OLC Accelerate 2020 - Engagement Opportunities
Get more out of your conference experience!
Field Guide Program
The OLC Field Guide program is designed to enhance the conference experience for first-time conference attendees and anyone looking for additional networking opportunities at OLC conferences.
Technology Test Kitchen
OLC Live
A catered virtual lounge and conversation space where participants can engage directly with keynote speakers, select presenters, and other attendees. Join our OLC Live guest hosts for your chance to connect virtually with a variety of personalities from the OLC community.
Equity & Inclusion
Many of us in education are engaged in work that seeks to create and promote diverse and inclusive learning environments. The E&I Committee aims to leverage that knowledge and passion to elevate the OLC Innovate conference experience.
The Sanctuary
Everyone needs a break and time to decompress when at a large conference… even when it is virtual. Take advantage of opportunities to unplug and refocus.
OLC Presenter Services
OLC Presenter Services is dedicated to enhancing the conference experience for all attendees by offering specialized coaching to presenters. Our goal is to offer guidance on best practices in audience engagement strategies, slide design, and delivery skills necessary to ensure a successful conference session.
Speed Networking Lounge
The Speed Networking Lounge is an informal conversation space that allows participants to connect with fellow attendees and collaboratively explore emerging digital pedagogy.
Virtual Experience
The best part of any conference are the informal conversations that occur in the hallways after an interesting session and at the end of the day. To close the gap between virtual participants in distributed environments, we are creating a virtual lounge where participants can ask follow up questions of presenters, talk to the Keynote speakers, and have conversations with other virtual attendees.
Schedule
All times are listed in US EST.
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Hosts: Dorothy Loftin & Romana Hughes |
Come join other conference attendees and create an OLC Accelerate game plan. During this power hour, you’ll have the chance to organize your conference schedule and select presentations and activities you want to attend. The OLC Field Guides will be there to suggest interesting presentations and activities, train you on the use of the OLC site/mobile app, and pass out Engagement Maps. We’ll also discuss ways to participate virtually–including Slack and Twitter! Meet up with old friends, make new acquaintances, plan your schedule. We can’t wait to see you there! |
| 9:45am - 10:15am | Virtual Speed Networking Lounge - Equity & Inclusion Welcome | Grab your coffee and join us for a special welcome from our Equity & Inclusion (E & I) committee. In this informal meet-up, members of the OLC Community will share some exciting updates on new initiatives around equity and inclusion in our field. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/attend-2020/accelerate/equity-inclusion/ |
| 2:45pm - 3:13pm |
Note: This presentation is open to the public Hosts: Nate & Jenae Interviewees:
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Make the most out of your Accelerate experience by joining OLC Live! hosts Jenae Cohn and Nate Angell in a kickoff discussion with conference, program and engagement chairs about how they developed this year's rich mixture of online and face-to-face activities. |
| 6:45pm - 8:00pm |
Note: This presentation is open to the public |
A virtual gala celebrating the 2020 OLC Fellows and the winners of the 2020 OLC Awards, focusing on the impactful and innovative work occurring across the field of online, blended and digital learning. |
| 11:15am - 11:45am | Virtual Speed Networking Lounge: Mad Lib Bios Host: Cheryl Fulghum |
Mad Libs are fill in the blank stories. Participants will choose words, parts of speech, as directed, to fill in the blanks in a create-an-interesting-bio exercise. The result is a creative and fun take on the professional bio that is sure to help you stand out at your next professional event. First rule about Mad Libs Bios: Don’t look ahead! It spoils the fun. |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | OLC Live: The Accelerate Experience Note: This presentation is open to the public Hosts: Nate & Jenae Interviewees: Today's focus will be on humanizing and practicing empathy in online teaching and learning. We welcome the following guests:
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Get a concentrated dose of Accelerate experience with OLC Live! hosts Jenae Cohn and Nate Angell as they lead a cross-cutting discussion with presenters and participants focused on this year's conference themes: -Access, Equity, and Open Education -Blended -Engaged and Effective Teaching and Learning -Instructional Design -Leadership and Institutional Strategies -Research, Evaluation, and Learning Analytics -Technology and Future Trends Excitingly, this year for OLC Live! we’re trying something new. Hosts Jenae and Nate are sourcing our guest interviewees right from the amazing group of presenters and audience members as a way to stay responsive to the discussions actually happening during the conference. You can help them identify engaging and provocative speakers by completing the OLC Live! nomination form: http://bit.ly/OLCLiveNomination . Join OLC Live! daily to hear from those presenters and audience members who have been identified as impactful during sessions for additional insights! |
| 7:00pm - 7:45pm | A Very Happy Happy Hour: Zoom Basics with Presenter Services - The Zoom Where it Happens Hosts: Tawnya Means & Sherri Restauri |
Join the Presenter Services Co-Chairs at A Very Happy Happy Hour! For this happy hour we ask those joining to spread happiness with some fun activities. Participants can share a visual image and story that makes you happy, share your happy place, or share a Zoom background that brings you happiness. Grab your favorite beverage and snacks and join us in spreading happiness and listening to live tunes. Along the way you will learn how to leverage some of the basic functionalities of Zoom for more effective online engagement (including how to change your name, how to change your virtual background, share content in the chat, turn cameras off and on, and how to change your profile photo). |
| 1:45pm - 2:15pm | Virtual Speed Networking Lounge: Technology Test Kitchen Preview Hosts: Dorothy Loftin & Romana Hughes Interviewees: Adam Davi, Krys Ziska-Strange |
Have you ever wondered what goes into creating the Test Test Kitchen? What kind of work fills the buckets of two nerds that enjoy breaking, poking, and using technology in learning? And what does a kitchen have to do with ANY of this? Join us for an insightful, we hope, look into the inner workings of the 2020 Accelerate Tech Test Kitchen and the chefs that create the delectable learning experiences in it! |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | OLC Live: The Accelerate Experience Note: This presentation is open to the public Hosts: Nate & Jenae Interviewees: Today's focus will be: With the dramatic effects the COVID-19 pandemic has already had on education, what are the longer-term effects on people, practices, and organizations focused on developing teaching and learning, like instructional designers, faculty developers, educational technologists, and centers for teaching and learning. What’s changed? What changes are going to persist? What will change moving forward?
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Get a concentrated dose of Accelerate experience with OLC Live! hosts Jenae Cohn and Nate Angell as they lead a cross-cutting discussion with presenters and participants focused on this year's conference themes: -Access, Equity, and Open Education -Blended -Engaged and Effective Teaching and Learning -Instructional Design -Leadership and Institutional Strategies -Research, Evaluation, and Learning Analytics -Technology and Future Trends Excitingly, this year for OLC Live! we’re trying something new. Hosts Jenae and Nate are sourcing our guest interviewees right from the amazing group of presenters and audience members as a way to stay responsive to the discussions actually happening during the conference. You can help them identify engaging and provocative speakers by completing the OLC Live! nomination form: http://bit.ly/OLCLiveNomination . Join OLC Live! daily to hear from those presenters and audience members who have been identified as impactful during sessions for additional insights! |
| 5:45pm - 6:30pm | Virtual Happy Hour: Chef-nanigans with the TTK: Games, Tech, and Laughs Hosts: Adam Davi, Krys Ziska-Strange |
Come join the TTK Chefs for an hour of games, technology, and chef-nanigans. Bring your liquid of choice and a whole lot of patience for things to go sideways. (Is my mic still on?) We’ll play a few games, chat about a few of our favorite technology “fantastic freebies” and have more laughs than should be allowed in any one Zoom call. |
| 1:45pm - 2:15pm | Speed Networking Lounge: Family Feud Host: Sherri Braxton |
Here is your chance to participate in the online learning version of Family Feud! This game is modeled after the TV show and will give you a chance to introduce yourself and then play with your team. Watch connections grow as you work together as a team to get all of the answers for each category! |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | OLC Live: Sponsor Chat with ProctorU Note: This presentation is open to the public Hosts: Nate & Jenae Interviewees: Jarrod Morgan & Ashley Norris, ProctorU |
Explore practices and technologies for online teaching and learning with OLC Live! hosts Jenae Cohn and Nate Angell as they go beyond the sales pitch with Jarrod Morgan, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer and Ashley Norris, Chief Compliance Officer, both of OLC Accelerate 2020 National Titanium sponsor ProctorU. |
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Virtual Speed Networking Lounge: Looking to the Future - Breakout Collaboration Hosts: Dorothy Loftin & Romana Hughes |
While we don’t have a crystal ball, we can take what we’ve learned and experienced as we look towards the future. Let’s talk about it! Some questions we might address: If you knew today that COVID-19 was coming, what would be your plan? What will Fall 2022 education look like? What was missing/what new technology is needed? What new best practices have you implemented? |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | OLC Live: Sponsor Chat with Examity Note: This presentation is open to the public Hosts: Nate & Jenae Interviewee: Ryan Leer, Examity |
Explore practices and technologies for online teaching and learning with OLC Live! hosts Jenae Cohn and Nate Angell as they go beyond the sales pitch with Ryan Leer, Vice President, Strategic Accounts of OLC Accelerate National Titanium Sponsor Examity. |
| 3:45pm - 4:30pm | OLC Accelerate Musical Bingo | Want to connect with other conference attendees while playing games and winning prizes? Join us for this final Week 1 session, meet new people and play bingo! |
| 1:00pm - 1:45pm |
Hosts: Dorothy Loftin & Romana Hughes |
Come join other conference attendees and create an OLC Accelerate game plan. During this power hour, you’ll have the chance to organize your conference schedule and select presentations and activities you want to attend. The OLC Field Guides will be there to suggest interesting presentations and activities, train you on the use of the OLC site/mobile app, and pass out Engagement Maps. We’ll also discuss ways to participate virtually–including Slack and Twitter! Meet up with old friends, make new acquaintances, plan your schedule. We can’t wait to see you there! |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | OLC Live: The Accelerate Experience Note: This presentation is open to the public Hosts: Nate & Jenae Interviewees: We'll explore ways that online educators can incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) philosophies into their online teaching. We'll consider strategies for encouraging accessible learning design and will discuss ways to push accessibility conversations forward in higher education. What opportunities exist when discussing UDL in online learning?
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Get a concentrated dose of Accelerate experience with OLC Live! hosts Jenae Cohn and Nate Angell as they lead a cross-cutting discussion with presenters and participants focused on this year's conference themes: -Access, Equity, and Open Education -Blended -Engaged and Effective Teaching and Learning -Instructional Design -Leadership and Institutional Strategies -Research, Evaluation, and Learning Analytics -Technology and Future Trends Excitingly, this year for OLC Live! we’re trying something new. Hosts Jenae and Nate are sourcing our guest interviewees right from the amazing group of presenters and audience members as a way to stay responsive to the discussions actually happening during the conference. You can help them identify engaging and provocative speakers by completing the OLC Live! nomination form: http://bit.ly/OLCLiveNomination . Join OLC Live! daily to hear from those presenters and audience members who have been identified as impactful during sessions for additional insights! |
| 4:15pm - 4:45pm | Virtual Speed Networking Lounge: Virtual Scavenger Hunt Hosts: Mary Beth Messner & TBA |
Join a team and work together as you scramble to collect items for this virtual scavenger hunt! Race other attendees and see which team will complete their list first to win a prize! The hunt is on! |
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Virtual Speed Networking Lounge: Once Upon a Story Hosts: Maria Sanders & TBA |
In this fun story building game, you will get to interact with other people and work on building a story together. How these stories end is up to your group! |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | OLC Live: The Accelerate Experience Note: This presentation is open to the public Hosts: Nate & Jenae Interviewees: What are we learning from our research and work in teaching and learning during the pandemic? What does the data and experience we have now suggest about the future?
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Get a concentrated dose of Accelerate experience with OLC Live! hosts Jenae Cohn and Nate Angell as they lead a cross-cutting discussion with presenters and participants focused on this year's conference themes: -Access, Equity, and Open Education -Blended -Engaged and Effective Teaching and Learning -Instructional Design -Leadership and Institutional Strategies -Research, Evaluation, and Learning Analytics -Technology and Future Trends Excitingly, this year for OLC Live! we’re trying something new. Hosts Jenae and Nate are sourcing our guest interviewees right from the amazing group of presenters and audience members as a way to stay responsive to the discussions actually happening during the conference. You can help them identify engaging and provocative speakers by completing the OLC Live! nomination form: http://bit.ly/OLCLiveNomination . Join OLC Live! daily to hear from those presenters and audience members who have been identified as impactful during sessions for additional insights! |
| 7:00pm - 7:45pm |
Hosts: Tawnya Means, Sherri Restauri |
Join the Presenter Services Co-Chairs at A Very Happy Happy Hour! For this happy hour we ask those joining to spread happiness with some fun activities. Grab your favorite beverage and snacks and join us in spreading happiness and playing some fun ice breaker activities and Zoom games. Along the way you will learn how to move beyond the basic functionalities of Zoom to leverage the technology for more effective online engagement using breakout rooms, backgrounds, and polling, as well as other fun and unique ways to have participants engage in your sessions. |
| 9:15am - 9:45am | Virtual Speed Networking Lounge: Geo Guesser Hosts: Brandon Haas & TBA |
Work together with a team to figure out where in the world the image that you are looking at is from. Use those Carmen San Diego skills from your childhood to sleuth out the image on the screen. Don't worry about bringing your own teammates, we will split everyone up into teams once the session starts! |
| 10:30am - 11:00am | OLC Live Networking Coffee Break: Sponsor Chat with HP Note: This presentation is open to the public Hosts: Nate & Jenae Interviewees:
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Explore practices and technologies for online teaching and learning with OLC Live! hosts Jenae Cohn and Nate Angell as they go beyond the sales pitch with Jeff Chen of HP, OLC Accelerate Titanium National Sponsor. |
| 12:45pm - 1:15pm | OLC Live: Closing Event - Beyond The Keynote Note: This presentation is open to the public Hosts: Nate & Jenae Interviewees: Flower Darby, Angela Gunder |
Join us in celebration of the transformative practices, connective networking, and impactful discussions from OLC Accelerate 2020. With an inside look at the big takeaways from the conference, members of the OLC community will share stories of their favorite moments from the conference. OLC Live! hosts Jenae Cohn and Nate Angell will close us out with lightning interviews of the conference steering committee, including members of the OLC Board of Directors and OLC Staff. Let’s close our time together in appreciation of all that we’ve learned, and in celebration of the monumental advancements to come within the field of online, blended and digital learning. |