OLC Accelerate 2022 Program
We are pleased to announce the virtual and onsite programs for the OLC Accelerate 2022 event, to be held virtually November 1-3 and onsite November 14-17, 2022 in Orlando, FL.
We are pleased to announce the virtual and onsite programs for the OLC Accelerate 2022 event, to be held virtually November 1-3 and onsite November 14-17, 2022 in Orlando, FL.
All Sessions are 45 minutes in length unless otherwise noted.
All sessions are listed in US Eastern Time Zone.
ALL SESSION TIMES ARE LISTED IN US EASTERN TIME
All virtual-to-virtual and selected onsite streaming sessions will be webcast via Zoom. Exceptions are virtual Discovery sessions, which will be presented asynchronously via PlayPosit throughout the conference. You will not see dates/times for asynchronous sessions.
Please join us for a wide variety of networking events throughout the conference and during in the 30 minute breaks between most concurrent sessions. If you are joining us onsite, be sure to visit the Engagement Boulevard (located in the exhibit hall) throughout the conference, and mark your calendar for our Engagement Block Party on Tuesday November 15 at 12:00pm. Don’t forget to look for our special evening social events in the schedule during both the virtual and onsite weeks.
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HBCU faculty, staff, and administrators will share their practices for supporting faculty changing to no-cost and low-cost digital course materials, including OER, and saving students thousands of dollars. Join us at the pre-conference workshop and get started on your own AL$ programs. It is OPEN to all.
What are the passion projects you wish you had time for but never started? Come share your big ideas with the engagement folks. Playfully create something that will be beneficial. Select an accountability partnership that will bring your project to light.
Not sure what to do between sessions? Consider checking out OLC Accelerate's fully virtual and asynchronous engagement space. Each of the volunteer-driven engagement teams have prepared and carefully designed fun, engaging, and thought-provoking activities for you to take up on your own time. If nothing else, it is a great place to get new ideas for how to engage with others and build community. Plus, you'll get to learn more about OLC Accelerate's 2022 Engagement Team (a group of dedicated volunteers from across the field who designed this year's engagement programming). Looking for the join link? Just visit any of the engagement team pages in Engagez (e.g. Speed Networking Lounge, Field Guides, OLC Live!, Technology Test Kitchen, OLC Cafe & Mercantile, OLC Sanctuary, Escape Room, Innovation Crews, and more!).
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. Stop by our Slack channel anytime for help, guidance and recommendations
Innovation Crews are flexible communities convened around shared community interests before and during a conference experience. Facilitated by a “Crew Leader”, they provide a space for colleagues to connect, converse, support each other, and be part of a smaller group within the larger conference. Select a group that aligns with your interests and join a cohort of colleagues dedicated to both navigating OLC Accelerate together and co-constructing a meaningful learning experience. We’ll be facilitating Crews around the following six interest areas this year: Instructional Designers; Allies (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion); Immersive and Simulated Learning; Gameful Learning; Weavers of Several Interests Not sure which Crew is the best fit for you? Spend some time reviewing the descriptions to learn more about each of these unique Crews.
Discussion boards are a great tool for online learning, but why not take it a step further towards something more engaging? Explore how Flipgrid can take discussions to the next level with social media style video exchanges providing your students with the ability to share their voice and connect with peers on a new level.
Are you part of the Canvas family? Join this informal session to ask questions, learn new things or share your tips with others looking to improve teaching and learning. (PS, session open to anyone considering Canvas too)
If you’re looking for support in orienting to the conference, the First Timers Welcome and Orientation is a must! Get support in planning your conference experience and kick things off with some casual networking.
Join your volunteer Field Guides and other conference attendees for the synchronous Field Guide Power Hour, where they will help you plan your conference experiences based on your areas of interest and help create an OLC Accelerate engagement 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 virtual social activities, train you on the use of the OLC Accelerate Virtual conference venue and website, and point out Engagement Maps designed to help with your program planning. We’ll also discuss the variety of ways to participate virtually - including Slack and Twitter! Meet old friends, make new acquaintances, and plan your schedule. We can't wait to see you there!
Make the most out of your conference experience by joining OLC Live! co-hosts Olysha Magruder and Mel Edwards in a kickoff discussion with the Accelerate 2022 Engagement Chairs about specially designed opportunities to engage with fellow attendees virtually at the conference!
Join us for a fun and interactive session centering on OLC Accelerate’s Discovery Sessions! Starting with a little bit of orientation, some guided roadmapping, and most certainly lots of key reflection and collaborative learning, this session will get us thinking about the possibilities for asynchronous online engagement.
We discuss our qualitative study that explored students' experiences when using real-time automated captions/subtitles during live online presentations. Universal Design for Learning served as the study framework. Attendees will experience PowerPoint Live, discuss challenges and opportunities when offering equal access to content, and share ideas for practice and research.
The advantages of a HyFlex modality became apparent through the COVID-19 pandemic, but continues to raise questions on training and implementing the modality properly. Our session outlines the aforementioned components of creating a HyFlex environment, as well as the experience specifically within our institution regarding its implementation, successes, and challenges.
In this space, you will change your Zoom background to something unique to you and share it with us all! It can be something meaningful, funny, or just something you love! Whether you are new to OLC or a regular attender, this could be the start of a meaningful partnership!
From 2020-2021, Social Work committed to creating lively, active classroom engagement while adhering to safety precautions. With enrollments too large to bring all students on campus at once, the presenters modified evidence-based HyFlex strategies to teach in a bichronous format, with students participating both on campus and simultaneously synchronously online.
Today's higher educational institutions are offering more online courses, but professors see a noticeable decline in engagement in online courses. How can professors engage students in the learning activities and course content? Professors can use technology when teaching online to engage their students and help them learn!
Educators can make a difference in reaching each learner’s intellectual potential through caring of each learner’s learning, no matter their backgrounds. How do educators establish a nurturing learning environment from the syllabus? This session will share strategies/practical ideas to reframe syllabi to be equity-minded and to develop students’ growth mindset.
As institutions strive to deliver high-quality instruction, programs, and services, it is now more important than ever for such resources to be as flexible and student-centered as possible. This session will describe how professionals are working to transform student experiences in ways that leverage technology, promote collaboration, and ensure equity. Dr. Parnell will share examples of current campus efforts and present practical strategies for how faculty, staff, and administrators can use virtual resources to help students successfully navigate their learning journey.
Prior to the start of the keynote, we will recognize our 2022 OLC Award winners. Please also join us Tuesday, November 2 from 11:15am-12:15pm US Eastern Daylight Time Zone (EDT) for our OLC & Awards Gala & Social, where we will celebrate our award winners' achievements and have the opportunity to ask them questions.
Join OLC Live hosts for a rich post-keynote discussion focused on open learning trends, strategies, and collaborative efforts. This session will feature shared insights and highlights from conference attendees related to the virtual keynote by Dr. Ameila Parnell.
The internet is changing and online learning will necessarily change with it. Terms like "crypto," "blockchain," "NFT," "DAO," and "Web3" are possibly not entirely new to you, but do you know what to expect when these stop being theoretical and become infused into the very bedrock of online learning? Join our panel of experts and educators to help answer questions like "What problem does this solve?," "What value does this add?," "How does it work?," and "What does it even do?"
Learn how community college faculty studied the impact of implementing a multiple-solution platform in their instruction and experienced significant quantitative increases in course success rates across learner demographics. Faculty will discuss these study findings and share best practices for using interactive engagement, assessment, and media tools to connect with students.
Trauma (and recovery!) is pervasive in the lives of individuals across the globe. In recognizing that each student’s lived experience is unique and that many have faced heightened stress in recent years, this workshop will explore how we can implement trauma-informed and healing-centered pedagogical principles to support student success.
Participants are invited to engage with Crews by attending the same session(s) or activity(s). Meet up with your crew lead to debrief and plan your next steps.
As the online degree market expands, it is essential to remain competitive in how we serve students and vigilant in how we assess services. At our institution, administrators promote a dual mindset when working with on-campus and online students, thus ensuring all learners have equal access to campus resources.
In this session, explore a framework for identifying personas and pathways for professional learning for faculty, including practical tools and strategies.
There’s so much to take in, explore, and learn at Accelerate 2022! Join the conference leadership and planning team for an introduction to all of the exciting events, programming, and ways to engage and connect in this conference kickoff session. OLC Live! co-hosts will interview the conference chairs to share all of the exciting ways to make the most of your Accelerate 2022 experience.
In this ever-changing educational landscape, our work sharing diverse perspectives, emergent themes, and empirical findings are critical as we forge our new learning futures. In this high-energy session, participants will hear from OLC staff members in a series of lightning talks on their work within digital learning research and community engagement. At the conclusion of each talk, participants will be able to contribute to the conversation of what’s next - including sharing their own ideas and opportunities for advancing connectedness and engagement in collaboration with the OLC.
What tune would you play on a roadtrip? Come innovate with destination theming and backgrounds that match your playlist. Team up to stump your competitors and win bragging rights as creator of the most engaging journey.
Not sure what to do between sessions? Consider checking out OLC Accelerate's fully virtual and asynchronous engagement space. Each of the volunteer-driven engagement teams have prepared and carefully designed fun, engaging, and thought-provoking activities for you to take up on your own time. If nothing else, it is a great place to get new ideas for how to engage with others and build community. Plus, you'll get to learn more about OLC Accelerate's 2022 Engagement Team (a group of dedicated volunteers from across the field who designed this year's engagement programming). Looking for the join link? Just visit any of the engagement team pages in Engagez (e.g. Speed Networking Lounge, Field Guides, OLC Live!, Technology Test Kitchen, OLC Cafe & Mercantile, OLC Sanctuary, Escape Room, Innovation Crews, and more!).
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. Stop by our Slack channel anytime for help, guidance and recommendations
Innovation Crews are flexible communities convened around shared community interests before and during a conference experience. Facilitated by a “Crew Leader”, they provide a space for colleagues to connect, converse, support each other, and be part of a smaller group within the larger conference. Select a group that aligns with your interests and join a cohort of colleagues dedicated to both navigating OLC Accelerate together and co-constructing a meaningful learning experience. We’ll be facilitating Crews around the following six interest areas this year: Instructional Designers; Allies (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion); Immersive and Simulated Learning; Gameful Learning; Weavers of Several Interests Not sure which Crew is the best fit for you? Spend some time reviewing the descriptions to learn more about each of these unique Crews.
Looking for new ways to engage your students? Check out how Nearpod can help add interactivity into your course and enrich the learning experience! Explore Padlet as a tool to connect, collaborate and learn from and about one another.
Start your day with some quiet time to decompress, reconnect mind and body, and practice some self-care as we turn our focus inward for a short while. Mindfulness has been defined as a practice of "bringing one's attention to the internal and external experiences occuring in the present moment" (Baer, 2003). Clark Shah-Nelson will lead this guided mindful meditation session geared toward centering ourselves on higher levels of consciousness so that we can experience OLC Accelerate Virtual Conference in a healthy and present way together. Whether you are new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner, all levels are welcome to join us for this session.
Baer, R.A. (2003). Mindfulness training as a clinical intervention: A conceptual and empirical review. Clinical psychology: Science and practice, 10(2), 125-143.
A faculty member and instructional designer share their collaboration to rethink the structure of a graduate course to enhance the learner experience and instructional capacity through gamification. Come discover the game-based methods implemented throughout the course, as well as the student response and benefits they have seen as a result.
This session will present the results to date of a cross-institutional collaboration to simultaneously address DEI and online course quality. SUNY, Cal State LA CETL, and others are working to develop an online, openly-licesned, and freely available resource of annotations for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in online course design that can be used with any of the main online course quality rubrics, i.e., CVC-OEI, OSCQR, QOLT, or QM.
Amidst the pandemic online enrollment in higher education continued to trend upward and a need for virtual connection among online educators emerged. Mindfully curated inclusive support opportunities are shared. Innovative online community was fostered through faculty lounges, professional consultation, curated online HUB services, and inclusive office gatherings using virtual platforms.
Learn more about that the OLC Engagement Committee is doing behind the scenes for the onsite conference happening in November. You'll get a sneak peek at some of the highlights so you can be prepared to be entertained and engaged!
Join us for a session full of ceremony and celebration as we spotlight the achievements, elevate the innovations, and honor the commitments of this year’s award recipients.
As online programs grow, the need for skilled instructors persists. But what skills are valuable? This presentation shares results of a study with experienced instructors who answered a question about the most valuable ed skills for online teaching. Results provide insights for the professional development of new and continuing online instructors.
How can we bring subject matter to life online? In this session, we will bust through the myth that content equals learning and discover strategies to enhance digital classroom activities through contextualization. Large and small group discussions will allow us to explore how contextualized learning works across different disciplines.
Attendees in this workshop will participate in a facilitated synchronous virtual Technology Test Kitchen, testing technology tools, investigating how to construct interactive, synchronous online Technology Test Kitchens, and discussing the significance of a safe/fun space for exploring existing and emerging technology tools to incorporate in courses across the disciplines.
Grab a snack or lunch, and join us for the first of OLC Accelerate's Design Sprints! The Design Sprints will take place over the course of two days. This year the sprints will center a playful interpretation of the conference theme "reflecting onward."
This session will provide an overview of a special issue of the journal Educational Psychologist dedicated to advancing an interdisciplinary agenda for online learning research at the intersection of educational technology, educational psychology, and the learning sciences. Panelists are authors of papers in the special issue and editors of the Online Learning journal and/or the special issue of Educational Psychologist. This special issue addresses a longstanding gap in online learning research, building bridges between researchers working in various traditions to provide a more comprehensive account of the broad array of factors that shape teaching, learning and assessment in online environments.
In this session we will model reflective practices in order to develop catalytic thinking. We will engage in an activity that will help shape generative questions that are invented to shift and shape one’s future actions. Join us and spin the question wheel for thought-provoking and playful activities that help focus your intentions and connect with your colleagues around stimulating conversations to ignite your creativity.
Online learning administrators from a public university system in the southeastern United States will share their experiences planning and implementing quality assurance in online education at their respective campuses. Join this panel discussion to learn about challenges faced and methods for success, including strategies to engage stakeholders and increase faculty buy-in.
There have been impressive advances in the development and application of educational technologies that have made online education more inclusive of previously marginalized populations. Similarly, there has been impressive work in the development of processes, templates, and tools to render course content design and delivery more responsive to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Unfortunately, advancements in the strategic management of DEI have not been the same. Many DEI initiatives at educational institutions respond to mandates, requirements, or grassroots efforts, limiting the scope and impact they could have. The development and implementation of DEI strategy should reflect on specific institutional considerations, including resources, capabilities, and constraints. Join us for a conversation about strategic management frameworks and how they can be used to frame DEI planning and implementation at your institution. We will explore DEI strategy formulation using examples from two very different institutional contexts: A large Latin American university and two small US-based colleges. Through the discussions, participants will be able to outline an action plan for improving DEI strategy and DEI strategy implementation plans so that they reflect their specific institutional contexts within the context of DEI work.
With growing concerns about student wellbeing in higher education, this interactive session provides an overview of trauma-informed pedagogy and its application to teaching and learning. Specific classroom strategies and technologies that address toxic stress and promote self-care for students will be highlighted.
Crew members are invited to join at least one synchronous, virtual gathering (facilitated by Crew Lead) to engage in the activities and push the crew conversation.
In this interactive session, a group of colleagues from a graduate school of education share lessons and reflections about the development of their online programs, and examine the reciprocity of online and on-ground progressive teaching. Participants will be invited into an exchange of ideas to discuss and apply practices.
Finding disciplinary content that could be culturally contextualized by educators at minority serving institutions can help faculty address their diversity, equity, and inclusiveness goals. The workshop will demonstrate and enable participants to use MERLOT’s new search tools to find materials authored, selected, and curated by people affiliated with HBCUs, HSIs, AANIPISIs, and TCUs.
In this interactive discussion, we will identify common objections to improving assignments; and describe 7 strategies that instructional designers can use to help increase instructor buy-in for improving assignments.
Experience the process of benchmarking a program against the OLC Quality Scorecard for the Administration of Online Programs. You will hear about our journey to Exemplary, how we completed our internal review (e.g., tools, processes) along with how we are leveraging the review findings to continuously improve our online program.
Join us to see how we updated instruction in an online computer literacy course from an equity and inclusion lens, by moving away from a PC (windows) centric approach to one acknowledging that students complete coursework on a myriad of devices, and that technology access is varied, limited and inconsistent.
This spring, students at Lumen Learning’s User Testing Centers lead interviews with more than 100 of their peers to better understand the needs of students from historically marginalized communities. In this discussion, they’ll share their insights, their biggest surprises and what institutions can do to better support student success in uncertain times.
Student panelists include:
This session promises an eclectic mix of parlor type virtual games for the inner child and playful adult. Bring your game face and let's get going. Prizes and bragging rights are yours for the taking. Show up and get gaming.
Not sure what to do between sessions? Consider checking out OLC Accelerate's fully virtual and asynchronous engagement space. Each of the volunteer-driven engagement teams have prepared and carefully designed fun, engaging, and thought-provoking activities for you to take up on your own time. If nothing else, it is a great place to get new ideas for how to engage with others and build community. Plus, you'll get to learn more about OLC Accelerate's 2022 Engagement Team (a group of dedicated volunteers from across the field who designed this year's engagement programming). Looking for the join link? Just visit any of the engagement team pages in Engagez (e.g. Speed Networking Lounge, Field Guides, OLC Live!, Technology Test Kitchen, OLC Cafe & Mercantile, OLC Sanctuary, Escape Room, Innovation Crews, and more!).
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. Stop by our Slack channel anytime for help, guidance and recommendations
Innovation Crews are flexible communities convened around shared community interests before and during a conference experience. Facilitated by a “Crew Leader”, they provide a space for colleagues to connect, converse, support each other, and be part of a smaller group within the larger conference. Select a group that aligns with your interests and join a cohort of colleagues dedicated to both navigating OLC Accelerate together and co-constructing a meaningful learning experience. We’ll be facilitating Crews around the following six interest areas this year: Instructional Designers; Allies (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion); Immersive and Simulated Learning; Gameful Learning; Weavers of Several Interests Not sure which Crew is the best fit for you? Spend some time reviewing the descriptions to learn more about each of these unique Crews.
Learn how to leverage Kahoot! to create fun and engaging quizzes and knowledge checks for your students. Whether asynchronously or as a live event there’s no doubt you and your students will find Kahoot! to be a hoot!
The pandemic has prompted changes in the way institutions are managing online learning and accelerated initiatives that had begun but had not yet taken hold. Connectedly, Since 2016 QM and Eduventures Research have partnered to explore and fill the knowledge gap about how online learning is actually being managed at post-secondary institutions in the United States. They have done this by surveying the people who are most closely involved in this endeavor: those serving as chief online officer at their institutions. Join us for this rich and thought-provoking session, which will feature the full report of the most recent Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) study.
This has been a tremendous experience of gathering together. In this session, we will guide you through a quick and fun activity designed to help you reflect upon what you have learned from the conference and make a plan to implement changes that you want to see in your daily workflow, professional development, or organization.
Experiencing the pandemic's ongoing stress among faculty, students, and staff, the university launched an institution-wide initiative called Hope and Connection to strengthen its online communities' support and highlight mental health awareness. Come to share and discuss the different ways to engage students virtually and the learnings we discover!
This session will focus on strategies and approaches that can be used to go beyond belonging to create inclusive academic experiences for first-generation students. Participants will leave the session with ideas they can incorporate immediately into their own online and blended courses, and resources for continuous course improvement.
Retaining At-Risk Students is a dilemma facing all higher-education institutions. This is especially challenging in on-line learning. Faculty can use a coaching approach to encourage At-Risk Students to not only remain in college, but to enhance their learning capabilities. In doing so, coaching builds social presence and fosters student success.
Each virtual crew picks a project that the in-person crew will create. This could become a “visual takeaway” from the conferences.
Join us for a panel discussion on the inaugural publication of the OLC Press "From Grassroots to the Highly-Orchestrated: Online Leaders Share Their Stories of the Evolving Online Organizational Landscape in Higher Education.” The panel will be facilitated by OLC’s Director of Research, Dr. Kristen Gay, and will feature the “Grassroots to Highly-Orchestrated” editorial team, Drs. Bettyjo Bouchey, Erin Gratz, and Shelley Kurland, and select authors, Dr. Conna Bral, Carissa Fralin, and Dr. Melissa Vito.
Creativity matters in course design, but too much variability can be counterproductive for students and instructors alike. This session highlights techniques from Penn’s Master of Health Care Innovation that prioritize consistency and predictability—and reduce stress—to help students focus their cognitive energy on high-priority learning goals like integrating knowledge.
This session will feature researchers from two universities collaborating on the development and evolution of a tool to measure online learner readiness. Panelists will share an analysis of the readiness scale, as well as a reconceptualization and implementation of this tool to support 21st century learners.
Grab a snack or lunch, and join us for the second of OLC Accelerate's Design Sprints! The Design Sprints will take place over the course of two days. This year the sprints will center a playful interpretation of the conference theme "reflecting onward."
As higher education transitions towards inperson, many instructors are moving away from the kinder and accommodating practices they adopted during Covid19. The presenters will discuss how they expanded on the previous PoK discussion series to launch a discussion about implementing kind practices across modalities and the university as a whole.
To support the attainment of learning outcomes using remote online case-based learning (RO-CBL), this workshop seeks to explore suitable practices, as well as challenges for online course design and online learning activities for higher education marketing and business programs that seek to integrate case-based learning (CBL). In CBL students work in small, collaborative groups to solve problems. CBL can be a valuable tool to support deep learning about realistic problems in a range of fields by inducing more critical thinking skills. As CBL relies heavily on discussion, in-class reflection, and the learners’ ability to convey their views, effective communication is important. The effective use of CBL in online education (remote online CBL or “RO-CBL”) presents both opportunities and challenges when compared to use of CBL in traditional face-to-face courses. This workshop seeks to support effective use of CBL in online business courses.
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed higher education. One such change has been the accelerated acceptance of (and even preference for) digital course materials. This presentation uses large-scale national survey data to examine this trend and speculate on what the next few years will show.
Join OLC Live co-hosts Olysha Magruder and Mel Edwards in a virtual lounge. Bring your coffee, share your ideas and inspirations, and hear from other attendees as you explore the virtual OLC Accelerate conference.
In this plenary panel, we will close the virtual conference week and transition into the onsite conference with a compelling amplification of the voices of our students, gleaning their perspectives and ideas for the future of online learning that centers quality, equity, and care. Weaving together the emergent themes from the conference as well as diverse narratives of the lived-in experiences of our featured students, this panel will leverage the wisdom of our students in collectively charting a path from the pandemic into a new reality where access to quality education within online, blended, and digital learning is open to all learners, anytime and anywhere.
Student panelists:
The sessions may be over, but the fun doesn't stop there! Live music, fun games, virtual celebrations, organically unpredictable Zoom antics...what's not to love? The OLC Accelerate 2022 Closing Celebration will be an experience you don't want to miss, and we hope to see you there!
The purpose of this session is to gain audience perspectives regarding the challenges and opportunities of Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning (ERTL), leading to determining if the experience of transitioning to online during the pandemic was/ wasn't a blessing in disguise.
Online course reviews have been in place for five years at our institution. To continuously assess their effectiveness, participating faculty were asked to describe their review experience via surveys and focus groups. In this session, we will identify factors that relate to review success as well as obstacles we plan to overcome.
Higher Education faculty and staff are using technology to create a new type of classroom. Andriena’s session will inspire the audience to re-evaluate how technology can help create impactful digital/hybrid classrooms, highlighting the types of features and tools that support accessibility, active learning, and modern pedagogical practices.
This session presents a pedagogical course review that quantifies the degree to which active learning is present in the design of an online course with an active learning (AL) score. The AL score is arrived by applying evidence-based design principles in a ready-to use rubric to enhance active learning.
Learn about practices that connect faculty, instructional designers and students in healthy communication to produce amazing courses
Adult learners choose online learning for convenience and relevance. Disengagement can hinder retention. Infusing Social Emotional Learning into instruction and curriculum optimizes motivation and engagement. This session explores three elements of intrinsic motivation in online learning: competence, relatedness, and autonomy. Attendees explore strategies for boosting students’ intrinsic motivation with SEL.
The mental health and well-being of students in postsecondary institutions of education has been explored in the last decade in an effort to provide better services to students and support their academic success. The pandemic of 2020 has significantly changed access to education for many, but the impact of this pivotal change on mental health and well-being is not yet known. We present a case study of 1752 surveyed students at a liberal arts institution and their need for and access to mental health services.
This online asynchronous session is part of a custom blended learning experience designed for engagement before, during, and after the on-site OLC Blended Learning Symposium.
This session explores current blended learning trends and challenges through unique collaboration opportunities among a diverse community of educators. Participants will collaborate using a design studio approach which starts by curating and defining a collection of blended learning design challenges, and then leverages the community’s expertise, ideas, and creativity to develop innovative solutions to these challenges. The asynchronous experience begins by curating a community list of real-world challenges associated with designing and implementing blended learning strategies. Next, these challenges serve as the catalyst for developing collaborative and practical solutions using design canvas tools.
Watch this video for a preview of the Blended Learning Symposium featured session with Tawnya Means and Charles Graham.
This asynchronous session is available only to participants registered for the Blended Learning Symposium.
Watch this video for a preview of the Blended Learning Symposium featured session with Tawnya Means, Norm Vaughan, and Matt Vick.
This asynchronous session is available only to participants registered for the Blended Learning Symposium.
Watch this video for a preview of the Blended Learning Symposium keynote with Tawnya Means and José Antonio Bowen. We chat about blended learning and inclusive teaching, the potential of technology, lessons learned, and practical tips for being an inclusive blended instructor.
This asynchronous session is available only to participants registered for the Blended Learning Symposium.
Gain insights from a recorded conversation with Tanya Joosten, Director of the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements (DETA), about the OLC research publication, The Blended Institution of Higher Education (BIHE): A Model for a Sustainable Institution. In this video interview, Dr. Joosten discusses how the BIHE model provides a vision and guides strategic planning for leaders for the future in developing their own version of the BIHE that results in student success—a key to institutional sustainability. The work of this publication was conducted in partnership with OLC, DETA, and Every Learner Everywhere.
This asynchronous session is available only to participants registered for the Blended Learning Symposium.
How can we design learning experiences that counter-balance the panoptic qualities of Zoom? Based on the results of a study of student and instructor experiences of online synchronous learning, we will explore equity-minded strategies for teaching with Zoom that center humanity through the context of learning and encouraging student autonomy.
The session will share the practice and lessons learned in a multi-national multi-university collaboration in quality online course development in higher education. Individuals joining this session will be able to discuss the challenges, approaches, strategies, resources, and recommendations to manage the quality course development in such an endeavor.
This session will highlight the structure and support that one University department has created to help support online and blended students, particularly those new to online learning. Attendees will leave with tangible resources they can use or adapt for their own use.
At Rasmussen University, we have chosen an intentional approach to the cyclical process of analysis, design, implementation, with continuous evaluation to ensure we are addressing the need to improve our intercultural competence, by adopting and improving equitable practices and fostering an environment of inclusion for our students, faculty, and staff. This process is guided by a trifecta model that incorporates diversity into course design and curriculum, teaching and learning, and an intentional application using a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) enhanced lens.
What are graduate students’ characteristics who use the online research and writing development center (RWDC)? How often do they visit, what for, and how are the visits associated with dissertation progress? We share research results with three cohorts of graduate students (n = 150) that examined RWDC engagement and dissertation writing progress.
The Pandemic has caused very creative solutions and accelerated the development of education learning environments. This presentation will explore the development of engineering learning environments and the enhancements made to address these challenges for today and future careers
Leveraging a matrix of college leadership to support professional development programming offers a chance to strengthen institutional strategies, inter-departmental communication, and student success. This presentation will equip attendees with effective processes, strategies, and resources to support college-wide professional development programming, from initial planning through implementation and follow-up analysis.
This interactive session introduces how 3D spaces and technologies (e.g. H5P and Mozilla Hubs) are used to create enjoyable and authentic online learning experiences, such as an academic poster conference, virtual language lab, and 3D computer assembly workshop to promote student interactions and motivation.
While OER use increases, they require more representational modes for accessibility from a UDL perspective. We believe that adding a human voice component to OERs is more effective than technology-based voice-to-text. We offer suggestions for instructors to add audio during OER creation, as well as upon implementing an existing OER.
This session examines the influence of instructor behaviors and student learning by applying servant teaching theory and altruism theory. Faculty, administrators, and students who attend this session will gain a better understanding of how instructor behaviors can influence students to overcome barriers, and equip faculty to help students reach academic success.
Mustang University, a fictional university that includes many components, exists in the Higher Ed program in order to provide a place for students to apply their theory and skills in real-time simulations within a mixed reality setting. Students can explore authentic experiences within the Mustang University setting, including a web site, forms, social media posts from students, etc. As students explore Mustang University, they preprare for an interaction within the mixed reality lab. In the lab, protocols for discussion and reflection help shape a powerful and engaging experience for students. Students can participate in the mixed reality setting either in a lab or virtually. Come and learn how our structure has produced deep learning.
For assignment feedback to have value, students must read it. While reading feedback doesn’t promise learning, unread feedback has no impact. Data from 10,000+ artifacts was analyzed to understand conditions in which students are most likely to access assignment feedback. Conclusions offer effective strategies for increasing attention to gradebook comments.
How do you get students to want to learn? This session tackles this question through a case study focused on video game pedagogy in a general education history course. Qualitative and quantitative student feedback suggests this may be an effective strategy for building engagement within an asynchronous online educational environment.
Curriculum planning can feel like tackling a 10,000 piece puzzle. Our institution found a way to efficiently assemble the pieces by integrating Coursetune, a curriculum mapping software, into our planning process. In this presentation, we discuss how we outlined the curriculum for four programs using a visual, outcomes-based approach.
We used institutional data and surveys of students and faculty to assess the needs of our online students. Based on our results, we implemented specific improvements to online student resources, and developed a plan to follow up and gauge their impact.
The qualitative research I conducted was focused on how presence in online courses support students' persistence. I discovered seven themes including faculty support, faculty communication, course expectations/student expectations, social connections, student collaboration, student initiative, and making learning connections. This research is valuable to higher education faculty members and administration.
Brainstorm ways to amplify adjunct faculty voices in the model course design and revision process.
This session offers strategies for providing inclusive feedback that strengthens students’ disciplinary literacy development while also helping instructors manage a teaching-intensive workload. Participants will learn about meaningful and equitable feedback practices for supporting diverse learners who are inexperienced in online learning.
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the Open Education Movement, which seeks to make high-quality research, teaching, and learning materials available to classrooms across the world (UNESCO, 2012). Promotion of Open Educational Resources (OER) to address inequities in education is increasing internationally and at the state and local level, according to the 2017 National Education Technology Plan (Department of Education, 2017). Openly licensed online courses have further helped to fill a void during the virtual pivot in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the legal facets of Open licensing are easy to gloss over when materials can be published in the click of a button. This session aims to clarify misconceptions regarding the licensing and sharing of digital and offline materials by exploring tools to identify, adapt, create, and distribute OER. Participants will distinguish between Open and Closed copyright and identify the range of permissions expressed through various Open licenses.
The presenters will begin with an overview of Open and Closed copyright and take participants through steps to identify license types. They will then guide participants through exploration of the range of permissions expressed through various Open licenses, as demonstrated by the five “Rs”: Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute (Creative Commons, 2017), using authentic lesson plans, videos, articles, and course materials as examples. Participants will walk away with user-friendly OER guidelines and templates and increased confidence in creating, reusing, and adapting OER.
Despite the extensive research on writing self efficacy, apprehension, and anxiety, few studies have explored the significance of these three factors for online doctoral students writing their dissertations. This convergent mixed methods study examined diverse graduate students' (n = 53) writing self-efficacy during the dissertation writing process in an online program.
Nontraditional students often enter graduate programs without foundational writing and research proficiency. Instructors rarely cover these basics as the expectation is graduate-level work, yet students are ill-equipped. I created a bridge program taught by graduate students to graduate students scaffolded into four modules focusing on scholarly writing and research skills.
Presentation skills are paramount to any instructor but how many have actually received training on public speaking essentials? Having a PhD doesn't make you a great speaker/presenter. Join Dr. Jory Basso for an evocative discussion on how to improve your presentation skills and create better student engagement and connectedness.
This session describes a virtual residency model to help doctoral students start their research. Participants will learn hybrid strategies to engage students using synchronous and asynchronous techniques. Participants will experience the residency through the lens of a student to develop a researchable topic for their home institution.
In this session, faculty and administrators will be presented with ethical ramifications of grade inflation, social constraints, and possible courses of action based on an ethical decision-making framework. Session attendees will be presented key take-a-ways related to raising student academic expectations in the online classroom, provide faculty with tools and resources to augment student learning, provide detailed feedback to further understanding, and for administrators to hold faculty accountable.
Although this topic focuses on RN to BSN students in an online program, the resources for onboarding students to online learning are applicable regardless of discipline and setting. All student populations benefit when they are intentionally socialized them to their program and the online learning environment.
Researchers explored student experiences in Yellowdig in twenty courses from January 2021 to the present using validated inventories and thematic analysis. Data suggests that instructors can leverage Yellowdig to increase learner satisfaction, social presence, self-regulated learning, and cognition.
How often do students get to delve deeper into the lives of the scientists typically mentioned in a general chemistry class? A Scientist Report writing assignment has been used to allow students to do just that. Join this presentation to learn about the assignment and attempt some scientist trivia.
Many institutions offered new virtual support services for online learners during the pandemic, and plan to continue offering them for the foreseeable future. This presentation will focus on best practices for online academic support, primarily approaches that make maintaining resources sustainable and integrating academic support into larger DEI institutional initiatives.
Teaching Motor Control Disorders Using a New Case Study in Online and Hybrid Neuroscience and Psychology Courses
The rise of remote workers has demanded a change in the way employees work together. Incorporating team projects and providing support for team success in the classroom will be instrumental in helping organizations continue to achieve success in incorporating virtual teams into their workplace and culture
Do you want a quick impactful way to ensure student success? As a key element of student success is faculty presence, this session will provide a formula to achieve high visibility and foster personal connections in your online classes. Participants will learn why and how to personalize their courses.
The Asynchronous Cookbook is an openly licensed resource for faculty and instructional designers to expand their knowledge and use of async activities. Meaningful interaction is the key ingredient in all recipes! Join us to learn about how the recipes can be used to help promote equitable and flexible learning design.
Librarians do more than just buy books. They are teachers! The COVID-19 pandemic changed the teaching world permanently requiring libary instruction to move into online spaces. This presentation describes a competency-based needs assessment to develop 24 competencies needed to meet the challenges of teaching online in a changed world.
This session will explore the impact course pacing has on student achievement, as measured by the scores achieved on Advanced Placement exams. Analysis of how often students view and engage with online course content will be presented in addition to how the design of each course impacted student pacing.
This session describes the evolution of a faculty learning community model over a decade: how it evolved from supporting design of reduced-seat-time hybrid courses, to embracing blended learning broadly during the pandemic, and finally to developing faculty resilience and leadership in teaching and building community.
While we currently live in the experience age, the ever-changing world created by the pandemic can often make us feel more overwhelmed and isolated than ever.
Gamifying education is one way we can work against this to foster engagement, build upon student’s prior knowledge, and create an inclusive learning environment.
The past two years have seen unprecedented growth in demand for online learning and a commensurate increase in the proliferation of digital learning platforms. With learner motivations and interests becoming increasingly nuanced and diversified, this marks the moment for the creation of a new, immersive, accessible digital arts education platform.
This research project focused on the potential relationship between instructor-created explainer videos and student satisfaction (measured by EOC surveys), student engagement (measured by student course access and content completion), and performance (grades and persistence). Sections of PHIL200 were conducted with and without additional instructor explainer videos to guide students in their assignment completion. No other changes were made to the courses. The project somewhat replicated a study by Draus, Curran, and Trempus (2014) in which the overall satisfaction and performance of students were measured when instructor-created video content was added to the discussion forums. Attendees will learn about the interventions applied and the results in students' reported satisfaction and data-verified performance, with a discussion about implications for generalizing in other courses and settings.
COVID-19 disrupted financial, socio-emotional, and educational systems on a global scale. Educators strategized how to teach competencies while instilling joy and adhering to the program's mission. This virtual discovery session will detail leveraging technology to reimagine learning and expect the unanticipated joy from innovative learning experiences.
Join us to learn how we reimagined the relationship between student support staff and dissertation advisors to maximize student success throughout the dissertation process in a 500+ student online doctoral program. This collaborative system integrates writing center staff into dissertation writing courses and the defense process to support student writers.
The present study examines the impact of assessment and feedback design on opportunities for feedback encounters, learners’ uptake of instructor feedback, and students’ perceptions of their learning experience in the online component of an undergraduate blended course in English for Academic Purposes. Evidence points towards innovative solutions in the field.
Discover how to use artificial intelligence to assess college students’ scholarly writing performance. Learn how to apply the cognitive apprenticeship model to instructional design to improve students’ writing success in one semester. Mixed methods from a quasi-experimental research study will also be shared and recommendations for improving educational equity in higher ed.
Learning analytics dashboards has helped us sustain course design relationships with faculty and productively use our implementation terms. This session will offer a look at the dashboards, discuss their development and use, highlight successes of using data with course design, and share the next steps.
This session shares original research that piloted the virtual delivery of a content-specific novice teacher mentoring program to combat arts teacher isolation and attrition statewide. Learn about its impacts on novice and experienced arts teachers and how to implement a similar initiative in your own state or district.
Fuel up for your OLC Leadership Network Symposium experience with a continental breakfast prior to diving into a full day of inspiring presentations and connections. Breakfast will be available starting at 7:45am until the start of the Welcome and Keynote at 8:30am.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Innovation Crews are flexible communities convened around shared community interests before and during a conference experience. Facilitated by a “Crew Leader”, they provide a space for colleagues to connect, converse, support each other, and be part of a smaller group within the larger conference. Select a group that aligns with your interests and join a cohort of colleagues dedicated to both navigating OLC Accelerate together and co-constructing a meaningful learning experience.
Everyone needs a break and time to decompress when at a large conference. Take advantage of the opportunities to unplug and refocus. During the conference, join us here for some quiet time to decompress, reconnect mind and body, and practice self-care as we turn our focus inward for a few brief moments.
The Grading Room was designed to provide dedicate space and resources for those needing to take time away from conference sessions and programming for things like grading. Please note that this room is expected to be a quite one, meant to facilitate focus and space for those needing to grade or otherwise work. For questions related to the Grading Room, please visit the conference registration desk.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the definition and enactment of leadership were changing. With digital communication tools, higher ed leaders are tasked not only to strategize what, where, and when to post but creating authentic and genuine connections with their campus communities.
Using research over the last ten years from faculty, administrators, and campus executives, this keynote teaches how to apply a strategic and values-based approach to leveraging social media. The framework for digital leadership is not just for improving your personal brand, but a humanizing way to reach students, support staff, celebrate faculty, and more. This session will show how actual higher ed leaders are integrating tools like social media using the guiding principles of digital leadership, including personalization, change, connection, strategy, and legacy.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Track: Digital Strategy
It is estimated that up to 30% of learners in your classroom may have some form of neurodivergence including autism, ADHD, and more. (Conditt, 2020, para. 4). They are gifted with a unique way of processing information but face challenges of learning in classrooms that do not support this variance.
There is a fee of $300 for this pre-conference Master Class. You may also register for this Master Class as part of a special $550 Combo package of 2 Master Classes (1 AM and 1 PM class).
Digital leaders are guiding initiatives at traditional academic institutions and non-profits, attempting to maintain vision through crises, developing new partnerships and approaches within the private sector, and working to establish policies and regulations within government. Focusing on the impact and future of workforce education, this panel brings together leading voices in the field discussing new pathways, partnerships, and strategies for creating workforce readiness across regions and contexts.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Track: Workforce Development
Advancing the success of all learners within digital learning environments requires the establishment of infrastructure distributed across the institution. Join us for an engaging and lively discussion with our panel of digital learning experts on the ways that organizations can break down silos and walls in partnership for supporting quality and equitable institutional transformation.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Track: Digital Strategy
In these peri-pandemic times, institutions are having to rapidly innovate the ways in which they comprehensively build strategy for enrollment marketing management. In the noisy higher educational landscape, many digital learning leaders have focused efforts on defining the unique value proposition of their institutions, leveraging storytelling and narrative in their communications efforts to better reach prospective students where they are at. This panel will offer diverse perspectives on reimagining marketing and enrollment strategy, surfacing actionable approaches and processes for a multitude of stakeholders.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Track: Marketing and EnrollmentAcross the globe, institutional leaders continue to grapple with how to instantiate and advance strategy for online, blended, and digital learning that is embedded into institutional strategy (and not merely a bolt-on or afterthought). In this panel session, a series of digital learning leaders will speak to effective practices and emerging trends for creating cohesive and impactful digital strategy that is supportive of the overall mission and vision of the institution.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Track: Digital Strategy
As digital learning leaders assess their practices for creating teaching and learning environments that reflect the mission and values of their institution, there is an opportunity to look at how equitable the pathways to leadership are that exist at the organization. This panel session will feature a group of digital learning leaders who will provide their unique perspectives on the ways in which teams, departments, and whole institutions can instantiate formal pathways into leadership, with the outcome of building leadership teams that reflect the vibrant diversity of the communities that individual institutions serve.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Track: Supporting Emerging LeadersThe field's current focus on centering quality, equity, and care in digital learning environments has led us to collectively consider our assessment and evaluation processes more broadly. This interactive session seeks to support institutions in understanding what contributes to building quality online learning and, in particular, what they should be looking for as their courses, programs, and institutional strategy are evaluated both internally and externally (including in the accreditation process) with diversity, equity, and inclusion in mind.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Track: Diversity, Equity, and InclusionJoin fellow Leadership Network Symposium attendees over lunch to connect, share, and reflect.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Meaningful engagement between instructors and students is an essential component of successful online and blended learning, driving higher quality interactions and experiences. This aligns with accreditation requirements as well as the Department of Education’s rules requiring courses to include regular and substantive interaction (RSI) especially in distance and competency-based education "to ensure federal financial aid funds are used appropriately."
In this workshop, your facilitators will 1) discuss how to create a learning environment that cultivates quality, meaningful interactions and 2) share innovative, best-practice examples of regular and substantive interaction in action across diverse contexts. Participants will explore the tools and approaches to best support students in sharing their ideas and engaging more deeply in their learning, as well as collaborate with their colleagues on developing high-impact strategies for ensuring RSI. This workshop is perfect for educators, practitioners, and designers with any experience level with RSI - it is geared towards anyone looking to reflect on and deppen points of engagement in the courses that they are building, teaching, and continuously improving.
Participants will leave this workshop with greater understanding and practical knowledge for how to:
There is a fee of $300 for this pre-conference Master Class. You may also register for this Master Class as part of a special $550 Combo package of 2 Master Classes (1 AM and 1 PM class).
You are trapped in a room and the clock is ticking down! There are a collection of puzzles scattered around the space and you must work alongside friends, coworkers, and potentially strangers to escape in time. Join us as we look under the hood and break down the process for designing, developing, and implementing Escape Rooms in physical or virtual environments.
Escape Rooms offer a framework to engage participants in collaborative challenges, encourage individuals to overcome failure through play, and utilize mystery and curiosity to motivate learning experiences. Such activities are rich for a variety of contexts like team building, self-directed learning, and breaking down social barriers in classrooms, as part of professional development or to hook the attention of individuals from any learning environment. At its core, Escape Rooms can be as simple as a collection of small challenges that are narratively connected. We will focus on this accessible form of Escape Room activities.
During this session we will begin by exploring readymade Escape Room activities from four different creators who bring a variety of approaches to this space. Additionally, these examples are crafted with the intention you could reuse or remix them to suit your own needs. Following this experiential activity, the presenters will share their familiarity, scholarship, and recommendations for using Escape Rooms as engaging activities. Lastly, there will be significant development time for attendees to experiment and craft their own Escape Room challenges alongside the aid of the presenters.
By the end of this session, participants will have the beginnings of their own Escape Room ready to deploy or expand.Following this session, participants will be able to:
There is a fee of $300 for this pre-conference Master Class. You may also register for this Master Class as part of a special $550 Combo package of 2 Master Classes (1 AM and 1 PM class).
The Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) studies have resulted in in-depth yearly reports, beginning in 2016 - with two during 2020, including a special report on the pivot to remote teaching. The CHLOE research studies, of which OLC is a Gold sponsor, have become a bellwether guide for college and university leaders over the past 5 years. They have provided insight about the current state of online education in US higher education with topics running the gamut from the day-to-day management of online learning to student, faculty, and staff support to quality assurance to strategic planning. They also serve as a guide for potential benchmarking information for those leaders on point for online learning for their institutions, referred to as Chief Online Officers (COOs) in the CHLOE studies.
The pandemic has prompted some changes in the way institutions are managing online learning and accelerated initiatives that had begun but had not yet taken hold. As we move forward with the current of the pandemic ebbing and flowing, it is crucial to have a good context for planning and managing online learning. What are the trends for online education and what do Chief Online Officers need to know – and what do they need to plan for so that their intuition can take advantage of opportunities? This session will share predictions for higher education as well as highlight key areas for COOs to focus on – including faculty development, student support, and institutional readiness. Attendees should develop a sense of how their institution might compare to US higher education overall and give ideas of how other institutions are approaching key decisions related to strategy and operations. This rich and thought-provoking session will conclude with an open discussion on future CHLOE studies and provide the most recent full report as a resource for participants to reference.
We encourage you to download the CHLOE 7 (Changing Landscape of Online Education) Report in advance.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Track: Digital Strategy
A key component of developing leadership strength within an institution comes from the processes and investment in emerging leadership, including the scaffolding of leadership opportunities to support advancement and growth. In this session, a panel comprised of the faculty of OLC's Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning (IELOL) will discuss impactful practices for establishing a culture of mentorship and support for emerging digital learning leaders, particularly those that prepare emerging leaders to be resilient and effective across a plurality of challenges and contexts.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Track: Supporting Emerging LeadersDigital leaders guiding digital learning initiatives across their institutions are being called to evaluate and reflect on how they are positioning diversity, equity, and inclusion at the heart of their work and advocacy. Focusing on the critical role of digital learning leaders in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, this generative and supportive panel will offer perspectives on impactful and empowering practices that digital learning leaders can engage in as a way to ensure that all learners are given the opportunity to thrive in the teaching and learning environments established for their individual success.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Track: Diversity, Equity, and InclusionThe field of online learning has experienced significant change, and more and more unexpected factors will continue to drive our approaches for ensuring quality and equitable access to education as a sustainable future. In this closing panel, members of the OLC Board of Directors and OLC's CEO will discuss their perspectives on connected and networked communities of practice as an empowering force of progress in these uncertain times. Participants will have the opportunity to pose questions crafted from the emergent themes captured in the earlier sessions, and hear more about the upcoming activities and points of engagement available to them as members of the 2022-2023 OLC Leadership Network.
This session is available only to registered attendees of the Leadership Network Symposium.
Track: Digital StrategyJoin us for some fun and casual networking as a way to build community. There will be games, there will be prizes, there will be snacks and refreshments...and there's bound to be some amazing new connections made at this OLC Accelerate Exhibit Hall Preview.
Inspired by local cafes and coffee shops, OLC's Cafe and Mercantile is designed as a space for community to gather around music, food, and all things local. With each conference, our community travels from location to location. Through the OLC Cafe and Mercantile, we are able to connect with local arts and change-makers with the collective goals of critically situating our work in a sense of place and advancing more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and socially just learning environments. Throughout the conference, we will welcome a variety of local artists as they "take the stage" to perform and engage in storytelling with us. We will also invite OLC community members to hop on mic or the stage to share their own talents.
Don't wait in line Tuesday morning and miss portions of a our Field Guide events, the Escape Room, or the Blended Learning Symposium. Check-in at conference registration Monday evening from 3-6pm ET to pick up your conference badge and materials. After you check-in, take part in the Monday evening Exhibit Hall Preview (3:00pm-5:30pm, Atlantic Exhibit Hall), where you will have an opportunity to get a jump-start on your exhibitor stamp card (for fabulous prizes) and enjoy some snacks and fun refreshments. Be sure to make your travel plans to arrive early enough on Monday to participate in these events and enjoy the Disney Boardwalk area.
OLC Accelerate 2022 registration is located in the Convention Foyer off the lobby of the WDW Dolphin Resort lobby.
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. Stop by anytime for help, guidance, recommendations, or even directions!
Our Volunteers are the heart of our conference programming. If you are an OLC Accelerate 2022 conference volunteer, join us for this special evening event so that we can both celebrate your services to our community and gather for light-hearted fun and games.
Join the OLC Accelerate Field Guides and other conference attendees for a tour of the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort and Convention Center. There is no better way to explore this hotel and learn about conference layout than on a guided tour with the OLC Field Guides.
Join us for food and beverages as we celebrate the formal launch of our leadership and blended learning network communities. This reception is a closed event and requires registration to either the Leadership Network or Blended Learning Symposiums.
Not attending the Leadership Network Symposium or Blended Learning Symposium? Attendees and guests are invited to purchase a ticket to the Monday evening symposium reception. Come meet other attendees and learn what the symposiums are all about!
Start your morning with an invigorating all-levels yoga session! This beginner-friendly class introduces the fundamental Hatha Yoga poses and incorporates them into a flow, with a focus on breathing and alignment. Modifications will be provided for more advanced levels.
Note: OLC Accelerate attendees participate in yoga classes at their own risk. In the unlikely event of injury, please note that OLC and the WDW Swan & Dolphin Resort may not be held liable.
Yoga mat (we will have towels on hand if you don't have one), comfy clothes, and water bottle needed.
Get a jumpstart on your conference day with Coach Jesse! In this 60-minute workout, Coach Jesse will walk attendees through a series of functional fitness movements that will help get the mind and body ready for a full day of conference sessions! Scaling and modifications are available to accommodate all fitness levels. Please wear workout clothing and workout shoes. Be sure to bring a water bottle and come ready to move! Attendees will be asked to sign a waiver before participating. Jesse is a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Personal Trainer and a Crossfit Level 1 Trainer.
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. Stop by anytime for help, guidance, recommendations, or even directions!
Start your day with some quiet time to decompress, reconnect mind and body, and practice some self-care as we turn our focus inward for a short while. Mindfulness has been defined as a practice of "bringing one's attention to the internal and external experiences occuring in the present moment" (Baer, 2003). Clark Shah-Nelson will lead this guided mindful meditation session geared toward centering ourselves on higher levels of consciousness so that we can experience OLC Accelerate Conference in a healthy and present way together. Whether you are new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner, all levels are welcome to join us in The Sanctuary (Europe 2) for this session.
Baer, R.A. (2003). Mindfulness training as a clinical intervention: A conceptual and empirical review. Clinical psychology: Science and practice, 10(2), 125-143.
Start the first official day of OLC Accelerate 2022 with breakfast prior to the morning's events. Grab your breakfast in the Southern Hemisphere Foyer (up the escalator from conference registration), then head to one of our engagement activities taking place this morning.
We're switching things up with this year's Power Hour! Learn what's new at OLC Accelerate this year, sure, but more importantly come reunite with old friends, meet new ones, and start your conference experience with casual fun and community building. Halfway through this session, we will welcome newcomers to the conference as they join the Field Guide Power Hour from an onboarding session.
If you’re looking for support in orienting to the conference, the First Timers Welcome and Orientation is a must! Get support in planning your conference experience and kick things off with some casual networking. Halfway through this session, we will join the Field Guide Power Hour to meet the broader OLC community.
The OLC Escape Room has become an OLC Accelerate staple. Don't miss out on this fun, gameful, and challenging opportunity to team up with others for your chance at escaping this year's educational escape room!
Innovation Crews are flexible communities convened around shared community interests before and during a conference experience. Facilitated by a “Crew Leader”, they provide a space for colleagues to connect, converse, support each other, and be part of a smaller group within the larger conference. Select a group that aligns with your interests and join a cohort of colleagues dedicated to both navigating OLC Accelerate together and co-constructing a meaningful learning experience.
Everyone needs a break and time to decompress when at a large conference. Take advantage of the opportunities to unplug and refocus. During the conference, join us here for some quiet time to decompress, reconnect mind and body, and practice self-care as we turn our focus inward for a few brief moments.
The Grading Room was designed to provide dedicate space and resources for those needing to take time away from conference sessions and programming for things like grading. Please note that this room is expected to be a quite one, meant to facilitate focus and space for those needing to grade or otherwise work. For questions related to the Grading Room, please visit the conference registration desk.
Participants are invited to engage with Crews by attending the same session(s) or activity(s). Meet up with your crew lead to debrief and plan your next steps. Check Slack and Engagez for specific meet-up times.
As part of the broader Virtual and Onsite Experience at #OLCAccelerate 2022, OLC Live! is a catered virtual lounge and conversation space where participants can engage directly with keynote speakers, select presenters, and other attendees. Join our OLC Live! hosts Olysha Magruder and Mel Edwards for your chance to connect virtually with a variety of personalities from the OLC community. This year's OLC Live! will be driving around the conference, catching a glimpse of the scenery. Watch out for the ""Stop"" sign - you might get stopped! OLC Live! is open to the entire OLC Community whether you are a registered OLC Accelerate 2022 Conference attendee or not. Come join the conversations!
Join us for a welcome and orientation to the Blended Learning Symposium, a multi-part program that offers a truly blended engaging and collaborative experience for learning, discussion, work, and networking. This event focuses on blended learning around the world and brings together instructors, designers, and leaders in the field to get a pulse on and contribute to the research on blended learning. Over the next two days, we will hear from a special blended learning keynote speaker, as well as featured speakers across all Blended Learning Symposium themes. Sessions will be streamed to the virtual audience to allow participation for those not able to join onsite.
This onsite and live-streamed session is available only to participants registered for the Blended Learning Symposium.
A semi-facilitated walk along the lake on the International Gateway leading to Epcot and the Disney Boardwalk with OLC Accelerate colleagues for some casual networking and remarkable sights.
Burned out? Just practice self-care! Except it’s not that easy, is it? In this interactive workshop, we’ll skip right past the hype and look deep under the hood at what causes burn out. We’ll help you to identify what self-care actually means for you, discuss how to influence your own mental models with story, and explore ways to practice self-care holistically rather than individually.
Looking for a place to meet others, try new technologies, relax, have fun, or engage in new models and pedagogies? If this is you, you'll want to be sure to stop by the Engagement Boulevard on your OLC Accelerate 2022 Conference journey. Open throughout the conference during regular Exhibit Hall hours, the Engagement Boulevard will be your main hub for interacting with this year's engagement team and their dynamic programming.
Inspired by local cafes and coffee shops, OLC's Cafe and Mercantile is designed as a space for community to gather around music, food, and all things local. With each conference, our community travels from location to location. Through the OLC Cafe and Mercantile, we are able to connect with local arts and change-makers with the collective goals of critically situating our work in a sense of place and advancing more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and socially just learning environments. Throughout the conference, we will welcome a variety of local artists as they "take the stage" to perform and engage in storytelling with us. We will also invite OLC community members to hop on mic or the stage to share their own talents.
With blended learning becoming the norm in higher education worldwide, understanding the dimensions that lead to blended learning readiness is essential. In this presentation, we will introduce three key dimensions of blended learning readiness: institutional readiness, instructor readiness, and student readiness. Additionally, we will discuss frameworks and instruments that provide insight into the dimensions of blended learning readiness. Finally, we will provide a context where new ideas and projects related to any of the key readiness dimensions can be shared.
This onsite and live-streamed session is available only to participants registered for the Blended Learning Symposium.
Join the OLC Accelerate Field Guides and other conference attendees for a tour of the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort and Convention Center. There is no better way to explore this hotel and learn about conference layout than on a guided tour with the OLC Field Guides.
This live, on-site session is part of a custom blended learning experience designed for engagement before, during, and after the on-site OLC Blended Learning Symposium. Participants will collaborate using a design studio approach which starts by curating and defining a collection of blended learning design challenges, and then leverages the community’s expertise, ideas, and creativity to develop innovative solutions to these challenges. This live session uses these challenges as the catalyst for designing collaborative and practical solutions. Through this interactive session, participants will create and share practical, community-designed solutions to the most important challenges facing blended learning educators and institutions.
In this OLC Live! interview, you will hear from the mad scientists in the Technology Test Kitchen. We will highlight an engaging way to broadcast and create videos with streaming tools. And we will also be testing the technology throughout the day!
This session will look back at over 25 years of blended learning research, examining its impact on students, faculty, and institutions. Then we look forward to trends in blended learning for a post-pandemic future.
This onsite and live-streamed session is available only to participants registered for the Blended Learning Symposium.
Come celebrate the vast talents of your OLC community at the Variety Show. This is sure to be exciting and fun entertainment!
Customize your order. The engagement block is structured around participants' needs and aspirations with digital learning explorations, technology innovation and creative expressions. Let our engagement crew members guide you through this pitstop of engagement opportunities that can ignite your ideas, recharge your batteries or give you a cool new set of wheels for your faculty development, student engagement or networking processes. Drive on through, slow down a while and let our crews guide your journey through cool improvements for your work.
Integrating storytelling into your pedagogical practices can be an impactful entry point and anchor for engagement. In this express workshop, you will have the opportunity to interact with three unique models for storytelling in digital learning environments. Those who attend will leave with foundational resources and strategies designed to support you as you weave story into your own practices.
Industry partners are key stakeholders in and across the field of online, blended, and digital learning. Apart from bringing us new technologies, services, and other tools and resources, they offer us new insights through thought leadership. Join us for this year's Exposition Foundry Challenge as we test a willing group of industry partners on their improvisational design skills. You can either join a team for a chance to earn a prize or actively participate through key audience member roles.
In designing quality asynchronous digital learning environments, we must move beyond efforts to directly translate from activities designed for synchronous learning. In this express workshop, we will explore a series of fully asynchronous models and will discuss effective practices for designing with the asynchronous in mind.
Are you working on a project you hope to publish or perhaps interested in learning from member's of OLC's Research Center staff and community about current publishing trends and practices? Join us for this express workshop where you can work directly with others to advance your scholarship and leave with practical publishing tips and strategies. Importantly, bring your ideas, drafts, and projects with you. In the spirit of the Engagement Block Party, this express workshop will by highly interactive and is designed like a writing workshop (where you workshop your ideas alongside others).
Whether you are new to creating classroom community or have an established relationship with your students, there are digital tools (free & paid) that you can use that make connecting with your students fun, lively, and may even give insight to other things that interest them.
This hands-on workshop will cover the ins and outs of survey design for online education programs, including question types, response formats, layouts, pilot testing procedures, methods of delivery (social media/smartphones/other digital devices), and sampling methods with specific examples. The workshop will also introduce various survey development platforms and free resources.
In 2020, a large public research university located in the Southwest partnered with Dreamscape Immersive, co-founded by Film Producer Walter Parkes (Men in Black III), to design highly-engaging learning experiences for introductory biology courses. Utilizing the expertise of storytelling, this collaboration developed multiple VR labs for in-person and online learners.
Many problems we face today in higher education involve interdependent structures, multiple stakeholders, and often stem from legacy systems that either are working together or are now left siloed. Such problems are wickedly challenging to untangle and require a systems thinking approach. We present an ecosystems framework that paved the way for Math Pathways transformation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
This session presents UCF's research examining 1,527,119 student perception of instruction responses for the years 2017-2021. We found that 66% of students “straight-lined” the form, raising the question of the validity of these data for course evaluation purposes and resulting in our institution’s re-evaluation of this process.
Join us as we explore inclusive classrooms and share our Top 20 strategies that we use to create classroom inclusivity for our on-campus and online students. We will give you the strategies and tools you need to create your own inclusive classroom during this session, including an inclusive classroom checklist.
Many of us create personalized videos and use module overviews and wrap-ups in our courses. However, are students even viewing them? If not, how can we increase these views? In this session, we will discuss how to use analytics to determine how and where to share these resources.
A thematic analysis of interviews conducted with 33 instructional designers revealed impacts to instructional design practice during COVID-19 including: differentiating emergency remote teaching from well-designed instruction, the increasing visibility of the ID role, challenges with social connections, increasing workloads, and additional challenges related to time, access, resources, and remote learning.
Evidence demonstrates improved educational outcomes when students engage with each other in the educational process (collaborative learning). While asynchronous learning makes this challenging, it does not rule out the possibility. In this session, we review the benefits and perils of online team-based activities, offer measurable learning outcomes, and share student insights.
It's no secret that students spend more time focused on social media than in the classroom. Join me in learning how to effectively teach on social media. Grasp the student's attention with a thought-provoking but simplistic approach for even the hardest of subjects.
Attendees will learn how to improve the adoption of digital teaching and eLearning instructional technologies in higher education by applying Rogers’ (2003) theory of the diffusion of innovations. A faculty development academy’s digital case studies will be used to illustrate how the theory can be applied to improve practice.
A lively discussion of evidence-based strategies for creating inclusive, accessible, engaging environments where all students can achieve their academic goals. Focus includes a) structuring the online course, b) presenting learning materials, c) engaging students, and d) assessing outcomes by following UDL principles and best practices for active learning, equitable assessment, and metacognition.
Join Carolina Distance Learning to complete one of our remote hands-on labs for students that uses living organisms. We will observe and identify isopod behavior based on movement and analyze the effects of humidity on isopod orientation.
In this session, presenters from a leading community college and a regional public research university will share their firsthand experience with an Online Program Experience (OPX) partner and the particular steps they have taken in shaping the elements of their collaboration to fit institutional needs and culture.
The world of higher education has changed... learn why your approach to managing academic operations should too.
Have you ever had a class that hates contributing to the digital course discussion boards held within varying learning management systems? Have you ever just raked your brain and could not figure out meaningful ways for interactivity? Look no further; this session will provide student engagement within academic courses.
Dallas College responded to change (with remote learning, organizational restructuring, federal guidelines for distance education, and evolving technologies) by developing its standard for online quality, the Online Teaching Framework. Learn about its adoption and engagement strategies for 70K students, 3K faculty, and 20K courses.
An online assessment and remediation protocol with accompanying Python-based toolset is developed to engage undergraduate tutors who identify and fill knowledge gaps of at-risk learners. Digitized assessments, personalized tutoring, and automated micro-credentialing scripts for Canvas LMS are used to issue skill-specific badges which motivate the learner incrementally, while increasing self-efficacy.
University of the Cumberlands and Cengage Publishing has developed a course design model that promotes faculty development, instructional design integrity, student success, and administrative
collaboration. In this presentation, we will share our design model, decision-making process, benefits for faculty and students, how the University of the Cumberlands and Cengage Publishing work together, and textbook management across course sections.
A specifications grading system was implemented in an online undergraduate research course. The presenter will share three different formats used and data on how students responded and performed under each specifications grading structure. Participants will receive handouts detailing the specifications grading structures used and templates to incorporate into their courses.
A popular adage is "Learning is everywhere;" however, Click-Link-Connect educational programs still struggle with student social connection. Educational programs need continious annual imrovement to improve remote educational experiences. Social media networks can promote learner engagement in a remote setting. The purpose of this paper is to theoretically demonstrate how a summer program in BELL, or Building Educators for Better Life, was used as a model to redesign a pre-exisiting program that can improve student engagement with technology while maintaining the core goals of the organization. This paper addresses instructional practices that need improvement, how the addition of social media networks can facilitate this while promoting student engagement in a remote environment. The utilization of social media networks as educational tools reveals the flexible nature of scaffolding online learning while mitigating skepticism toward it.
The purpose of the study was to identify the barriers and strategies leading to success by returning adults that are non-traditional learners enrolled in online programs. The research team was committed to embracing organic student voices and applying their insight and experiences to guide responsive instructional practices.
All higher education institutions are susceptible to crisis situations and research shows institutions tend to be more reactive than proactive in crisis situations. In this session, learn about ways to utilize the instructional technology you have to prepare you for the next crisis event.
Attendees will learn the key aspects of the two course in one model – a framework developed for interleaving multiple courses in a program. We will focus on the engagement strategies including cases, guest speakers and critical success factors for connecting with students across disciplines with varied skillsets in a wholly online, but largely synchronous environment.
Active learning and engagement are contributors to students’ success. We followed the use and evolution of micro-blogging over time. We will share our findings regarding how it affected student engagement and success through active learning and assessment. Attendees will be encouraged to share their knowledge and experiences.
Planning learning pathways for face-to-face synchronous, remote synchronous, and asynchronous students can be tricky. We will explore the learning map from course objective to gradebook with an in-depth how-to. Highlighted are the advantages and disadvantages of the modality, best practices, and a look inside a live Hyflex course.Planning learning pathways for face-to-face synchronous, remote synchronous, and asynchronous students can be tricky. We will explore the learning map from course objective to gradebook with an in-depth how-to. Highlighted are the advantages and disadvantages of the modality, best practices, and a look inside a live Hyflex course.
College students use their cell phones for everything. As faculty members have long utilized a variety of teaching and learning strategies which traditionally have been demonstrated through visual examples on a white board or by pen and paper….until now. The innovative use of iPad technology with the Notability App has effectively reinforced the student learning process for students at the post-secondary level.
Increase participation in learning by facilitating students to teach one another and learn together! When you stay focused and keep things simple, it decreases identity-based concerns that block students. Utilizing easily applied techniques, you can help students think more deeply and critically while teaching your most complex topics!
Learn about a 3-week transition academy with partnerships model that has been shown to successfully equip faculty to transition to a new LMS as well as highlight quality course design standards and development best practices. See samples and ideas shared that you can implement immediately at your institution!
Bethune Cookman University and Edward Waters University have been HBCU leaders in implementing institutional programs to significantly reduce the cost of course materials, improving affordability of education and student success. Lessons learned, success strategies, and tangible as well as intangible outcomes will be presented. Presenters will also share tips for securing faculty buy-in and highlight artifacts that demonstrate OER infusion.
As the “typical” classroom shifts from physical to virtual, how can we optimize time apart and together? Learn how one program blends self-directed eLearning, interactive webinars and virtual simulations to develop nurse practitioner students’ telehealth competency. Discuss strategies for moving away from lecture-style webinars to maximize interaction and experiential learning.
In this "bootcamp," participants will use tools and techniques for blending a course or course session to accelerate active and collaborative learning which better emulates real-world situations for students and leads to higher levels of learning. Particular emphasis is placed on selecting technologies aligned with pedagogical objectives and strategies to overcome common obstacles to implementing active or collaborative blended learning strategies.
Come join us in our exploration of authentic assessment in online learning. We will share a variety of examples in various formats. This interactive workshop will use role-playing and scenarios to make the case authentic assessment provides accurate evidence of student learning and is a more equitable, student-centered strategy.
This session will explore simple tips and tricks to promote interest and engagement in synchronous seminar/webinar events as well as tools to maximize those events for asynchronous use. We will focus on prompting the WIIFM (what’s in it for me) to help drive audience participation and engagement. Attendees will develop, identify and produce a short asynchronous video commercial for later use in their seminar/webinar development.
There is currently intense debate around topics of race and racism. University administrators and leadership are concerned about the risk of tension around these charged social issues surfacing and causing division and conflict among their students. At the same time, they may be reluctant to engage in the conversations needed for healing because of the concerns about being viewed negatively. In this interactive discussion, we will identify the psychological forces responsible for inaction, and conclude with recommended strategies to better foster belonging and support students’ needs at critical junctures during their college enrollment.
Staples of the Online Learning Consortium’s professional development offerings, IELOL-USA and IELOL Global, provide our community unique opportunities to grow in their leadership skills and experience. Each feature a distinctly different design challenge, situating leaders in action and addressing real-world problems through their solutions. In this session, we invite participants to join us for mini versions of these design challenges through the OLC IELOL Design Sprints! Come join us in collaboratively contributing to change-oriented assets / resources. Learn more about how to develop a design sprint learning activity as well as more about the IELOL-USA and IELOL-Global programs along the way. And most importantly, develop some leadership skills within the span of this workshop.
Looking for a place to meet others, try new technologies, relax, have fun, or engage in new models and pedagogies? If this is you, you'll want to be sure to stop by the Engagement Boulevard on your OLC Accelerate 2022 Conference journey. Open throughout the conference during regular Exhibit Hall hours, the Engagement Boulevard will be your main hub for interacting with this year's engagement team and their dynamic programming.
Inspired by local cafes and coffee shops, OLC's Cafe and Mercantile is designed as a space for community to gather around music, food, and all things local. With each conference, our community travels from location to location. Through the OLC Cafe and Mercantile, we are able to connect with local arts and change-makers with the collective goals of critically situating our work in a sense of place and advancing more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and socially just learning environments. Throughout the conference, we will welcome a variety of local artists as they "take the stage" to perform and engage in storytelling with us. We will also invite OLC community members to hop on mic or the stage to share their own talents.
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. Stop by anytime for help, guidance, recommendations, or even directions!
New to OLC Accelerate is the OLC Drive-In, a physical location where you can join with other colleagues, tune into a live streamed session, and engage in discussion as the session takes place. Whether you're looking for dynamic conversation or simply couldn't make it to the main session room in time, this new offering is designed to make our streamed sessions more accessible and engaging.
Participants learn how one online, multi-state/regulated Educator Preparation Program created a centralized online/self-service resource hub used to direct students/faculty to resources needed during the ever-changing clinical practice setting due to the Pandemic. This session highlights a virtual school that creates authentic and equitable professional learning experiences using a virtual platform.
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) is proud to host a community break for educators working at APLU institutions (See List of Institutions: https://www.aplu.org/members/our-members/). Join this informal and lively event to engage in networking, ideation, and planning for collaborations across the APLU and OLC communities. Coffee, tea and beverages will be served. For more information about the event or to RSVP, contact Dr. Karen Vignare at kvignare@aplu.org.
Instituiton A and Institution B are two very different higher education institutions; yet, there are very interesting similarities and differences in their approaches to starting digital badging programs.This session will provide a glimpse into both experiences and recommendations for starting a program at your institution.
The terms used to describe forms of digital learning (e.g., online, blended, hyflex) in higher education have multiplied in recent years and have led to confusion among faculty, staff, and students. Several organizations partnered to survey how institutions, departments, or programs define these terms. What do you think we found?
This session examines how digital learning aligned with culturally responsive and social justice teaching strategies can address disparities within higher education. We will explore how digital tools and courseware features grounded in culturally affirming and sustaining pedagogy can be operationalized to dismantle persistent inequities inherent in traditional teaching practices.
In this session we share blended course templates and planning tools. Participants will walk through a mixed map activity guiding them to consider levels of blending. We will discuss quality assurance for blended courses that fosters successful learning environments. Participants will determine the characteristics of a template for their context.
Hybrid learning, when implemented correctly, can improve educational quality for both students and instructors and create operational flexibility for institutions. Using examples of universities worldwide who have transformed their programs, we will share how to intentionally design a hybrid student journey and effectively and seamlessly align learning objectives with modality.
Preparing college and career ready students extends beyond content knowledge. Students need to build communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity skills. And they need a way to showcase their skills in applications and interviews. Come learn how micro-credentials can be used to integrate 21st Century skills into online courses.
For those teachers comfortable with navigating their LMS who are looking to jazz up your courses, set yourself up for further success by creating amazing, engaging content. Learn from a Canvas expert how to create sophisticated interactions, utilize dynamic html code, and integrate technology to bring your course content to life.
The global pandemic has had various impacts on the higher educational landscape including faculty development needs. In this presentation learn how one institution applied a fresh perspective to redesign an online and blended faculty development program that adapted to the changing needs of faculty.
Active learning is a student-centered approach intended to engage students through new information, ideas, experiences, and reflective dialogue. In this session, we will L.E.A.R.N how to implement active learning by Leveraging prior knowledge, Explaining new concepts, Activating using activities, Reflecting on learning, and Nurturing new strategies.
This session introduces participants to how to develop specific teaching skills for prospective educators using microteaching practices in online/blended courses. The session shares examples of the applied framework of the microteaching design, implementation, and evaluation, including students’ technical experiences and challenges in recording their microteaching lessons during the pandemic time.
Are students getting the most out of your video lectures? Do you ever wish you could ask students questions and get answers like in a live lecture? This presentation will illustrate the use of PlayPosit to engage students, structure their learning experience and increase real-time interactivity with video lectures.
Group projects are one way students can promote collaborative learning. How can we incorporate effective teaching techniques to provide students with skills that promote valuable team work? Join us to learn more about how we’ve developed assignments that promote collaborative learning and explore creating one of your own.
The classroom can be the first experience a person has with the digital divide. As the pandemic created a deeper chasm in the digital divide in many campus environments, digital equity has become a predominant goal for many institutions. Here we outline some innovative ways to leverage the power of technology toward your campus’ digital inclusion efforts.
Student experience is the factor that often determines online enrollment and persistence. Schools can communicate that they care by measuring learner readiness and providing resources for support. Taking a proctored exam may be a frustrating student experience. Schools can improve the proctoring experience by providing multiple proctoring options.
The goal of the NLU Online Faculty Playbook was to re-envision a traditional faculty resource into a one-stop hub for all things course logistics, policy, and evidence-based practice. Learn how we built and use this Playbook to benefit our faculty and students.
A discussion regarding how to bring a laboratory course online, why hands-on activity is essential, and an overview of SI curriculum and hands-on experiment demonstration.
Can remote proctoring be a tool to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in education? Identity verification is key to making online learning a valid alternative to in-person teaching. What happens when your identity is in transition or is non-conforming? Representatives from higher education as well as the government and corporate worlds will gather to answer these questions and hopefully spark new ones. Join us for a panel discussion about the history of LGBTQ representation in education, the challenges faced and the technological advances that allow for the doors to higher ed to remain open to everyone.
A “Cool Classes Feature” by the EKU Center for Academic Creativity and learner feedback provide a scaffolding for this session encouraging and evaluating student learning. Our time together provides participants with creative ideas and applications in course design, content selection, application, assessment, evaluation, feedback, and community engagement.
How are you supporting faculty to deliver quality online courses? How are you fostering relationships between IDs and faculty? How do you encourage IDs as SMEs in the pedagogy of delivering online courses? We will explore these topics and explain how the framework answered these questions.
Interested in an integrated strategy to provide a diverse community of adult learners the knowledge, skills, and credentials to enact positive social change in their communities? Our inclusive and student-centered approach to support services works to set expectations, ready skills, proactively guide, and support doctoral students through completion.
Micro-credentials are becoming increasingly common, and the desire to offer them spans industry and education. But what exactly are these new offerings? How big or small should they be? And which micro-credentials should my organization offer? This session will discuss how WGU recently implemented a Unified Achievement Framework and lessons learned from the rollout.
Third-grade reading proficiency is an indicator of future student success; however 47% of students in one state are not meeting this goal. This mixed methodology study investigated the extent to which virtual school in second grade prepared students for third grade reading achievement using pre and post COVID data.
The Provost Leadership Team at the College for Financial Planning employs a shared leadership approach, which embraces various leadership styles, ensuring the inclusion of multiple perspectives on the issues at hand with open communication. The preliminarily noticeable results are a culture of empowerment and equity, improved morale, and enhanced student success.
Every student is unique: they bring their own experiences, backgrounds and preferences into each room. What if we could personalize the learning experience to meet all of those students exactly where they are and take them to where they need to be? What if they could Choose Their Own Adventure?
Increasing the ability of institutions and faculty to facilitate online student success by implementing a common navigation course template using the Canvas LMS; combined with a video training program to enable faculty in applying the template to both new and existing course content.
Improving successful outcomes for students within an online modality can assist higher education to create pathways for students to succeed within an online course. With the growth and popularity of online learning, postsecondary institutions must continue to develop best practices in areas of online teaching pedagogies to promote student success (Garrison et al., 2000; Lawson, T.M., 2019; Swan et al., 2009; Swan, 2002).
Designing an intentional “third place” in online programs seems promising to address student-voice, student-led learning, connection, and critical dialogue. Third places may also help students make connections between courses and show up as their “real selves”. This session aims to engage participants in exploring how third places could be structured.
The expectations of Gen Z students in online courses do not always align with the dispositions instructors in professional preparation programs know they need. Explore practical ways of supporting today’s online learners as they grow in their understanding of what it means to be a professional in their discipline.
SESSION CANCELED - Our iCoN Apple Distinguished School initiative has expanded far beyond what we could have imagined when it began in 2012. Students now engage in active learning strategies using Apple devices and apps to create capstone projects and receive real-time feedback on assignments and tests. Faculty members continue to find innovative ways to flip the classroom and more fully engage students. The college’s support and commitment to transforming the delivery of nursing education in the classroom, simulation laboratory and clinical settings, in addition to our sustainable model for fostering technology and innovation,
Join us in discussing our literature review of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice in health professions education. We will share relevant resources, then have an interactive discussion about evidence-based strategies that address barriers to equity and how to engage students in online learning relevant to this topic.
This session explores the processes of assessing motivations of pre-service teachers to teach online as they enter a field that increasingly requires them to teach in technology-based learning spaces. The PST-OTMS instrument and pilot study results will be discussed. Additionally, feedback will be solicited for future development of the PST-OTMS.
OSCQR has been updated to assist campuses, instructional designers (IDs), and faculty ensure that online courses can demonstrate designs comply with the new US Department of Education regulation requiring Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) between online learners and their instructor(s). You will be provided with an overview of OSCQR and the tools and information to improve the instructional design (including RSI) and accessibility in online courses.
Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) have historically been hubs for strategically building community across the lifespan of the institution and the student lifecycle. Regardless of one’s institutional type, learning about these critical engagement and community building strategies can help to deepen and strengthen how institutions build belongingness and community in digital spaces. Join us for this must-attend panel conversation with some of the top leaders from Minority Serving Institutions to learn more about critical community building and student engagement strategies.
Interested in learning about the OLC Research Center and finding ways to get involved with our future projects? Join Drs. Dylan Barth, Kristen Gay and Andrew Swindell for a ‘Research Center Round-Up’ to look back on the exciting work that the OLC research team conducted in 2022 and how it can inform the OLC community. We will end with an open forum; so bring your research and collaboration ideas to share.
Join us in the Exhibit Hall for our first official networking coffee break of the conference. Not only is this an opportunity to recharge with a fresh cup of coffee or tea, but you will also have the opportunity to network with other attendees. Check out the Engagement Boulevard, meet with our conference exhibitors, and join one of our many games for an opportunity to win prizes!
Join OLC Live! co-hosts as they seek out the emerging trends and topics, as well as engaging members of the conference community at Accelerate 2022. We will be live webcasting through Zoom, as well as driving this conversation in the OLC Live! Slack channel, so buckle up and enjoy the ride!
Whether it’s in your online classroom, within your college, or for your career - we need community more than ever. The pandemic broke open traditional means and modalities for connection - whether if it was through Facetime, Zoom, Discord or Twitter. While many campus technologies were activated nearly overnight due to a global crisis response, we now must take these lessons to creating meaningful and engaging community building strategies for our students, but also for ourselves as online learning educators.
Using a purposeful digital engagement model and historical understanding of digital community tools, this keynote will call you into the title of community builder.
Please join us immediately following the keynote for our Accelerate 2022 Welcome Reception (Atlantic Exhibit Hall).
Immediately following the Keynote Address, join your fellow conference attendees in the Exhibit Hall for networking and to visit with our sponsors and exhibitors. Refreshments will be served; don’t forget your complimentary drink ticket!
During this playful evening event, participants will choose a track and compete against each other for their chance to win a prize. Inspired by the board game "Ticket to Ride," this evening event is sure to help you as you meet other conference attendees and close out the first full day of conference programming.
Start your morning with an invigorating all-levels yoga session! This beginner-friendly class introduces the fundamental Hatha Yoga poses and incorporates them into a flow, with a focus on breathing and alignment. Modifications will be provided for more advanced levels.
Note: OLC Accelerate attendees participate in yoga classes at their own risk. In the unlikely event of injury, please note that OLC and the WDW Swan & Dolphin Resort may not be held liable.
Yoga mat (we will have towels on hand if you don't have one), comfy clothes, and water bottle needed.
Get a jumpstart on your conference day with Coach Jesse! In this 60-minute workout, Coach Jesse will walk attendees through a series of functional fitness movements that will help get the mind and body ready for a full day of conference sessions! Scaling and modifications are available to accommodate all fitness levels. Please wear workout clothing and workout shoes. Be sure to bring a water bottle and come ready to move! Attendees will be asked to sign a waiver before participating. Jesse is a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Personal Trainer and a Crossfit Level 1 Trainer.
All attendees are invited to start the day with an engaging breakfast gathering and celebration of our Awards of Excellence winners. Join your colleagues, meet new friends, and learn how you can get more deeply involved with the OLC community. We’ll begin by honoring the OLC Awards of Excellence Winners, as well as recognition of our conference chairs. Then, we will transition into a lightning OLC trivia game run by our conference chairs, with a chance to win prizes (including a grand prize of a paid registration to our 2023 Blended Learning Symposium in Dallas, TX!) Come help us celebrate our vibrant OLC community and prepare for an empowering day of conference sessions, networking, collaboration, and engagement!
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. Stop by anytime for help, guidance, recommendations, or even directions!
Start your day with some quiet time to decompress, reconnect mind and body, and practice some self-care as we turn our focus inward for a short while. Mindfulness has been defined as a practice of "bringing one's attention to the internal and external experiences occuring in the present moment" (Baer, 2003). Clark Shah-Nelson will lead this guided mindful meditation session geared toward centering ourselves on higher levels of consciousness so that we can experience OLC Accelerate Conference in a healthy and present way together. Whether you are new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner, all levels are welcome to join us in The Sanctuary (Europe 2) for this session.
Baer, R.A. (2003). Mindfulness training as a clinical intervention: A conceptual and empirical review. Clinical psychology: Science and practice, 10(2), 125-143.
Innovation Crews are flexible communities convened around shared community interests before and during a conference experience. Facilitated by a “Crew Leader”, they provide a space for colleagues to connect, converse, support each other, and be part of a smaller group within the larger conference. Select a group that aligns with your interests and join a cohort of colleagues dedicated to both navigating OLC Accelerate together and co-constructing a meaningful learning experience.
Everyone needs a break and time to decompress when at a large conference. Take advantage of the opportunities to unplug and refocus. During the conference, join us here for some quiet time to decompress, reconnect mind and body, and practice self-care as we turn our focus inward for a few brief moments.
The Grading Room was designed to provide dedicate space and resources for those needing to take time away from conference sessions and programming for things like grading. Please note that this room is expected to be a quite one, meant to facilitate focus and space for those needing to grade or otherwise work. For questions related to the Grading Room, please visit the conference registration desk.
Participants are invited to engage with Crews by attending the same session(s) or activity(s). Meet up with your crew lead to debrief and plan your next steps. Check Slack and Engagez for specific meet-up times.
Looking for a place to meet others, try new technologies, relax, have fun, or engage in new models and pedagogies? If this is you, you'll want to be sure to stop by the Engagement Boulevard on your OLC Accelerate 2022 Conference journey. Open throughout the conference during regular Exhibit Hall hours, the Engagement Boulevard will be your main hub for interacting with this year's engagement team and their dynamic programming.
Inspired by local cafes and coffee shops, OLC's Cafe and Mercantile is designed as a space for community to gather around music, food, and all things local. With each conference, our community travels from location to location. Through the OLC Cafe and Mercantile, we are able to connect with local arts and change-makers with the collective goals of critically situating our work in a sense of place and advancing more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and socially just learning environments. Throughout the conference, we will welcome a variety of local artists as they "take the stage" to perform and engage in storytelling with us. We will also invite OLC community members to hop on mic or the stage to share their own talents.
As online programming becomes the mainstay in higher education, it is important to understand the affordances of the data amassed during an online student’s journey to support their success from enrollment through graduation. A series of dashboards will be shared in this session with scenarios of data-informed actions.
How does someone start at a residential school for the blind, and end up with a PhD in Environmental Chemistry? What can be learned from this journey to increase inclusion and equity? Let’s build creative pathways to student-centered outcome achievement that empower and motivate all students - going beyond traditional accommodations.
Have you ever wondered what other institutions’ professional development units were up to? Join members of the OLC-ATD research team as they share results from a recent mixed-methods study that explored hot topics and obstacles to success for centers of teaching and learning across institutional types in the United States.
Building team culture is an often overlooked, yet difficult, aspect of instructional design units. Join us to reflect on the history of our culture building, and learn how our leadership team has wielded the power of an internal book club to maintain and strengthen our culture, even in a pandemic.
A semi-facilitated walk along the lake on the International Gateway leading to Epcot and the Disney Boardwalk with OLC Accelerate colleagues for some casual networking and remarkable sights.
Does multimedia production make you cringe? Creating online lectures may be taxing for instructional designers and for faculty members, but entrusting the work to a multimedia department may result in subpar learning materials. This session provides strategies and a model for a symbiotic relationship between multimedia and learning designers.
In a world with declining values, it is important to ensure all students access moral education. Course content alone will do little if students lack respect or responsibility. This session will share how to integrate moral education into online knowledge and skill based courses to educate the whole.
Hear our story about creating and piloting a Moodle roadmap plugin as a multidisciplinary team with expertise in instructional design, media design, application development, and research. We will share the iterative design, development, and evaluation process and preliminary findings. We will also let you experience the plugin through hands-on activities.
This presentation will focus on the process of evaluating existing technology and workflow for high-stakes testing, piloting a new testing paradigm, and further, iterative evaluation to support continuous improvement of practice to support student success.
Discover how to create an immersive experience in your course using storytelling and authentic assessment. Use amusement park principles to reenvision and improve your student’s course experience. This session will be viewing the Imagineering approach through the lens of Instructional Design. Tap into your students’ affective domain of learning!
Consider adopting and adapting project management practices (PMPs) to provide structures supporting student learning and engagement in your online courses. With an overview of project management techniques, gain practice in creating tools your students can use to manage course workload and complete assignments.
Some topics seem hard to teach, given the diverse viewpoints our students hold! We cannot be timid in giving students skills to work interdependently, reaching across boundaries such as culture through leadership and communication. You will walk away with simple, economical ideas that captivate learners of all ages and skills!
This session will explore the redevelopment of an undergraduate course at The University of Arizona Global Campus. Specifically, we will look at collaboration with associate faculty during course redesign and how the incorporation of scaffolding and metacognition supports student success.
Multimedia assignments provide rich learning experiences for students, empowering them to combine different types of media such as text, images, audio, videos and maps. Media projects are particularly engaging for remote students. Clear faculty expectations are essential for successful multimedia assignment projects.
OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print. We've also developed a low-cost, research-based courseware that gives students the tools they need to complete their course the first time around. To date, OpenStax has saved students more than $1.8 billion dollars in education costs while putting customizable, high-quality, peer-reviewed, and openly licensed materials into the hands of instructors and learners. OpenStax has 57 titles in its library, with 10 additional titles underway by 2024. Explore OpenStax textbooks firsthand and learn about the Allied Partners ancillary materials, the Institutional Partners Program, and more. Learn how you can leverage free, high-quality OpenStax textbooks and course materials for your students.
Join us as we share our empirical study conducted at our institution on student, faculty, and instructional designer experiences with adaptive courses. In this session, we will discuss the findings focusing on the requirements and rewards of adaptive courses from the user point-of-view. We will also have a Q&A session.
This session will examine the differences in students’ perceptions and expectations in developing a shared sense of community across course modalities and provide actionable insights for building more authentic interactions.
Nearpod is an engaging presentation tool which is designed to engage the audience in a variety of ways and to provide valuable feedback for the presenter.
The pandemic revealed that students are drawn to the flexibility and convenience that online learning provides so much so that there has been an increased demand for online course offerings. As institutions consider expanding their online programs, how can they ensure academic integrity through the use of online proctoring?
Join Honorlock experts as they lead a guided demo of Honorlock’s online proctoring solution. They will show you how Honorlock:
Creating a sense of belonging in an educational environment requires dedication from all members of the campus community. See how NameCoach supports Instructional Design professionals in promoting diversity & inclusion through technology.
Economic shifts, the pandemic, and increased racial inequalities have played a role in postsecondary enrollment declines and contributed to an evolving online world in the educational sector. To assist universities to continue to be a stakeholder this session will provide innovative academic strategies utilized to build an online non credential platform.
Have you envisioned taking your students on a field trip? But due to lack of funding, this may not be possible within your course. The following session will coach attendees to create an ADA-compliant virtual trip experience that aligns with sample course assignments.
In this session, we will share how at a large public research-focused university in the Southwest, we have and how we continue to operationalize equity and inclusion through course design standards, hiring practices, data analysis, technology integration, training, resource creation and more, specifically, but not exclusively, for the online modality.
In this session Walden university will share its experiences and insights as it implements a robust Inclusive Teaching and Learning strategic plan which builds upon an integrated learning model and university-wide commitments to inclusive classroom design, person-centered faculty-student learning relationships, and the measurement and assessment of inclusion and equity efforts.
In a recent Chronicle article, the question was raised about "How to Solve the Student-Disengagement Crisis." One featured expert drew our attention to the founding document of any course--the syllabus. This session offers hands-on strategies and deliverables to combat disengagement and promote inclusion and interaction. While the entire world looks to gamification and technology, this session hones in on the back-to-basics strategies that are available for any type or level of instructor to utilize in their syllabus (and other course documents).
Discovery Session to showcase best practices for developing accessible online videos/course materials for individuals who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing. These best practices are beneficial for diverse audiences including English as Second Language learners. Experienced faculty from a well-known college that serves Deaf/Hard of Hearing students will share their strategies and experiences.
Ever been inspired by a great documentary on Netflix? Why not produce content like that for your students! This presentation will share the value of, challenges to, and strategies for producing on-location videos in higher education, and get you started on your very own on-location video.
The primary goal of Ivy Tech Community College’s online academic unit, IvyOnline, was to close the success rate gap between face-to-face and online classes. Ivyonline has made significant strides in closing the success rate gap from over 10% to less than 5% on average in recent terms over the past three years.
Providing learners with multimedia learning opportunities may help them develop deeper learning. Learn how we implement VoiceThread as part of faculty online training courses to engage them with multimedia learning content and help them develop understanding of how they can use it to create engaging content with their own students. You will leave with assignment ideas to use as part of online or in-person courses.
Being prepared for emergencies is important as you can never be too prepared. Individuals in higher education know that to be true. Unfortunately, a gap exists in training professionals about emergency preparedness and crisis management within student affairs and higher education. NC State created a course to bridge the gap.
Online offerings can cause disconnect among students, particularly at smaller schools. This session will utilize a case study of a highly-interpersonal humanities seminar at a small community college in New Jersey to show participants new tools and techniques to engage students and build communities in asynchronous learning environments.
This panel features instructional designers, administrators, and faculty of different community colleges in Idaho. Join us as we share our experiences in developing institutional as well as statewide Z-degree Pathways. We will discuss the unique challenges each of our institutions faced in planning Z-degree Pathways and identify how we were able to work together to meet these challenges. By sharing these experiences, we anticipate a deeper discussion with attendees about how to implement the same state-wide policy with flexibility and consistency.
Meet faculty who have participated in an online, asynchronous, community of practice. Hear their teaching improvement stories and how evidence-based practices have rocked their teaching world. Leave with a plan to try a new evidence-based instructional practice or two in your next class!
In this session, we explore the extent to which community college student health-related events both prior and during the spring 2020 pandemic term (when instruction moved fully online) correlated with course outcomes. Implications for online course policy moving forward are discussed.
In this highly interactive session, Professor Luxton will share her experiences with symposium participants. Together with local facilitator, Assistant Dean and Chief Learning Officer – Tawnya Means, participants will be taken on a journey to reflect on leadership and administration considerations when implementing blended learning programs at scale for educational transformation.
This onsite and live-streamed session is available only to participants registered for the Blended Learning Symposium.
“Déjà vu all over again!” The Winter 2022 USED Federal Rulemaking brought back our favorite hits from 2019! We will address “what now?” for institutions to manage Federal compliance to provide programs leading to a professional license and the future of reciprocity for out-of-state activities of postsecondary institutions.
Learn how a Penn State Smeal College of Business ethics simulation in a large (~750 students), undergraduate course helped students:
examine a real-world ethical dilemma
explore ethical decisions
consider real-world impacts of their choices
We’ll compare their experiences and outcomes and discuss how simulation prepares students for future careers.
This workshop will introduce participants to an emerging concept of HyFlex course design principles illustrating the differences between online, blended, hybrid, and flipped learning in the context of the core elements of each modality. Through group discussion, participants will critically examine the feasibility of HyFlex learning in the post-pandemic era.
Podcasts have become a popular tool for professional development, instructional activities, class projects, and other personal and professional applications. Workshop participants will leave this session with an actionable plan and support resources that will allow them to develop a podcast series with a well-defined concept and identity.
Orientation is a critical time for students’ long-term success, especially for nontraditional students enrolled in online programs. Using insights from Guild Education and Bellevue University’s intentionally-designed orientation for nontraditional students, this interactive workshop will allow attendees to build a foundation for a more inclusive online orientation that supports student success.
New to OLC Accelerate is the OLC Drive-In, a physical location where you can join with other colleagues, tune into a live streamed session, and engage in discussion as the session takes place. Whether you're looking for dynamic conversation or simply couldn't make it to the main session room in time, this new offering is designed to make our streamed sessions more accessible and engaging.
Join us for a panel discussion on the inaugural publication of the OLC Press "From Grassroots to the Highly-Orchestrated: Online Leaders Share Their Stories of the Evolving Online Organizational Landscape in Higher Education”. The panel will be facilitated by OLC’s Director of Research, Dr. Kristen Gay, and will feature the “Grassroots to Highly-Orchestrated” editorial team, Drs. Bettyjo Bouchey, Erin Gratz, and Shelley Kurland, and select authors, Dr. Thomas B. Cavanagh, Chelsea McNeely, and Marcela Ramirez.
Where are you on the learning responsibility scale? Explore how student centered environments that address Equity & Inclusion creates a new, positive shift in online learning by giving responsibility to both the instructor and learners. Discover how bringing civic engagement and balancing the power creates a more enriched learning environment for student and instructor.
This session will focus on current research on data analytics as used in adaptive learning environments and empowered by emerging data analysis techniques. It will center on examples of original research conducted by the most-talented scholars in the field. The substance of this session will be published in Data Analytics and Adaptive Learning: Research Perspectives (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) in early 2023.
This workshop is intended to assist institutional leaders develop an implementation plan for online course quality review and refresh using OSCQR, OLC’s online course quality scorecard. You will be provided with the tools and information to plan an institution-level initiative to systematically improve the instructional design and accessibility of online courses and programs.
Rapidly changing on the fly is the new normal. Research results capturing the experience of the student and faculty during the initial wave of the pandemic, when campuses were closed and all programming moved exclusively online, will be presented while engaging attendees to share their pandemic experiences and best practices.
Digital games in asynchronous adult education present unique challenges to how we design instruction that is both authentic and engaging. In Fall 2021, we gamified an asynchronous course on designing games for learning to improve engagement. Modeling and learner autonomy within the design connected students with the content more meaningfully.
Much has been written about the application of learning science and best practices in synchronous mathematics education. In this interactive session, participants will explore how these ideas can be extended to students in the asynchronous and blended mathematics classroom through effective technology.
Join us as we share practical outcomes of a research study that explored how 360-degree video vignettes in an immersive virtual reality environment can be used to help graduate MBA students apply quality management competencies to real-world situations such as chair assembly, strategic planning, and quality and customer care meetings.
All aboard! Welcome aboard the train to accessibility with stops along the way at inclusivity and course design, passing through captioning, alt-text, and headings. We’re glad you’ve joined us on this journey, the students will be too! Punch your ticket as we travel to our final destination.
Instructional designers do what? Have you ever said this to yourself? There are specific knowledge, skills, and attributes that can help you be a successful designer. Come join us to learn what we wish we’d known a collective 40+ years ago when we started working as instructional designers.