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Wed, April 22
8:30am-10:00am
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How and Why to Humanize Your Online Course
Engage with colleagues and experiment with emerging technologies, as you explore the impact of humanized online learning on student engagement and faculty perceptions about online teaching.
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Wed, April 22
10:30am - 12:00pm
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VoiceThread 101: Getting Up and Running with an Innovative -- And Easy-to-use -- Collaborative Learning Tool
Are you looking for an easy-to-use tool that promotes student engagement and motivation while simultaneously enabling learners to connect asynchronously in a way that feels personal and humanized? Come learn about the power of VoiceThread!
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Thurs, April 23
8:15am - 9:30am
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Beyond Alt-metrics: Identities and Influence Online
Open, participatory online learning and scholarship don't necessarily require credentials as the price of admission, but do demand the construction, performance, and curation of intelligible, public, networked identities. Both academia and social networks are, in effect, ‘reputational economies’ (Willinsky, 2010) but while scholars and educators are increasingly exhorted to go online, those who do often find that their work and efforts may not be visible or understood within institutional contexts. Likewise, as the academic tradition grapples with sea changes in infrastructure and communications, the terms by which scholarship and learning have been defined and legitimized are being unsettled from within. What signals count as credibility among networked educators and learners? What responsibilities do educators have to help learners and peers develop productive participatory identities? What risks and power relations need to be addressed as part of that process? In this plenary session, Bonnie will explore questions of what academic influence means in a world of social media and information abundance, and the challenges networked identities raise for higher education.
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Thurs, April 23
9:40am - 10:30am
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Teacher Tank
"Teacher Tank" is a special version of the popular TV show, Shark Tank. This is a one-of-a-kind, high energy opportunity where entrepreneurs will present their start-ups to three rock star educators who will ask questions and provide honest, meaningful dialog and feedback.
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Thurs, April 23
11:10am - 12:00pm
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Burn the Box: Emerging Technologies That Educate, Engage, and Empower
Burn the Box - Educate, Engage, and Empower with technologies that play a strategic role in innovation and improvement of higher education and student engagement.
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Thurs, April 23
1:30pm - 2:20pm
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Lights, Camera, Action: Engaging Videos for Learning
Many instructors don't relish being on camera, creating the false dichotomy of lecture capture versus screen capture. Alternative videos are well worth the development effort.
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Thurs, April 23
2:30pm - 3:20pm
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Collaborative Learning Can Work: Guiding Students Through Effective Project Management Using Cloud-based Tools
Based on project management best practices, this session guides faculty through creating impactful team-based projects that exceed course learning outcomes and balance guidance with autonomy.
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Thurs, April 23
3:30pm - 4:20pm
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Lessons From Using Insight and Action Analytics to Improve Learning: An Iterative Process
This session will explain how schools are using analytics applications to design data-informed interventions, and why testing/iteration is key to measurably improving student success.
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Fri, April 24
8:00am - 9:15am
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Thought Vectors In Concept Space
That’s the nickname of Virginia Commonwealth University’s first cMOOC, a fully online course that ran for the first time in the summer of 2014. It’s also the phrase computer visionary Doug Engelbart coined to describe collaborative knowledge work in cyberspace. What does this enigmatic phrase suggest for higher education and the future of online learning? What emerging technologies will help to bring Engelbart’s vision to fruition? What “trailing edge technologies” have not yet been used to their fullest in addressing this goal? And what organizational and cultural changes are necessary to return higher education to the core values that gave birth to the Internet in the first place?
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Fri, April 24
9:25am - 10:15am
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Video Feedback: Making the Right Choices
Effectively synthesizing video and text-based feedback can help teachers build social presence and help students efficiently use that feedback in the online classroom.
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Fri, April 24
10:40am - 11:30am
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Student-generated Video: Learner-designed Learning
Student-generated video demonstrates competencies, promotes presentation skills, dialogue and empathy. Videos can personalize the learning experience and reveal the individuality of our aggregated online students.
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Fri, April 24
11:40am - 12:30pm
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Institutionalizing Quality Online Courses in a Culture of Academic Freedom and Personal Choice: It Can Happen!
Traditional institutions can struggle to get faculty buy-in to create high quality online courses that are consistent. Learn about an effective approach in this session.
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