Sloan-C Announces ‘Best-in-Track’ Sessions for Its Upcoming 17th-Annual International Conference on Online Learning
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August 23, 2011 - 8am FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Outstanding session proposals will be recognized during a ceremony at the conference, which takes place Nov. 9-11, in Orlando
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (Aug. 23, 2011) – The Sloan Consortium today announced its “Best-in-Track” sessions, recognizing exceptional speaker submissions for the 17th-Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning, which takes place Nov. 9-11, 2011 in Orlando, Florida.
“Speakers for the Best-in-Track sessions distinguished themselves among the large number of high-quality proposals we received for this year’s conference,” said selection committee member Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, Director of the Center for Online Learning Research and Service, University of Illinois at Springfield Online. “On behalf of the Sloan Consortium, I extend my sincere congratulations for the recognition this represents for their work, and we thank them for their valuable contribution to the conference program.”
The 2011 Best-in-Track sessions and speakers are:
· “Turning Knowledge Into Action – Contextual Learning and Natural Assessment,” Michael Watkins, Toolwire
· “Use of Multimedia to Enhance Teaching, Social, and Cognitive Presence in Online Courses,” Wendy McDonough, UMUC
· “Architecture and Impact of an Open, Online, Remixable, and Multimedia-Rich Algebra 1 Course,” Ahrash Bissell, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
· “Meeting Accreditation Requirements: Are You Serving Distance Learners?,” Kimberly Hardy and Katie Meyer-Griffith, Florida State College at Jacksonville
· “It’s Not Rocket Science, or Is It? Large Scale Quality Engineering in Distance Learning Programs,” Rita (Rene) Herron, Cinda Holsombach-Ebner, Alice Shomate, and Kimberly Szathmary, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
· “Student-Student Online Coaching: The Case of Math Coaching,” Stefan Hrastinski and Stefan Stenborn, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
· “Challenging Leadership and Ownership: Collaborating in Teaching and Learning About Diversity,” Jill Buban and Janet Shideler, SUNY Empire State College
Best-in-Track sessions will be recognized during a ceremony on day two of the conference. The presentation schedule and descriptions of Best-in-Track sessions may be viewed at http://sloanconsortium.org/conferences/2011/aln/BestInTrack. Information about the 17th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning is available at http://sloanconsortium.org/aln.
About Sloan-C
The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of education. For more information, visit www.sloanconsortium.org.
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Sloan-C Contact:
Jean Fredrick
Director of Marketing, The Sloan Consortium
jfredrick@sloanconsortium.org
