OLC Innovate 2022 Program
We are pleased to announce the virtual and onsite programs for the OLC Innovate 2022 event, to be held virtually March 28 – April 1 and onsite April 11-14, 2022 in Dallas, Texas.
We are pleased to announce the virtual and onsite programs for the OLC Innovate 2022 event, to be held virtually March 28 – April 1 and onsite April 11-14, 2022 in Dallas, Texas.
All Sessions are 45 minutes in length unless otherwise noted.
All sessions are listed in US Central Time Zone.
ALL SESSION TIMES ARE LISTED IN US CENTRAL TIME
All virtual-to-virtual and selected onsite streaming sessions will be webcast via Zoom. Exceptions are non-streamed onsite sessions as well as 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 in the 30 minute breaks between most concurrent sessions. These include OLC Live sessions, virtual speed networking lounge activities, and networking coffee talks with our sponsors. Also look for our special evening social events in the schedule.
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Welcome to the 6th Annual Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) for HBCUs workshop where HBCU faculty, staff, and administrators share their practices for supporting faculty changing to no-cost and low-cost digital course materials, including OER, and saving students thousands of dollars. The preconference workshop will focus on helping HBCUs get started with their own AL$ programs. Come start planning by learning from HBCUs that have made significant progress in their AL$ programs. Come join us for this OPEN workshop at no additional cost!
***This workshop is free to all registered attendees of the OLC/MERLOT Innovate 2022 conference***
With so many offerings, large conferences can be difficult to plan for (particularly during the current professional era, where many have to balance professional development alongside a regular work schedule). Join us for some classic OLC networking as we take time to meet new friends, share insider tips into how to get the most out of your online conference experience, and get started with mapping your OLC Innovate journey.
Not sure what to do between sessions? Consider checking out OLC Innovate'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 Innovate'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!, Innovation Studio, OLC Cafe & Mercantile, OLC Sanctuary).
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. "Stop by" anytime by visiting us in the Conference Canvas space or on Slack for help, guidance, recommendations, and custom consulting on making the most of your conference experience!
The Innovation Studio has always been a hub for networking and a space to explore the pervasive challenges we face in the classroom and to craft innovative approaches for better reaching our unique populations of learners. Join us anytime (asynchronously) through the conference Canvas space or via Slack. We've prepared a series of challenges for you to improve your design thinking skills (which double as models for you to take with you into your own educational spaces).
Innovation Crews are groups of conference attendees clustered by interest, facilitated by a “Crew Leader” for ongoing check-ins and community building. Crews gather during meet-ups synchronously and asynchronously to connect with others, share ideas, and make your plan of action. Join a crew now at https://bit.ly/IN22Crews.
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, help you connect with a Crew, and create an OLC Innovate 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 Innovate Virtual conference venue and website, and point out Engagement Maps designed to help with your program planning. We will also discuss what sessions will be live streamed from the onsite conference in April, which all virtual attendees will have access to. Throughout the conference, you can access a collection of asynchronous informational videos and artifacts in PlayPosit, aimed at helping answer your conference going queries. 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!
Get ready for the #OLCInnovate 2022 virtual conference! Join OLC Live! host Dr. Kelvin Thompson for an opening conversation as we kick off the start of the conference with a preview of the sessions, themes, and experiences to come over the next several days.
Undergraduate programs are seeking innovative ways of inspiring student engagement in general education courses, including the incorporation of popular culture in curricular offerings. This session will lead to collaborative discussion surrounding survey results that suggest post-traditional students have higher preference for traditional general education course topics.
This interactive session provides a variety of holistic self-care techniques for online educators to help overcome unique challenges to wellbeing and prevent burnout. Challenges include deficiencies in: work boundaries; social interaction; breaks; and movement/exercise. Likewise excess: screen time; email/pingers; phone calls/texts; online meetings; and other distractions are barriers to self-care.
Research reveals a prevalence of believing neuromyths among educators worldwide. This session highlights findings from a 2021-study investigating awareness of neuromyths, general knowledge about the brain, and evidence-based practices within higher education among instructors, instructional designers, and administrators. Come test your knowledge and find out what factors can increase awareness.
As we cull through the lessons learned from the pandemic of 2020 and continue to weather continued disruptions to our digital learning and/or online education sector, it becomes increasingly important for institutions to create innovative and sustainable academic models that can be pivoted with ease and also meet the learning needs of students. This session will focus on opening up space for design thinking towards new models aligned with institutionally-specific criteria to take back for possible implementation at each participant’s institution.
Join us for some Speed Networking fun! During this session, you will get to know each other through the use of Zoom's built in features. Get ready to change your background to something unique to you and share it with us all! It can be something meaningful, funny, or just something you love! Come join us for this fun space.
Coaching is an effective learning tool for Students and Faculty. Coaching Sessions have provided Students with opportunities to focus on specific skills – as a compliment to the real-life application of the course material. Coaching results in a greater sense of community, and has improved Student persistence, retention, and affinity.
Understanding how students experience the use of and interpret the value of tools intended for specific purposes is an important element of teaching with technology online. This session will present data from students on their perceptions of value and experiences implementing PowerNotes in their reading, research, and writing across disciplines.
The impact of widespread remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a lasting need for educators to assess the use of online learning technologies in their teaching and design practice critically. Yet starting conversations about critical and strategic technology usage in online learning can be a challenge to untangle from the now-inseparable pairing of remote learning experiences during the pandemic with trauma. As we move forward, we can recognize the trauma experienced during the pandemic, while also naming sustainable approaches that will continue to be care-oriented. Building this vision for online learning will require: 1. breaking down the long-existing false binary between "online" and "in-person" learning experiences, 2. designing activities that are increasingly attentive to students' embodied experiences of being online, and 3. empowering students to engage in reflective feedback about their experiences continuously. To engage with these three components of a sustainable and imaginative future for online learning, we will look to our past before engaging with our future. Participants will be invited to name and share how they imagine a future for online learning that is aligned with students' full lived experiences of pursuing an education. In the process, we'll consider instructional approaches that designers, instructors, and technologists can take to build courses that are clear, navigable, resilient, and accessible.
Prior to the start of the keynote, we will recognize our 2022 OLC Innovate Award winners. Please also join us Tuesday, March 29 from 10:15am-11:15am US Central Daylight Time Zone (CDT) for our OLC & MERLOT Awards Gala & Social, where we will celebrate our award winners' achievements and have the opportunity to ask them questions.
Throughout the pandemic, educators have had to rely on remote learning and online tools. As COVID-19 cases decrease and students return to campuses, what online tools and practices should stay with us? What has been discovered that will support student learning as we go forward?
E-Learning specialists from five art colleges came together to review positive impacts of the e-Learning "pandemic pivot." Historically, higher education has rarely offered art courses remotely. However, the forced transition online revealed actionable resources about fostering socially engaging and inclusive spaces to enhance student learning now and in the future.
As companies increasingly value competence over credentials, institutes of higher education must ensure achievement for all students. This discussion will help participants: a) define equitable achievement, b) explain the relationship between equitable achievement and expertise, and c) describe the role of instructors in supporting equitable achievement in their classes.
This best practices session will provide strategies and ideas for how you can structure micro-credential projects, find tools for designing badges, and how you can have your students display them in their e-portfolios. You will be provided with resources and guided on how to design your own badges.
Join Eddie and Marcus as they talk through their experiences as podcasters through the lens of Canvas LMS.
This session introduces the Open Educational Resource (OER) initiatives of the Division of Digital Learning (DDL) at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). The THECB is facilitating the use of OER through capacity building grants to encourage adoption of affordable, accessible, and flexible resources at scale.
Disruption! Not if, but when. This session will build on Daniel Stanford’s "Bandwidth/Immediacy Matrix" to construct a logic model faculty could use to quickly develop inclusive, equitable alternatives when faced with disruption.
Investing in faculty development to address the challenges of teaching in hybrid environments can be achieved by building a teaching community of practice through a multi-layered model that incorporates coaching and peer mentoring. This model is transferable across institutions that have increased their online presence in an effort to ensure strong and ongoing faculty support.
We have all asked the question, "What's next?" Join Dr. Kelvin Thompson and special guest(s) for a discussion about what the future might hold for education and design.
OLC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force convened in Spring 2021, with a diverse group of colleagues gathered to plan for an equitable path for our community. Task Force leaders and participants will share findings, as well as invite you to be a part of the conversation as we operationalize this vital work for the OLC.
Join us for this special version of "Vineyards and Villainy," Inspired by the picturesque landscapes of vineyards, join us for this OLC Innovate mystery game where we explore hidden messages, dive into collaborative storytelling, and explore the boundaries between hero and villain. This special virtual version will be an opportunity to explore the game through a "mini mystery." Onsite attendees will have a chance to dive deeper into the world of "Vineyards and Villainy," but you all have a chance to start the mystery virtually! Mystery solvers will be entered in for a chance to win a prize. The OLC is known for fun, low-stakes, and inviting evening events. Whether they are intense and gameful or entertaining and reflective, they are designed to make space for one of the greatest things about the OLC: our community.
Not sure what to do between sessions? Consider checking out OLC Innovate'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 Innovate'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!, Innovation Studio, OLC Cafe & Mercantile, OLC Sanctuary).
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. "Stop by" anytime by visiting us in the Conference Canvas space or on Slack for help, guidance, recommendations, and custom consulting on making the most of your conference experience!
The Innovation Studio has always been a hub for networking and a space to explore the pervasive challenges we face in the classroom and to craft innovative approaches for better reaching our unique populations of learners. Join us anytime (asynchronously) through the conference Canvas space or via Slack. We've prepared a series of challenges for you to improve your design thinking skills (which double as models for you to take with you into your own educational spaces).
Innovation Crews are groups of conference attendees clustered by interest, facilitated by a “Crew Leader” for ongoing check-ins and community building. Crews gather during meet-ups synchronously and asynchronously to connect with others, share ideas, and make your plan of action. Join a crew now at https://bit.ly/IN22Crews.
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 Innovate 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.
X marks the spot… but how do you get there? All value quality template design, but what makes that happen? Journey with your crew to unveil the secret treasures of the C-H-E-S-T approach. Follow my lead and imagine the possibilities for your own institutional course template.
Join us for a fun and interactive session centering on OLC Innovate’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.
This session introduces the Division of Digital Learning (DDL) at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). The mission of the DDL is to provide leadership and advocacy for digital learning in higher education and promote, sustain, and advance a quality digital learner experience positioning Texas as a world leader.
Textbooks often price students out of courses. This is particularly notable in STEM courses where there is a noted lack of diversity. Our office worked to build a culture of utilizing OER materials in courses, particularly in STEM, which resulted in developing OERs locally for a fully no-textbook biology course.
From game changers based on cognitive science to best practices found in education psychology and support for it all through technology platforms and frameworks, session attendees will gain a better understanding of how to make tomorrow's learning start happening today as we build Education 3.0.
The OLC-MERLOT Awards Gala marks a time of ceremony and celebration as we spotlight the achievements, elevate the innovations, and honor the commitments of this year’s award recipients. We are privileged to have these leaders join us on the virtual stage as we thank them for their dedication to quality online, digital, and blended learning, and engage them in dialogue on their perspectives on what’s to come. In line with the celebratory nature of the session, we invite you to select your most festive Zoom background and join us for an enlightening session filled with accolades and new ideas, featuring some of the amazing individuals in our field!
Join us for an inspiration session led by forward-thinking leaders in online education! In this inspiration session, professionals in roles ranging from those leading online programs and campuses to those researching, teaching, and designing online learning will share their most innovative ideas generated from challenges that inspired action.
As instructional designers, we are well-positioned to advocate for more balanced, respectful, values-driven learning designs when developing new courses, but how can we effect change in existing courses in our portfolios? We will discuss what critical learning sciences research can tell us about evaluating existing learning designs.
First Year Experience (FYE) faculty seek opportunities to increase student engagement in discussion board threads. FYE students hesitate to participate due to different classroom fears. This session shares the active faculty reflection process that resulted in the implementation of innovative strategies, which demonstrated increased discussion board engagement in FYE courses.
As institutions adopt HyFlex learning options, educators must innovate and adapt to meet students where they are with creative instructional solutions. During this presentation, you will learn how multiple-solution platforms allow professors to create interactive lessons and improve engagement across in-person, online, and asynchronous settings to maintain classroom continuity.
Grab a snack or lunch, and join us for the first of a series of OLC Innovate Design Sprints! The Design Sprints will take place over the course of three days. This year the sprints focus on designing for social impact.
Want to create a community that energizes and inspires its members? Join us as we explore the formation and growth of ShapingEDU at Arizona State University, a global community of practice known for its inclusion of voices from around the world, and fostering emergent thinking around the art of the possible.
Join us for more Speed Networking fun! Come share your name and the history behind it! We want to know all about you, why they named you like that, and anecdotes with your name!
How do we help students develop lifelong learning skills? In this session we will showcase active learning and meta-cogintion exercises that were thoughtfully incorporated into high enrollment first year mathematics courses to support student learning. Bring your creativity and leave with actionable ideas that can scale for your course(s).
Open Educational Resources are like the ingredients for cooking but without a good recipe, without Open Educational Practices (OEP), you will not produce the educational transformations at the desired speed and scale. This session will review how to institutionalize open educational practices with ePortfolios and help participants develop their own strategies.
UAGC is a fully online university. The Honors Program promotes active student engagement. Students take courses culminating in service learning, participate in a virtual learning community, and contribute meaningfully to the university with synchronous seminars. Along the way, they develop knowledge and skills in leadership, innovation, global perspective, and civic responsibility.
Many universities have struggled to close the theory to practice gap in STEM education. This workshop will outline the process of developing, implementing, and assessing a philosophical framework for course development. Participants will practice developing a philosophical framework, creating inventories to assess implementation, and planning for stakeholder response.
Join your crew during this designated synchronous Crew Meet-Up or connect with them via Slack. Innovation Crews are groups of conference attendees clustered by interest, facilitated by a “Crew Leader” for ongoing check-ins and community building. Crews gather during meet-ups synchronously and asynchronously to connect with others, share ideas, and make your plan of action.
Recent stories about LMS clickstream data describe how information is weaponized against students (e.g., ‘catching’ cheating), but it can be a powerful tool for pedagogical allyship. In this session, participants examine what clickstream data does and doesn’t reveal about student engagement and how faculty can leverage this resource for student success.
Teacher online feedback to students is an integral aspect of teaching/learning. In this presentation, researchers share study results of student perceptions about teacher online feedback in higher education. The researchers explain student perceptions, preferred feedback format, support for teacher social presence, research appraisals, and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning implications.
The abrupt switch to online during the pandemic represented challenges to our students, faculty --and also to our staff on whom we rely to support the success of our students. The complexity imposed on by the pandemic has led, at some institutions, to loss of faculty and/ or staff, with some leaving the industry altogether. This adds to the challenges of maintaining a quality experience for students. In this workshop participants share their experiences and lessons learned, as well as explore the application of concepts from the fields of counseling and leadership to support staff success and satisfaction.
Ever the pursuit of educators, designers, and institutions alike, equity in educational experiences presents unique challenges and numerous opportunities. Joined by special guest(s), OLC Live host Brandon Poulliot will dive into a conversation around equitable design frameworks and incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion into education.
Let’s face it: we’ve all got problems...of practice, at least! In this session, participants will work together to creatively and effectively frame their problems of practice, explore their causes and complexities, and explore different options and experiences from the OLC community for addressing them. Join us for this Conversation Not Presentation format session.
UAGC’s Academic Operations teams have spearheaded a Business Process Redesign (BPR) of the institution’s work, centralizing many of the 3rd party systems into a Faculty management portal. This presentation will outline the approaches taken in the design and migration of services over to the system and the successes and challenges from that migration. In addition, the presenter will outline how the teams implemented a focus on continuous improvement through the application of Active Learning Theory and Total Quality Management practices.
In this session, attendees will explore how their beliefs and experiences impact their instructional design and discover the implications of this to their impact as educators. They will learn how twelve practical, evidence-based learning constructs can become the catalyst for identifying their instructional "growth edge," increasing their students' learning.
Tonight, join us for a "Pictionary" inspired virtual team-based game designed for artists of all levels of expertise! The OLC is known for fun, low-stakes, and inviting evening events. Whether they are intense and gameful or entertaining and reflective, they are designed to make space for one of the greatest things about the OLC: our community.
Not sure what to do between sessions? Consider checking out OLC Innovate'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 Innovate'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!, Innovation Studio, OLC Cafe & Mercantile, OLC Sanctuary).
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. "Stop by" anytime by visiting us in the Conference Canvas space or on Slack for help, guidance, recommendations, and custom consulting on making the most of your conference experience!
The Innovation Studio has always been a hub for networking and a space to explore the pervasive challenges we face in the classroom and to craft innovative approaches for better reaching our unique populations of learners. Join us anytime (asynchronously) through the conference Canvas space or via Slack. We've prepared a series of challenges for you to improve your design thinking skills (which double as models for you to take with you into your own educational spaces).
Innovation Crews are groups of conference attendees clustered by interest, facilitated by a “Crew Leader” for ongoing check-ins and community building. Crews gather during meet-ups synchronously and asynchronously to connect with others, share ideas, and make your plan of action. Join a crew now at https://bit.ly/IN22Crews.
Join authors of the recent publication, The Blended Institution of Higher Education: A Model for a Sustainable Institution, as they discuss internal and external factors that drive a blended university, key elements of this transformative model, and concrete actions you can take today toward building your institution’s blended future.
Burnout is real! Take a minute (or thirty) and discuss options and strategies for self-care as we face our more-than-occasionally overwhelming pursuit of innovation, best practices, and better educational experiences. Join our guest and Dr. Kelvin Thompson for this opportunity to take care of yourself!
This presentation will focus on a pilot in which instructional designers and technologists worked together to develop effective strategies to support collaboration and reflective practice in two new asynchronous Master’s programs at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies. The pedagogical framework for both programs is Problem-Based Learning (PBL).
In this interactive session, participants will learn about specifications grading, what it is, why it is beneficial, and how it was implemented in an online undergraduate research course. The presenter will share student perceptions of the change. Participants will leave with tools to apply specifications grading to their online courses.
What is the future for Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education? This presentation examines three different scenarios, noting how the future trajectory for OER has been changed: first by actions of the commercial publishers, and most recently by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Join us for more Speed Networking fun! During this session you will join others in competing in a virtual scavenger hunt designed to support community building. We'll ask you to look around in your home or workplace for an item. One person at the time will describe to the audience. The audience will guess if this item is “real” or completely made up!
How can we support student success with alternative assessment methods? We will share how we transformed the student experience in our master’s program by implementing an ungrading philosophy as an act of social justice. In this session, you will learn about the triumphs, challenges, and discoveries of our journey.
You may have brought a plus-one to a wedding, but what about bringing a plus-one to your classroom? In this conversation, participants will be challenged to add 'plus-one' options to each assignment in a current class they teach - that is, to include one other way students can meet the learning objectives.
A cross-functional team at a private, non-profit, Hispanic-Serving Institution responded to emerging needs from the required shutdowns for COVID-19, as well as the potential need for longer-term, remote-based teaching, to design and pilot Hyflex delivery. Pilot results will be presented, as well as lessons learned in Hyflex design and implementation.
Whether you are new to OER or experienced, this workshop will demonstrate how to easily incorporate Open Educational Resources (OER) into your teaching practice. Participants will discover the secret sauce to help them easily create a derivative OER material.
Grab a snack or lunch, and join us for the first of a series of OLC Innovate Design Sprints! The Design Sprints will take place over the course of three days. This year the sprints focus on designing for social impact.
With their knowledge and skills, Instructional Designers (IDs) can positively impact research in online teaching and learning. Yet few ID job descriptions include research activities. In this panel session, ID supervisors and IDs at a top research and online education institution will offer pathways for IDs to engage in research.
Come join this session to learn a variety of sample teaching strategies that can be used to enhance active learning in online environments. You'll learn how to create engaging course content using innovative tools and techniques that are sure to keep your students engaged throughout the entire semester!
Alumni and future participants of the Neuro, Cognitive and Learning Sciences Workshop Series are invited to join Dr. Kristen Betts, Dr. Michelle Miller, Dr. Mariette Fourie, and Dr. Elisabeth Strucklen onsite or online via Zoom as part of a global meet and greet event. We invite all alumni from the three Neuro, Cognitive and Learning Sciences workshops to join us so you can meet your peers from around the world. If you are interested in enrolling in one of the workshops, come and learn more about the series.
Join your crew during this designated synchronous Crew Meet-Up or connect with them via Slack. Innovation Crews are groups of conference attendees clustered by interest, facilitated by a “Crew Leader” for ongoing check-ins and community building. Crews gather during meet-ups synchronously and asynchronously to connect with others, share ideas, and make your plan of action.
A presentation with a custom-made, editable virtual escape room about the effectiveness of engagement and available tools in higher education. After a brief discussion on the pedagogy behind engagement, attendees will participate in an escape room with the expectation to complete the activities provided, which explore different aspects and methods common in asynchronous online learning.
Realizing that current online teaching certifications were insufficient about skills/knowledge essential for our population, our office developed one that took into account pedagogical, technological, and equitable practices. Come hear about our process and the steps you can take to launch your own.
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.
Faculty development programs seek to identify and manage process approaches that support the design of quality online programs. This paper reviews the policy of reflective practice for supporting memory that sustains the training long after faculty has designed their first online course.
To improve student outcomes in online classes, Georgia State University combined SIS and LMS data into dashboards that enable analyses from aggregate DFW grades down to specific course section and instructor, and course site data to identify problem areas. These data inform student engagement activities and assignment scaffolding efforts. It can guide decisions about academic advising and coaching and student resources for success in online courses. Participants will walk through the dashboards and discuss applications.
The Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning (IELOL) programs (USA and Global) center the opportunities / barriers to advancing local-global online learning. Explore the impact of building networks through leadership development and borderless collaborations across the digital learning landscape. Share your own story and hear how IELOL communities have transformed professional growth, the impact of leadership, and locally-contextualized global change work.
Courses designed within the framework of psychological safety help students perform better and implement what they learned on the job in creative ways to solve complex issues. Come learn how to design psychological safety into your online classes.
Following the largest-scale live experiment with novel solutions for learning, maybe it's time to speak with the experts and examine blended learning after taking a step back. Join OLC Live! host Dr. Kelvin Thompson and guest(s) for a conversation around key components of success in blended learning models.
This session will focus on one’s institution’s process for ensuring accessibility in online courses. From exploring proactive approaches like UDL in course design to creating reactive strategies for current course remediation, participants will learn about establishing a process, or improving an existing process, for identifying and resolving student accessibility issues.
The U.S. Department of Labor invested about $2B over 12 years in two major community college initiatives to strengthen their capacities to improve the pipelines to sustainable employment. The presentation will review TAACCCT and SCC programs, the resources still being leveraged from SkillsCommons, and lessons learned relevant for future programs.
What techniques have shaped pandemic teaching? Creativity is encouraged in our students and was undoubtedly needed from us to teach in this challenging time. Join us in conversation about teaching arts online and how we keep our practice alive learning at a distance.
Join us for some "mocktail" inspried fun, collaboratively generating OLC-themed "mocktails" and sharing your favorite recipes. Along the way, have some fun with a themed music-based trivia game (and maybe even win some prizes). If you want to create live with us, just be sure to gather your supplies to mix along with us, or grab your own favorite beverage! The OLC is known for fun, low-stakes, and inviting evening events. Whether they are intense and gameful or entertaining and reflective, they are designed to make space for one of the greatest things about the OLC: our community.
Not sure what to do between sessions? Consider checking out OLC Innovate'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 Innovate'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!, Innovation Studio, OLC Cafe & Mercantile, OLC Sanctuary).
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. "Stop by" anytime by visiting us in the Conference Canvas space or on Slack for help, guidance, recommendations, and custom consulting on making the most of your conference experience!
The Innovation Studio has always been a hub for networking and a space to explore the pervasive challenges we face in the classroom and to craft innovative approaches for better reaching our unique populations of learners. Join us anytime (asynchronously) through the conference Canvas space or via Slack. We've prepared a series of challenges for you to improve your design thinking skills (which double as models for you to take with you into your own educational spaces).
Innovation Crews are groups of conference attendees clustered by interest, facilitated by a “Crew Leader” for ongoing check-ins and community building. Crews gather during meet-ups synchronously and asynchronously to connect with others, share ideas, and make your plan of action. Join a crew now at https://bit.ly/IN22Crews.
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 Innovate 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.
With so much technology available to educators, it can be difficult to determine which to use. In this session, attendees will explore some of the most wanted technology tips from across the Google, Canvas, and Apple (iOS and macOS) platforms. These tips can help maximize your daily productivity and create more effective and efficient teaching and working routines.
How can we build communities for instructional design professionals to promote learning, mentoring, and collaboration? This session will review strategies and approaches of the Instructional Design Working Group at the University of Pennsylvania to inform a discussion of how to identify and meet the evolving needs of instructional design professionals.
Despite our best efforts, do we understand how our student users actually experience the courses we create? In this interactive presentation, we will define User Experience (UX) in instructional design; and utilize personas, empathy maps, and user journeys to identify pain points and create solutions to improve our users’ experience.
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.
In an online graduate course, VoiceThread was utilized to reflect on course readings. The strategy used is made up of digital powerups (Thurston, 2019), a guided self-connection section, and expressing what they learned from their peers.
A qualitative content analysis of student reflections using this strategy supports these claims: 1) The digital powerup strategy provided an opportunity for rigor and differentiation. 2) The guided approach of the ‘connect to self’ section balanced and complemented the open-ended nature of the digital powerup section. 3) Structured peer takeaways led to a sense of community. 4) The graduate students preferred the three-pronged discussion strategy to other models they have used before.
When the first in-person escape room was created in 2007, who would have envisioned its conversion into the virtual classroom of today? This presentation explores the multitude of applications and benefits that virtual escape rooms offer in higher education and gives a glimpse into how easily they can be implemented.
This leadership workshop is for arts professionals, researchers, and students interested in brainstorming strategies for self-efficacy in artistic leadership, and in so doing add their viewpoints, inform the research, and contribute to the body of knowledge on women, and African American women in particular, in cinematic leadership.
Instructional design has seen a boom over the last two years, both in demand for talent and in importance for the continuity of instruction. So what is the state of instructional design? Join Brandon Poulliot and guest for an examination of the current state of ID and challenges faced moving forward.
Gain insights on students’ perspectives of evidence-based teaching practices highlighted in the OLC’s 2022 book on quality online teaching featuring the Quality Course Teaching and Instructional Practices (QCTIP) Scorecard. This panel discussion, composed of QCTIP book co-authors and students will unpack best practices around course design, inclusivity, community, engagement, and assessment informed by research and students’ experiences.
Grab a snack or lunch, and join us for the first of a series of OLC Innovate Design Sprints! The Design Sprints will take place over the course of three days. This year the sprints focus on designing for social impact.
Online students require unique strategies for engagement and support. Students want on-demand help, but faculty can’t be available 24/7. This session will discuss how virtual learning communities offer a unique opportunity to build peer-to-peer connections, deliver just-in-time support, and help faculty scale their time when teaching online.
Do you want to learn how to create a more inclusive hybrid and blended learning experience for all learners? In this session, you will experience asynchronous and synchronous microinstruction learning modules as a learner and receive practical best practices for your own implementation in this interactive session.
Competency-based educational models require students to apply their knowledge, skills, and abilities to create solutions to contemporary, professional issues. Team-based learning creates an exciting environment that feels realistic and lifelike and allows students the opportunity to demonstrate competency of weekly, course, and program goals within any educational program.
Instead of teaching faculty how to gamify courses, what if we teach students to gamify their own learning? This workshop helps attendees gamify their conference experience to reap learning benefits associated with play in a format that can then be shared with students in their own classrooms.
Join your crew during this designated synchronous Crew Meet-Up or connect with them via Slack. Innovation Crews are groups of conference attendees clustered by interest, facilitated by a “Crew Leader” for ongoing check-ins and community building. Crews gather during meet-ups synchronously and asynchronously to connect with others, share ideas, and make your plan of action.
Learn how to adopt the openly-shared Humanizing Online STEM Academy curriculum (designed for Canvas) at your institution. We will explore the impact of this online faculty development program, designed to prepare STEM professors with the knowledge and digital fluency to teach inclusive, culturally relevant and responsive online courses.
Join Instructional Designer Stephanie Korslund and Scholarly Communications Librarian Crissy Ross for a session about revising open education resources (OER) to customize your courses. We will discuss copyright, licensing, fair use, and ethically creating custom resources that impact students by removing access barriers and contribute to student success.
We successfully redesigned a college Math Pathway in Statistics targeted at social science students with the goal of making learning more relevant to students' lives and areas of study. We describe curricular and structural changes implemented with active learning and adaptive systems and share results on student impact.
Come enjoy a reflective and collaborative space while you recharge by sharing. We will have general questions for you about your experience so far and there will be new opportunities for “slow networking” to engage in while you chat and get to know people (old and new).
Reducing higher education costs by providing no-low cost course materials has proven to be an important institutional strategy. We will review the leadership and strategies of HBCUs to deliver Affordable Learning Solutions programs that engage faculty, students, and campus staff in significant actions to adopt and adapt OER.
In collaboration with the Online Learning Consortium and AnnotatED, the community for annotation in education, Hypothesis is convening a free virtual workshop on social annotation at OLC Innovate 2022.
To participate in this free virtual workshop, please register online.
Note: You do not need to be a registered attendee of OLC Innovate 2022 to participate in this workshop. Hypothesis will send registrants virtual connection information prior to the workshop. Registered OLC Innovate attendees will, however, also be able to access the workshop through the workshop session link through the OLC Innovate 2022 conference platform.
That's a wrap! As we rapidly approach the closing ceremonies for the virtual portion of #OLCInnovate 2022, OLC Live! host Brandon Poulliot provides a retrospective of the conference and a look forward to the upcoming in-person experience for those joining us in Dallas. We welcome you to join us and participate as we chat with guest(s).
This Education session will present the audience with knowledge about the importance of Digital Accessibility, the legislation concerning accessible computer output, and a demonstration of the experiences of computer users with disabilities. Computer strategies for accessibility will be described and the audience will have a takeaway to practice on their own devices.
In this session, Lead Instructional Designers and Faculty showcase how they are using innovative Instructional Design models and creative solutions to tackle the challenges created when running online courses in shortened terms.
For this game night, we're bringing back GeoGuessr, a maps and location-based virtual guessing game. We'll break up into teams and use our collective knowledge to guess as many correct locations as we can while racing against the clock. The team with the highest number of correct guesses will be awarded prizes. The OLC is known for fun, low-stakes, and inviting evening events. Whether they are intense and gameful or entertaining and reflective, they are designed to make space for one of the greatest things about the OLC: our community. Mark your calendars now and plan to end your day engaging in volunteer-led shenanigans through the OLC Innovate evening events!
Not sure what to do between sessions? Consider checking out OLC Innovate'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 Innovate'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!, Innovation Studio, OLC Cafe & Mercantile, OLC Sanctuary).
The Field Guide Base Station was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. "Stop by" anytime by visiting us in the Conference Canvas space or on Slack for help, guidance, recommendations, and custom consulting on making the most of your conference experience!
The Innovation Studio has always been a hub for networking and a space to explore the pervasive challenges we face in the classroom and to craft innovative approaches for better reaching our unique populations of learners. Join us anytime (asynchronously) through the conference Canvas space or via Slack. We've prepared a series of challenges for you to improve your design thinking skills (which double as models for you to take with you into your own educational spaces).
Innovation Crews are groups of conference attendees clustered by interest, facilitated by a “Crew Leader” for ongoing check-ins and community building. Crews gather during meet-ups synchronously and asynchronously to connect with others, share ideas, and make your plan of action. Join a crew now at https://bit.ly/IN22Crews.
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 IELOL-USA and IELOL-Global along the way. And most importantly, develop some leadership skills within the span of this featured session.
As we close out the virtual portion of OLC Innovate 2022, we'll gather during this Speed Networking Lounge session to amplify our colleagues (new and old) and craft letters of gratitude to thank them for their contributions to your conference experience and lift them up.
Based on the 2020 title Creating Transformative Online Communities in Higher Education, this interactive conversation will a) describe the common features of transformative learning experiences; b) explain the importance of course design in supporting transformative learning; and c) review ways to apply transformative principles and practices to instructional design processes.
In this session, participants will discover the lesser-known features of Canvas that, if utilized effectively, can increase student engagement in online, hybrid, or flipped classes. Attendees can expect to learn the “nuts and bolts” of each feature and its application in real-life examples.
Hiring adjunct faculty often involves merely verifying credentials and teaching experience, and a quick interview. Knowing the needs of the course and institution, and folding faculty classroom expectations into the interview can prove valuable. Learn how a fully online university approaches hiring from a student success and institutional expectation perspective.
An effective course template is pedagogically sound, accessible, and abides within the instructional design framework. However, online course template design can be confusing and frustrating. This session will discuss the process, challenges, and considerations necessary for creating effective online course templates.
We will discuss how we expanded the use of online discussion forums beyond the stereotypical “post your thoughts and comment on your classmate’s posts.” Additionally, we will discuss the perceived effectiveness of our activities as expressed by two different student populations.
Have you thought of implementing personalized learning, but you do not know where to begin? Or have you already put it into action and want to keep improving student experience? Join us and explore a complete instructional design model for personalized learning that benefits students, professors, and your institution.
This session will focus on no cost and simple to implement positive communication strategies for faculty and administrators. Education should be a model for positive communication and inspiration. Join us for Conversations from the Field.
While some have argued that the pandemic has proven that online learning is an abysmal failure, this is inconsistent with decades of online learning research and practice and confuses emergency measures with carefully-designed online instruction and program planning. I contend this is no time for short-sighted dichotomies such as “online versus face-to-face” but instead is a time to define institutional visions and missions around quality online and resilient learning ecosystems. Research on online instruction and institutional planning provide specific principles and actions that can be used to architect learning ecosystems that are both more effective and more resilient.
Join the OLC in closing out the virtual portion of the conference with remarks, reflection, stories, and final community building and fun. The session will start by recognizing all the amazing volunteers and staff that made this conference possible. You'll learn how to get involved, and importantly, how to stay connected following the close of the virtual program. The session will close with our famed "After Party" where there will be music, fun games, virtual celebrations, and organically unpredictable Zoom antics...what's not to love? The OLC Innovate 2022 Closing Celebration will be an experience you don't want to miss, and we hope to see you there!
The University of Edinburgh’s 23 Things for Digital Knowledge is an award winning (LILAC Credo Digital Literacy Award 2017, MERLOT 2022), self-directed online course, run by Information Services Group. The course uses a playful approach to encourage digital exploration and scaffolds essential knowledge including digital footprint and safety, accessibility, diversity & inclusion, and copyright awareness.
This presentation will explore the implementation of an online peer mentoring program, eSTEM, at two historically black institutions and the impact of the program on racially and ethnically minoritized students’ engagement in and intent to persist in STEM degrees and careers.
This presentation will discuss the experience of Wichita State University transitioning to university-wide online teaching through the pandemic times trying to balance the extreme need for technical assistance and the need to make contents accessible for all. The main focus will be to show whether or not accessibility was compromised or favored during the pandemic.
What is the best way to design a course online to help students learn effective communication that can be replicated in the workforce? This session will describe a preliminary study of online students’ perceptions of their ability to communicate effectively and innovative strategies to engage students online with communication skills.
Higher education is the purveyor of civic engagement by developing student’s critical thinking, community service, civic attitude, and civic behavior needed in a self-governing society. Current trends reflect the growth and popularity of online learning. In this session, research comparing the civic engagement between campus-based and online students will be presented. Research findings uncovered significant differences between campus-based and online student populations for civic engagement which led to the discovery of both theoretical implications and practical strategies for university leadership, administration, and faculty.
This discovery session will showcase an open educational resource for teaching communication skills in social work and other helping professions. This OER is a toolkit consisting of five demonstration videos, an instructor's guide and a student guide for giving peer feedback. We will describe the development of these resources and our experiences in using them as social work educators.
Covid-19 thrust many brick-and-mortar institutions into online education. As the pandemic wanes, many are maintaining the online option as many students desire to remain online. However, online education still presents a deficit in connectedness. Focusing on teaching through engagement (TTE), best practices are discussed for connectedness and efficacy with students.
Collaborative learning is a critical part of education, yet facilitating fruitful peer-to-peer interactions is more difficult online than in-person. This session summarizes how real-time feedback about interpersonal dynamics of peer interactions leads to higher levels of engagement and better individual and team performance.
Learning collectives are a potentially effective way of supporting students, especially in extremely difficult larger lecture courses. After finding learning collectives effective in several courses, The team at our institution used a Learning Collectives pilot for our Introduction to Biology courses to increase student success, retention, and graduation to great effect.
This interactive presentation shows how students can use the principles of conscious capitalism and core values to plan for business growth
COVID-19 has impacted teaching and learning at all levels. This presentation synthesizes research that explored the challenges and opportunities faced by secondary students (grades 6-12) during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lived experiences of secondary teachers. Results of a qualitative study utilizing open-ended interviews with secondary teachers are presented.
As institutions increasingly expand hybrid and blended learning options, educators must innovate and adapt to meet students where they are with creative instructional solutions. How are instructors effectively maintaining classroom continuity and building connectedness across multiple modalities without compromising learner outcomes? During this presentation you will learn how Nearpod’s multiple-solution platforms allows faculty to create interactive lessons, improve engagement, and limit distraction across in-person, online, and asynchronous settings.
The LAPU learning model and the Know|Feel|Do framework create human-centered courses that engage learners from a holistic perspective. We use this as our guide to ensure a holistic, memorable, well-rounded experience meant to integrate with both the brain's cognitive and affective domains.
Bring your project and add in the humanity.
The need for experienced instructional designers who are ready to create quality online courses right now is greater than ever before. How do we meet this need as a field and cut down on the time it takes for new IDs to gain the professional skills they need? Remote internships!
With increased diversity in the higher education student population, connectedness becomes especially important to fostering effective online learning communities and enhancing student learning experiences. Learning to employ character strengths based strategies to connect with diverse student populations will be the focus of this discovery session. Join us!
Due to an institutional migration from Blackboard to Canvas, a faculty training program on blended learning was re-designed for both transition and program enhancement. This presentation will share how the COI framework guided online course design to engage learners and build a community of learning in the faculty development program.
At Colorado Technical University, the Academic & Career Success course (UNIV104) is typically the first course students take. Our students are reflective of our society – instant gratification is important! In our course, our most successful faculty harness the power of instant gratification to provide motivation and positively impact student success.
Colleges vary in the extent to which online management curricula and courses have integrated justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI). In smaller colleges with limited resources especially, the scope and goal can appear overwhelming. This asynchronous discovery session explores the challenges and opportunities associated with JEDI integration in online management programs and courses.
For Spanish students, internships can pose a challenge regarding industry-specific vocabulary. Personal adaptive learning (PAL) modules were created to build students’ language competency in two internship fields: medicine and law. PAL modules focusing specifically on professional vocabulary, incorporated into Canvas companion course, constitute a new opportunity for just-in-time adaptive learning.
A university can implement a voluntary peer supportive review process with the adoption of open-source materials and simple administrative design. Faculty engagement can be high in programs which are voluntary and formative in nature and can set the stage of peer collaboration before more comprehensive peer-review programs are implemented.
This session will share and discuss faculty experiences with a multimodal pre-designed module in an online first-year writing course with the goal of improving faculty development and training through support and pre-designed curriculum. In this discovery session, participants will be asked to consider pre-designed courses as learning spaces for faculty and designers alike.
In this session, the presenters will introduce a collaborative design approach for asynchronous learning that highlights creativity, engagement, and faculty presence throughout each module. The presenters will share a use case to draw on their experience and research with/in asynchronous design to leverage the affordances of this modality.
This presentation reveals my experience as an instructor, in helping a non-economics major student, become excited with the prospect of being an economic consultant. This was achieved by leveraging principles of gamification, active learning and authentic learning strategies elements, within the design and delivery of an online course.
With the onset of COVID-19, nursing programs witnessed student clinical opportunities disappear as institutions worked to maintain client and staff safety.
To meet clinical experience requirements, nursing leaders flexed their creative muscles to offer these experiences with out-of-the-box thinking.
Discover how one university met this challenge.
The Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine shifted to emergency remote instruction for all courses and programs. After the shift, it became evident that the quality of online instruction must be improved. Partnering with faculty to develop and update professional development opportunities helped significantly improve the quality of online instruction.
As institutions rapidly moved online student support services from in-person to online, innovation and challenges occurred. Questions arose as to whether the online students support services were meeting the students needs and which services to continue to offer online post-pandemic. This workshop explores tools to evaluate and make these decisions.
During this presentation, members of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Khalifa University will share their journey of supporting faculty and students in transitioning into Emergency Response mode during the pandemic. Attendees will learn about various LMS tools and technology integration that are conducive to student engagement and faculty satisfaction at a top research institution. Attendees will learn about various screencasting tools and how to use them in facilitating lectures and engaging students.
Time to completion in the Psychology PhD program was significantly lower for students in a sequentially structured dissertation sequence (DSE) focused on quality of research, increased student/chair interaction and timely completion compared to other cohorts who experienced a traditional sequence or transition between the two.
Researchers from the University of Arizona Global Campus share a recent course redesign which modified a traditional two discussion posts and replies per week into one robust discussion format each week. In this session, we will discuss this redesigned engagement method and its impact on students and faculty.
The current pandemic forced colleges and universities around the world to transition from in-person to online instruction. Online and distance education have been around for some time, but no one predicted it would become the primary platform for learning and collaboration. This presentation highlights disruption as an opportunity for innovation and cretive thinking. The presenter will discuss how the current pandemic has prompted the development and delivery of a entirely online course (Arabic As a Second Language/ASL) and how the approach might be extended to other languages. The presenter will share best practices in LMS-technology integration as well as tips on how to engage students in learning a second language online.
Being empathetic is an important mindset to possess in many careers, particularly when working closely with diverse audiences. Teaching empathy through skill development is challenging, especially in online environments. Hear how graduate students learned and practiced empathy online using empathy mapping and empathy boxes created with interactive virtual tools.
Do we esure equity through Universal Design for Learning in distance Higher Education learning modalities? How can we use data from higher education students on the prevalence of UDL strategies in various learning formats (virtual study group, online course, independent study)?
At the heart of inclusive design is the idea that people experience learning environments differently. This session introduces an asynchronous faculty learning experience called Accessibility and Inclusive Design which provided guidance that prepared faculty with the foundational skills for developing more accessible content while focusing on inclusive design and pedagogy.
Proactive and personalized support is essential to online student success. In this session, attendees will learn about the impact that targeted messaging can have on a student’s sense of belonging in their course, early engagement with course materials, and tendency to utilize support resources.
A technology application, Slack, created an interactive real-time virtual workspace for research assistants across the nation to receive the same information compiled all in one location with experienced faculty. Interactions increased two-fold while allowing one on one faculty mentorship. Lessons learned included overwhelming interactions, boundary-setting, time management.
Discover the perceptions, motivations, and perceived benefits of degree seeking from the point of view of non-traditional students in online courses. Join us on a road trip adventure to see how you fare in your quest for deciphering mismatches between value to students and current educational processes.
Innovation Crews are groups of conference attendees clustered by interest, facilitated by a “Crew Leader” for ongoing check-ins and community building. Crews gather during meet-ups synchronously and asynchronously to connect with others, share ideas, and make your plan of action. Join a crew now at https://bit.ly/IN22Crews.
Welcome to #OLCInnovate 2022! With so many session options, tracks, and activities join OLC Live! host Brandon Poulliot for a preview. We will highlight the experience for both on-site and remote participants, so tune in and get up to speed!
The transformation of our educational landscape over the past two years has been unprecedented. As institutions explored online teaching modalities, many decided that blended learning was the most suitable modality for their institutions. However, for an effective blended learning program, there must be the acceptance of the core principles of blended learning by the teaching and learning community, the effective use of technology, reflection for sound pedagogical decisions in designing, developing, and delivering a blended design program. This workshop will engage participants in establishing quality and impactful methods for designing, developing, and delivering blended courses/programs.
There is a fee of $275 for this pre-conference Master Class. You may also register for this Master Class as part of a special $495 Combo package of 2 Master Classes (1 AM and 1 PM class).
Are you tired of seeing the same old dusty, outdated ways of teaching in the online space? Your course doesn’t have to be the worst house on the block - in this workshop, we’ll show you how to update your curriculum with technologies that authentically engage your learners. We’ll start by showing you a “fixer upper” course, and provide inspiring examples of innovations in the digital learning space, along with a tool kit of contemporary technologies that will get your learners collaborating and engaging with your content.
There is a fee of $275 for this pre-conference Master Class. You may also register for this Master Class as part of a special $495 Combo package of 2 Master Classes (1 AM and 1 PM class).
Inclusive design is intentional and iterative design work aimed at supporting a range of human diversity. In education, inclusive design focuses on the creation of learning spaces and materials, and policies and processes, that support diverse learners and that help to counteract biased and exclusionary designs that pervade education. This workshop will offer participants a chance to learn about inclusive design and design justice through an interactive, hands-on approach. Participants will also learn practices they can apply to their institutional context.
There is a fee of $275 for this pre-conference Master Class. You may also register for this Master Class as part of a special $495 Combo package of 2 Master Classes (1 AM and 1 PM class).
Where do we go from here? With so many questions around the future of learning and the shape of educational institutions, we turn to experts. and at #OLCInnovate 2022. Join Brandon Poulliot and special guest(s) for a look into our collective crystal ball.
Join us for some fun and casual networking as a way to build community with our industry partners. 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 remixed OLC Innovate Exhibit Hall Preview. Don't forget to bring your Mission Passport and exhibit stamp cards to get a head start on some awesome prizes!
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, custom consulting on making the most of your conference experience, or even directions!
Don't wait in line Tuesday morning and miss portions of a workshop, Field Guide events, or the Research Summit. Check-in at conference registration Monday evening from 3-7pm ET to pick up your conference badge and materials. After you check-in, take part in the Monday evening Exhibit Hall Preview (3-5pm, Texas Ballroom A/B - Exhibit Hall), where you will have an opportunity to get a jump-start on your Mission Passport and exhibitor stamp cards (for fabulous prizes) and enjoy some snacks and fun refreshments.
OLC Innovate 2022 registration is located at the Texas Registration Desks on Level 3 of the Gaylord Texan Convention Center. Take the crosswalk from the hotel to the convention center. Take the escalators up two levels.
Join us for a guided tour to familiarize yourself with the conference center layout to ensure your conference experience is off to a great start!
Want to connect with other conference attendees while playing games and winning prizes? Join us for musical bingo! Not sure if you want to join in person but fancy some evening fun? No worries! You can join us virtually right from the comforts of your hotel room.
Volunteers are the heart of our community. If you are a volunteer for OLC Innovate 2022, join us in celebration and thanks for a late-night social.
***Our evening gathering will be held in the Gaylord Texan's Mission Plaza, located in the hotel atrium (Lower Level)***
Check in at conference registration (Texas Registration Desk, Level 3, Gaylord Texan Convention Center), then head to Texas Ballroom C/D to start your day with breakfast while our Field Guides deliver our "Field Guide Power Hour" orientation session.
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, custom consulting on making the most of your conference experience, or even directions!
Innovation Crews are groups of conference attendees clustered by interest, facilitated by a “Crew Leader” for ongoing check-ins and community building. Crews gather during meet-ups synchronously and asynchronously to connect with others, share ideas, and make your plan of action. Join a crew now at https://bit.ly/IN22Crews.
If you’re looking for support in orienting to the conference, the Field Guide Power Hour is a must! Get support in planning your conference experience and kick things off with some casual networking.
As researchers, instructors, instructional support staff, and leaders across our institutions, it is inevitable that we have questions about how emerging pedagogies, modalities, and technologies impact the teaching and learning experience. Join us in unearthing the burning questions of our time in a session that will engage participants in discussing opportunities for online, blended, and digital learning research.
The Pandemic changed how we interact and engage with our students. This interactive, hands-on workshop will explore various online tech tools you can use to maximize student engagement and participation. Accessible gamification, collaborating and creation tools will be discussed and shared. Please bring an Internet Enabled Device to fully participate.
Using a framework based on emergent research findings, workshop participants will identify one or more practices they can implement within the next 12 months to foster a sense of community among online adjunct faculty at their respective institutions. The session will include brainstorming, conversation, and planning!
How do we provide a high-quality learning experience for all learners at our institutions? Dr. Kelvin Thompson is joined by special guest(s) as we dive into a conversation about effective practices for fostering inclusive teaching and learning.
The Field Guide program was designed as a ‘just-in-time’ resource to enhance the conference experience. Following the Field Guide Power Hour, Field Guides are available for custom consutling in order to make the most of your conference experience.
Join us for the first Innovation Studio program block and explore gamification and interactive video tools that you can use to engage with your population in innovative ways. The Innovation Studio has always been a hub for networking and a space to explore the pervasive challenges we face in the classroom and to craft innovative approaches for better reaching our unique populations of learners. Join us anytime during the conference! We've prepared a series of challenges for you to improve your design thinking skills (which double as models for you to take with you into your own educational spaces).
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.
Not sure what to do between sessions or looking for a place to sit back and have some fun with colleagues? Head to the Speed Networking Lounge, a reflective and collaborative space where you can recharge your brain (and maybe even recharge your devices). There you’ll find puzzles, games, and activities, as well as new opportunities for “slow networking” to engage in while you chat and get to know people (old and new).
Join us for a guided tour to familiarize yourself with the conference center layout to ensure your conference experience is off to a great start!
Join us in the Exhibit Hall (Texas Ballroom A/B) 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 the Innovation Studio, relax in the OLC Cafe, or meet with other attendees for fun activities in the Speed Networking Lounge. Bring your Mission Passport to start checking off engagement activities for raffle tickets!
Don't forget to visit our conference exhibitors and start getting your exhibitor card stamped by them. You could win additional grand prizes at the end of the conference!
With only 30 minutes to get to know each other better, join us for quick rounds with some of our favorite (and fun) networking prompts. Not sure what to do between sessions or looking for a place to sit back and have some fun with colleagues? Come join us in the Speed Networking Lounge, a reflective and collaborative space where you can recharge your brain (and maybe even recharge your devices). There you’ll find puzzles, games, and activities, as well as new opportunities for “slow networking” to engage in while you chat and get to know people (old and new).
Connected to our shared work in Research Summit Part 1: The Questions of our Time, participants will explore ways to incubate their research with a variety of methods and approaches, including opportunities to conduct, collaborate on, and publish research through the OLC Research Center.
This workshop presents advanced techniques for visual storytelling by designing clear and compelling PowerPoint slides in new and creative ways to create amazing transitions and interactions. This hands-on workshop explores advanced interactions to create a fully interactive slideshow that will engage students. Participants should bring their laptops with PowerPoint.
Join us for a hands-on workshop to learn how to estimate ID online course development capacity and workload. You will score a course with a provided rubric, test relationships in time-tracking data, identify strategies to gain buy-in for time tracking, and leave with a step-by-step process you can implement at your own institution.
Strategies for managing academic technology teams in higher education can make or break a campus initiative. The F’ing Management strategy covers the principles of Family First, Friendship, Forgiveness, Fun, Fairness, Facilitation, and Flexibility. The sessions will discuss the application of these principles and why they work in higher education.
Lunch, facilitated networking, new friends, and gameful ways to kickoff your conference experience...what could be better? Grab your seat now for this ticketed event and chance to start your OLC Innovate experience off with community. Join an Innovation Crew and start growing your OLC Innovate community over good food and great company. Join a crew now at https://bit.ly/IN22Crews.
***You must be registered as an All Access Pass attendee and addtionally sign-up for an Innovation Crew (no fee; see link above) in order to attend this lunch***
As the world looks to address ubiquitous challenges to access to education in both global and local contexts, innovative models for partnerships including global coalitions continue to serve as a powerful strategy and practice for creating sustainable and impactful change. This session will focus on creating and implementing a culture of digital transformation in online, blended and flexible learning across the globe through international communities of practice. Presenters will share findings from their work on developing leadership and change management skills across a series of programs, trainings, and services, and provide participants with resources to implement similar strategies within their own institutional contexts to support digital transformation.
While the adoption of open instructional materials has gained merit in recent years, effective integration of open educational resources requires collaboration among a number of campus stakeholders (including faculty, instructional designers, technologists, librarians, etc.). This presentation provides insights to foster campus partnerships that enhance the integration and maintenance of OER.
The road to quality course development is paved through the collaboration and "brainpower" of many. Join us as we share the journey of one university's evolution in creating systematic, structured partnerships, focusing specifically on faculty training and preparation, support, quality assurance, and meaningful feedback.
In 2021, OLC’s Institute for Professional Development began transitioning our workshops and programs from Moodle to Canvas. Seeing this as an opportunity to transform our offerings, we collaborated with an advisory council consisting of internal and external stakeholders and used a values-driven approach to inform our DLE course redesign. Join us for this Conversation Not Presentation Featured session.
Highlighting recent research and resources on blended learning, this session will explore findings that have emerged over the last year to guide course and program development, as well as institutional strategy.
Texas House Bill 3 (2019) requires that all K-3 teachers in the State, including special education teachers, and principals to complete the Texas Reading Academies program by 2023. To accommodate the state requirement, the Reading Academies program delivers courses online via the Canvas LMS. With the help of Cidi Labs tools, course developers have created a scalable delivery model that improves the participant’s learning experience in Canvas.
Texas House Bill 3 (2019) requires that all K-3 teachers in the State, including special education teachers, and principals to complete the Texas Reading Academies program by 2023. To accommodate the state requirement, the Reading Academies program delivers courses online via the Canvas LMS. With the help of Cidi Labs tools, course developers have created a scalable delivery model that improves the participant’s learning experience in Canvas.
Join us as we address some key points faculty should consider when adopting an online proctoring solution when assessed against the measures of fairness and reliability.
In this session, we explore the extent to which college students who chose online courses prior to COVID-19 were more resilient when forced online during Spring 2020. We also consider outcomes in courses that transitioned online to those courses that were originally fully online at the beginning of the semester.
Go on a Mission to Mars! We discuss our research on student interactions utilizing virtual reality, where students role-play, explore Mars, establish a base, and decide how to grow crops to sustain human life. The virtual Mars environment is demonstrated; role-playing, communication, and team work using virtual reality is discussed.
This roundtable explores the message women receive across higher education and in society, to “do-it-all” and do so without imposing on anyone. Women's role in online higher education continues to increase, yet without the support to sustain. Come discuss how to implement practical strategies for success without sacrificing self-care.
Want to use your time wisely? Not sure what the Instructional Design Summit is all about? Connect with your fellow instructional design colleagues in this 45 minute networking break that will introduce you to some of the folks involved in the sessions coming up on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Come as you are and make new connections. Whether you are looking for a brain break, looking for new ideas, or looking for new colleagues, this meet-up was designed with you in mind! You are encouraged to attend any and all parts of the summits and the meetups, with no requirement to attend the summit to make the most of the meetups, and vice versa
In response to the 2020 Pandemic, I created a podcast to help educators new to the online modality learn how to get started through online best practices, video and tech tips, student engagement strategies, and healthy work-life balance as an online educator. Now 80+ episodes later, I'll walk you through the basic tips and tricks of getting started with your own podcast, whether to build OER content for your courses, to promote your programs, to share your own expertise, or to simply contribute your voice.
Three practical areas where quality online instruction is clearly visible and easily achievable are determined by . . . ONE: Exhibiting “The Rules of the Road for Online Presence,” TWO: Using “Fun Ways to Enhance Forum Discussions,” and THREE: Employing “Innovative Strategies for Creating Assignments.” Student satisfaction and persistence will soar!
The recent, rapid growth of adaptive and personalized learning cannot be ignored, and now is the time to jump in. Fortunately, we have developed a framework to help negotiate the decisions necessary for you to build your own campus strategy for adaptive learning.
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, custom consulting on making the most of your conference experience, or even directions!
During the second program block within the Innovation Studio, we'll explore Augmented and Virtual Reality tools that we can use for face to face and online situations. Also, join us to take the one page escape room challenge! Can you figure out the clues? The Innovation Studio has always been a hub for networking and a space to explore the pervasive challenges we face in the classroom and to craft innovative approaches for better reaching our unique populations of learners. Join us anytime during the conference! We've prepared a series of challenges for you to improve your design thinking skills (which double as models for you to take with you into your own educational spaces).
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.
Not sure what to do between sessions or looking for a place to sit back and have some fun with colleagues? Head to the Speed Networking Lounge, a reflective and collaborative space where you can recharge your brain (and maybe even recharge your devices). There you’ll find puzzles, games, and activities, as well as new opportunities for “slow networking” to engage in while you chat and get to know people (old and new).
Silos of innovation aren’t enough to solve the problems facing education anymore. We need scalable, sustainable, and intentional innovation to stay relevant and successful. Dr. Jeff Borden will share his blueprint for such initiatives he has leveraged to create a culture of Learning Innovation, at scale, across the entire organization.
In 2018, CTU introduced a texting feature within our mobile application, allowing students to communicate with faculty. These messages offer unique insight into how students experience classroom technology, content, and the learning process. Leveraging these insights has allowed us to improve the student learning experience based upon direct student feedback.
Improving the outcomes of faculty teaching online courses is paramount for the success of the students enrolled in eLearning courses and programs. TCC Connect Campus established an eFaculty Coach program, to assist, guide and support faculty through coaching, training and the utilization of data. In this session, the presenters discuss the outcomes of the initiative, now at a more mature phase.
After a year online, our faculty wanted to dive deeper into inclusive teaching practices but weren't sure how to transition those practices into the physical classroom. We will share how we reimagined our programming by inviting faculty to share what they needed most. Bring and share your stories, too!
Join this session to explore an example of how an active instructional team collaboration can impact the quality and consistency of course design and delivery for an entire academic program. Discover ideas and resources for building an effective project partnership across faculty, academic program leadership, instructional designers, and related stakeholders.
Join us to discuss how instructors and designers can establish equitable and inclusive student learning environments through their syllabus design and language. Presenters will provide an overview of research that informs a framework for more equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist pedagogy.
Participants will also learn more about an inquiry tool to guide reflexive practice.
There are many ways to teach lab science courses online. Why use a hands-on approach with a lab kit? Can it help to make an engaging learning experience for online lab science students? Let’s experiment together.
Are you tired of watching video after video to complete required certifications, mandatory training, or professional development? Learn how our partners create and deploy engaging curated playlists with customizable certificates.
Inspired by the picturesque landscapes of vineyards, join us for the conference-long mystery game where we explore hidden messages, dive into collaborative storytelling, and explore the boundaries between hero and villain. While you can play anytime, use this dedicated time slot to join others to advance the story and try your best to solve the mystery at hand.
Supporting faculty in the creation of resilient learning experiences will remain an ongoing goal for institutions of higher education, but how can we provide individualized support and still serve the number of instructors who need us? Learn how our Summer Institute provides an individualized, innovative approach to group-based faculty development.
The participants will develop a chatbot using Voiceflow. A chatbot is so useful, especially when your office has limited staff; the chatbot will automatically redirect people to what they are looking for. I will outline the process that I used to develop the chatbot, from its conception to its deployment.
We’ll share our process for expanding the capacity of a blended/hybrid faculty development program by integrating faculty fellows in a course design feedback loop. We’ll also explore how other institutions may be able to incorporate a similar faculty fellow model to support and expand faculty development.
Calling all IELOL Alumni and those interested in learning more about the OLC's leadership opportunities! We'll be gathering in the Speed Networking Lounge for casual networking and community building. Like all good learning experiences, OLC is very interested in amplifying the ways that we can engage with new ideas and the community. As such, the onsite meetups are meant to be a direct connection to the findings, ideation, and collaborations happening in the onsite summits during the conference You are encouraged to attend any and all parts of the summits and the meetups, with no requirement to attend the summit to make the most of the meetups, and vice versa. We encourage you to explore both spaces as you can to contribute to the shaping of new collaborations and future calls to action for this special interest group.
Higher education has a weak history of academic innovations that have led to sustained and truly meaningful transformation. This is not due to some extraordinary resistance to change or to a fundamental lack of trying, but rather because there are complexities inherent in the academic culture that keep higher education from fitting neatly into traditional innovation leadership models. This 45-minute featured session presents a new lens for thinking about leading change based on complex adaptive systems theory and the University System of Maryland’s 10-year history supporting academic innovation across our institutions.
By taking a modified team-based learning (TBL) approach to online statistics classes, two professors increased student engagement and satisfaction. A descriptive, phenomenological research study is currently looking into how and finding that synchronous, team-based quizzes conducted via Zoom are a large reason why.
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 scaffolding supports student success.
Open Educational Resources are more popular than ever. How do you find quality materials that are reviewed by experts? You turn to MERLOT. We are hoping that you, in turn, will consider becoming a MERLOT reviewer. Viewing this session will help you discover all the benefits of peer reviewing.
Northeastern University and O’Donnell Learn will summarize 3 years of research leading to the creation of a personalized and scalable faculty support solution for creating humanized, inclusive and engaging learning – Faculty Concierge. Northeastern University will discuss how this learning design support and technology platform is simplifying and reducing course preparation time and equips faculty with the tools they need for creating successful, contextualized learning experiences.
Studies have shown that there is a correlation between perceived instructor presence and student motivation and learning. This proposed session would provide an opportunity to learn from each other by sharing and discussing ways to increase instructor presence and immediacy in any class setting.
This session will share how our multi-campus community college used a faculty-first process for successful LMS RFP, LMS Evaluation, LMS Selection, and new LMS Training. This college district had a faculty lead the way on every step of the LMS change process.
Between support for remote teaching, demand for course design services, compassion fatigue, and uncertainty, something has to give. All too often that something is you. OLC Live! host Dr. Kelvin Thompson welcomes special guest(s) to discuss the role self-care can play in our lives and careers.
Join us in the exhibit hall (Texas Ballroom A/B) this afternoon for a networking coffee break. 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 conference attendees. Check out the Iron Chef Battle in the Innovation Studio, relax in the OLC Cafe, and join in activities in the Speed Networking Lounge. Make a point to meet with our conference exhibitors to get your Mission Passport stamped. You could win raffle tickets for fun prizes!
We invite you to join us in the Innovation Studio for the Iron Chef Battles, featuring some fiery pedagogical competition. In this renaissance of emerging technology, being able to craft a killer recipe for engagement on the fly is an invaluable skill. Join in as the audience as four teams compete head-to-head for the chance to claim the ultimate prize: winner of OLC Innovate's 2022 Iron Chef Battle.
A mix of storytelling and community building, come have some fun as we build collaborative stories together. You never know where the story will turn when a new storyteller takes on the challenge of determining what happens next.
Not sure what to do between sessions or looking for a place to sit back and have some fun with colleagues? Come join us in the Speed Networking Lounge, a reflective and collaborative space where you can recharge your brain (and maybe even recharge your devices). There you’ll find puzzles, games, and activities, as well as new opportunities for “slow networking” to engage in while you chat and get to know people (old and new).
Struggling to create a competency-based program? In this session we will take you through the steps used by a university new to competency-based education to design a Learning Technology, Leadership, and Innovation graduate certificate within the constraints of accreditation requirements and will describe the importance of partnerships between academic units.
Taking as its point of departure a recent new edition of a book by award winning authors (Nobel and Holberg prizes), this presentation explores the relevance of behavioral economics concepts of “nudge” for the design of online courses, offering practical, field-tested solutions that work.
What would it feel like to have someone believe in you, to believe in yourself, and envision what you can become? A student’s mindset along with motivation can be the key to their success. Find out how Mindset and Motivation affects student success, fosters equity, increases communication, and helps retention.
In this session, we will introduce a change model for post-remote instruction in online and blended education. This session will invite participants to apply ideas and concepts from the session to implement at their local institution, with opportunities to follow-up at a future OLC conference.
The growth of social media has changed the way people engage in advocacy. Educators now have an opportunity to help millennial students engage in electronic advocacy using new tools to address ongoing social issues and policy outcomes. This session explores the usage of technological tools for engagement in electronic advocacy.
Join us for a conversation on cognitive load in online course development, how it impacts instructional designers, and what we can do to ensure we’re balancing workload to protect time and avoid burnout.
As institutions increasingly expand hybrid and blended learning options, educators must innovate and adapt to meet students where they are. During this session, participants will get an immersive, hands-on experiential demonstration of how Nearpod’s multiple-solution platform allows educators to create interactive lessons and improve engagement across multiple modalities.
Champlain College Online and InSpace have partnered to create an elevated student experience, bridging their asynchronous online courses with synchronous technology. With a focus on retention, CCO is deepening the design process, evaluating modalities and creating a best in breed experience for their students.
During this presentation, an explanation of the backwards design process will be explored. Educators will learn to design comprehensive and effective courses and curriculum that benefit the diverse needs of the learners in their classrooms. Participants will leave with practical strategies to use immediately to develop comprehensive courses and curriculum.
This session will benefit professors seeking to create engaging video content in their courses. We will discuss tools and approaches for creating videos, including types of educational videos (i.e., webcams, screencasts, animations, editing, etc.), options for software and platforms, logistics (e.g., presentation, scripts, captioning, lighting, etc.), and general tips and techniques.
Note: this is a reprise of the OLC Accelerate session (of the same name), with improvements based on the participant comments.
This session will highlight the distinct, yet interconnected, design and implementation of the multi-modal components of a hybrid-accelerated program. Sample learning activities and instructional design elements showcasing the application of the Community of Inquiry Framework will be shared with the audience. Attendees will receive job aids to facilitate design planning.
Design, data, and dissemination- oh my! Using research to promote changes in practice and policy is no walk in the park. Join our research team for a down-to-earth discussion on how to engage in data-informed decision-making at your institution.
Through a “perfect storm” of factors, we “re-imagined” our Quality Assurance process for online courses, developing different pathways to support faculty and departments better. We will share our experiences and showcase our Guidelines for Course Quality Assurance, created in-house to help all faculty teaching online courses at the university.
Join the Blended Summit presenters for a conversation about blended learning at the course, program, and institutional levels. Bring your problems of practice for this engaging dialogue! Join thought leaders and experienced practitioners for an engaging discussion about blended learning!
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 digital strategy to promote institutional transformation, this fireside chat comprises one of a selection of special sessions held at OLC Innovate 2022 for online, blended, and digital learning leaders.
Using the right technology can create an inclusive and active learning environment for students to feel safe to share their thoughts without the fear of being shut down or singled out. The presenters will demonstrate and discuss different activities used in synchronized blended classes to encourage student participation.
When we hear the words "innovation" and "reimagine," we may feel pressured to do something groundbreaking. Actually, many of the best ways to support student success are simple, rooted in intentionality and sound pedagogy. In this session, we will collaboratively explore effective ways to support student success in online courses.
Faculty and administrators alike focus their work from the perspective of how-to best approach teaching and learning. After all – this is WHY faculty have chosen the teaching profession! That said, there is much can be learned from and through the work of each other. In this session, a case study and framework for a Teaching Showcase (TS) will be presented. In addition to an overview of the framework, administrators, and faculty developers will glean greater understanding of how to engage faculty in ways to best engage, encourage, and reward teaching excellence by leveraging best practices already present within the existing faculty talent.
Follow our 24 month journey of having 0% online presence to 100% remote learning. In this session we will discuss the challenges and discoveries a small college made to transform its entire program into online learning modules. See how the pandemic changed how we present concepts, assess outcomes, and engage students.
Instructors have questioned teaching science courses online due to concerns regarding the hands-on laboratory components of these courses, in particular how to provide an authentic laboratory experience comparable to an on-campus laboratory.
Researchers have described Gen Z, but I wanted to know how these students view themselves. So I asked them! Come explore the survey results that showcase how much Gen Z is craving authentic connection, especially after a year defined by the Covid pandemic. Let's determine what distinctly human tools we have—and often overlook—to give this generation the personalization and peace they know they need.
From everyday apps to digital learning environments, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, Ruha Benjamin presents the concept of the “New Jim Code” to explore a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. This presentation takes us into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with historical and sociological insight. She will also consider how race itself is a tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice and discuss how technology is and can be used toward liberatory ends. In doing so, Ruha challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves.
Immediately following the Keynote Address, join your fellow conference attendees in the Exhibit Hall (Texas Ballroom A/B) for networking and to visit with our sponsors and exhibitors. Refreshments will be served; don’t forget your complimentary drink ticket!
Test your artistic skills during this fun, team-based digital drawing game. Along the way, learn about accessibility and the importance of good image descriptions. Not sure if you want to join in person but fancy some evening fun? No worries! You can join us virtually right from the comforts of your hotel room.
One of the things we love most about our conferences is the opportunity to gather and amplify the work of truly amazing colleagues from across the field of online, blended, and digital learning. Join us over breakfast for the OLC & MERLOT Awards panel. Hear from our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion scholarship winner, as well as the Effective Practice Award winners about their award-winning contributions. Leave inspired to submit to upcoming award opportunities for OLC Accelerate 2022 (and learn more about our awards process).
Join host Brandon Poulliot for insight on the "in-between" modality of blended learning. Not quite online, not quite in-person, but 100% here to stay, blended learning combines the best of both worlds in a variety of configurations. We welcome special guest(s) -- and you -- to share experiences with, and effective practices for, blended learning initiatives.
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, custom consulting on making the most of your conference experience, or even directions!
Innovation Crews are groups of conference attendees clustered by interest, facilitated by a “Crew Leader” for ongoing check-ins and community building. Crews gather during meet-ups synchronously and asynchronously to connect with others, share ideas, and make your plan of action. Join a crew now at https://bit.ly/IN22Crews.
Join us for the final block of Innovation Studio programming, as we explore Augmented and Virtual Reality tools that we can use for face to face and online situations. Find out innovative ways that you can use PowerPoint to engage with your audience in different ways. Become an digital accessibility champion by learning simple tricks you can use to create accessible content. (Tool kits will be given out, too, to support your own work within your work environments!). The Innovation Studio has always been a hub for networking and a space to explore the pervasive challenges we face in the classroom and to craft innovative approaches for better reaching our unique populations of learners. Join us anytime during the conference! We've prepared a series of challenges for you to improve your design thinking skills (which double as models for you to take with you into your own educational spaces).
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.
Not sure what to do between sessions or looking for a place to sit back and have some fun with colleagues? Head to the Speed Networking Lounge, a reflective and collaborative space where you can recharge your brain (and maybe even recharge your devices). There you’ll find puzzles, games, and activities, as well as new opportunities for “slow networking” to engage in while you chat and get to know people (old and new).
In the midst of the ongoing pandemic, how are instructors using technology to create more engaging – and even more human – learning experiences? This panel will bring together faculty and administrators to discuss how emerging technologies are helping foster peer-to-peer interaction and create community even in an online context.
See how UC Berkeley is supporting almost 1,000 undergraduate advisors in their daily work. Integrating data from our student information system and learning tools, we can generate data-driven alerts to provide real-time insight into student academic progress—helping advisors quickly identify which students most need their attention.
In the last year and a half, the Office of Instructional Resources has decreased in size about 33% while the training and support demands have increased about 80% due to COVID. This session explores what we are doing to support instructors, and how we are doing it without more money.
Student engagement, class community, and retention all improve when students engage in discussions regularly. Join us to learn how you can encourage more collaboration in asynchronous online classes, increase accessibility for diverse learners, and make life easier for instructors – all directly from your LMS.
Join us for a conversation with panelists sharing their stories, strategies, successes, and failures with faculty and SMEs through the instructional design process.
Proctorio was created with the goal of reinventing remote proctoring by providing a solution that was accessible and usable by test takers everywhere. Join Proctorio as we discuss how our platform was designed to expand access to learners everywhere, and protect exam integrity without compromising privacy.
Higher Education has experienced an unprecedented amount of change as a result of the pandemic. In this presentation we'll discuss the biggest challenges facing higher education and how technology partners can help prepare educators, their students and their institutions to address future needs.
When designing a course, have you ever had too many ideas and are not sure how to choose between them or have you ever felt uninspired or stuck in the same old pattern? Bringing a technique from museum exhibit design of developing a big idea can create a sense of vision and purpose that inspires course design and provides a powerful tool for editing a collection of potential ideas down to the most essential.
This study intends to describe what instructional designers (IDs) do by analyzing how a group of IDs spent their time on key responsibilities and how their time allocation keeps changing during the pandemic. The findings and implications of this study would help IDs working in similar higher education contexts recognize the benefits of time tracking and help faculty and administrators better understand the evolving roles of IDs.
In this “Pivot Game” session, attendees will be arranged in small groups to redesign a residential learning activity given a challenging scenario, learning objectives, and a randomized set of variable constraints. The learning activity must pivot to an online or blended learning activity while fostering or maintaining human connections.
This session will present the preliminary results evaluating instructional efficiency in asynchronous discussions of introductory undergraduate STEM courses. It will include discussing future planned research aimed at reducing extraneous cognitive load and bolstering social, cognitive, and teaching presence. The session will conclude with lessons learned during data collection.
By adding gamification elements to online graduate English courses, an instructional designer and a faculty enabled differentiated learning and maximized student choice in types of assignments while still guiding students to achieve course objectives. This resulted in enthusiastic student feedback focusing on relevance to career goals and freedom of choice.
Join the Research Summit presenters for a conversation about research in online learning spaces. Bring ideas about research questions you would like to pursue, current research you are working on, and problems of practice for this engaging dialogue! Join thought leaders and researchers to talk more about the burning questions of our community and the field of digital, blended, and online learning.
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 critical role of digital learning leaders in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, this fireside chat serves as one of a selection of special sessions held at OLC Innovate 2022 for online, blended, and digital learning leaders.
Building instructional videos that promote self-learning and problem solving skills to retain class time for deeper learning and understanding.
What does it mean to create humanized and purposeful learning regardless of modality? Our panelists discuss how they worked to create, develop and deliver humanizing and inclusive courses so that all learners and instructors feel a sense of welcome and belonging and are provided equal opportunities to succeed.
This research examined the effects of different grouping methods in an undergraduate asynchronous online course. Findings indicated that the different grouping methods have no significant influence on the social presence, student satisfaction and outcome. However, the Permanent Small Groups yielded more discussion posts and started to show signs of a learning community at the end of the course.
One way to bring both variety and equity into your online class is by using more audio and video – both in your delivery of instruction and in the type of assignments you allow students to submit.
Meaningful engagement with students is challenging in an online environment. Video-based technologies can maximize interaction and student learning by providing a platform to practice skills and receive timely, individualized feedback. Implementation of such technology can enhance student learning and assessment across a variety of educational settings.
A semi-facilitated walk around the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center with OLC Innovate colleagues for some casual networking and remarkable views.
Join us in the exhibit hall (Texas Ballroom A & B) this morning for a networking coffee break. 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 conference attendees. Check out the Innovation Studio, relax in the OLC Cafe, and join in activities in the Speed Networking Lounge. Don't forget to get your Mission Passport stamped while participating in these activities in order to earn raffle tickets for fun prizes. Finally, make a point to meet with our conference exhibitors during this break to get your exhibitor card stamped for our grand prizes!
We all use little "white lies" (i.e. partial truths) in our lives. Sometimes fun, sometimes obvious, they are nevertheless natural as we navigate human relationships and various social scenarios. Join us for a fun session sharing white lies (and guessing the potential "truths" behind them) and casual dialoguing about their use in our professional lives.
Not sure what to do between sessions or looking for a place to sit back and have some fun with colleagues? Come join us in the Speed Networking Lounge, a reflective and collaborative space where you can recharge your brain (and maybe even recharge your devices). There you’ll find puzzles, games, and activities, as well as new opportunities for “slow networking” to engage in while you chat and get to know people (old and new).
A feedback loop consists of gathering, analyzing, and implementing changes based on feedback. Online instructors can embed opportunities for student voice in improving teaching effectiveness in courses using feedback loops. This presentation will share examples of feedback loops to enhance online teaching and student learning throughout the semester.
Through an understanding of methodology and an ability to engage students, teachers respond to and are inspired by their students’ interactions. For online teachers, the classroom requires a combination of technology, performance, and pedagogy. This workshop will focus on redefining the performative aspect of teaching to better feed online teachers.
The purpose of the session is to discuss how leaders can link the institution's mission and values to diversity, equity, and inclusion to create a framework that guides DEI initiatives. Also, results of a pilot project to examine the framework's impact on key processes in online course development will be shared.
Early career faculty and staff have to figure out a lot, including how to effectively teach and juggle other professional responsibilities. This roundtable will provide helpful information for early career faculty and faculty in new positions whether you are in year one, year five, or beyond.
What are sound online teaching methods? As a player in this Jeopardy game, you’ll grapple with data-informed practices based on a 2021 study of online undergraduate and graduate students. Besides vying for points, you will depart the session with a toolkit of principles and practices for online course design.
Effective communication is essential to designing blended learning experiences. If you’ve experienced frustration communicating learning design ideas with other people - this session is for you! We explore visualization tools used for designing blended learning experiences and examine their use in enhancing team-based collaboration, decision making, visioning, and strategy development.
Join us for a lively discussion to learn how different approaches to online proctoring can help advance equity and inclusion within higher education.