Tanya Joosten, author of Social Media for Educators by Jossey Bass, will discuss how social media, such as facebook, twitter, and youtube, can be used to enhance the online classroom.

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

This session will assist participants to identify what they need to know about building an effective infrastructure to support accessibility and online student success from policy to implementation. The session's panelists will share their considerable experience with building effective online infrastructures to support accessibility at their institutions, while complying with the legal requirements in this area. They will also describe how to make the process an engaging and desirable endeavor. As the college-age population grows older and less traditional, the proportion of students with various disabilities (physical,visual, learning, et al.) is growing. However, accessibility is not just about serving students with disabilities; it is also a vehicle for building effective strategies to improve student success.

This session focuses on new relationships, bridges and pathways involving community colleges, four year institutions and online learning in achieving great access to higher education and success in retention, completion and job attainment.

This featured session will cover the design, development, delivery, and facilitation of a MOOC. University of Illinois Springfield and Michigan State have already both offered highly successful MOOCs. While the hype around MOOCs promise that the design of open courses will change education. The UIS and MSU experiences will highlight why a MOOC was the right tool for the content covered in their courses. The presenters will cover topics ranging from tools and technologies to use as well as management of the course delivery, interactions and assessments. The presenters will also provide some insight on how do we go about developing content, learning activities and assessments for a MOOC? What do we need to change in order to accommodate the openness and connectedness of the MOOC environment? What is the optimal minimum/maximum number of participants that we should allow? The audience is encouraged to ask questions.

This session showcases the Sloan-C research symposia, a series of virtual conversations on research of critical importance to educators engaged in advancing online and blended education.