Innovation Studio
The heartbeat of exploration and conversations at OLC Innovate—although some may call it climbing to the summit to escape!
The heartbeat of exploration and conversations at OLC Innovate—although some may call it climbing to the summit to escape!
About | Great Denver Design Off | Escape Room | Schedule | About the Designers
Innovation for teaching and learning is born through our collaborations and interconnectedness as educators. In this spirit, the Innovation Studio is a dedicated space at the conference for you to explore the pervasive challenges we face in the classroom and to craft innovative approaches for better reaching our unique populations of learners.
OLC Innovate is not a passive conference experience! Join the designers in the Innovation Studio for a series of live experimental sessions, design thinking challenges, the sharing of trade secrets, and more! This year, the innovation studio hosts a series of studio stations exploring the design thinking process, considering issues of diversity and access in designs, resident expert designers showcasing their work, and a conference retreat and reflection space for making sense and meaning of all of your wonderful learnings from the space and conference overall. Make the Innovation Studio your hub and your home base at OLC Innovate 2019, using it as a space to be inspired, network with colleagues, and reflect throughout the conference.
Limitations or barriers can lead to innovative ideas. In the Innovation Studio, we want to explore how this works in a collaborative conference environment. Join us for “The Great Denver Design Off”, a series of design challenge sessions, where we will take from the structure of the Great British Bake Off’s “technical bake”, but instead give design challenges that have a common set of limitations and learning goals. Participants will collaborate to generate creative solutions and suggestions for incorporating technology into their teaching practices.
Check out the Innovation Studio schedule below for the schedule of #GDDO rounds (all during the networking coffee breaks), and make plans to join in the fun. If you’re looking for a great way to network while creating solutions for others, plan to participate. You might even pick up a prize for your ideation and collaboration skills! Sign up to reserve your spot in the Great Denver Design Off!
Join others in completing the OLC Innovate Escape Room (#OLCEscapeRoom) – a fun challenge and puzzle-based experience that unites participants around collaboration and strategy
New to the Innovation Studio this year is an EdTech themed Escape Room!
Escape Rooms are collaborative experiences where participants work together to solve a series of puzzles, challenges, riddles, or mysteries using clues, hints, and intentional strategy. They often feature a specific theme and a particular set of objectives that require participants to work as a team if they hope to complete the challenge in time.
In the spirit of the Innovation Studio, the OLC Innovate Escape Room will allow conference participants a fun and unique space to not only engage with a variety of educational technologies, but do so in a themed, challenge-based environment with others. Challenges might include finding a hidden code within a database to unlock a presentation, navigating through a virtual or augmented reality to receive your next clue, using distance-learning technologies to communicate with your teammates, or completing a circuit to turn on a device, among others. That said, they will all be fun, practical, and representative of the types of teaching and learning challenges that educators face in their day-to-day lives.
To hear from others who have participated in OLC Escape Room challenges before, visit the OLC Escape Room Testimonials flipgrid page.
Each member of the winning team (max 10 members per team) will receive a $25 OLC gift card and some fun OLC swag!
We invite you to join in the Escape Room fun on Friday morning in Juniper C. Sign up to reserve your spot in this new experience!
Want to learn more about the Innovation Studio and how you can get involved? Connect with us on social media with the hashtag #OLCInnovationStudio or join our channel in the OLC Slack Team https://olcinnovate.slack.com/. We’re excited to start the conversation, and looking forward to innovating with you in person in Denver.
10:00am - 10:30am | Networking Break | Great Denver Design Off |
10:30am - 12:00pm | Teaching With Care: Creating Inclusive Course Documents | Kate Sonka (Michigan State University) Jeremy Van Hof (Michigan State University) Adam Nemeroff (Dartmouth College) |
1:00pm - 1:45pm | Designing Culturally Relevant OER For Online Learning | Chris Luchs (CCCOnline) Bridgitt Mitchell (Colorado Community Colleges Online) Kae Novak (Front Range Community College) |
2:00pm - 2:45pm | Using Game Design Principles To Create Authentic Learning Experiences | Andrew Feldstein (Fort Hays State University) Gulinna A (Fort Hays State University) |
2:45pm - 3:30pm | Networking Break | Great Denver Design Off |
3:30pm - 4:15pm | Annotation Within And Beyond The Classroom | Jeremy Dean (Hypothesis) Sundi Richard (Davidson College) |
8:45am - 9:30am | Clustering Code Submissions For Scalable And Social Feedback | David Joyner (Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus) |
9:45am - 10:30am | Leveraging Active Learning To Enhance Online Or Blended Learning Environments | Ashley Salter (University of Central Florida) Alyssa Albrecht (University of Central Florida) Jessica Tojo (University of Central Florida) |
10:30am - 11:15am | Networking Break | Great Denver Design Off |
11:15am - 12:00pm | How Audio Posters Can Be Used As Unique Engagement Spaces At Conferences | Daniel Lynds (Davidson College) |
1:15pm - 2:00pm | Integrating Digital Simulations Into Science Courses | Jacqui Hayes (Smart Sparrow) Kathy Perkins (PhET Interactive Simulations - University of Colorado Boulder) |
2:15pm - 3:00pm | Instructional Design, The Card Game | Qin Li (University of Utah) Jonathan Thomas (University of Utah) |
3:00pm - 3:30pm | Final Networking Break | Final round of Great Denver Design Off |
9:45am - 12:30pm | Innovation Studio Escape Room Event | Juniper C |