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Keynote Address: Democratizing Higher Education
Sebastian Thrun, VP & Fellow Google

Plenary Panel: Evolution or Revolution? What's Happening with Traditional Online Learning?
Jeff Young (The Chronicle of Higher Education, US) - Panel Moderator
Jose Cruz (The Education Trust, US)
Alan Drimmer (University of Phoenix, US)
Jack Wilson (University of Massachusetts, US)

Plenary Address: Citizen Science - Authentic Participation in Research
Arfon Smith (Citizen Science-Adler Planetarium, US)

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Creating an Institutional Culture that Embraces Accessibility and Supports Online Student Success  - By Kristen Betts, Director of Online and Blended Learning, Armstrong Atlantic State University. Kristen Betts will be presenting “From Compliance to Culture: Building an Effective Infrastructure to Support Accessibility and Online Student Success” on October 11, 2012.

 

Online and On the Move - By Emily Boles, Senior Instructional Developer, University of Illinois, Springfield. Ray Schroeder will be presenting "Online and On the Move: Mobile Online Learning" on October 10, 2012.

The Best Faculty Strategies

Presenter(s)
Alexandra Pickett (SUNY, US)
Barbara Truman (University of Central Florida, US)
Clark Shah-Nelson (Johns Hopkins University, US)
Session Information
October 10, 2012 - 2:15pm
Track: 
Faculty and Professional Development & Support
Areas of Special Interest: 
Online Learning and Community Colleges
Major Emphasis of Presentation: 
Practical Application
Institutional Level: 
Multiple Levels
Audience Level: 
All
Session Type: 
Featured Session
Location: 
Asia 4
Session Duration: 
80 Minutes
4 & 5 (combined)
Virtual Session
Abstract

With a plethora of technology choices on how to deliver online courses, which tools really support the best pedagogy online?

Extended Abstract

Technology tool choices are overwhelming even to the most savvy online faculty. What does research and practice tell us about the best strategies for delivering effective online learning. This panel will share resources, strategies, technology tools, and effective practices for delivering online courses. The panel will view the design of online learning from the approach of faculty development and cutting edge approaches in online learning. Is it time to abandon the asynchronous environment? Are there ways to meld new technologies into the asynchronous environment? How can we leverage technologies to facilitate learner-centered teaching and learning environments? How can we use technology to present engaging online content, to facilitate engaging online collaboration and enhance interaction and to enhance online student feedback and assessment? What criteria can we use to assist faculty in the selections of the right tools for the job? This panel will discuss these questions and provide practical insights and recommendations....

Lead Presenter
Alexandra Pickett Alexandra M. Pickett (@alexpickett) is the Associate Director of the award-winning SUNY Learning Network (SLN), the asynchronous learning network for the State University of New York. Working with 30 of the 64 SUNY institutions, she has directly supported or coordinated the development of more than 3,000 faculty and their web-delivered courses. She also teaches Introduction to Online Teaching in the online CDIT master’s program at the University at Albany She is the principle investigator on the SUNY/SLN NGLC grant-funded project, a NUTN advisory board member, and on the steering committees of the Sloan ALN and Sloan Blended Learning conferences. She consults and speaks nationally and internationally on effective online teaching and learning, online faculty development and instructional design, and using web2.0 to enhance instruction. http://slneducation.edublogs.org/about/ - http://wiki.sln.suny.edu/display/SLNED/*about - http://etap640.edublogs.org/about-2/
   
Barbara Truman Barbara Truman is the Director of Course Development in the Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) at the University of Central Florida where she serves as a founding member of UCF’s leadership team for Online@UCF since 1996 (http://online.ucf.edu) She has been instrumental in faculty, course, software and organizational development at UCF and co-created the first, research-based online course. Barbara's background is in Instructional Systems Design and her primary research interests include transdisciplinarity in collaborative virtual environments, game-based learning, and emerging media. She has studied Curriculum and Instruction at UCF, Human Performance Technology from the University of West Florida and is researching Computer Science, Emerging Media at Colorado Technical University.
   
Clark Shah-Nelson Since 1993, Clark Shah-Nelson has developed, designed, taught, and coordinated distance and online learning programs. He is currently Senior Instructional Designer, Team Lead with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Teaching and Learning. Formerly Manager of Online Educational Technology at SUNY Delhi in the Catskills of New York, he oversaw strategic planning, faculty and policy development, as well as instructional design of online courses. Past awards include a 2010 Sloan Consortium Effective Practices Award, 2006 Excellence in Online Teaching award and his German learning videos from MyGermanClass.com were one of the top 100 People's Choice Video Podcasts from Apple's iTunes. He was a featured presenter at the New Media Consortium's 2007 Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and Video and has recently presented at SLOAN-C ALN and Blended Learning, Educause's NERCOMP, and the SUNY CIT and COIL Center Conferences. Prior to his move to New York, he spent over seven years teaching online German for Colorado Online Learning, and seven years building the Denver Public Schools' Distance Learning Network. He has a Master's in Instructional Technology from the University of Colorado. For more info and media, check out clarkshahnelson.com.
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