friendly opportunity to create more inclusive media. Learn about free or low-cost options that can improve your institution’s accessibility compliance without causing financial strain.
Are you interested in a creative and innovative opportunity for collaborative learning applied to a music and technology project? During this session, faculty describe a robot dance project between majors and non-majors, share team building experiences, and present team competencies (expectations) for successful completion of interdisciplinary projects.
The coordination of UCF’s Faculty Seminars provides brief, focused sessions with an ever-growing library of best practices and resources through applicable, microlearning experiences. Participants will receive a sample implementation process document and glean microlearning ideas for their own efficiently, effectively coordinated faculty development programs.
In this discovery session we will present our current work on developing multiple partnership opportunities between a higher education institution and nonprofit organizations around the use of microcredentials. We will also look broadly at the promises and pitfalls that microcredentials hold for both entities. This session will focus on generating discussions that focus on solutions and identify gaps. Key issues that will be the focus of this session will include revenue sharing, content ownership and management, and evaluation. The format for the session's activities will be based on a "gap filling" protocol to facilitate the generation of innovative solutions.
Every online program aims to engage new students early and often, creating a learning community that connects students to their new institution and increases their persistence and academic success. What if doing so were done with an intention to engage students throughout their life cycle as opposed to focusing solely on their transition into the university? LMS course sites can be a promising and dynamic solution to help students build community and find success long-term.
This session will provide results of a case study exploring the use of social media tools such as Instagram and SnapChat in the online classroom. Results of interviews, surveys and observations will be presented. Models will be presented for discussion as well. The future of social media use in the classroom with the Centennial population will be discussed.
The Bass Instructional Fellows Program (Online Apprenticeship) provides fellows a personalized, authentic learning experience captured in an online e-portfolio using the PebblePad personal learning platform. Portfolios showcase fellows’ learning experiences and reflective teaching practice, and provide an evidence-based collection of authentic learning artifacts, video, digital media, and reflection.
How do you leverage centralized expertise to create online programs in a diffuse university? A toolkit of resources for developing, implementing, and evaluating successful online programs builds capacity while supporting diverse goals and agendas. In this session you will create or enhance the infrastructure for your own institution by adapting a suggested framework and then crowdsourcing the components to support successful online program development.
In an effort to impact student learning by increasing successful course completion, particularly in GEP & STEM courses, UCF’s Board of Trustees made a strategic investment in a course redesign process that leverages the benefits of online, blended, adaptive, and active learning. Join a discussion on implementing innovations at scale.
Instructional design teams face increasing challenges to maintaining consistency and quality of services while being able to rapidly scale up to meet institutional goals. Learn about teamwork practices that are sustainable and design-centric. Virtual teamwork spaces we’ll explore include, Team Website, Team Sandbox, Faculty Development Portal, and Google Drive.
Does online learning impact sense of belonging at a residential campus? This session will combine literature on sense of belonging with an analysis of data from the Student Experience in the Research University [SERU] survey at The University of Texas at Austin.
UDL is purposeful framework to guide learning design. However, instructors and designers face challenges implementing UDL. Luckily, there are many tools out there that can help designers/instructors to design courses that utilize multiple means of presentation, multiple means of engagement and multiple means of representations
What happens after the FLIP? The In-Class FLIP strategy enables educators to think differently about flipped learning in the classroom. By providing 'stations of learning,' students can take ownership of their learning, all at their own pace.
Creating an internal, online professional development program can encourage, support, develop and retain high-quality faculty and staff. In this workshop, we will explore how to develop, launch, sustain and celebrate your online professional development programs.
Nicolet College has redesigned its enterprise technology to create a student-centered infrastructure to better meet the evolving needs of students and local employers.
Instructors must break down barriers to student learning and engagement in elearning environments. Tools for building effective social presence in instruction will be discussed. Participants are encouraged to share challenges in design and instruction of a course. Facilitators will workshop with participants to ensure that all leave the session with a fuller toolbox.
Although the Provosts/Chief Academic Officer (CAOs) have come of age, both personally and professionally, with the technologies that are now ubiquitous across higher education, many remain skeptical about the impact and benefits of the often significant campus investments in instructional technology intended to improve student learning and institutional outcomes.
This panel session will focus on the experience of provosts who participated in the ACAO Digital Follows Project and the impact of that initiative and experience on their students, faculty, and their own perspectives on digital pedagogy. Specifically, the discuss will focus on what really works, and what's really needed, (b) the link between effective courseware and the the completion agenda, and (c) the ways digital course resource can contribute to enhanced student learning, improved retention, and increased graduation rates for ALL students.
This panel will explore innovative learner-centered approaches to teaching digital ethics in a post-truth society. Panelists will address ethical considerations inherent in digital learning environments, tools, and applications. We’ll discuss implications for learning analytics, share strategies and assignments, and invite audience input using polls, survey questions, and Q & A.
This session reports on the first phase of a wide scale benchmarking study of teaching and learning centers, which developed and validated a descriptive framework and instrument, and the implementation of the phase two benchmarking.
Faculty support professionals have varied roles, responsibilities and reach. We will explore the who and what of faculty support professions and share techniques to stay away from “The Dark Side” and inspire “The Force” that builds awareness and supports change for improved teaching and student learning in higher education.
Based on 5 Goals of Introduction Activities in Education, experience, evaluate, and create course-specific introduction activities for use online. Participants take away a process, an Introduction Activity Assessment tool to evaluate course introduction activities, a draft of an activity; and access to a repository of resources.
Join us as we share our journey of teaching our future biomedical science educators how to develop and teach online courses. Learn how a brainstorming activity identified an authentic need in a program that ultimately led to the deployment of three online, self-paced tutorials for use in a biology course.
Simulations using standardized patients offer health professional students highly authentic experiential learning opportunities to support the development of clinical skills. Participants will learn about two studies that investigated the potential to offer these experiences using virtual technologies, and discuss opportunities to use real-person, real-time online simulations in other learning domains.
Explore effective practices for blended learning based on the upcoming book, Blended Learning in Practice: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers (MIT Press, 2019). After a brief presentation on blended learning at Georgia Tech, attendees will engage each other in fast-paced, small group discussions of meeting their own blended learning challenges.
Have you ever mixed networking with accessibility? This session shares our IELOL story and how it formed the foundation for a lively network of colleagues willing to exchanges ideas and help one another highlight or jumpstart change in accessibility standards at our home university. Now a year later, we’ll provide a snapshot of the institutional impact, as well as the ongoing benefits of this network.
In this session, Dr. Bray will demonstrate how she re-designed a 120-student Intro to Exercise Physiology course with a high DWF rate into an instant success (over 100 A's) kicking lecture to the curb and using active, gamified, group project-based learning strategies.
Is that desk really just a desk? Or is it a portal to something even better? With Augmented Reality (AR), you can transform any learning space into a fun and interactive space for your students to learn, explore and create. Join us at the Test Kitchen to learn how you can incorporate AR in learning spaces to inspire and energize your students learning.
OLC is committed to providing you and your institution with powerful membership benefits. We want you to feel proud as a member, and we want your institution to experience a valuable and meaningful membership. This focus group provides an opportunity to help OLC explore benefits that serve institutional objectives.
***This is an invitation-only event. If you’re interested in participating, please contact deb.burns@onlinelearning-c.org***
Observe a new technology that uses facial recognition at multiple points during the course (not just during a proctored exam) to validate student identity and participation. Online course work is sometimes done by a person other than the registered student – a person being paid to do the work, helicopter parents, boy/girlfriend, etc.
A state university’s vision and strategy to create a campus-wide QA culture will be presented. Based on a 3 year case study, participants will be introduced to a new proposed online instructional design system and the results of the data analysis.
The rate of technological innovation and adoption in higher education is growing at a rapid pace. In this session, we’ll dive into the technology behind our latest version of live proctoring, Live+, and how we leverage artificial intelligence to catch and prevent more academic dishonesty than ever before.
This session will tell the story of MITx, the MOOC division of MIT Open Learning, and how many participating MIT faculty began to identify the making of MITx MOOCS as an important professional development opportunity. With the help of the MITx Staff, faculty learned the following:
Higher Education is changing! We need to adapt to meet the growing demands for students as well as potential students. The Brenton Center at ISU has attuned its services to meet the common needs of faculty and students. This session addresses strategies and operations of a distance education unit.
Hear how a faculty learning community uses the Community of Inquiry Framework to help University of Wisconsin-Madison instructors address misconceptions by exploring and applying best practices for quality online course design and teaching. The program engages participants with social, cognitive, and teaching presence that inspires teaching transformation. Practical and time-tested strategies are shared.
Quality was thought to be an important factor in the delivery of online courses. This study documented the effects of quality within online learning environment on the performance of the student. Does the level of course quality have a statistically significant impact on course level student grades?
Based on doctoral research, this session examines the effectiveness of synchronous online learning environments in establishing social, cognitive and teaching presence in virtual instruction. In this presentation the research framework will be discussed followed by a description of the virtual instruction sessions and the results of the research study.
This presentation will introduce the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of digital learning software in a humanities class. Included will be a demonstration of Norton’s InQuizative, a best and worst practices discussion, and a presentation of data on the efficacy of this technology with regard to student success rates. Please BYOD to this session.
This presentation engages participants in a critical dialogue on the importance of integrating formative assessments throughout online learning, as well as the implications for learner and instructor. Instructors can check for understanding in several ways, including the use of oral language, collaborative assignments, questioning, writing, projects, performances, and tests (Fisher & Frey, 2007). Participants will see a variety of innovative examples that they can easily integrate into their online courses that build on learners’ prior knowledge and experiences. Discussions should yield bridges and barriers, along with future considerations to enhance online learning and how they can use this data to design instruction that will meet their student’s needs.
This poster session will discuss research that explores key stakeholder roles and relationships that exist within the higher education blended learning ecosystem. The findings may serve as a guiding force to drive institutions to adopt more dynamic, integrated, and collaborative blended learning environments.
Discover how one university uses student avatars in a virtual reality immersive space to engage online graduate students in developing inquiry skills such as observations and individual/focus group interviews in a collaborative environment. Participants will view recorded sessions using Mursion virtual reality environment and Zoom video conferencing.
Health Professions Education (HPE) programs are embracing online learning to accommodate learners’ diverse needs. USUHS’ HPE program has developed a 5-step onboarding process to address issues of isolation and unclear program expectations experienced by online learners. This process is replicable across institutions, programs, and disciplines.
This presentation is about the changing role of memory in a technology society and the importance of a nurturing a good memory in ourselves and our students. We will learn the techniques used by memory athletes and will discuss how these techniques can be applied in online learning environments.
Demonstrating effective ways to utilize live-streaming technologies at your university. You will learn how to prepare and launch a successful live-stream to better interact with students, faculty, and peers using tools outside of your learning management system.
In this discovery session, participants will explore ways to engage learners in today’s fast-paced and sometimes impersonal world of online education. “Traditional” but effective methods that optimize student engagement and learning effectiveness will be shared and participants will be asked to share and dialogue about strategies that work for them.
Student success in distance courses often lag behind face-to-face sections. Colleges struggle with ways to improve distance learning. This team worked together to create an initiative that promotes quality distance courses by institutionalizing a course design review process for all courses taught at a distance.
Comprehensive exams are a standard requirement in many Ed.D. programs. This discovery session will engage attendees in an open discussion of the outcomes of utilizing two online action research courses in an online Ed.D. program to prepare students from their comprehensive exam through the means of a Professional Practice Project.
This presentation recommends the use of Realistic Job Preview, an orientation technique widely used in the business field, as an alternative to student online readiness self-assessment surveys to provide future online students with a realistic picture of what online learning might be like.
In this session, we will share experiences with course design and peer observation scorecards based on appropriate online learning heuristics for a fully online MBA program. We will perform active demonstrations of each scorecard and discuss their development, roll-out, faculty feedback, and potential impacts for tenure and promotion.
The Pennsylvania State University -- World Campus Smart Track to Success program supports adult learners in their academic journey. Smart Track to Success focuses on retention, support, and community by providing scholarships, academic support, and career and financial planning. Students connect with academic coaches who provide support throughout the semester.
Students cheat. They have the means, motive, and opportunity to receive credit for work done by others. Internet sites will do their assignments for a fee. Others reward students for sharing exam questions and assignment solutions. Learn what you can do to discourage and detect this widespread practice?
What happens when an on-campus collaborative math experience goes online? This presentation will focus on what the instructors learned, how it informed their blended
pedagogy, and the questions they now have moving forward as they hone a blended model for graduate math education study.
The University of Central Florida (UCF) has invested a considerable amount of capital in adaptive learning and uncovered a novel way to scale it. In this session, panelists will share insights into a ‘multifaceted partnership model’ that has paved the way for developing comprehensive adaptive learning solutions efficiently at scale.
This presentation describes online academic program implementation strategies within a large urban community college resistant to change on both structural and cultural levels. We demonstrate how we engaged such resistance through introducing a culture of inquiry that prioritized transparency, shared data, ongoing dialogue and a relentless focus on mission.
Demand for online classes exceeds supply at Southeast Missouri State University. Go behind the scenes to learn the strategies and tactics to address demand including part-time instruction, graduate students, SPOC, co-copyright courses and our newest tactics – the Master Template Studio and Adjunct Integrity plan.
During this session you will learn how Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide views the solution to creating an online immersive experience and a sense of belonging to be holistic in nature and no one technology initiative can occur in isolation and meet the multiple needs and desires of our students.
In this session we will share a set of practices to create a high-touch environment for online students. Participants will learn a set of low-cost, high impact techniques involving both virtual and physical outreach that build connection and trust between students and those who support them.
Please join us to discuss contract cheating ("ghost writing") issues that institutions are facing, what tools are currently available to help detect this, and what tools Turnitin has developed to aid in that detection process.
So, you’ve decided to implement podcasts into your faculty professional development repertoire. Now what? Podcasts provide a flexible platform for anytime/anywhere, self-directed learning. This session will dive into the benefits and barriers to creating or repurposing podcasts, and how they may be integrated into a broader professional development ecosystem.
“Sit-and-Get” lecturing rarely proves successful to engage learners, let alone showcase learning. PlayPosit solves that problem. Easily convert passive video and audio into a multi-layered, multi-directionally interactive, self-reflective, and immersive experience to drive engagement, retention and enrollment skyward.
We all want learners to be deeply engaged, to take risks and be resilient in the face of failure. To increase learner engagement we need to tap into their intrinsic motivation. Gameful pedagogy, and gameful course design in particular, is a framework for giving learners agency and supporting their intrinsic motivation inspired by game design principles. This session will explore the philosophy behind gameful pedagogy, the principles, derived from that philosophy, which can guide your course designs, and the teaching practices that can further support the intrinsic motivation of your learners. Participants will brainstorm ways they might use gameful pedagogy in their own course design, understand the difference between gameful learning and gamification, and develop a plan for giving students choices in how to demonstrate their learning.
Learn about the current state of this track's topics, and get a glimpse into the future as well. The Accelerate Track Chairs and Best in Session presenters will share a snapshot of this year’s presentations in each track – the topics, the key words, the industries, and other trending details. Presenters will also guide a collaboration with our face-to-face and online participants to identify new areas needing exploration, examine growing challenges, and begin to investigate new topics waiting just around the corner to be explored.
Design thinking incorporates a creative, structured, and organized process for designing projects. In this presentation, we will define and share examples of how we applied design thinking to our instructional design practices.
This presentation will highlight research from a 2018 international study that examined neuro-pedagogical beliefs held by instructors, instructional designers, and professional development administrators at four-year and two-year institutions across the United States and worldwide. Awareness of evidence-based practices from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and learning sciences will also be shared.
“Get by with a little help from your friends” and reflect on practices that help form connected and collaborative personal learning networks. This interactive session will highlight the ways educators can leverage social learning as a means of critical professional development, crowdsourced problem solving, and collaborative scholarly work.
Attend Unoffice Hours to help us focus in on the needs of the conference community. This is a chance to engage with a member of the D&I committee to share your thoughts/impressions/comments on diversity and inclusion.
Come connect with your colleagues from the OLC Institute for Professional Development. OLC faculty, participants and those interested in becoming faculty for the OLC Institute are invited to attend. An update will be provided on current and developing initiatives.
Join us in the Exhibit Hall (Atlantic Hall) for our first official networking coffee break of the conference. Not only is this an opportunity to recharge with a fresh cup of coffee or tea, but you will also have the opportunity to network with other attendees. Check out the Technology Test Kitchen, bring a colleague to our Speed Networking Event, or meet with our conference exhibitors and start getting your cards stamped by them in order to win prizes!
Stop by during the break between sessions for special treats (including some that can only be claimed with a colleague from another institution). Bring your Lounge Pass and complete the activities listed to win sweet prizes. Because how often do you have the chance to network with amazing people AND win awesome things?
Our Back to the Future Meetup is all about finding the familiar connections around us and leveraging them to create innovative approaches, practices and solutions. We’ll play Disruptus, an award-winning game on disruptive thinking, over smoothies and treats.
This presentation will demonstrate how a team of math instructors, instructional designers and instructional technologists completely redesigned college algebra as a blended, active, doubly adaptive course. This collaborative effort also informed redesign of the fully online version of the course leading to significant improvements in student success in both formats.
How does LMS/CMS quizzing features as formative assessment compare to openly available game based response systems in online courses? What is the impact of including student generated quizzes? How do these different strategies compare on summative assessments? Join us for the interactive Blackboard vs. Kahoot vs. Quizizz challenge!
Discussion boards present the opportunity for engagement with course topics and higher level thinking if designed and structured well. Adaptive learning provides for self-paced, flexible learning paths. How can the self-paced, personalized flexibility of adaptive learning be combined with online discussions between students at very different places in course content?
In this session, we want to present and explore different technologies and tools that can make videos interactive and fun. These tools and technology can change the passive nature of watching these videos to an active and engaging experience. We will discuss best practices, examples, and resources for these tools.
This session defines student success through a gamified exercise, delving into technologies that collect and manage data, and preparing participants to lead data discussions. Our dashboarding activity challenges attendees to classify student success indicators, practice bridging direct and indirect evidence, and collaborate to synthesize meaning from real-world institutional problems.
As increasing numbers of faculty arrive at their new institutions with previous online teaching experience, the question becomes: how do we effectively assess and certify these faculty members to teach online? This session focuses on our individualized online faculty development option that operates alongside our standard online faculty development course.
Come with a thirst for the truth and fill up on resources to help you find it. Join the fight to find the truth. Take the CRAAP test, explore the best websites, inforgraphics and libguides to get to the truth.
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Science education has been challenged by the demands and rapid growth of online education. One challenge is how to run lab sections of science courses online. This session will include learning about hands-on lab investigations that have been developed for off-campus, online science courses, that maintain college-level rigor.
“Accessibility” isn’t just about providing accommodations to students with disabilities; it includes proactively creating a course environment in which students of varying abilities are set up for success. Join us for a session where we will discuss the growing importance of accessibility and the universal standards by which it is assessed.
Learn about the newest innovation in the online proctored experience. Introducing PSI Bridge™, the multi-modal platform that enables institutions to provide secure and flexible remote proctoring services. PSI Bridge is integrated into an institution's LMS via LTI, so that users have a convenient single-sign-on experience. Create the ideal online proctoring environment that enables institutions to better serve educators and students.
This presentation will include information from a comparative analysis of the job requirements outlined in vacancy postings for this position and a review of the skills outlined as necessary in the literature on higher education leadership. A comparison of needed skills and desired skills outlined in job postings allowed the researchers to identify key gaps of leadership skills missing from many job postings.
Since 2012, the University of South Florida has certified online instructors through a fully online course. The course is successful; however, there were administrative challenges including scalability, tracking, and maintenance. In this session, you will learn techniques and tools we used to streamline processes, reduce facilitator workload, and improve tracking.
This session describes a multidimensional training institute for new and experienced faculty focused on developing exemplary online learning experiences. The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) model serves as the conceptual framework. A systematic process of data collection describes outcomes and supports replication and use by others
Researchers can access large volumes of data generated by hundreds of online courses each semester through the use of system logs. An analysis of these logs, paired with enrollment records and other data, can lead to rich insights. This method is less intrusive and does not contribute to survey fatigue.
How to re-use your classroom assignments effectively in an online environment. A step-by-step approach to transforming your in-class assignment for the online environment. Participants will engage in small group discussions, complete an alignment worksheet for the assignment and discuss ways in which to increase student engagement.
Evaluating published figures and tables for informational visual quality is a vital skill across many fields, yet students often struggle with mastery. In this interactive session, we will demonstrate a multimedia learning object developed for biomedical informatics students and share preliminary results from a research study evaluating its effectiveness.
Conventional wisdom says that the shorter a video is, the more students watch. A two-year study of student video viewing habits is presented here, attempting to find the “sweet spot” in length for lecture content. The study also explores the effectiveness of segmenting a long video into shorter sections.
Join me in learning more about integrating, assessing and evaluating cultural competence across a curriculum while addressing course, program and national outcomes/standards.
The session will explore the idea of universal journal prompts and rubrics. Attendees will be asked to discuss potential ideas for journal guidance and assessment that are broadly applicable to a wide range of student engagement activities.
Integrating video in online courses has increasingly become a medium of choice among faculty as a mechanism for creating instructor presence and engaging learners. In this session, attendees will explore three elements to effective use of video: how to manage cognitive load, establishing instructor presence, and increasing student engagement.
In this session you have an opportunity to review our student orientation Digital Learning Essentials Canvas course used to support the success of undergraduates in the digital environment. We will discuss the steps and collaborations involved in creating this course and the associated student self-assessment for online learning readiness tool.
Online learning can feel overwhelming. Mastering the environment early creates success. Our 2-week orientation teaches students to navigate the LMS, use technology tools, be successful online learners, and learn the policies of their new school. Facilitators are able to spot and help struggling students and connect with each student in a low-stakes environment.
Harper College has developed three, two-week, fully-online courses for faculty who are new to online course development or facilitation. The courses— called Create, Facilitate, and Enhance—each address a specific training need of our busy faculty. Discover how Harper created this successful just-in-time and just-what’s-needed training experience
The Leadership in Online Learning Mastery Series provides current and growing leaders in the field with hands-on experience defining objectives, strategies, organizational structure, policy and finances surrounding the creation and upkeep of an online learning program. Come and talk directly to the current facilitator and an alumni of the program to learn how to take your leadership skills to the next level!
Academic dishonesty is an issue plaguing every educational institute today. This presentation will make a compelling argument to create fit for purpose assessments as a sustainable measure to curtail academic dishonesty. We will also discuss innovative resources, technology tools, and practical considerations to develop new/multiple paths for demonstrating students’ success.
Ready to take your online course to the next level? This workshop presents an excellent blend of experiential learning, meaningful reflection, and engaging technology. Discover how university service-learning students flourished into a vibrant community of practice and grew as relational leaders from rich knowledge-in-practice. An innovative format for all ages.
Working alone may feel like you are in a silo; however, adoption and development of central resource repositories offers the solution to get you back in the game! This presentation will focus on organization, excellent tools, and best practices to enhance teaching and take you out of isolation.
The presentation will report on an asynchronous online debate assignment, including survey data on student satisfaction, participation, and skills gained, as well as reflections from the professor. The presentation will include lessons learned, as well as recommendations for the implementation of online asynchronous debate in online courses.
Transitioning your LMS? Going offline for a short period? Stop by to see how this university migrated from managed hosting to SaaS and survived! You’ll learn about archiving, prepping your designer staff and marketing to students and faculty. Also, get tips on communicating with your LMS provider.
90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual. It's time to communicate beyond text. Come and learn the value that visuals bring to communication in an online learning environment.
This Express Workshop explores maximizing the efficacy of team-based instructional design (ID) leadership strategies from both the perspectives of team leader and team member. Various vignettes, lessons learned, and best practices are unpacked to help attendees glean deep insights into the successes (and failures) of a higher education/federal government ID team.
This panel, featuring four members of the University of Arizona's Online leadership team, will showcase how innovations emanating from digital and online initiatives are shaping the future of the entire institution while re-envisioning the 21st Century "residential" university.
Join in for an interactive, “recorded live” episode of TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast, a podcast for leaders in online/blended learning. Stimulate your thinking. Grow your network.
To help meet expanding demands on instructional design and online learning staff in colleges and universities, the Florida Virtual Campus conducted a statewide survey of them to identify their most pressing professional development needs. This presentation reviews the findings of that survey and provides recommendations for immediate and ongoing professional development.
Access and delivery of tutoring, peer mentors, and librarian support resources by integrating them directly within a LMS platform connects students to support at their point of need. Partnering with our course system engineers, our Library and Learning Services staff implemented innovative ways to increase students’ awareness of essential academic support resources.
Effective learning occurs when students are engaged. We'll demonstrate how you can increase engagement with BigBlueButton.
Few platforms exist for faculty to collaborate, learn, and develop new techniques which foster inclusion and diversity especially when in the online environment. This session will provide educators with researched strategies and ideas to be interactive when working with students to promote awareness and acknowledgement of diversity.
Why create a course that is ‘meh’ when it’s so easy to create a course that is definitely “NOT MEH”! See how easy it is to create engaging, interactive, professional-looking, online lessons that meet accessibility requirements, using SoftChalk.
Connectedness in online learning has an impact on retention and completion, but what activities build a sense of community? The National Survey of Student Engagement for undergraduates, and the Online Student Connectedness Survey are well-established, but there is need for a survey for graduate students and guidance for course design.
Learn about the current state of this track's topics, and get a glimpse into the future as well. The Accelerate Track Chairs and Best in Session presenters will share a snapshot of this year’s presentations in each track – the topics, the key words, the industries, and other trending details. Presenters will also guide a collaboration with our face-to-face and online participants to identify new areas needing exploration, examine growing challenges, and begin to investigate new topics waiting just around the corner to be explored.
Storytelling is key to student engagement. What better way to design a course than as a storyboarded, engaging narrative? From exciting characters, to a rising plot, and multiple dialogues, this panel presents a case study in thinking about course development as storytelling.
Together we will explore how the brain learns and apply those concepts to the technology and pedagogical theories that tap into the parts of the brain that enhance learning. Participants will map the parts of the brain to the technology and theories that maximize learning.
Over the last 3-5 years, an increasing focus in higher education has occurred around the topics of universal design, inclusivity, accessibility, and diversity of learners. The increasingly complex digital resources incorporated both within and outside of the classroom have presented challenges towards inclusivity for faculty who are striving to make their class materials accessible to all.
Seeing this obvious gap between faculty knowledge/skill and student needs as a growth point for enhancing services, the presenters (administrators in online learning and faculty) will outline several distinct case examples from multiple campuses' successful implementation of a tool to heighten the overall accessibility of educational content; to shape the culture of accessibility on a university's campus; and to provide metrics to assess growth in digital accessibility over time in a campus envioronment. Additionally, through an audience demonstration and participation activity, we will illustrate some remaining gaps in full educational inclusivity and understanding that have yet to be addressed, and will provide best practice recommendations on how to address these concerns.
Gamers are showing us the way to the future of online learning. Are you ready to play? In this keynote from acclaimed game designer and futurist Jane McGonigal, you’ll take a trip ten years into the future to see how new ways of collaborating, questing, and scoring (all directly inspired by today’s most popular videogames, from Fortnite to Pokemon Go) have transformed online learning. Immerse yourself in a future world where anyone, anywhere can be both teacher and learner – exchanging learning credits as easily as people are trading Bitcoin or collecting Pokemon today. When you approach the future of learning with the mindset of a gamer, who knows what doors you’ll unlock, what super powers you’ll gain, or what level you’ll break through to? This playful session will help you imagine alternate realities that you’ve never considered before.
Immediately following the Keynote Address, join your fellow conference attendees in the Exhibit Hall (Atlantic Hall) for networking and to visit with our sponsors and exhibitors. Refreshments will be served; don’t forget your complimentary drink ticket!
Ready to start the day energized? Join us for a 1 hour slow flow yoga class with Janet Smith, a fellow conference attendee and certified yoga instructor. Slow flow yoga is made up of slow flow (three breaths per posture), including sun and/or moon salutations. Yoga mat (we will have towels on hand if you don't have one), comfy clothes, and water bottle needed.
Note: OLC Accelerate attendees participate in yoga classes at their own risk. In the unlikely event of injury, please note that OLC and the WDW Swan & Dolphin Resort may not be held liable.
All attendees are invited to start the day with a fun breakfast gathering. Join your colleagues, meet new friends, and learn how you can get more deeply involved with the OLC community. Kick off your morning with a quick OLC trivia game and a chance to win prizes
The use of adaptive learning technologies improved student success in STEM courses at our institution and now supports blended and online courses. In this session, participants will identify their own needs, consider best practices, and develop a plan to gain support for integrating adaptive learning technologies on their own campus.
In this session, we will share our approach to reimagining our general education core curriculum for adult learners where the essential workforce skills and behaviors that are critical to the future of work are introduced, practiced, and mastered through the lens of traditional liberal arts disciplines.
This session will demonstrate how to obtain and use free software, originally developed for gamers, to record and broadcast your content for free. Record and broadcast in real-time almost any combination of screens, computers, green screens, video backgrounds and other video sources with little to no post-production.
In order to engage online students, FlipGrid was used in place of one-dimensional text-based discussion boards. Flip Grid is a web-based video discussion platform that allows meaningful collaboration in an online environment. During this interactive presentation, FlipGrid will be explained and participants will be able to try it out!
After a brief overview of online education compliance (e.g., program integrity and web accessibility) presenters will guide a discussion of policy formation and implementation strategies that are inclusive of the various stakeholders affected by compliance mandates, including students, faculty, staff, and vendors.
Faculty and online master’s students conducted a study to examine the hallmarks of an ideal online learning community, determine the strength of their online program’s community, and recommend improvements. This presentation will describe the methodology and findings regarding key elements of community and facilitate a discussion of successful community-building strategies.
Seeing AI is a free productivity app for the blind and visually impaired. The tool, part of a Microsoft research project that leverages the power of cloud computing and AI, essentially narrates the world! The app has several navigational "channels" that correspond with other technologies for the blind and visually impaired including: Short Text; Document; Product; Currency; Person; Handwriting, Color, Light, and Scene. Users simply choose a channel, take a picture of the desired subject matter, and listen to an audio description of it. The app also offers audio guidance on what the camera is aiming at and how to orient your device to take a picture. Come learn how this amazing app works to empower blind and lower vision individuals on the go and bring your iPhone or iPad (the device is currently only available for IOS through the App Store) to try it out on your own!
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Universities don’t just need more inquiries; they need more high quality inquires. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how Ranku, an online degree discovery engine, makes it easy for prospective students to find the right program or degree for them, while driving quality inquiries to the institution’s doorstep.
This session is about creating a new Center for Innovation and Teaching Excellence at a College or University. We will include research on best practices in professional development as well as the impact of learning spaces (regardless of course modality) on faculty development and morale.
Ready to bust some myths? This panel from the field of online learning will discuss several elearning myths including quality, instruction and student interaction, design, preparation, and delivery. Participants are encouraged to bring myths ready to be busted. Myths will be countered with research, industry standards, pedagogy, and effective practices.
This session explains how instructional designers tailored professional development and support services to meet individual needs of new and experienced faculty related to online course design. A successful course redesign process, resources, lessons learned, and outcomes will be shared about this incentivized faculty development program.
Create impactful visual stories with Adobe Spark, one of the easiest tools for creating stunning and effective images, web pages and videos! Join us in this hands-on workshop to see uses of Spark in actual courses and leave with completed Spark examples of your own.
Open Educational Resources (OER) offer the promise of more affordable, more current, and accessible learning for our students. This unique session, itself an Open Educational Resource, is for those who want to better understand and promote the most effective and research-based use of OER at their own institutions or in their own courses. Participants will learn how to identify, find, evaluate, and implement OER, and will walk away with workshop materials, enabling them to adapt and deliver a faculty development program at their own institution and start integrating OER into their own courses.
We know what constitutes student success in online education, but can we define institutional success online? This session compares different institutional models, based on the CHLOE surveys of chief online officers, and contrasts the organizational structures, goals, policies and practices of online enterprise-level, community-based, regional, and specialized programs.
Harness the power of authentic assessment through innovative strategies for online, blended, or face-to-face learning environments. Educators from all levels will be introduced to the attributes of authentic assessment, and engage with multiple student-centered approaches for implementation in any content area.
What if we already have what we need to be truly connected in our educational encounters – including engaging students? What if connection and engagement does not require technology? What if all we need is love? In this session we will consider the idea of caring pedagogy as an expression of that love.
The Center for Distance Education (CDE) at Mississippi State University uses Google Analytics to track all website visitors and evaluate our marketing efforts. This session will take a look at Google Analytics, a free tool, metrics and data to highlight the most useful tools to better understand your website visitors. Using this data will allow you to better use your marketing dollars and provide more resources for program recruiters.
One of the biggest challenges for online faculty is to elicit participation in their synchronous sessions. What’s the best way, they ask? This session will present 7 tried & true methods; participants will share ideas; resulting in a crowdsourced set of shared best practices by the end this session.
Research has shown that if total costs run too high, students often opt out of purchasing textbooks, or may drop courses altogether, leading to delays in graduation or dropping out. Faculty don’t always know what their required course materials cost, and even if they do, they may not have the knowledge and/or resources available to redesign their course with cost and quality in mind.
The Affordability Counts program was created as a direct response to the increasing costs of textbooks in higher education. As part of the Affordability Counts initiative, faculty self-identify as teaching courses that contain course materials that are low cost. Courses that meet the selection criteria earn the ‘Affordability Counts’ medallion which can then be displayed within the course in the learning management system and course syllabus. The Affordability Counts initiative was awarded an OLC Effective Practice Award at OLC Accelerate November 2017.
Come and explore a new approach to online course development realizing high quality course design, effective faculty development and support, and capacity building within your instructional design team. At Wilfrid Laurier University, we are building more online courses and programs by supplementing the front-end on-boarding process with a just-in-time resource.
Computer simulations are a useful tool for hands on learning, and a number of computer simulations for teacher training exist; however, they can be difficult to locate. This session will focus on an upcoming grant-funded project to develop an open source repository of information about teacher education computer simulations.
Résumés and transcripts show a degree, courses, and grades, they don’t tell the whole story. There’s more students can share about their knowledge and competencies. Bay Path’s ePortfolio incorporates the curricular and co-curricular as well as advising and other student services to help students articulate who they are.
Instructor presence is equally important in traditional and online classrooms. Faculty must be intentional about creating an environment that encourages student learning. This session examines the results of a yearlong research and development initiative focused on leveraging technology to increase instructor presence and improve student learning, lower drop rates, and increase student/faculty satisfaction.
Social presence is essential to online programs, but many programs do not start cultivating social presence until the first class begins. What if students could begin connecting from admission? Participants will experiment with and provide feedback on technologies and methods for fostering social presence through an online orientation course.
This Discovery Session focuses on the collaborative process of designing a new online program. We will discuss ways you can utilize resources at your institution, including instructional designers and collaborative tools, to create and deploy an online program from the development of syllabi and program outcomes to individual course design.
Demand for online classes is far exceeding supply at Southeast Missouri State University. To address this, a holistic plan was developed that can scale online courses. This includes the development of master course templates, an adjunct recruitment pool, training, and an adjunct support system.
This session will share the unique and comprehensive student advising model at Columbia University’s School of Social Work (CSSW), as well as how the Online Campus administration works with the Office of Advising to support the success of online students who live across the U.S.
The participants will discuss noy only why training for eMentoring is important to improve underrepresented minority women students’ STEM self-efficacy and mentorship skills but also design and development considerations for developing mentoring training online. Participants will also learn about the efficacy of the eMentoring training through presentation of quantitative and qualitative findings from a pilot study.
Playtesting is an essential process for designing games for learning. This presentation examines the playtesting ethos incorporated in online undergraduate courses on Game Design and Development and graduate courses on Digital Games, Simulations and Learning, and offers suggestions for faculty on using playtesting when developing their own educational games.
In this Discovery Session, presenters will showcase their pilot project and emerging research around implementation of a 1-1 device model - every student brings a laptop to every class meeting - in conjunction with major curricular redesign to foster high-demand, 21st century skills that include multimodal content creation and digital collaboration.
Script concordance-style (SC) vignettes were used to enhance critical thinking and discussion among students in a fully-online pharmacy therapeutics course. Students independently responded to SC cases, then posted answers on VoiceThread®. Responses from peers aided students in selecting final answers. Reflections were included in weekly assessments.Script concordance-style (SC) vignettes were used to enhance critical thinking and discussion among students in a fully-online pharmacy therapeutics course. Students independently responded to SC cases, then posted answers on VoiceThread®. Responses from peers aided students in selecting final answers. Reflections were included in weekly assessments.
Successful use of templates across differing faculty and situations at an institution can be tough! We will share success strategies for developing and deploying course development and LMS templates promoting quality and consistency. We will discuss the considerations that helped us decide the who, what, when, where, why, and how!
UCF is redesigning the foundational Business curriculum from a large-scale lecture capture model to a new model of instruction combining blended, adaptive, and active learning. Goals are enhanced student engagement and increased success—at scale.
By now most are aware of academic accessibility. But no matter how many conference sessions or trainings we offer, we still struggle getting buy-in. Enter quality assurance programs, which utilize scoring metrics to ensure excellence. By leveraging these programs, organizations can incentivize accessibility efforts through improving overall course quality.
Faculty ask, “how can I notify someone about a student who needs help beyond my scope?” Student support teams poder how to reach those same online students proactively. Join Oregon State Ecampus to learn about faculty/student support collaborations that offer creative solutions and effective interventions for all.
This session focuses on the use of student engagement strategies and technology to personalize master courses. Presenters will review best practices to increase student engagement, and discuss how implementing these strategies can help online instructors bring their personalities and expertise to master courses. Presenter and audience experiences will be shared.
Learn the basics of adding closed captions and audio description to online video to make it accessible, searchable, and SEO friendly. Understand legal requirements and lawsuits surrounding video accessibility, formats and video player compatibility, as well as an overview of automated workflows and integrations with lecture capture and video platforms.
It has been described as the most important technology since the internet, and for good reason. The blockchain is no longer a fringe technology with narrow economic applicability; it has become the digital backbone for thousands of innovative applications. Discover the tools and trends on the verge of (re)defining online learning.
Join LearningMate as they share how Education Corporation of America and Southern New Hampshire University are overcoming challenges in managing digital learning content.
The University of Central Florida’s Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning and Center for Distributed Learning collaborated to offer a blended semester-long Course Innovation Project about active learning across modalities for faculty. In addition to receiving the materials from this project, participants will engage in activities which model active learning.
In 2018, the OLC Research Center for Digital Learning and Leadership conducted a broad environmental scan of the field of digital learning. This session will provide background the process, as well as the topics covered in the scan in 2018 and those to come in the future. Attendees will be asked to provide input on topics which they deem important to better understanding the field.
We built an online faculty development course to explore games and gaming concepts in online course design. The course itself implemented gaming concepts and gave the faculty an immersive, gamified, online learning experience. Come see how we did it, and how faculty experienced it!
We know that students and even some instructors, especially online, view group work unfavorably. Does this have to be the case? There are different levels of group work that can ease both students and instructors into the benefits of collaboration that can only be practiced through a group work experience.
The idea is simple yet transformative: empower faculty and designers to create engaging instructional content without needing to understand all the traditional considerations of producing that content. Give them flexibility. Give them robust options to educate students. Make it easy. Make it accessible. Give them HAX.
A healthy new opportunity for exchanging big ideas on the move, networking with colleagues, all while absorbing some much needed Orlando sunshine. Join OLC Field Guides for a daily escape and themed discussion (see below) as we look to take a break from traditional sessions and collectively exercise our bodies and minds.
Walk n’ Talks will departs daily (9:00 AM on Wednesday/Thursday & 9:45 AM on Friday) from the Field Guide Base Station, Dolphin Convention Foyer (near registration).
*Note: Walk n’ Talks are inclusive to all! We will offer a long and short walk in an attempt to accommodate as many folks as possible (see below for a detailed look at the planned walking routes).
Themes for Thursday:
Learn about the nuts and bolts process of creating the UNMC E-Learning Scorecard resulting from the building of over 400 online curriculum modules by health sciences faculty and students. Explore the study results of the scorecard's usability and inter-rater reliability with both novice and expert faculty users.
People use social media every day to connect and gather information. Its presence in higher education is increasing as educators find ways to incorporate technology to engage their student and enhance learning in their course. This session will provide information on how to use Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube in a formal class setting to engage the student and promote active learning.
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More than simply being about the technology, effective teaching with adaptive courseware is about ways in which faculty, coaches and their institutions can provide support to prepare students before they arrive on campus and to continue that support in class on an on-going basis. The quality of faculty effectiveness is greatly improved with focused faculty development sessions that prepare them to use the software to its best advantage for themselves and their students.
n higher education, breaking the “iron triangle” means simultaneously reducing costs, improving the quality of learning, and operating effectively at scale. This multi-institutional panel shares perspectives from SUNY and CUNY students and faculty about using open educational resources (OER) with personalized learning courseware to break the proverbial iron triangle.
With new technologies available every day, opportunities to pursue new initiatives in online education are limitless. However, knowing who to collaborate with and how to frame your ideas are paramount to gaining leadership’s support. Join us in a lively discussion on key strategies for developing collaboration, networking, and innovation skills.
Was your dream to become a reading teacher? Students struggle with the required reading in an online course. This session will provide research-based strategies for faculty to aid students in becoming more proficient readers using eText. Attendees will leave with tools to assist students in diving deeper into the content!
Identity, power, and privilege are increasingly becoming topics and aspects of teaching and learning that educators are both interested in and struggle with. At "identity"-themed workshops, it is not uncommon to engage in activities that ask participants to think about various aspects of their identities, consider their own privilege, and understand the nuanced power dynamics at play in learning environments. They typically involve physical movement, hand-written / typed paper-based activities, or other activities based in physical modalities. But how do we do this in digital spaces? In this Tech in the Spotlight session, we will engage in conversations about the importance of considering identity, privilege, and power and you will be challenged to think of ways in which you can use polling apps like Poll Everywhere to engage students and colleagues alike in identity work.
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***This is an invitation-only event***
Foundational math courses are an obstacle to student persistence and graduation. American Public University System is addressing this challenge at scale with Just-In-Time Adaptive Remediation, providing learners with personalized guidance and scaffolding to address their individual knowledge gaps. The program has positively impacted student success, with results to be shared at the presentation.
In a study involving 1,665 students at Rutgers University, we investigate the challenges and benefits associated with taking online college courses. Participant data will be broken out by disability type (Mental, Learning, Physical, etc.) and compared. Strategies to overcome the identified barriers will also be discussed.
Learn about the newest innovation in the online proctored experience. Introducing PSI Bridge™, the multi-modal platform that enables institutions to provide secure and flexible remote proctoring services. PSI Bridge is integrated into an institution's LMS via LTI, so that users have a convenient single-sign-on experience. Create the ideal online proctoring environment that enables institutions to better serve educators and students.
***This is a repeat of the Wednesday 3:30pm session presented by PSI***
Expanded accessibility expectations for Online Course Certification at UMKC created a need for improved training opportunities for faculty. In response, Instructional Designers created an accessibility training website that focuses on document accessibility, video captioning, alt text, and color contrast. Hear about the process and discuss future improvements to the website.
All full time and adjunct faculty are required to successfully complete our online teaching orientation prior to teaching online in graduate programs. This three-week facilitated online course includes assignments directly tied to preparation of the courses they will be teaching. CBE (Competency Based Education) exemptions are awarded depending on existing skills.
Teacher preparation programs are increasingly delivered using online and distance technology. A comprehensive, state University will share its approach to the development and implementation of a fully online Master of Education program in Special Education. In addition, the presenters will emphasize the planning, organization, delivery, obstacles, and successes of the first five years.
Research on student learning outcomes (SLOs) in higher education online learning environments indicates a number of factors impact student success. This research takes a hands-on, dual-factor approach by addressing concerns on both the student and the faculty side relating to a positive student experience, precipitated by a well-prepared faculty member and course.
During this session, we will be presenting the eLearnReady Student Readiness tool, which includes a personalized and/or class-based scoring system, indicating a low, medium, and high range of skills needed to succeed as an online students. A discussion of collected survey data alongside a showcase of the elr tool will be presented, along with a walk-through to the audience of how-to's for free, course-level or campus-wide adoption of this tool may be enacted. Additionally, elr 2.0--which focuses on online faculty readiness characteristics--will be showcased to inform attendees how faculty may individually evaluate their needed improvements in online instructional skills.
Participants to this session will be provided with details on how to readily adopt both of these free, validated tools into their online courses, programs, and universities, along with a set of related references supporting the research behind the development of these tools.
This session introduces a flipped, blended and integrated model of learning design and delivery to accelerate knowledge integration based upon active and collaborative pedagogies. We review evidence of resulting interdisciplinary knowledge integration and application. We offer insight into requisite structures and processes for faculty collaboration in an interdisciplinary program.
Academic integrity violations are plaguing a large swath of college classrooms across the country. New “study” websites are popping up that make it easier and easier for students to cheat. Some don’t even realize what they are doing is cheating. Do you feel like all you can do is throw up your hands and deal with the cheaters when it happens? Does it seem like nothing you try works? Does your heart break every time you catch a student cheating? Join this session to learn some practical solutions to deter cheating and limit the academic integrity violations.
Resilience significantly affects academic outcome and sense of personal well-being. The importance of students’ resilience and measuring resilience as an education outcome are not clearly addressed for online education. This workshop will provide in-depth information on essential resilience skills for academic success, including tools to measure academic resilience.
Grow your community of practice (CoP) and watch it flourish by applying our unique, innovative, hands-on approach to the creation, facilitation, and maintenance of institutionally-sponsored virtual communities of practice (vCoP). Our collaborative structure is designed to continuously support faculty development and student success in online programs.
To be a Student-Ready Writing Center, we revamped our programming to include a wider variety of service types. These new modes for offering learning support include synchronous and asynchronous online tutoring, a help desk phone line, online chat for quick questions, and a variety of modes for feedback.
In this session you’ll learn more about the benefits and obstacles that come with shifting to online education, and about the challenges particular to STEM. You’ll experience first-hand how modern courseware technologies make this transition easier and more effective, and how emerging technologies are meeting the needs of STEM education.
This discovery session features examples of group projects created and used by faculty working with the University of Wisconsin Extension's division of Continuing Education, Outreach, and E-Learning (CEOEL). Participants will come away with practical strategies for implementing online group projects based on examples from our degree programs and evidence-based best practices.
In this session, academic leaders and others responsible for and/or engaged in faculty development will share their collective models and strategies for the design, development, implementation and evaluation of faculty support programs focused on 21st century teaching competencies. Panelists will emphasize the successes, challenges, and overcoming resistance to shifts in existing faculty support models. Each presenter will share strategies and institution-specific examples showing common themes and the differences in our institutional experiences. Participants will receive actionable ideas and specific strategies from recognized authorities and innovation influencers in the field to higher education that can be incorporated into faculty support and development initiatives. Participants will be invited into an extended conversation about 21st century teaching with the panelists and other participants.
Comparing valid data from pretests and post-tests, the causality of game based learning becomes evident. In controlled cohort testing, learning deltas for students who participated in GBL are compared to students who did not engage in GBL. The Hypothesis is GBL causes students boost their post-assessment scores. Students without GBL consumption would experience only marginal improvements in their scores.
Do you have distance barriers preventing students from attending a desired course? Or do you have remote staff or other stakeholders who would like to be more than just a face on a computer screen? Join us for an overview of our experience and interact with a Double Robot yourself!
Explore and discuss soft power strategies for program development within the context of a mid-sized public university. Here, we examine a case study involving recent efforts to bring STEM programs online to identify successes and failures on the path to improving both the quality and quantity of online programs.
Online increase access to higher education in ways that campus-based programs cannot and the number of students enrolling some online cours(es) or exclusively online is growing. Come learn about the trends associated with this growing population and how to create an ecosystem inclusive of supporting online learners.
One ubiquitous challenge within higher education remains the need for connected networks of practitioners working together to share knowledge and resources. In addition to providing the benefits of peer reviewed open educational resources, MERLOT affords educators the opportunity to build community and collegiality in a digitally connected universe.
Get to Graduation is an innovative online psychology course that uses a branching narrative format to create an inclusive course design. This discovery session will describe storyline courses, share perceptions from a student cohort that took a storyline class, and introduce attendees to narrative possibilities in their own classes.
This session will focus on unique ways in which SUNY Empire State College supports online nursing students in completing advanced degrees (Bachelors and Masters). In particular, the usefulness of student online orientations, close interactions with mentors, and ongoing student services will be explored.
This qualitative multiple case study explores how journalism and mass communication schools prepare and support faculty and adjunct instructors who teach online, and examines the collaborative relationship between instructors and instructional designers through the lens of a professional learning community.
Courses in University of Maryland University College’s (UMUC’s) newly developed graduate program in cloud computing architecture provide an immersive learning designed with the adult student needs in mind for an applied learning experience that provides focused, job-relevant knowledge.
In this session, instructional designers will present a cloud computing classroom that utilizes graphic novels and storytelling to enhance the scenario-driven project-based learning.
Quality checklists/scorecards provide a strategic resource for any higher education institution committed to excellence in online courses or programs. The purpose of this express workshop is to provide customizable checklists, rubrics, planning guides, and evaluations from which to choose for outlining an implementation plan for your unique role and institutional operations.
Vision and leadership can motivate employees to perform well, enjoy their work, and innovate. Yet in the competitive climate of online higher education, managing minimum faculty engagement and performance ensure a consistent student experience. Balancing basic performance management with vision and direction is challenging but possible. In this presentation, participants will learn best practices to lead and manage online faculty and strategies to prevent, target, and troubleshoot faculty performance concerns. Participants will gain fresh insights and tools to build community among remote faculty employees, minimize management demands, provide vision and direction, and maximize faculty performance through coaching.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Touro College & University System each used Blackboard for more than fifteen years, pushing it to the limits. While Touro initiated a migration to Canvas, UMBC opted to move to Blackboard’s Ultra Experience. Learn how each plans to support a dynamic and complex transition.
The Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an award-winning OER offering interactive, multimedia support for college and developmental writing and reading. During this session attendees will try out the OWL and all its interactive pieces, create an Owlet, and participate in a site scavenger hunt.The Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an award-winning OER offering interactive, multimedia support for college and developmental writing and reading. During this session attendees will try out the OWL and all its interactive pieces, create an Owlet, and participate in a site scavenger hunt.
Learn to use SkillsCommons, the US Department of Labor’s open library of workforce development OER and save time and money by adopting and customizing quality online curriculum. Learn how the OER can be used for apprenticeship programs, professional development of faculty, and rapidly development quality career and technical training.
Experience an exciting new model for using learning data to detect common trouble spots for students in OER content and then collaborating to design continuous improvements that strengthen learning. (Bring a device so you can explore hands-on!)
This session provides an overview of a mixed-methods research study which focused on understanding the experience of students and self-regulation in an online course. Using study results and practical experiences, participants will learn how faculty and designers can support student self-regulated learning strategies and success online.
Radical change happened for the University of Waterloo’s STEM online efforts when they adopted the Möbius Courseware platform. With DFW rates decreasing and class averages increasing, Waterloo is confident that their efforts are heading in the right direction.
We know accessibility brings fear on campus because of its legal implications. But it doesn’t have to cause fear when you have a solid plan that answers who, what, when, where and why. Veteran accessibility professionals will share tried and true tips and resources to build your campus accessibility strategy.
Learn about the current state of this track's topics, and get a glimpse into the future as well. The Accelerate Track Chairs and Best in Session presenters will share a snapshot of this year’s presentations in each track – the topics, the key words, the industries, and other trending details. Presenters will also guide a collaboration with our face-to-face and online participants to identify new areas needing exploration, examine growing challenges, and begin to investigate new topics waiting just around the corner to be explored.
Meet the team leader for each of our 2018 DLIAward Faculty-Led Team Awardees. Each team that submitted for this year's award shared a common intention – that student success is positively impacted by digital learning initiatives. We know the field is young and that “success” is subjective, however, we hope that these exceptional pioneers inspire others and increase the number of underrepresented students completing college across the U.S. Representing the winning Faculty-Led teams are:
Come learn how ASU Online uses data analytics to determine course health and identify course enhancement opportunities. During this discussion we'll share course quality assurance iniatives used to improve student success that rely on data for hundreds of online courses each session.
Facing a compressed schedule that challenges a conventional approach to supporting instructors with course design? Struggling with how to best equip instructors for success? Consider our “jumpstart” workshop, a consultative model that makes targeted use of evidence-based planning tools to help instructors quickly navigate difficult online course design decisions.
Attend Unoffice Hours to help us focus in on the needs of the conference community. This is a chance to engage with a member of the D&I committee to share your thoughts/impressions/comments on diversity and inclusion.
Join us in the Exhibit Hall (Atlantic Hall) for refreshments. Not only is this an opportunity to recharge with a fresh cup of coffee or tea, but you will also have the opportunity to network with other attendees. Check out the Technology Test Kitchen, bring a colleague to our Speed Networking Event, or meet with our conference exhibitors and continue getting your cards stamped by them in order to win prizes!
Stop by during the break between sessions for special treats (including some that can only be claimed with a colleague from another institution). Bring your Lounge Pass and complete the activities listed to win sweet prizes. Because how often do you have the chance to network with amazing people AND win awesome things?
At this break, we celebrate the role of Community Colleges as a cornerstone of the online learning community. We’ll do a design sprint together on how we might leverage the continuum between community colleges, career and technical education, workforce development, and four-year institutions. All are welcome to attend.
This interactive presentation will invite attendees to provide feedback on a developing global MOOC entitled Metaliterate Learning in the Post-Truth World and metaliteracy digital badging system. Participants will offer insights at a critical point in the development process, as we prepare the MOOC and digital badging content for spring 2019.
Teaching innovation for in-person and online delivery happens on divergent tracks. To build support for online teaching opportunities and grow as instructors, this session will offer practical ideas and tools for translating online pedagogy and techniques into stronger classroom teaching: that’s the forgotten half of innovative synergy in teaching.
In this interactive session, you will review writing measurable learning outcomes and explore gamification strategies that promote engagement and enable students to attain learning outcomes. Through innovative examples and audience participation, this session will enable and inspire you to create fun and engaging game-based assessments for any content.
Orientation is a quintessential moment for residential students heading off to college. But what about online learners? IU Online is creating flexible, scaffolded orientation experiences that allow students to select resources relevant to them. Join us for a lively discussion-focused presentation and test drive some of our orientation experiences (BYOD).
This interactive presentation will share strategies for implementing a master course design model. Presenters will describe their master model, discuss observed benefits, and share outcomes and perspectives. Attendees will return to their institutions better equipped to discuss with key stakeholders the appropriateness of utilizing and implementing a master model.
Do you want to improve inclusion and equity in your online and hybrid programs? We suggest ways to institutionalize practices that support diverse student populations to succeed in the online environment. We focus on three primary areas where understanding student experiences are crucial: technology, resources, and instructional design.
Compare the free services provided in the cloud by the big two - Microsoft and Google. Which one is fits in your classroom? Documents, Forms, Presentations and spreadsheets all shared in the cloud.
Open Focus Group on Analytics for Action
Soomo Learning is developing a new dashboard to help faculty take action on their students' learning analytics. In this session we will share some designs and seek reaction from faculty, and those who support them, on what seems most helpful to each of you.
If you would like to be a part of this session, please RSVP by following this link to reserve your space at the table!
Institutions of higher education are involved in a variety of initiatives to support the professional development of faculty members. In this session, participants will review, analyze, and discuss the ways in which institutions are looking at and approaching professional development to enhance faculty productivity and effectiveness.
This session will describe how to get faculty to keep coming back for professional development in online teaching. What incentives seem to work? What questions are faculty asking about professional development? How do you structure a program like this at your institution?
How can Canvas make teaching and learning easier for you?
This session will provide an administrative overview of how a small university launched a new LMS in just 3 months. By the end of the summer, over 700 courses, including online and traditional, were up and running. Lessons learned, challenges, and recommendations for similar projects will be discussed.
New Mexico Highlands University, with 5 campus locations, delivers training for online course development and instruction using a multi-modal and inter-institutional approach. The presentation will demonstrate the model, query attendees on how they approach professional development to multiple audiences, and provide evidence of effectiveness from the faculty perspective.
What happens when secondary teachers are asked to implement standards from the OLC Quality Score Card and/or Quality Matters K-12 Standards? What factors promote adoption or generate resistance? How does LMS impact adoption? Join us in examining the results of introducing OLC and QM guidelines in a traditional K-12 environment.
An online course requires careful development of a setting that encourages and promotes student learning. Incorporating five fundamental elements (CASE) - Climate, Access, Support and Safety, and Engagement - into the design of your course can help you to create a successful learning environment.
Dynamic web-based case studies provide graduate students authentic, collaborative opportunities to address intervention needs for students with disabilities. Our interactive session will showcase how our online teacher education program used virtual case studies to facilitate instructional goals while fostering cultural competency by exposing students to diverse students, families, and settings.
This presentation will focus on how online programs at colleges and universities can develop and use a Faculty Resource Center (FRC) within the LMS to provide faculty and staff the skills they need to ensure student success. The presentation will demonstrate Post University’s and Charter Oak State College's (FRCs) and show the features and benefits that allow for easy tracking of faculty development coursework and mandated training modules. This demonstration will provide the audience with a powerful connection tool to faculty, staff, and administrators.
In online learning, discussion boards are often nothing more than an echo chamber. They are tedious for students to write, and they are tedious for instructors to grade.
What are discussions missing? Or should we ask, what should be removed?
Hear two veteran instructional designers’ proposal for accelerating online discussions.
With more colleges and universities relying on multiple adjuncts and new faculty, how can we demonstrate that students are learning the same concepts across the curricula? Join us as we share our experiences and challenges in the development and implementation of a student learning outcomes assessment plan.
The movement from paper publications to digital resources presents a challenge for students and professionals who want to build a set of personal resources for ready access rather than sifting through Google results. This session will share design and resource curation ideas for a personal digital reference library.
Peer review is an established practice that enhances students’ critical thinking skills, but the process can be difficult. With innovative sorting and scoring algorithms, Circuit by Purdue provides flexible and streamlined peer review. Circuit allows users to evaluate images, videos, audio, and text. Stop by and see Circuit in action!
Thrive Center at the University of Arizona is making a push to offer more innovative student support services online. This session will look at how traditional face to face support programs are being transitioned online and examine the importance of providing online services to meet students’ needs.
Universities need to increase online education and teaching while reducing overhead. To accomplish these goals, with 38,000 students, 1,900 faculty, and a unit of fewer than 25 serving all course and faculty develoment needs, UNT developed a new vision and organizational structure. Why, how, myths, successes, challenges, and opportunities will be shared.
This session presents the findings of a 2018 study of incoming graduate students’ perceptions of key features and benefits of competing academic programs and university websites. The session will provide a checklist/diagnostic of websites as customer engagement experiences and an overview of the methodology used for future bespoke applications.
Integrating 360 images and video into curriculum presents new possibilities and challenges. This hands session will introduce participants to the basics of working with 360 content, and they’ll come away understanding some of the important terminology and concepts, how to avoid potential pitfalls, and some early insights from adapters at SJSU.
While the impact of active learning is documented, there is an absence of research on these teaching and learning approaches in online first-year courses. This session will describe the intentional approach two instructors have taken to incorporate different forms of active learning in their online and blended first-year seminar courses.
A STEM faculty learning community was created at North Carolina Central University to assess online science course offerings and instruction. This presentation describes the impact of Quality Matters training and the application of Rubric Standards on the design and student outcomes for an Introductory Biology course over four terms.
Online instructor burnout (OIB) is costly. Prevention strategies are often provided but also often not realistic for overwhelmed instructors. What strategies or ideas do you suggest to prevent or recover from OIB? Send your ideas or comments to onlineinstructorburnout@gmail.com and join us as we discuss the aggregate results and OIB.
Depending on several factors, such as the social platforms your students use and your teaching objectives, Snapchat might be right for your online class. Find out how one instructor used this app to enhance social presence. Explore tips for getting started with Snapchat and planning for student engagement.
Explore how multiple data points converge to monitor students and provide appropriate support. This presentation will provide practical insights that will help you assess your institution’s readiness to use data. You will learn how BelhavenUniversity is using data from Canvas, Arc, Grammarly, Tutor.com, and Colleague to support student success.
Library anxiety impacts students. Anxious students avoid using library materials, they rely on web-based content, and withdraw from school due to feeling like an “imposter”. Participants will learn characteristics exhibited by highly-anxious students, student intervention strategies and identify services that will aid in retention and reduction in online library anxiety.
This panel describes a collaborative scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) project among the University of Central Florida, Carnegie Mellon University. Colorado Technical University, and the University of Mississippi facilitated by MindWires’ Empirical Educator Project. Each university discusses success and challenges establishing SoTL and the value of the effort.
“Virtual”, “remote”, “distance”… these terms describe a growing percentage of work teams and departments in many professional fields, including higher education and online learning. Join us as we share our experience with developing and leading a remote team of high-performing, engaged, and connected Instructional Designers.
This session will focus on the aftermath of Pikes Peak Community College’s implementation of a Web Accessibility Plan, including lessons learned, success stories, suggestions for other institutions, and what the future holds for digital accessibility.
If student leaders could change one thing about higher education, what would it be? This panel of EdSurge Independent Fellows will share their learning experiences and predictions about the future of education. We’ll also talk about the startups and nonprofits they’re working on to address gaps in action.
Have you been considering your online learning career trajectory? Are you looking for a new opportunity? Would you like to do so? Have you been recruited recently? How are you building your network and shaping your personal brand? Do you feel stuck in neutral and want a framework for how to progress? If so, join our discussion, receive some tips, share your challenges, and network with others seeking a change in perspective, location, title, culture and/or experience. Panelists will:
In this session, we will discuss: (1) how top-tier universities seamlessly integrate necessary coding assignments within coursework and deliver student assessments, (2) how automated assessments enable institutions to scale their instruction to reach students around the world, and (3) how business, math, engineering and CS students are being taught essential skills on professional tools and infrastructure.
Perfecting the blend of communication during teaching/learning events, whether in face-to-face or online environments is a challenge. This session will offer a framework for analyzing face-to-face and online discourse in blended or hybrid courses. Participants will share in discourse analysis techniques that can provide insight about engaging learners in both online and f2f environments.
Learn how to use video as a teaching strategy. The University of Nebraska’s Director of Academic Technology, Jane Petersen, addresses the challenges that can prevent educators from leveraging video, and shows how she uses VidGrid to increase student engagement with interactive video.
This quick-fire showcase will feature four lightweight apps to foster active, experiential online learning via a battle royale style competition! Four challengers from The University of Arizona will present a lightning demo each, followed by audience voting on who should be crowned the winner of this no-holds-barred app smackdown.
Participants will learn more about the new OLC Online Faculty Professional Development Framework and the implementation of this framework to support and prepare online faculty at their institution.
Effective data visualization is important for communicating research and evaluation outcomes. Workshop participants will learn about best practices in data visualization and how to apply them to a range of data. In hands-on activities, participants will examine current data visualizations from online education research and apply what they have learned.
Melt and early attrition are two critical challenges within online education. This session discusses how Drexel University is developing open-access courses with digital badging for new and current students to address non-cognitive factors associated with attrition and completion. Data and feedback from two innovative research initiatives will be shared.
Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) provide fun options for faculty development that create lasting change when provided with the right supports. Teaching and Learning with Technology at Penn State launched an FLC pilot in the Spring of 2018. Come see what we’ve learned and share some insights from your own FLCs.
OLC and WDW Dolphin Hotel will offer an economical lunch option on Thursday, November 15 for attendees who have not purchased a ticket to attend the OLC Women in Digital Learning Leadership Luncheon. Visit the exhibit hall (Atlantic Hall) between 12:00pm - 1:20pm, where the Dolphin will offer a marketplace with a limited menu of salads, sandwiches, snacks, and beverages for attendee purchase. Cash and credit cards accepted. Grab lunch and spend some time visiting with our exhibitors before your afternoon sessions begin!
In 2014, a small group of individuals gathered at the 7th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium in Dallas, TX to celebrate the the powerful women in digital learning leadership championing equity and inclusion in our field. Building on the enthusiasm and impact of this formative event, the Online Learning Consortium has created a space to continue these conversations each year at both OLC Innovate in the Spring and OLC Accelerate in the Fall. These events have brought together hundreds of women and men around the topic of creating organizational structures that are inclusive environments for women in leadership, and have engaged participants in crowd-sourcing a manifesto for the upward mobility of women in digital learning leadership.
Most importantly, the proceeds of these events go directly to the Women in Digital Learning Leadership Scholarship, thereby bringing the vision of these efforts into action. The purpose of this luncheon is to celebrate women leaders in the field as well as those women who aspire to become leaders in the digital learning landscape. In 2015, OLC established a scholarship fund to provide an aspiring female in the field the opportunity to attend an OLC conference. This luncheon supports the scholarship fund, and proceeds will provide one scholarship recipient with an OLC conference pass, hotel stay, and honorarium to cover travel costs.
We’re delighted to invite you to join us for lunch. The event will consist of a spotlight on how this event has impacted our field, a panel on journeys into leadership, and a networking activity connecting emerging and established leaders in digital learning. The luncheon is open to all, so grab a group of friends and join us!
Tickets are required to attend and may be added to your registration or purchased onsite at the registration desk for $50.
Immersion need not solely occur online or in virtual worlds. Our pedagogy immerses online students in an entrepreneur’s decision calculus to manufacture, distribute, market and sell craft beer. Tested in higher education, results indicate online student engagement and learning soared due to combining industry immersion and offline industry specific experiences.
Participants will receive information regarding The University of Arizona’s project to revamp general education for non-traditional online learners through cross-disciplinary pairings. Additionally, participants will leave with meaningful applications of digital tools and effective practices for collaboration and engaging students that are translatable to a variety of general education settings.
This session explores a grant-funded pilot project to integrate case studies into online asynchronous discussions to increase student engagement and content mastery. Participants receive a template for developing complex evidence-based case studies. Participants will examine case study development, teaching, and evaluation processes and brainstorm strategies to integrate into their courses.
This presentation will review an innovative, practical, skills-based online course that is taken in conjunction with an internship experience. We will review the innovative technologies used in the course and demonstrate how traditional tools are being applied in new ways to better prepare adult students for the success after graduation.
Working with some subject matter experts can sometimes be challenging. As an instructional designer, sometimes it's easy to forget that not everyone understands that instructional design is an entire field of study, supported by significant research. In this session, we will discuss how we have been able to use research-based recommendations to create faculty buy-in.
Come discover an online academic integrity project which features a positive tone and multiple ways of engaging students and faculty with online tools and interactive lessons. Take away strategies and ideas for project collaboration, faculty development, and research potential connected to academic integrity.
Explore tools like Adobe Spark Video, Playposit,and Flipgrid that can help to engage your online learners and create community in the virtual classroom. These tools allow you and your students to create narrated products to help create community.
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***This is an invitation-only event***
Learn about the surprising insights and innovations that can create the ideal online proctoring environment that enables institutions to better serve educators and students. Using real-world case studies, we’ll explore the entire experience from creating and scheduling exams, to reports after taking tests -- including multi-channel test delivery.
This study examined the impact of online courses on student success and graduation rates, finding that taking online courses significantly increased students’ likelihood of completing their degree, with significant but small impacts on student grades. We’ll review and discuss the relevant literature, study methodology, results, and implications for further research.
In this session you’ll learn how ProctorU is working with institutions in new ways by using online proctoring data to help validate student outcomes, monitor and verify that academic integrity is being upheld, and offer solid evidence to accrediting bodies that an institution is meeting or exceeding standards.
Participants will explore the process of creating a faculty resource center while utilizing User Experience (UX) design methodology. In this session we will explore the methods and tools available to effectively execute the research, design, and testing necessary for a successful project.
Jodie Foster, Albert Einstein, and Maya Angelou, along with 70% of people hold feelings of self-doubt or being “found out”, sometimes believing that their circumstance is really just luck. Coined “impostor syndrome”, this mind trap also exists for many online learning experts and leaders.
Join us for an honest, vulnerable, and heartfelt panel discussion about impostor syndrome and how online leaders can recognize it, manage it, and rewrite their own “impostor” dialogue.
Innovation is a hot topic in education, but how do we make it happen on a practical level? This hands-on, interactive workshop introduces approaches to identifying personal and organizational drivers of innovation and visual mapping techniques for developing ideas into operations that boast successful and sustainable results. Innovation Inventory Preview
Preparing future educators to teach online is imperative in nursing education. The goal of the presentation is to demonstrate the use of scaffolding and applied learning as pedagogical approaches to teach graduate students in a Master of Science Nurse Educator program how to develop, design, and deliver an online module.
This practical session will cover 50+ proven strategies and examples for building a strong, healthy community in online courses so students will feel connected to the instructor, their classmates, and the content. The simplicity of these activities makes them easily adaptable to any course regardless of curriculum, level, or modality.
Do instructors establish teaching presence in their online courses differently based on gender? What are the perceptions of instructors as they create their “pathway to presence” in the online courses they teach? Drawing on previous research, we examine if gender differences impart unique teaching presence strategies.
Do you need to write feedback when creating highly interactive learning activities? Come see real-world use cases of formative activities that a competency-based university implements across disciplines. In this interactive session, you will take away practical instructional strategies that you can use to create meaningful feedback for online formative activities.
MERLOT, going into its 21st year, started out small. Our goal all along is to accelerate online learning . Over the years, MERLOT has expanded to include many international aspects to allow users all over the world to access and benefit from the site.
The Penn State Blended Learning Transformation (BlendLT) program is now completing the fourth cohort. To share success stories, we provided faculty a webpage template for capturing the difference that BlendLT made in their specific course, showing the connections between learning objectives, blended activities, and assessments. Come review our success stories!
We will discuss how to bridge student-support efforts in the classroom and learning center to avoid duplicating efforts and crossing purposes with the goal of promoting student success to the greatest extent. Participants will apply what we discuss and/or modify what works at one university to fit their own institution.
Apple’s line of phones have always been able to capture footage but now that the new iPhone 10 has been released - it changed the playing field. Shooting great video has never been easier and we all know on-line learners love video.
The new camera (that also works as a phone) can grab 1080p high-definition clips at 60 frames per second, take 240-fps slow-motion shots, shot time lapse scenes, provide cinematic video stabilization, and even has up to 256 gigabytes of storage which is more than enough for a short film. Join 2-time Emmy award winning filmmaker Steve Julin in the innovation lab as he'll share his insights after testing the camera out on numerous video shoots and demo some filmmaker friendly iPhone gadgets.
This interactive presentation provides examples of online course design strategies that fit the needs of today’s learners including transparent syllabus and assignment descriptions, online group work, brief videos, and authentic learning activities. Tips for incorporating elements of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model in an online environment will be demonstrated.
How do you provide professional development on a topic that everybody thinks they know about? Incorporate learner engagement and specific, practical recommendations. A discussion of our online lesson on addressing bias in university selection committees will launch an exploration of instructional strategies that can be scaled up or down.
Smartphones and tablets are rapidly replacing laptops as the primary device used for online education. As the number of devices used in our classrooms grow it increases the need for adaptability digital education.
As more and more students are using mobile technology it's important that faculty are not unintentionally creating barriers.
No Prob-LLAMA! Those in higher education and the curriculum development industry know the obstacles that derail projects, i.e. missed deadlines, unclear expectations, and ever-changing priorities. This discovery session will benefit administrators, design thinkers, and training professionals who are considering adopting agile project management for curriculum projects.
This interactive workshop will teach attendees how to create an online faculty portfolio geared towards job searches, promotion processes, and career advancement. Participants will be introduced to several different e-portfolio options and learn tips for designing a professional, creative, and comprehensive online faculty portfolio.
Join us during this discovery session to learn about the various professional development opportunities provided by the OLC Institute for Professional Development tailored specifically for the instructional designer role. The offering types that will be reviewed include the Instructional Designer Certificate Program, the Instructional Design Mastery Series, and individual courses related to project management, research methods, and learning sciences, all with the instructional designer in mind.
At the University of Maryland – College Park, undergraduate and graduate student performance in online courses was below expectations. Students were perceived as not have the skills needed for learning online. The Division of Information Technology’s Learning Technology Design group was approached by an online graduate program in the School of Public Health about developing a course or module related to online student success. The Online Student Success Orientation (OSSO), was born.
This OSSO course was designed using the ADDIE model, based on the Canvas platform. Canvas Catalog was selected as the mode of delivery for the OSSO course. In this presentation, I will discuss the process used to design and develop the OSSO course, Canvas tools and features used, and advantages to delivering the course via Canvas Catalog. Lastly, data from the OSSO course will be presented.
With the rise of adjunct hiring and the rate of turnover in this faculty pool, adequately preparing and supporting adjuncts for teaching online is essential. This session shares our program’s strategies for supporting adjuncts before and during online teaching, including professional development, collaboration, materials sharing, input valuing, and co-teaching, among others.
One social justice victory of online education is the ability to expand access to higher education and serve a diverse student body. This interactive session will give instructors and administrators the chance to share strategies and tools for supporting the success of students who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing.
Courseware exists in a maze of digital learning tools promising to improve learning outcomes, save time, reduce cost and more. The Courseware in Context Framework was developed to help educators navigate the courseware market and make better-informed decisions. This session will provide a brief interactive demonstration and highlight institutional use-cases.
Montclair State University has developed unique approaches to developing online programs since 2013. Successfully launched in 2016, MSU’s online MBA program demonstrates the unique instructional design and faculty development approaches to shifting institutional culture, transforming pedagogical mindset, and enhancing collegial collaboration and relationships resulting in the fastest growing online program.
In this express workshop, participants will learn the principles of gameful design, strategize for how to integrate autonomy into a course as well as use a tool called GradeCraft designed specifically to support gameful courses.
Would you like to have a building named after you on your campus? Find out what percent of change in retention you would need at your school to equal a contribution worthy of building naming rights. In this session you will learn how one school, Ashford University, used non-cognitive data from the SmarterMeasure Learning Readiness Indicator to improve their retention predicting algorithm by almost 4% over using just demographic data.
Dartmouth College adopted a 1-to-1 ipad program for a hybrid graduate degree program to serve as a common platform and an ecosystem for innovation. After 6 years of trying to integrate the ipad into this learning environment, the 1-tio-1 program was abandoned. Come discuss key lessons from this failure.
See how BioSig-ID, the world's only biometric password turns 4 characters you draw into a secure authenticator, eliminating password sharing and imposter log in.
This presentation examines theoretical frameworks that focus on the pedagogical aspects of online education. A proposal for an integrated Multimodal Model for Online Education is provided based on pedagogical purpose. The model integrates the work of major theorists and attempts to address the question: Can we build a common integrated theory of online education?
The Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an award-winning OER offering interactive, multimedia support for college and developmental writing and reading.
How do we empower students to take part in institutional innovation and change? In this session you will hear from a student and a recent graduate who have been involved in our Davidson Now initiative. They will be talking about how their involvement in this process has influenced their learning, professional development, and view of the institution.
Learn about the current state of this track's topics, and get a glimpse into the future as well. The Accelerate Track Chairs and Best in Session presenters will share a snapshot of this year’s presentations in each track – the topics, the key words, the industries, and other trending details. Presenters will also guide a collaboration with our face-to-face and online participants to identify new areas needing exploration, examine growing challenges, and begin to investigate new topics waiting just around the corner to be explored.
This session will demonstrate how artificial intelligence can be used to help improve student success through learning pathway analysis and personality dimensionalization. Case studies demonstrating the use of AI and potential applications within the institutional context and implications will be the focus of the presentation.
Establishing an Adaptive Learning Framework: Walking the pathway to math success
An Adaptive Panel Discussion
In this highly interactive session, participants will complete a knowledge check similar to what students experience within the ALEKS system. This virtual task will inform and guide the panel discussion by identifying gaps in prior knowledge, verifying existing knowledge, and ensuring a common vocabulary. As diverse as the learners SNHU serves, participants will identify unique needs for establishing an adaptive learning framework in their own learning environment. Join us in discussing the impetus for change, the impact to student success, shared instructional design and course development approaches. The panel will also reflect upon benefits, share key strategies and takeaways.
This session will highlight 12 pedagogical approaches commonly used in online courses, describe the value, characteristics, and applications of each approach. Attendees will participate in an engaging activity using beach balls and a pedagogical wheel to collaborate on solutions for online teaching challenges using design thinking process.
Attend Unoffice Hours to help us focus in on the needs of the conference community. This is a chance to engage with a member of the D&I committee to share your thoughts/impressions/comments on diversity and inclusion.
Join us for our final networking break in the Exhibit Hall (Atlantic Hall). In addition to grabbing a cup of coffee or tea, check out the Technology Test Kitchen or bring a colleague with you to our final Speed Networking Event. This is also your last chance to get your cards stamped by our exhibitors. Turn them in by 3:15pm to the OLC Booth for the prize drawings. Prize announcements will be Tweeted and emailed out on Friday.
Stop by during the break between sessions for special treats (including some that can only be claimed with a colleague from another institution). Bring your Lounge Pass and complete the activities listed to win sweet prizes. Because how often do you have the chance to network with amazing people AND win awesome things?
Continuing the networking activity from the Women in Digital Learning Leadership luncheon, we will define concrete action items that we can work on together to complete that will support diversity and inclusion in our field. We will engage in futurecasting to determine how we might move the needle towards equity, and then plan our next steps as a group. All are welcome to attend, regardless of whether you attended the luncheon or not, but you should come to the lunch too!
The California Community College Online Education Initiative provides free online student support tools to all 114 colleges in the system. Despite evidence of their effectiveness and their free price, campus-wide adoption is not universal. Why? This session examines organizational change through a systems theory lens to illuminate how to lead from where you are.
This session examines the difficulty of assessing and improving the learner experience in traditional faculty-built online courses. We will emphasize methods of collecting useful data for quality management in situations where student feedback and/or success data is difficult to obtain. We will present data from team-built MOOCs as an example of a useful proxy for traditional measures of student success.
Combining the instructional design experiences at two institutions, this session will showcase the impact of integrating VR-related immersive content into online learning. VR can be a daunting initiative, with this in mind, the session will feature discussions on best practices and challenges faced to help your institution to get started.
This session will provide insights into the many facets of learning analytics, especially those focused on online learners and programs. Learning analytics can provide valuable insights to faculty, advisors, instructional designers, and online program managers. Dashboards created in-house as well as a vendor solution focused on retention will be shown.
The Interactive Faculty Development Decision Guide (IFDG) is a research-based online tool designed to help stakeholders analyse their current faculty development initiatives to align them with institutional goals. Please complete the Decision Guide (https://topkit.org/planning/faculty-development/) and bring your results to the workshop.
Purdue University Global’s Center for Teaching and Learning will provide an overview of how our training and development is effectively constructed and delivered using Google Tools. We will also provide a hands-on example of how to create a Google Site that can be used for online instruction.
The OLC Institute for Professional Development offers virtual learning opportunities for eLearning professionals at any stage of their career. This focus group provides an opportunity to help the Institute explore future needs and professional development opportunities for the instructional designer, and to discuss what standards best define this role.
***This is an invitation-only event. If you’re interested, please contact deb.burns@onlinelearning-c.org***
Learn how 1,500 institutions use LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor to prevent cheating during online exams. This session will include a discussion of online testing challenges and a demonstration of both applications, including the latest features of Respondus Monitor that take automated exam proctoring to a new level.
STEM educators continue to disagree about the role and value of, and best practices for, online science labs. This study brings much-needed data to the discussion by quantitatively comparing the efficacy of virtual versus physical lab experimentation on student learning gains related to conceptual understanding and scientific inquiry.
By designing and implementing a curriculum of 100% online, self-paced professional development courses, one instructional designer and two student workers at the University of Bridgeport developed a full range of online learning professional development experiences for its instructors as part of a DIY model for online course design utilizing Canvas.
While online courses continue to proliferate, instructors struggle to get their students excited about participating in discussion boards. Discussion Hero is a gamified discussion board that turns discussions into debating boards. It encourages diverse points of view and respectful debate. It combines the traditional awarding of points with a progress meter that allows students to visually see how they are performing. This session will feature faculty and student perspectives on this new tool and what the future holds for its adoption in other courses.
Encouraging faculty research on online teaching and learning is important to the development of the field. In this panel discussion, a group of faculty research fellows will share their experiences conducting research, discuss the professional benefits they gained from the program, and discuss how their research projects have impacted students.
Are you looking to revamp professional development opportunities for your online faculty? Join us as we provide a behind the scenes look on the evolution of our faculty development program at the University of Colorado Denver. We will share our current practices, as well as the trials and tribulations involved in growing a successful program.
Although there are advantages associated with online learning, there are some disadvantages that influence how individuals' experience the interaction between family and degree. This presentation discusses research on the difference between online and residential students’-both men and women- academic-family integration “cognitive, behavior, psychological, and affective processes of integrating academic and family.”
“Yours, Mine, and Ours: Student Engagement is a Three-way Street” is an interactive presentation that examines definitions of engagement, explores what it means to use engagement, and investigates how we engage with students. This presentation covers student engagement for online, blended and face-to-face classrooms as an interactive, engaging session.
This session presents the Networked Knowledge Activity Framework, an empirically-derived framework used to design social media learning activities that promote active learning processes. Lesson ideas and templates based on the framework will be shared. Practical and ethical concerns related to social media use in formal learning settings will be discussed.
An exploratory study examined online faculty’s perception of the most valued pedagogical elements that support effective online teaching and learning. Results from faculty focus groups revealed a number of key themes: Personalization, Faculty Efficiency, Instructor Presence, Making Connections, Immediacy and Content Development. The presentation will review the results of the focus groups and provide research-driven recommendations for maximizing instructor efficiency AND effectiveness while incorporating unique pedagogical elements.
Discussion boards are often strewn with lackluster engagement, viewed as “busy work”, and/or underutilized in the online classroom. Let’s discuss the true value of this often undervalued learning component within online classrooms through exploring and sharing applicable learning and teaching strategies to be utilized in the discussion forums.
Higher education in the “Digital Age” demands educators to gain online teaching and learning expertise. As such, pioneering institutions offer students advanced certification opportunities to become online instructors. The current proposal showcases the effectiveness of digital pedagogy through student evaluations from recent asynchronous and synchronous fully online graduate courses.
Online learning initiatives and faculty development programs have resulted in an increasing number of courses and degree programs being delivered online. To facilitate this growth in online courses, the Office of Online Learning and Center for Teaching and Learning, at the co-presenters' middle-sized public liberal arts institution, have teamed together to address faculty concerns about quality, support, and incentives for developing or enhancing online courses. This effort has led to 612 sections of online courses being offered in 2017 with 20.26% of said courses earning an institutional quality assurance certification as well as internal grant funding for course development or redesign.
Faculty perception can facilitate and improve the quality of education and is an important catalyst in course success. As such, it is necessary to comprehend faculty perception to positively impact the quality and success of each course. This presentation will discuss how community college instructors perceive the influence of online best teaching practices—pedagogical, technical and content knowledge—on student outcomes.
This study will use the ENCORE review process to conduct a needs assessment of faculty perceptions of online instructional design best practices. Data will also serve to compare perceptions of best practices to actual implementation. This will identify training needs for faculty and opportunities for dissemination of best practices.
This qualitative case study explored teachers’ perceptions of received professional development designed to prepare them for the paradigm shift of teaching in a blended learning environment. The qualitative case study occurred in one of the top 10 largest school districts in the U.S. located in Florida. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews, utilized documentary analysis, and conducted internet surveys with five teachers from the primary and intermediate grades who have taught two-three years in the LaunchED 1-to-1 laptop initiative program identified as Cohort I. The results of the study revealed that
Timing, resources, and training can impact faculty transition from face-to-face to online teaching. The variables discussed are faculty engagement, motivation, and satisfaction. Future findings of this research will help faculty/administrators by showing successes or barriers online faculty face. Identification of these barriers may increase willingness to transition to online teaching.
Forensic Science degree programs are at the forefront of virtual coursework requested by undergraduate students. Minimal research exists which reviews student perspectives of science-based coursework in forensic science online learning. Developing an understanding of student self-efficacy and connectedness in Forensic Science virtual classrooms is essential to developing effective degree programs.
The rise of online learning presents challenges as well as opportunities for instructors and students. One of the challenges for online instructors is how to keep students engaged in the course. A Learning Management System (LMS) is used to address part of this challenge; however, this is dependent on how the instructor uses it. When delivering a course to students online, a learning management system can be used to manage the course, facilitate assignments and exams, provide feedback and grades, and communicate with students. This study will examine gender differences in student views on the role of a learning management system in their engagement in an online course. This study will examine students’ views on which features of an LMS were used by the course instructor, how those features played a role in engaging them and finally examine if there are gender differences in the student views.
Although the need for project management education and experience is reiterated in the literature and in cross-industry job postings, it is unclear how instructional designers acquire and use project management skills and tools in their profession because project management is not a focus in many higher education programs intended to prepare instructional designers. This study investigated the project management-related experiences of practicing instructional designers to gain insight into their common experiences and identify themes from their stories.
Results describe project management best practices, models, methods, tools, and technologies that instructional designers use in acquiring project management knowledge and ultimately in managing their learning design projects. These results will be shared with the conference audience.
In this Graduate Student Discovery Session Presentation, Jason will summarize his potential PhD research questions regarding eLearning leadership in higher education, what is known from the current literature, and welcome scholarly discourse from the attendees.
With increased demand for online higher education, technological challenges can hinder some students’ success. Among these challenges, the digital divide...a reality that affects some online students. Using the case of University of the West Indies, I will explore how mobile devices can bridge the divide in online learning
The purpose of this proposed doctoral dissertation is to examine the effects of incorporating mindfulness into online graduate courses. By cultivating a mindful sense of awareness, online graduate students can learn to be more engaged with course content, and their emotional health and cognitive abilities may be improved.
This session will address a team approach used to develop courses for online programs. Each team member brings their own expertise to the group. Discussion will focus on the makeup of the team, benefits and challenges of a team approach, and the metrics used to manage a course development project.
In this session, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine will demonstrate how they designed an immersive simulation assessment in Storyline using custom photography. Attendees will gain a deep understanding of each step of the process: storyboarding, hiring talent, acquiring proper equipment, editing tools, budgeting, and creation of the first-person perspective.
Overheard: “I’m an expert at using active learning. My students tell me so in my course evaluations.” We’ll straighten this out with an active learning building block approach. Come ready to participate and leave with strategies and resources.
Lack of faculty buy-in is one of the major obstacles in implementing effective instructional design ideas in the online course design and development process. We will discuss the value, strategies, and examples of promoting small teaching ideas to encourage faculty to design and revise courses in partnership with instructional designers.
Take a deep dive into creating an all-inclusive digital access program at your institution to offer students an affordable, individualized, and quality education. Learn from Columbia College’s successful move to providing their student's free textbooks and eTexts with no fees. Presentation will address the opportunities and challenges to moving to an all-inclusive model.
"Framework for Online Courses" is comprised of four institutional pillars: Leadership, Academic, Student Services & Engagement and Technology (LAST) and built on sixteen blocks. It was designed to reduce silos and convert the design of online courses as an endeavor of cross institutional teams towards strategic change.
A case study that examines the process and pedagogy of going fully online; examining student feedback, faculty participation, and program assessment and performance.
We investigated the extent to which various instructional practices of a fully online undergraduate Biology course contribute to student learning. Out of 10 practices, only guided discussions were found effective at deepening student understanding of the course content.
As the business evolves, you need to constantly keep up to date and informed of new best practices for topics such as OER, analytics, Inclusive Access, affordability, accessibility, and, most importantly, messaging the power of digital to faculty, administration, students, and parents.
The Online Student Support Scorecard assists postsecondary institutions in evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the services available for online students. By implementing the scorecard evaluation process, the student services units across the institution began to work together to provide comprehensive services for online students.
Learn about the current state of this track's topics, and get a glimpse into the future as well. The Accelerate Track Chairs and Best in Session presenters will share a snapshot of this year’s presentations in each track – the topics, the key words, the industries, and other trending details. Presenters will also guide a collaboration with our face-to-face and online participants to identify new areas needing exploration, examine growing challenges, and begin to investigate new topics waiting just around the corner to be explored.
Meet the 2018 DLIAward Institutional Awardees. Each institution that submitted for this year's award shared a common intention – that student success is positively impacted by digital learning initiatives. We know the field is young and that “success” is subjective, however, we hope that these exceptional pioneers inspire others and increase the number of underrepresented students completing college across the U.S. Representing the winning Institution-Led teams are;
Not your average tool session! Join us for a “speed-geeking” tool and app showcase highlighting a variety of ed tech tools through actual course-based examples. When used with intention and purpose, tools and apps can expand and enhance the student learning experience, increase assessment possibilities, and offer new engagement opportunities.
TOPkit provides an interactive community for professionals who prepare faculty to teach online. Adoptable, adaptable resources run the gamut from two sample courses to a Faculty Development Decision Guide to rubrics for quality courses/programs. Participants have the opportunity to contribute to the community, register for the monthly Digest newsletter, and Ask ADDIE for faculty development advice.
Ready to start your final day at OLC Accelerate energized? Join us for our final 1 hour slow flow yoga class with Janet Smith, a fellow conference attendee and certified yoga instructor. Slow flow yoga is made up of slow flow (three breaths per posture), including sun and/or moon salutations. Yoga mat (we will have towels on hand if you don't have one), comfy clothes, and water bottle needed.
Note: OLC Accelerate attendees participate in yoga classes at their own risk. In the unlikely event of injury, please note that OLC and the WDW Swan & Dolphin Resort may not be held liable.
Start your Friday with breakfast before the keynote address and network with other attendees over continental breakfast. Stay to hear the Friday Keynote Address starting at 8:15am. Breakfast continues to be available until 9:30am.
Note: Access to Pacific Hall today by taking the Europe escalator down and walking through the Pacific Foyer. Access through the exhibit hall is no longer available on Friday morning.
Traditional-age college students are now iGen (born after 1995), the first generation to spend their adolescence with smartphones. iGen’ers spend more time online and less time with each other in person, are growing up more slowly as adolescents, and are more extrinsically and less intrinsically motivated. These differences necessitate new strategies for reaching them as learners, and an awareness of how generational differences affect non-traditional age online learners in both positive and negative ways.
With this new group of young people growing into adulthood, we all need to understand them: Friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate, guide them, and identify how these strategies can apply to all types of learners.
As we learn to understand this new generation, perhaps we can all learn more about ourselves. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.
This lively (and live!) BYOD presentation explores academic podcasting from the perspectives of students, staff, and faculty, and in its many guises - professional development, community-building, research dissemination, gaining transferrable skills, and more. By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with the know-how to start their own podcast!
Affordability of course materials is a critical issue for student success. Current research indicates that about 48% of students say they take fewer course units per semester because of the high costs of their textbooks and about 21% say they fail the course because of the high cost of textbooks. The Affordable Learning Solutions Initiative (AL$) provides institutions a range of strategies to significantly lower the cost of course materials for students and develop low cost online programs. This presentation summarizes current innovative practices for using Open Education Resources (OER) as substitutes for textbooks and consequently improve college affordability and institutional eLearning transformations.
The presenters will discuss the evolving partnership between Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the California State University (CSU) – MERLOT that enables HBCUs to adopt and adapt Open Education Research (OER) and AL$ as an integral part of their academic services. Session participants will be engaged in discussing critical steps for planning an AL$ Initiative within their own organization, the initial organizational and political steps to take in their planning, and the use of an AL$ model of professional development to improve faculty and administrative acceptance. Current applications and case study implementation of AL$ at HBCUs will be shared.
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Learn from my mistakes! If you need to use an internet (cloud) based software technology in your hybrid or online classroom, this engaging talk will help you avoid problems and present you with a checklist for picking the technology and create increased student engagement.
Introducing the newly revised 2018 Quality Scorecard for the Administration of Online Programs. In response to current trends and needs in online learning, OLC has undertaken the task of updated the quality indicators. In this session, participants will learn what has been added, deleted or revised based on what the experts identify as critical to an online learning program. An overview of the research process and steps for implementation will also be provided.
Theory-driven instructional design is a critical component of web-enhanced instruction. This express workshop will present how to apply cognitive load theory to reduce the effects of extraneous cognitive load and ensure optimal learning in online courses and modules.
There’s growing literature on effective pedagogy in online learning but figuring out how to support and engage online students in the campus community is often under considered. The panel will discuss what it takes to support online students, engaging staff in change, using an online program manager (OPM) and more!
The future of online education will support faculty to enhance student learning using interactive technologies. This presentation illustrates methods to translate various traditional curricular approaches into state-of-science educational experiences leveraging instructional designers to improve student comprehension and assessment of course objectives.
This session will be an exploration of how purposeful, user-centric design positively impacts learner outcomes. Attendees will leave this session with a better understanding of how to design with intention, ideas for simple design improvements that can be made to their sites, and resources for further exploration of this topic.
This workshop presents the benefits and challenges of applying the theory of transformative learning (Mezirow, 1978) within the online environment and engages participants in the experience and development of online transformative activities. Participants will explore strategies for supporting transformative learning within the online classroom through the use of Web 2.0 tools and Learning Management Systems.
The relationship between instructional designer and subject expert holds the key to effective online learning. Presenters share a team approach to course development for one institution’s online MBA program. Presenters unpack common misconceptions held by faculty and how these were overcome during the design process for a quantitative business course at the University of Redlands.
It’s no secret that our faculty are just as unique as our students. We completed a major overhaul to rethink and differentiate our approaches to faculty support and training including innovation seminars, outreach sessions, round-tables discussions, self-paced support models, reactive methods, and more.
This session will report results of the evaluation of a major effort to redesign the University of Central Florida’s core College of Business Administration courses from lecture capture to a blended, active learning format. The impact on student, faculty and the academy will be discussed.
Want to add video to your course, but aren't sure how to do it pedagogically? This practical session will help you put pedagogy first when deciding to use video. We will briefly explore 20 options to integrate video as well as review 10 best practices to consider for any option. The Instructional Video Guide will be demonstrated and shared for use after the session.
This session will present an introduction to Adaptive Learning and share how faculty and instructional support staff at UW-Whitewater implemented a new version of a course using adaptive learning. Efficiency and creativity tips for faculty and instructional designers will be shared as well as challenges.