The aim of the study was to examine how the effectiveness of gamification on learning experiences might be affected by different course settings such as online, blended and on-campus approaches and cultural differences.

Engaging with diverse local and global communities in online asynchronous courses is challenging, where we’re trying to connect students with the world outside of the “walled gardens” of learning management systems. This session suggests three strategies for using social media and custom LMS roles to help break down those walls.

Understanding how students seek and consume information is important to designing learning opportunities. Join two librarians to learn about how students seek information and explore educational implications and potential library partnership. Bring your competitive spirit; knowledge will be shared via game-show style game.

Harness the neuroscience of habit building to maximize online learner success. Together, we will explore an innovative process called Focus Mapping, a behavior design method to narrow and select productive habits and the Tiny Habits® method of habit creation. You'll leave with actionable, evidence-based practices to share with your learners.

Course-embedded advising can positively impact student satisfaction and retention by creating regular engaging interactions between students and instructors. This presentation discusses the development, implementation and evaluation of a course-embedded advising model and its impact on student engagement, satisfaction, and retention in an online MA degree program.

What if educators, students, employers, and technologies could fluidly translate value and information without sacrificing privacy or proprietary value? Learning Economy (a protocol, not a company) is building the bridges needed to realize this future reality. Come see why education is the new gold standard.

Learn more at: learningeconomy.io

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) provides an array of professional development offerings focused on leadership development in the digital teaching and learning space. Current and emerging leaders can take advantage of both online and blended programs that are designed to enhance the skills and knowledge administrators need in the ever-changing higher education landscape. Come meet with Jennifer Paloma Rafferty, Director of the Institute for Professional Development, to learn about which OLC program is right for you at this stage of your professional trajectory. Jennifer will provide attendees with an overview of the Institute for Emerging Leaders in Online Learning Program (IELOL) as well as the Leadership in Online Learning Mastery Series.

UCF’s Division of Digital Learning has teamed up with the UCF Libraries, the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, the UCF Bookstore, and various other internal and external stakeholders to form a diverse team committed to driving down course materials costs for students through its Affordable Instructional Materials (AIM) Initiative.

See how the installation of a lightboard has brought out the creativity, passion, and expertise of one community college’s faculty. A lightboard combines the familiar process of lecturing/storytelling while writing on the board with innovative video creation. Hear experiences, watch examples, and try a mini-board for yourself!

Programs engaging in continuous and comprehensive assessment of program outcomes often find available solutions are in their infancy requiring manual review and extraction of data for reporting. This conversation will dive deeper into innovative possibilities for examining and reporting assessment data incorporating strategic planning best practices and automation.

This presentation encourages online faculty to seek to understand and teach to “whole students” who have their own unique cultures, idiosyncrasies, needs, learning styles, anxieties and dreams.  Discuss and reflect on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Bloom’s Taxonomy, scaffolding, praise, teaching styles, and student values, goals, learning styles and more.  

A panel representing the Center for Faculty Excellence at California State University, Fresno (an OpenStax Institutional Partner) discusses methods for engaging faculty in adopting and creating open license and no cost course materials.

Test out an interactive syllabus designed to help faculty create accessible syllabi that are specifically designed for online courses. Choose your own learning path through this just-in-time training tool. Your takeaways include access to the interactive template and a downloadable Word file for editing and use at your own institution. 

We propose a new theoretical model using Carol Rogers conditions for relationship. Using empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard to facilitate meaningful life-changing dialogue in the online teaching environment where difficult dialogue regarding social justice issues involving race, class, gender, sexuality, ableism, and other non-hegemonic identities occurs.Yet, Tausch and Huls (2014) found that 60% of university students believed they received no empathy from their professors. Similarly, Rogers, Lyons, and Tausch (2014) found that student feelings or emotions are rarely addressed in the classroom.

Be a part of exploring Experiential Learning in the ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom, where diversity mandates a universal approach that features creative discovery and reflection as tools to deeper learning. This "Present and Reflect" session will review concepts of Experiential Learning applied to the ESL classroom.

In this Discovery Session, we will present and discuss what we have found motivates students to enroll in an affordable online Master of Science in Computer Science program.

In this open dialogue conversation session, accessibility will be the star of the conversation! Let’s use this time together to learn how other colleges, universities, and organizations are incorporating accessibility best practices into their everyday lives. Instructional designers, educational technologies, faculty members, and administrators are all welcomed to join!

This session will engage all attendees in the exploration of the different versions of Bloom’s Taxonomy and how it applies to the digital learning environment as well as the blended classroom.  The attendees will participate in a discussion of the material and application to the everchanging eLearning environment as well as a hands-on activity to showcase the theory and its contribution to the educational setting.

Join LearningMate in a conversation about redesigning the online teaching and learning infrastructure to optimize content management and maximize program development.

The Biology Board presents best practices for the use of MERLOT’s powerful new SmartSearch engine. For educators searching for OER, SmartSearch is superior to other search engines in quality and ease of use based on the Open Education Resources EvaluationRubric. We found benefit to searching in a curated collection.

Adaptive learning technologies have the potential to transform the learning experiences of students and faculty alike. Increasing applications of these technologies by faculty and institutions of higher education have helped to grow our collective understanding of how to support transformation through effective implementation. Effective adaptive courseware implementation can have a broad footprint at an institution, touching departments like institutional strategy, finance, IT, institutional research, student support, and academic units. Implementation and its associated institutional transformations can take time—anywhere from 9 months to 3 years—when accounting for the planning, preparation, and use of adaptive courseware. Ensuring that your institution has the necessary resources allocated to support this process, and alignment on a shared goal, are key to success.

Join us as we embrace the challenges, concerns and motivation of the online lab student and work together to identify technologies and prepare practical solutions for your online science lab courses.

For institutions with a strong reliance on campus-based full-time faculty, there are likely several policies and procedures that may hinder morale, motivation, and engagement for remote faculty that must be addressed including; technology and equipment, faculty and student expectations, time and geography, and training and performance management.

Students enrolled in online courses drop out at dramatically higher rates than conventional learning contexts. Research in psychology points to factors related to students' sense of self-integrity and identification with academics. This session presents results from a psychological intervention designed to reduce attrition rates and improve performance in online courses. 

Tinkering in virtual worlds is excellent experiential preparation to teach using virtual reality in the near future. What better way to prepare for the VR revolution than by engaging with a diverse, global community of practice, many of whom have a decade or more of in-world expertise to share?

Educators often focus their attention towards supporting struggling students; while important, it is equally important to enrich meeting and excelling students. So, how do you enrich students in the online modality? Grouping! Join us on exploring how using grouping in the discussion forums can enhance student learning.

Cross the drawbridge and join your questing colleagues for a roundtable discussion on the defense of the liberal arts amidst the continued rise of online learning.  How can liberal arts institutions seize victory through innovation and transform educational delivery for a new dawn, without losing sight of who they are?

This session will demonstrate how to use your LMS as a project management system. This system allows instructional designers to guide subject-matter experts through the process of planning, designing, and constructing an online (or blended) course. The session will provide visual exhibition of this system from two institutions.

This research came about after reviewing over a thousand annotated bibliographies during more than two decades of combined experience in higher education at the doctoral level. As dissertation chairs and residency faculty it became apparent to that doctoral learners consistently missed the connection between the common descriptive annotated bibliography and their potential research. We noticed that annotations rarely reflected doctoral scholarship or the ability to read empirical research critically. This disconnection seemed to result from the lack of clear expectations, in the form of curriculum  instructions and faculty interaction, for the preparation of annotated bibliography assignments.

Over 75% of university faculty report little or no knowledge of Open Educational Resources. When they learn about them, many are skeptical. Quality concern is common, but is that all? Why do most faculty ignore OER? This session will explore ways to persuade faculty to adopt OER, using a fellow thinker - Aristotle.

A presentation on OER pilot project in a General Education Communication course that bridges hybrid, online, and traditional classroom teaching and learning. It tackles quality, affordability, course completion, student learning outcomes reports; improvement in end-of-course grades; attainment gap concern, teachers and students perceptions, pedagogical, and learning impacts.

We are excited to show you how to utilize a free (academic use) tool for online data analysis assignments. We've been using this assignment in our MIS course and have refined to achieve ideal learner engagement. Student feedback has been positive. This tool is adaptive and easy to implement.

An online Master’s in Health Informatics program applied Millers Pyramid of Competence to analyze assignments, assessments and learning outcomes.  Faculty defined competencies and mapped courses to these competencies.  Goals were to focus the curriculum beyond being knowledge-based, to include skills and professional attitudes that employers are seeking. 

Want to discover how we have begun to bridge the gap in student success and retention in online courses?  We'll share the details on how we were able to increase semester to semester ABC Success by 6.21% and increase retention by 4.45%.   

There is no shortage of content in the world. Structuring that content in a meaningful way is the new battle we instructors face. Learn how St. Petersburg College moved past a one-size-fits-all approach and brought together original content, OER, videos, & adaptive learning via McGraw-Hill’s Open Learning Solutions.

Moveable bridges as a metaphor for the challenges and opportunities in higher education today allows for many different perspectives for online learning and academic innovation.  As academic leaders who serve both as administrators and faculty in our Colleges we bring a unique vantage point to this topic and intend to share in this teaching and learning practice session.  We will present on our individual experiences at our institutions from these two levels and then will share some of our joint thinking that we hope will bring out perspectives from several ideas from the attendees at our session.

Academic dishonesty is a constant temptation for onlien students. Lockdown browsers, limited time, and item pools can limit cheating, but they do not stop it completely. What can we do to "Google-proof" our questions? Let's discuss how creativity and multi-media can refresh you item pools and discourage dishonesty.

This presentation covers the findings and examples of use after teaching courses that have students create a video presentation exercise which is developed, evaluated, and presented to other students and the faculty member.  Examples of student videos, successes, pitfalls, and best practices will all be discussed.

This session will consider how integrating mobile-freindly interactive media within the asynchronous online course may impact student engagement and instructor immediacy. Design-based research (DBR) case studies and examples will be shared and discussed.

This presentation outlines the development of Story Centered Curriculum (SCC) and industry-recognized certifications for training Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Engineers in partnership with the workforce center at St Louis University. Given the emerging need for industry-specific trained AI/ML engineers, this presentation will provide a model to develop and implement a short-term online training to address these data science skills utilizing Story centered curriculum, game-based psychology principles, mentoring, and innovative andragogical and project-based methods.

Emails, text messages, notifications, and calendar appointments: distractions are ubiquitous. Students will encounter a variety of interruptions to their learning, so how do we create learning environments that support online learners’ focused attention? Work in teams to generate concrete, implementable strategies for helping learners stay focused in online learning experiences.

Join us to discover and assess our schools’ multi-pronged UDL initiatives to increase access and inclusion. We’ll share outcomes of our campus-wide efforts and hands-on resources for immediate use at your school. The aim is both to inspire new and existing UDL initiatives as well as to receive valuable feedback on our own UDL efforts.

Learn about the pilot that University of Michigan conducted to increase faculty development around the topic of accessibility. We will share our collaborative process for how to effectively implement universal design to benefit all learners. We will discuss our takeaways and how we want to move forward with this work.

Representatives from two online education research units share their histories,  mission, organizational structures, and functions. They will share an overview of the research initiatives in each unit and provide examples of collaborations between the units.

Are you trying to figure out how to best support faculty across different locations and different formats? What if you could turn your one-size-fits-all information overload training into guided paths for diverse faculty pools? What if we could give you a map to create and navigate this?

What are student’s perceptions on late deductions and faculty grace? A university in the Southwest surveyed over 500 students in this descriptive, exploratory study. Results will be shared as a part of an interactive discovery session.

I will discuss 8 simple and effective strategies I used to engage students in my undergraduate-level, fully-online summer course in Women’s and Gender Studies. These strategies included context-based readings, recursive quiz design, escalating discussion prompts, video response shout-outs, in-video quizzing, proactive student support, reflective surveys, and badges for module completion.

Graduate students present a unique challenge because they have a varying range of research skills and often there is a gap in knowledge of library resources. Learn about our online course hosted in the LMS that presents information  in a variety of formats to meet the needs of all learning styles.

This session reports on research linking Carl Rogers' model of Person-Centered learning and to the Community of Inquiry framework student engagement in online learning. Implications for practice center on usefulness of applying Rogers' Person-Centered Model of the relationship between the counselor and the client to the development of teaching presence in online learning.

Do you spend hundreds of hours looking for badges online? Do you find it nearly impossible to locate the ideal badge?
Now, you don't have to settle for someone else's badge! You can learn how to develop digital badges using Adobe Spark for use in your learning management system (LMS). ​

This session will describe one of the most effective initiatives in the country for eliminating educational and economic inequity-the Tangelo Park Program. This is a commitment with virtually no bureaucracy where community citizens make all decisions in a once a month meeting.  Tangelo in unique because funding is assured in perpetuity. Data will show dramatic increases in high school completion, college graduation, and radically reduced crime. The preschool programs established school readiness and an effective parent leadership program increases student advocacy.          

This presentation will explore how a faculty member of a fully online course develops culturally responsive instructional design of asynchronous and synchronous content within the context of a multicultural counseling class. Implications for engaging pre-service counseling students at an Historically Black College and/or University (HBCU) will be delineated.

As much as technological innovation fosters positive advances in higher education, it also provides shrewd avenues for tech-savvy students to devalue education by cheating. We’ll discuss cheating methods we’ve witnessed, innovations built to detect and prevent these attempts, and data we analyze to keep ahead of trends in academic dishonesty.

How can we prepare faculty to design and develop accessible online courses? To meet faculty needs, we developed a self-paced online training. Stop by this discovery session to learn how we created and implemented this training, including how we gained administrative buy-in, and share your thoughts on our pilot program.

Increasing graduates’ employment rates should, in addition to graduation rates, be the focus of higher education.  With this focus in mind, Career Communities on Facebook were created to provide a platform for students to network with peers and professionals in their chosen fields. These communities have impacted students in various ways.

This presentation is designed to engage healthcare professionals as well as those who teach, develop, and provide leadership in healthcare-specific programs of study, in an open-forum discussion to seek feedback and gather innovative ideas for ways to deliver professional presence training material and content to students by way of social media platform applications.

The purpose of this session is first, to identify effective processes in developing digitally- enhanced courseware that aligns with pedagogical needs; second, to demonstrate small-scale preliminary projects completed through the proposed agile approach; and third, to share the initial findings and reflections on the implementation of this methodology.

Online students sometimes feel disconnected from the online classsroom because of the transactional distance. Instructors are using technology to have two-way communication with their online students, which gives them more of a connection and helps ease student anxiety and issues in the classroom.

Sometimes the bridge is the destination, like the Golden Gate. A place where you can see both shores; a vantage point with its own advantages. This framework is the sweet spot between faculty development and instructional design. Participants will engage in checkpoint activities and apply them to their own institutions.

We will share our experience with piloting an "alternative" to the traditional LMS at a large Technical College. We will explain how we rapidly implemented the tool, participants attitudes towards the traditional LMS versus the alternative LMS, and share results of our pilot and the impact on our faculty and student's.

 Integrating technical writing, linguistic theory, and pedagogical experience, the presenter introduces effective techniques for writing clear directions in an online class. The session includes a presentation of direction writing strategies with examples. At the conclusion of this session, you will have applicable tips for writing directions in the digital environment.

Do your students struggle to read the material? Do they read the material? Are your course materials in accessible formats that fit the needs of all students? If you answered “no” to any of these questions, come engage in conversation on how to remediate and create accessible content so your students can consume it the format they prefer. Learn how we created a marketing plan to encourage faculty and students to use one of our newest accessibility tools. Learn which friends (software and human) have helped us reboot our accessibility awareness to increase inclusivity.

Discover how MERLOT reviewing can provide you with a professional development community that helps you grow professionally, allows you to contribute to the field, and supports your own teaching and learning.  Learn about reviewing, joining an editorial board, and getting a free registration to next year's conference.

Getting management to agree to invest in tools and automation can be difficult. In this session, learn how to make a business case for investing in translation and localization tools and automation.

BYU-Idaho’s continual course improvement model uses an innovative organizational structure to foster effective collaboration between full-time university faculty, online adjunct instructors, and online instructional designers.  This model maximizes the expertise of all parties and the result is a structure and process for continuous improvement of online students’ experiences.

Developing an Indigenous health course focused on introducing students to a variety of historical realities and contemporary issues relevant to Indigenous people’s health in Canada required collaboration and innovative use of learning technologies. Student learning was enhanced by the use of online game elements and other learning activities that enabled them to find their own path and work at their own pace through much of the material.
 

With exponential increases in blended learning in higher education, many of us face the challenge of supporting faculty in design and facilitation of blended courses for student success. Join us for a conversation about strategies and lessons learned from faculty professional development on blended learning through innovation, collaboration, and advocacy.   

Learn how WGU uses journey mapping to design faculty support around the student journey and improve student outcomes. This session will share the design principles, as well as engage participants in reflection and discussion about how to apply journey mapping in various contexts.

Using a research-based framework for promoting successful implementation of online or blended education, three case studies will be shared highlighting the challenges and opportunities drawn from available institutional data and policies along with recommendations for practice.

Many suggest the online higher education market has reached saturation, demand has stabilized, and online education must find a way to move into sustainable production. However, attributes and competencies to enable sustainment are largely undefined.  This research study translated conditions of viability through the development of an organizational sustainability index.  

Pure Heart Leadership™ is leadership model developed upon over 20 years of professional experience within higher education utilizing several key psychology theories of Maslow, Rogers, and Bandura  with a mindfulness approach to developing talent. This session will map out the pathway to moving your career forward in higher education.

This session reflects on identifying and addressing key challenges of reimagining three traditional, asynchronous online courses into experiential learning courses for self-paced learners. Through the use of virtual meet-ups, portfolios, peer-review and badging tools, and carefully scaffolded project-based assignments, three courses were reimagined to provide students with rich learning experiences.

Change the online discussion paradigm—from overly formal, instructor-provoked decrees into a creative, student-led learning community—with CourseNetworking! This free tool can take your class discussion to another level. Participants will be granted access to a live example course to try it out themselves.

Two universities discuss their partnership with Realizeit investigating predictive analytics within the context of adaptive learning. We will discuss the methods behind our research and also the implications of our findings for improving course design and addressing student success using adaptive learning.

The ease of use and intuitive application of the Apple Pencil has been a game-changer that has revived our campus iPad program. Join us to engage with solutions to various instructional challenges using the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro.

When institutions and faculty overemphasize the flexibility and convenience of online learning by limiting its delivery to an asynchronous format, they risk “throwing the baby out with the bathwater.” Higher education should insist that institutions build a new vision of online learning that includes more online synchronous interactions.

Three aspects of traditional online learning environments--the linear nature of discussions, the lack of visuals, and limited ownership of ideas and knowledge—challenge authentic engagement and deep learning. This session highlights research on student and faculty experiences using a new discussion platform and uncovers the possibilities of online learning.

The focus of the Strategic Program Launch team at IWU-National & Global is vetting and prioritizing new program ideas using an innovative process. By using this process, new program ideas are gathered throughout the organization, vetted and prioritized using a clear process, and evaluated for effectiveness after launch. 

Adjunct faculty make up the majority of higher education instructors nationwide, yet, they seemed to be left out when planning professional development opportunities and it’s more difficult to build their capacity to innovate.  Through our project, we worked with 10 adjuncts to design innovative courses to increase student success.  

In this presentation, we share results of a study assessing (a) faculty perceptions of online courses for traditional undergraduates and (b) the process of on-boarding professors interested in teaching such courses. Attendees will consider how our faculty’s responses may compare to their own and brainstorm ways of overcoming obstacles.

Automated cross-enrollment is a gamer changer for California. Come hear how the CVC-Exchange of California Virtual Campus-Online Education Initiative with the California Community colleges are helping students to find the classes they need to graduate and transfer. 

This presentation will engage participants in exploring strategies for optimizing emotions, interests, attention, memory and skill development in learners, with the help of neuromyth worksheet, activity to redesign a teaching challenge applying neuroscience and Universal Design for Learning, and two case studies on inclusive design.

Change is inevitable, and too often we rush roll outs and are met with crossed arms and angry questions we weren’t prepared to answer. There is a better way, and it involves giving faculty the same luxury we had in the beginning. Build trust and momentum towards your objectives.

Online instructors expect information literacy, yet the online environment can make actual assessment of critical skills problematic. I argue embracing controversy in biology is a high impact teaching strategy. I present strategies for including controversy in online biology to increase engagement and teach both core biology concepts and critical analysis.

This session will detail the partnership that Western Governors University has developed with the Society for Human Resource Management, to increase student engagement in a virtual learning environment, provide student leadership opportunities, create industry relevant lifelong learning support, and bridge the gap between programs in the College of Business. 

We discuss how standards can help improve online instructional design in order to optimize student learning. An autoethnographic study analyzes QM standards in light of using them to design online instruction.

A phonetics course is necessary for every language teacher-training program. We argue that phonetic training where students engage in real-life problems solving through peer-to-peer interaction is a valuable learning experience. We report on how such a course is successfully designed and implemented entirely online using a unique collaborative approach.

The Online Learning Consortium provides an array of professional development opportunities focused on instructional/learning design in the digital teaching and learning space. Instructional designers, learning designers, LX designers, and faculty developers can take advantage of both online and face-to-face programs that are designed to advance the skills and knowledge of those professionals who collaborate with faculty and support digital learning initiatives.  Come meet with Jennifer Paloma Rafferty, Director of the Institute for Professional Development, to learn about which OLC program is right for you at this stage of your professional trajectory. Jennifer will provide attendees with an overview of the Instructional Designer Certificate Program, the Advanced Instructional Designer Badge Series as well as face-to-face instructional design events taking place in 2020.

This session will introduce a theoretical framework to guide creating meaningful learning experience in online and blended courses along with strategies and digital tools. It will discuss specific ways to create meaningful learning experience guided by the framework. All attendees will take away practical ideas and free resource for application.

90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and 40% of learners respond better to visual information than text alone. Come and participate in this interactive session to see how visuals can improve communication in online learning.  

A small team of learning designers and one media specialist facilitated 20 course builds in two years to launch two graduate engineering programs online. Participants will learn how our trial and error approach to course development continues to evolve as we begin with a third graduate engineering program.

This session focuses on a course design that implements a check-in system whereby students use video conferencing technology to attend synchronous events with the instructor in an effort to improve approachability and accessibility.

Apprenticeship University (AU) is a new model of higher education with a completely online operation offering a more affordable Bachelor’s degree in half the time while participants gain on-the-job experience in areas like healthcare, cyber security, accounting, and data science. Employer partners cover a bulk of tuition.

Online courses provide educational opportunities to students without the barriers of distance or time but make experiential learning difficult.  Come and learn how Melinda’s organic approach bridges the gap between experiential learning and online capstone courses in which students work on a common project utilizing their own talents and experiences.

Leveraging a competency-based education (CBE) approach that matches course outcomes directly with industry standards to assure the validity of a degree program, NC State is redesigning courses in the Masters of Training & Development program. The CBE approach resulted in more effective teaching practices as well as competency alignment across courses.