Next Generation By Design Solution Development: Transparent Data That Leads to Student Success

Dr. Dale Allen

President and co-founder
DXtera Institute

The Next Generation By Design (NGBD) Series is a growing international movement of innovators dedicated to deploying the next generation of educational infrastructure to enable student success.

A growing community of higher education institutions is leading the development of solutions that focus on designing and integrating systems that allow information to be shared easily, timely and accurately. This provides improved customization and personalization of the user experience and addresses the fundamental issues of information agency, focusing on issues of privacy, security, and data ownership.

This is an action-oriented session that will involve participants in designing and developing the Next Generation of educational solutions and provide consistent access to educational opportunities across a variety of learning experiences, including digital teaching and learning.

Fostering Student Success: Employing Validation, An Asset-Based Framework and High-Impact Pedagogic Practices

Dr. Laura Rendón

Professor Emerita
University of Texas-San Antonio

This presentation will address themes related to fostering student success especially for low-income, first-generation students. Creating a culture of success requires attention to: 1) the importance of validating students, 2) the need to work with an asset-based framework, and 3) the importance of working with High-Impact Practices, including contemplative, deep learning experiences.

The Journey of Lifelong Learning: Integrating Non-Traditional Learning Opportunities

Clark Shah-Nelson

Assistant Dean of Instructional Design and Technology
University of Maryland School of Social Work

The proliferation and spread of information via the internet revolutionizes the capability of people with the knowledge, connectivity and equipment to learn about nearly any desired topic. Online social networks and communities enable people to share and spread information and knowledge more quickly than ever before in human history. A by-product of these developments is the growth of non-traditional learning opportunities, communities, micro-credentials, nano-degrees, MOOCs and open educational resources, which foster lifelong learning and can be incorporated into traditional teaching and learning paradigms. How can these developments be cultivated? How can we add value and bridge gaps between already existing degrees, programs and workforce training throughout the lifelong learning journey?

Vision 2029 Panel

Dr. Devon Cancilla, Panel Moderator

Chief Knowledge Officer
Online Learning Consortium

Panelists:

Dr. Laura Palmer Noone

Provost / Senior Vice President Academic Affairs / Chief Academic Officer, Ashford University

Amon Horne

DXtera Institute

Dr. Laura Rendon

University of Texas-San Antonio

Clark Shah-Nelson

University of Maryland School of Social Work

Significant changes are coming to online education. From balancing the need for educational innovation against regulatory realities to using data-driven approaches to better understand and manage change, to a new model of the university built around competency-based assessments, these are just a few of the factors driving change. The day’s final session brings together the thoughts and conclusions generated from the OLC Collaborate – San Diego discussions to formulate a regional response to the changing educational environment. Topics gathered by OLC facilitators and session archivists during breakout sessions along with those posted online by participants during the day will be used to guide this interactive final session. Led by Devon Cancilla from OLC, each of the day’s keynote speakers will have the opportunity to address the collectively generated questions and topics and place them in the context of the broader changes occurring in higher education.