This session will focus on the use of social media within student affairs and how these tools can be used to facilitate community building and engagement among students outside the classroom environment. Participants will learn about the most popular social media tools and technologies and begin to evaluate how social media might best be used on their campus. Specifically, the presenters will examine how best to use these social media in a blended or online environment. Attendees will also develop support networks by leveraging social media tools and sites to facilitate best practices and collaboration during and after the conference.

Most universities have faculty who are creating open education resources and courses. Colleges and universities now need to take advantage of moving beyond the resource or course based approach. Using Open Education Resources (OER) in blended learning courses and programs promotes collaborative teaching, sharing resources and reduced costs for students.

Michigan State University (MSU) will share a case study on food safety knowledge network blended learning open education resources. MSU was awarded a generous a grant from the Hewlett foundation which have been further supported by USAID, World Trade Organization and World Bank. This work has blossomed into a model for other content area building on non-credit and extension outreach education and developing international opportunities with shared content.

MERLOT was a pioneer in providing open educational resources and developing the MERLOT Peer Review Process to evaluate the quality of those resources. MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

Encourage the use of Open Source; OER's; Public Domain and Creative Commons content to facilitate a culture of innovation. Content is shared via MoodleShare.

According to a survey conducted a few years ago, over 80% of higher education institutions in the United States offer courses in a blended format (Arabasz, Boggs & Baker, 2003) and the projection is that in the near future over 80% of all courses in higher education will be blended. In the words of Gladwell (2000), we have gone over the "tipping point"; blended learning has become an educational epidemic. The three societal forces that have converged (the perfect wave) to drive this epidemic are technology, financial constraints, and quality concerns. The blended approaches to learning that have arisen to address these forces have lead to three major non-contradictory affordances - effectiveness, efficiency, and convenience. The result is an era of engagement and sustainable communities of inquiry. Blended learning has become the dominant paradigm in 21st century higher education. In a recent edition of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks dedicated to blended learning, Laumakis, Graham & Dziuban (2009) state "the impact of blended learning is potentially monumental - permanently changing how students interact with higher education " (p.86). An inquiry-based approach to learning is based on John Dewey's (1933) philosophy that education begins with the curiosity of the learner. This workshop will provide participants with a "hands on" opportunity to design inquiry-based learning activities that engage students and align with the learning outcomes for a blended course or program.

A facilitated discussion of potential solutions to the challenges that advanced instructors face after a blended course redesign.

Come see examples, theory, and models for designing blended learning courses. Learn to design blended learning courses that address the needs of 21st century learners.

Online education presents enormous growth opportunities for academic institutions, but when your experience of online education is limited, getting started is not easy. Global Learning Services (GLS) provides a unique range of services that enables you to achieve your online education goals from start to finish.

Learning interactions enable students to engage and respond. Analytics track activity leading to better learning and accountability. Soomo Publishing develops interactive online courses in three models: frame for third party content, platform for original, and publisher of high-end original content, all wrapped with course analytics, enabling you and your students to track their progress through our web-native learning resources.

We present Weaver, Loom’s platform agnostic analytic tool that is specifically designed to help an institution better serve its students, faculty, and mission in either an online or blended environment, and how it can work for you.

Chances are you've already heard of lecture capture, maybe by another name: elearning, online classes, distance education or even coursecasting. Research shows more than half of all universities already have a strategic plan for academic webcasting, more than a quarter of all students now take at least one online course, and analysts predict the lecture capture market is going to triple over the next five years.

Please join Fig Leaf Software for an in-depth demonstration of Adobe
Connect. We will show how easy Adobe Connect can be used for both
live and self-paced online learning. We will to conduct live virtual
classrooms, create rich media content and deploy blended curriculms
with Adobe Connect.

KNEXT provides education software and solutions focused on helping higher education institutions build or enhance prior learning assessment offerings and online portfolio management. By enabling individuals to translate their prior learning into college credit and track their progress through online portfolios, KNEXT helps institutions recruit engaged adult learners and increase both persistence and graduation rates.  

Concise content, tools for self-assessment, interaction on every page, and integration with primary resources are just a few ways Soomo webtexts are radically more appropriate for today’s student. And our analytics allow students, instructors and accreditors to measure specific student learning outcomes.  

Your lecture capture pilot may start in a single classroom, but if history is a guide, it won't end there. Perhaps no other educational technology goes from pilot to full scale deployment faster, be that building-, school-, campus- or even system-wide.

Blended course design presents challenges not found in elsewhere in course delivery. Canvas offers unparalleled tools allowing you to rethink blended course design and workflows.
 

This session will cover the basics of video captioning, including accessibility laws, emerging web standards, best practices, and workflows for lecture capture and video platforms.

The idea of "Perfecting the Blend" implies three important notions: first, an ability to improve and get better over time; second, a realization that because the world is constantly changing this year's perfect blend may be imperfect next year; third, the blend that tastes perfect downtown may taste bitter 90 minutes further out in the county. The idea of "openness" has important contributions to make to each of these aspects of perfecting the blend, and David will discuss these each in detail in this keynote address.

This panel will focus on the expanding influence of private entities namely foundations and corporations in promoting technology in American education. It is a given that technology has an important place and future in education. This panel will adopt a critical lens and examine large privately-funded initiatives such as the Next Generation Learning Challenges to determine their effects on educational policy and practice.

Over the last year, in parallel, the State of Wisconsin Department of Instruction and the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee have created committees to help shape the future of learning at their institutions. The plans for each will be highlighted drawing comparisons in the opportunities and challenges for K12 and higher education, in particular, the role of blended learning.

As blended learning emerges, as an important teaching and learning model in higher education certain issues appear to be impacting its implementation in a number of contexts. The presenters will share results on three of those issues. Implications for scaling blended across multiple institutions, how students evaluate their blended learning experience under varying conditions of ambivalence and how institutional level analytics may impact blended learning. Each of these issues appears to be developing rapidly as blended learning gains traction in higher education.

As the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) was refreshing the National Standards for Quality Online Courses and Teaching, several discussions arose between the differences of online and blended courses. A variety of types of blended learning programs are evolving in the K-12 environments. How do the roles of the school leaders, classroom and online teachers, students and parents change in these new environments? Participants will learn and discuss a variety of types of blended learning environments in addition to the changing roles of everyone involved.

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCS) are quickly becoming a reality. How can MOOCs become part of the campus strategy to grow blended learning initiatives?

We examine the ways in which NYC secondary school teachers implement blended learning in their classrooms, explore how different choices about online content and time allocation between online and face-to-face learning are associated with different teacher attitudes towards blended learning, and describe early evidence of student impacts.

Higher education institutions have a tremendous opportunity to engage and retain more students through innovative online experiential learning environments.  This capability re-imagines what it means to learn in REAL LIFE, REAL TIME.  Explore the theory behind why students learn better by doing and examine three experiential learning environments.

Building learning communities in hybrid courses that transition seamlessly between face to face and online interactions.

This session will share a three-tiered model of professional development for K-12 in-service teachers evolving into blended and online learning.

Can a blended learning approach to literacy help disadvantaged elementary learners close the achievement gap?

A comparison between face-to-face and blended learning courses in the areas of student retention assessment, student satisfaction, and the Community of Inquiry Survey.

How do students find, use, and learn from digital resources and what implications does this have for blended courses and programs?

We highlight the use of virtual meeting tools to increase accessibility and collaboration between students, instructors and content experts across the globe.

This presentation discusses the design of a blended course training for a global faculty pool interested in blended teaching, utilizing ERAU's web-conferencing tool and Blackboard.

An engaging look at how institutions can leverage their campus culture and technological infrastructure to capitalize on the promise of blended learning despite dwindling resources.

Establishing policies and practices to ensure that high quality, pedagogically effective blended learning course redesign remains cost effective

'Deep and Wide' blended learning initiative at Gwynedd-Mercy College offers motivated faculty exciting opportunities to design and develop dynamic, collaborative, 21st-century project-based learning activities.

Come gain new insights into teaching, learning and assessment through the use of discussion boards and rubrics.

This study explores business students' perspectives on the use of VoiceThread by requesting their participation in an exam review and a VoiceThread survey on VoiceThread.

In a rapidly shifting teaching landscape we created a graduate course preparing the next generation of college instructors to teach with strong active learning pedagogies.

How, on a shoestring budget, can your institution implement a cutting edge 24/7 blended learning support portal?

Heritage University a small rural, private non-profit institution meets the educational needs of those traditionally isolated from post-secondary education by providing culturally relevant blended approaches.

Hear how innovative K-12 blended schools combining the best of face-to-face and virtual instruction are now supercharging learning through project-based learning both online and offline.

This presentation will explore blended learning instructional methods and technology tools to keep students from feeling like just a number in large face-to-face courses.

Practical and fun approaches for getting your faculty engaged, motivated and developed to teach online or in person.

See data on how a redesigned course can improve student performance AND teacher ratings.

Mobility has been called the new gateway on college campuses (Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed, 10.20.11). This session examines research-based steps for use in blended environments.

This presentation presents a blended learning model that provides greater opportunity for learning to be self-managed and personalized.

Your laptop is welcomed in this interactive session of how multiple media are combined in a blended course.

This session will highlight how a professional development program blends formats and technologies to support faculty teaching blended and or online courses.

Use learner-driven instructional design model to develop effective blended learning courses that are pedagogically and economically effective.

Come and hear the results of this interesting ethnographic study into how corporations are using blended and online learning.

This presentation describes how a blended peer academic support program was successfully implemented at a large Midwestern university using interactive whiteboard and web conferencing technology.

The iPad and blended classes---the perfect combination! Learn to use your iPad in teaching blended classes with Apps that can make all the difference.

Is lecture really the best way to teach? Mobile devices and social media provide many new and exciting possibilities to facilitate active learning.

Learn how librarians have become research consultants, thesis coaches, and course outcome facilitators for students by providing them personalized academic support.

This presentation is designed to present an institutional multi-layered model of faculty support for blended teaching and learning.

Through dynamic case studies the presenters will show how their model for blended and online courses has improved their information literacy program.

The purpose of this presentation is to offer practical applications of transitioning a face to face RN to BSN program to a blended program.

Using Blended Learning Instructional Strategies (BLIS) to support Problem Based Learning (PBL) to promote effective learning and time management in a variety of learning environments.

Leveraging Google Communities for increased student engagement in the blended classroom: using Pages, Chat, Hangouts, Events, YouTube, and Social Networking

Two years and two hundred plus faculty members later, a blended faculty development program is converting skeptics to supporters, driving a culture change on campus.

Presenters will share outcomes and insights from a first-of-its-kind implementation of a blended edX MOOC at two Massachusetts community colleges.

This session reports on a large scale, data mining project investigating the necessity of customizing end-of-course student evaluation instruments for blended learning courses.

Identify pre-entry and post-entry predictors of student success in a blended learning program.

This presentation will discuss the establishment of institutional standards for blended course development and faculty training at Utah Valley University.

We present results of a multi-method study including student and graduate surveys, original case studies, and a review of empirical research on blended learning.

This presentation reviews faculty development initiatives and course redesign approaches that encourage adoption of blended learning in Health Science programs at The George Washington University.

This study gathers crucial student perspectives on their experience with blended instruction in a technical college Writing classroom.

Learn how to utilize social media websites, like Facebook, to facilitate class discussion in the blended learning environment, including design, interaction, and grading.

Highlights teaching strategies that use mixed modalities in a complementary fashion to move students toward the achievement of complex learning objectives.

Create a successful blended or online program with buy-in from teachers. Develop effective blended or online teachers, build teaching capacity, and create long-term program sustainability.

This session will walk the audience through the life cycles of redesign, development, implementation and future models of student support in a blended program.

In this session, University of Wisconsin- Madison discuss their accessibility strategies, solutions implemented, costs and benefits derived, and best practices for deploying video captioning technologies.

This paper attempts to analyze the relationship or lack thereof, between Blended course redesign and student evaluations in Blended courses.

The Australian experience shows we need to move with caution unless we are prepared to leave some students behind

Utilizing supplementary technology, Panther Academic Support Services has implemented four innovative strategies for enhancing blended tutoring success using web conferencing platforms.

How do you balance strategic classroom management with student needs and pedagogy for blended courses? We will look at patterns, desired outcomes and best practices.

Instructors used virtual tools in blended courses to encourage learner engagement, cross cultural interaction, and international experiences through a "virtual term abroad".

This session introduces the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Program (G*STEP), a year-long blended certificate program designed to prepare graduate students for teaching roles.

This presentation will illustrate a pattern of student success within a Secondary School Blended Learning Program established by the Red Clay School District in Delaware.

Many Faculty struggle with the transition from teaching purely residentially to teaching in a blended modality. Focused training can increase success rates.

Rocketship's blended learning combines classroom instruction with individualized learning, students spend 1:1 time with computers utilizing online technology and participate in intensive small groups.

Immerse yourself in an interdisciplinary dialogue about sustainability while learning how to "teach to the task" of creating sustainable citizens. Receive a course toolkit.

College campuses are constantly challenged with the task of efficiently collecting data and sharing it in meaningful ways.

This session will identify the early challenges and opportunities of starting a multi-pronged approach to faculty development on blended learning at an R1 school.

The presentation highlights best practices for building community in blended learning, utilizing a case study and a literature review of current trends.

An innovative blend maintains instructional quality when the course is required by another discipline which triples class size.

An analysis of research trends, publication outlets and practice experiences of blended learning in international contexts.

Join this "must-see" session to learn what blended/online learning trends are emerging at the K-12 level, and how these trends will impact higher education.

Indira Gandhi National Open University ,in partnership with the Community Colleges, providing student support to learners through blended learning described in the paper .

Be introduced to theory, research results and practices for cultivating a motivational learning climate in a blended course by focusing on autonomy, engagement and competence.

To propagate Blended Teaching at the American University of Beirut, we embarked on a campus-wide initiative to assess the status of Web-Enhanced courses

We know what we expect: online learning complements the classroom to provide success for our students. How do we organize actual experiments to verify this?

How do you effectively adapt face-to-face classroom instruction to the distance-learning environment? We investigate this question through a pilot program between Yale and Cornell University.

Review design options for blended online content accessible to more than the majority. A checklist will be provided and simple design techniques shared.

How can online financial lab exercises align with Bloom's Taxonomy, from acquisition of knowledge to moving toward the development of higher level critical thinking goals?

This session will report on the process of training faculty on redesigning courses to fit the blended environment.

Captivate software developing branching scenarios that facilitate students' critical thinking skills.

This poster presentation explores how modern self-paced online instruction and interactive video methods can strengthen an organization's blended learning model.