Solution Design Summit: Call for Team Proposals
OLC and MERLOT invite you to submit a proposal for the Solution Design Summit (SDS). Submissions are now closed. Notifications will be emailed on December 20, 2017.
OLC and MERLOT invite you to submit a proposal for the Solution Design Summit (SDS). Submissions are now closed. Notifications will be emailed on December 20, 2017.
Are you working on a learning challenge that requires a creative, multi-disciplinary approach? We invite your team proposal to the Solution Design Summit at OLC Innovate 2018. Selected teams will:
Deadline to submit has been extended to November 1, 2017, 11:59pm ET.
Solution Design Summit Goals:
Who should apply to the Solution Design Summit?
This program is designed to welcome small, interdisciplinary teams with a diverse set of backgrounds, roles, and expertise. Possible teams may be:
Winning SDS team members will receive:
The program seeks challenges in K-12, higher education, and/or workplace learning that require an innovative, multi-disciplinary team to solve the issue. You can select any topic, case study, issue, or challenge in need of a solution. The Solution Design Summit focuses on current learning challenges where an innovative solution idea could lead to increased student success and an enhanced student learning experience.
To get you started we’ve listed below some potential topic areas for your proposal.
To offer solutions post-secondary education is faced in developing courseware, learning, and creating an effective user experience based on course delivery and design. There are currently grants to examine the “speed adoption of next-generation digital courseware solutions by higher education institutions and faculty, in order to improve outcomes in general education courses, especially for disadvantaged and underserved student groups” and the impact of personalized learning to put learners at the center of this process.
As we encourage learning and growth in our professions, it will be important for individuals to account for their skills and knowledge development. The role of formal and informal learning is blending with new opportunities to participate, engage, and continue educating oneself.
Open educational resources (OER) have impacted how and when we learn. With the introduction of open courses, open textbooks, open content, and new models for open learning, we are faced with a number of challenges and questions to answer.
Define your own challenge your organization or institution is facing, related to learning, and provide ideas and approaches you plan to initiate as a solution.
Your solution should address one or more of the six following concerns OLC Innovate is focusing on. What do we mean by a solution?
Solutions come in many shapes and sizes. A solution could be anything from a custom, in-house designed application to a new implementation of a traditional educational strategy. The goal of your solution should be to help overcome challenges faced when addressing one of the “six concerns”. Remember pedagogy first-a solution may not be technology focused and rather a protocol, process and/or faculty programs.
The Six Concerns
2016 Solution Design Summit in Review (blog posts submitted by participants)
During the Conference-1-2 on site working sessions along with a final presentation
The Judge-voted winning team will be awarded:
The Community-voted winning team will be awarded:
Note: Only registered, onsite attendee team members will be awarded prizes.
In order to participate in the OLC Innovate 2018 Solution Design Summit you will need to complete the following items:
Be sure to read through all of the information about the Solution Design Summit prior to submitting. Review the timelines and requirements, and be sure to email and/or add sds@onlinelearning-c.org to your address book to ensure you receive your notification.
Proposals will go through a blind peer review process by a team representing K-12, higher ed, training, and EdTech. Proposals will be reviewed for clarity, relevance to one or more of the six concerns, inclusion of a team, and overall relevance to OLC Innovate 2018 conference.