Featured Sessions
Please join us throughout the conference for our Featured Sessions. Go in-depth with one of the Lightning Talk speakers or select another presentation by a leading expert in the field.
Please join us throughout the conference for our Featured Sessions. Go in-depth with one of the Lightning Talk speakers or select another presentation by a leading expert in the field.
Ten different featured sessions will be led by invited experts in the field. All featured sessions will be live-streamed to our virtual attendees and available on-demand after the conference for all registered conference attendees.
Wednesday 1:30pm – 2:15pm |
Today’s The Day: Balancing The Reality Of Faculty Scholarship With Innovations In Digital Authorship |
Wednesday 2:30pm-3:15pm |
Inside The User-Driven Design Process-Ongoing Lessons And Insights Gained From Developing A Higher Ed Product |
Wednesday 4:00pm-4:45pm |
Virtual Classroom Training: The Results Of A Qualitative Study Of Synchronous Teaching Preparation |
Wednesday 4:00pm-4:45pm |
Leveraging Technology In Health Professions And Medical Education: Enhanced, Blended, And Online Learning |
Thursday 9:00am-9:45am |
What’s Going On Behind The Screen With Traditionally-Aged College Undergraduates |
Thursday 10:00am-10:45am |
A New Lens On Digital Courseware: Navigating And Evaluating The Changing Landscape |
Thursday 11:15am-12:00pm |
The Politics Of Academic IT Policy: From Redlining To Digital Redlining |
Thursday 1:30pm-2:15pm |
Using Core Values In Peer Education To Collaborate, Innovate, And Educate |
Friday 9:45am-10:30am |
Innovation In Higher Education: Unprecedented Opportunity |
Friday 11:15am-12:00pm |
Facilitating & Fostering Passion And Inventiveness: Embodied Experiences From A University Unit Start Up |
Wednesday April 20, 2016 – 1:30pm – 2:15pm | Baywood A (4th floor)
Digital course development is broadly defined yet narrowly embraced. Despite the variety of authoring tools and the proliferation of instructional designers being hired nation wide, faculty still report the most significant barrier is lack of time.
Wednesday April 20, 2016 – 2:30pm – 3:15pm | Bayside A (4th floor)
When developing a product, it is critical to acutely understand the user and the pain points they experience during their journey. EdSurge has been conducting extensive user interviews and testings to understand the higher ed audience, their needs and motivations. Join us to learn more about our user-centered research, lessons learned and insights gained.
Wednesday April 20, 2016 – 4:00pm – 4:45pm | Bayside A (4th floor)
This presentation will review the findings of a research study conducted in January 2016 that focused on the types of training, if any, online instructors have received that pertains to teaching in the online environment.
The study was conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Virginia who have broad experience in the field of online learning and believe that knowledge of the kind of training our colleagues have received will help academics and administrators shape training programs going forward. The Online Learning Consortium collaborated with the team of researchers to distribute the survey and present the research findings.
Wednesday April 20, 2016 – 4:00pm – 4:45pm | Oak Alley (4th floor)
Interactive discussion between the audience and a panel comprised of health professions educators to address technology integration to meet the needs of health professions education. Panelists will briefly address approaches to technology integration at the course and program levels, overcoming barriers, and lessons-learned. Audience members are asked to prepare questions in advance regarding the session topic.
Thursday April 21, 2016 – 9:00am – 9:45am | Bayside A (4th floor)
Presenting research on how social and digital technology impacts the development of 18-24 year old college undergraduates and implications for practice.
Thursday April 21, 2016 – 10:00am – 10:45am | Bayside A (4th floor)
This session will feature a digital courseware taxonomy and framework for evaluating courseware, a result of a collaboration between Tyton Partners, the Online Learning Consortium and SRI International, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Thursday April 21, 2016 – 11:15am – 12:00pm | Bayside A (4th floor)
Reinventions of redlining appear in digital practices affecting finance, employment, policing, and education. This digital redlining threatens working class students at community colleges.
Thursday April 21, 2016 – 1:30pm – 2:15pm | Bayside A (4th floor)
How do you innovate a 25 year old program? Go back to the roots and start with core values and collaboration.
Friday April 22, 2016 – 9:45am – 10:30am | Bayside A (4th floor)
Learn about the U.S. Department of Education’s new strategies, fundamental changes in the higher education landscape and the unprecedented opportunities they provide for innovation.
Friday April 22, 2016 – 11:15am – 12:00pm | Bayside A (4th floor)
Come for embodied experiences in design thinking and insight into how these techniques are being used to start a new unit at Michigan State University.
Leigh Wolf, Michigan State University
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