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Whether these took the form historically of a poster or more recently, a pre-prepared digital presentation, these sessions afford presenters and participants alike a unique opportunity for sustained engagement because they were designed with the asynchronous in mind. But taking the time to orient to these types of sessions in a conference setting, as well as meaningfully engage with them is not always easy, particularly given all of the other opportunities presented to us.
As such, this interactive session was designed to address those two considerations specifically. Our work will be guided by an intentionally designed Discovery Session Roadmap, which will help us identify which sessions to start with and those we want to intentionally plan to get to in the future.
In this session, we will explore how we, as a field, define online engagement in professional learning ranging from defining engagement in outcomes, to conceptualizing activities that help us meet those defined outcomes. For the field of online, blended, and digital learning, the pandemic revealed the striking realization that we as an educator and learner community do not have a consistent nor in-depth answer to the question of what quality online education looks like.
A sweeping misconception, this predictably meant that our design work centered our own limiting factors as educators like time, staffing, support, etc. Also predictably, initial reviews of our courses were not overly positive and highlighted that we had a lot more to learn about what quality meant for online teaching. In this session, we will dive into one key aspect of quality online education: engagement. We will begin with an exploration of the many ways we define online engagement, looking to its articulation in outcomes, our activity design, and metrics as useful starting points to gather around.
We will also discuss the ways in which taking up certain definitions of engagement bound our practices, and consider the implications of these various epistemologies on the learning experience s itself. This session serves as a direct response to recent research around the impact of and our collective priorities for With this in mind, the session has been designed to connect educators around not just definitions of engagement, but example practices as well.
And though this session seeks to largely support educators looking to improve upon the way they incorporate engagement into their learning environments, it will also provide useful starting points for instructional designers and other educators looking to facilitate similar conversations with instructors.
Likewise, leaders, administrators, and researchers alike will benefit from the time dedicated to discussing engagement trends.
Together, we will explore a number of key areas of focus that we should all be tending to in our teaching, including modality, format, diversity, equity, and inclusion, access, and community building, among other things. Finally, we will anchor our discussions and the example practices shared in core scholarship around engagement to help us better understand not only what engagement is and how to plan for it, but also what it takes to sustain it. Topic and Relevance: Distance learning has risen in popularity in the last decade.
More lights have been shed on the design and development of online courses. The increased interaction between the students and the digital content has been recognized as a significant factor to improve learning outcomes Hung, Kinshuk, Chen, How do we know if students are engaged and the design is effective? We will present our pilot solution which consists of 1 instructional digital content: two interactive presentations which have xAPI statements embedded, 2 a Learning Record Store LRS , which is responsible for receiving, storing, and providing access to xAPI activity logs.
We will provide a practical guide to track and store students’ online learning experience data, from writing basic learning activity xAPI statements to accessing the learning activity data through a learning record store LRS.
We will show how this learning activity data can improve the digital content, facilitate effectiveness, and eventually lead to greater learner engagement and success rates. Plan for Interactivity: Attendees will experience xAPI in action by interacting with a learning activity during our session and access their interactions in a learning record store LRS. During our session time, not only will attendees learn how to implement data-powered learning design, but also witness the effects firsthand through a sample experience.
Takeaways: At the end of the session, attendees will get the opportunity to implement the Experience API into their learning activities and ultimately measure the effectiveness of online learning. The US Department of Education has approved a major overhaul of regulations relating to distance education that will go into effect July 1, This session will provide participants with an overview of the regulations related to regular and substantive interaction requirements for distance education.
Recent regulatory changes to the definition of distance education will have a profound impact on how instructional designers and faculty develop and teach distance education courses. These changes are particularly significant given the use of online education as a response to the COVID pandemic, the huge increase in the number of both faculty and students in online education courses, consumer expectations around the quality of online education, and accreditor attention to online education.
Attendees in this session will:. The session will incorporate a combination of didactic and interactive interactions.
Session speakers will provide ample time to answer participant questions. Join representatives from online learning units from the Big Ten Academic Alliance member institutions and hear about recommended criteria for success to guide higher education in a post-pandemic landscape.
This interactive session will provide opportunities for you to informally assess the state of your own organization and to explore ideas for growth. During Fall , representatives from the online learning units at each of the Big Ten Academic Alliance member institutions began to question what the educational landscape would look like post-pandemic at their respective universities. These institutions have had a multi-year history of cooperation and collaboration.
There was a general agreement that the way in which academic programs were delivered would not return to a pre-covid environment. A subgroup was then assembled to review what was happening at member institutions before and during the pandemic as well as outside sources in order to project major long-term trends that would impact educational programs.
The COVID pandemic and the accompanying rapid shift to remote and online learning has significantly accelerated many preexisting long-term challenges impacting the teaching mission of our Big Ten institutions, including:. Based on these findings and other input, the subgroup identified three major areas of interest on which to focus including: 1 Addressing the increasing demand for online learning and shift in demographics by emphasizing a new inclusive, equitable, and student centered lifelong learning service model; 2 Emphasizing and provide the infrastructure to support high quality, technology-enhanced learning driven by innovative pedagogy as a key differentiator in programs; and 3 Clearly articulating and delivering value to learners from their educational investment with an emphasis on more flexible, integrated offerings that align with in-demand workforce skills.
To address these areas, subgroup members each took a major section for the first iteration. Following the initial round, all subgroup members reviewed, added additional content, and further edited the sections. The full Big 10 group then submitted their comments. Multiple iterations were structured to provide for the maximum input from all institutions.
The outcome of this process was a discussion paper, complete with specific questions to pose, and recommendations on how it could be used by academic leadership at each member institution to encourage dialog and formulation of action items, while taking into consideration the unique characteristics of each institution. In this session, representatives from four of the Big Ten institutions will present the key findings addressing each of the key questions posed by the discussion paper in a highly interactive manner.
Further Reflection – Identify one group of stakeholders in this category you will reach out to. Closing – What might next steps look like for you? Who will you involve in this conversation? Who are the formal and informal influencers? Which governance groups and action committees should you connect with?
This session will focus on the efforts to create and maintain a quality online learning environment in response to institution wide changes and the current needs of higher education.
Shelley Kurland will share lessons learned through the process of creating and maintaining quality centralized distance education offerings through strategic planning, collaboration, leadership growth and fostering relationships. This session will reflect on the efforts to build a Virtual Campus in the midst of institution-wide changes, as well as suggested processes for institutionalizing these changes. She will also discuss the institutional response to these changes and the importance of strategic planning and institutional leadership to ensure culture change and quality in online course delivery.
Kurland will provide specific challenges and successes while encountering decades-long practices and culture regarding distance education at the institution. The initial transition included an institution wide-change that resulted in the establishment of a new academic division. Strategic planning, staying agile and relationship building were all important in the success of the initial transition and continue to be important as these changes are institutionalized across the college.
This presentation will discuss the challenges of establishing the Virtual Campus and provide insight into best practices to ensure the success of the new Virtual Campus. Use these 10 tips in your LMS to create more intuitive and friendly course navigation for students. Tips include organization, accessibility, and user-centered design. Course navigation is a critical component for student success and satisfaction.
Online learners should be able to complete course activities seamlessly with well-defined time frames and expectations. This session will explore 10 user-centered design tips that can be incorporated in your LMS to create a framework for exemplary online instruction. This action-oriented session is designed for all instructors and will apply best practices in online learning.
Topics include: course organization, time management, course aesthetics and accessibility, and empowering students with clear expectations. Apply strategies that increase student access and overall satisfaction in their LMS course design. Include action verbs in item names. We present cooperative research about how adaptive analytics combined with two variable domains improves the odds of student success in college algebra.
We will show that demographic predictors such as grade point average can be used as mediators for metrics that respond well to instruction. Adaptive platforms facilitate the design of courses and programs that personalize the student learning experience by customizing content while continually assessing learning outcomes.
Requisite learning time for students varies, impacted by variables such as students who face challenges with mathematics readiness or students expressing ambivalence for the subject matter. However, the structure of an adaptive course equips students with unique, real-time, adjusted learning paths underpinned by continuous assessment that can accelerate their learning or extend their learning space beyond traditional boundaries such as semesters, depending on their achievement levels. This presentation will describe a longitudinal, cross-institutional, adaptive learning evaluation between the research unit of the platform provider Realizeit , the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida, and Colorado Technical University.
Our 5-year continuing collaboration has taken place with the understanding that the three organizations must stay the course to achieve valid and meaningful information. After a contextualization of adaptive learning at our respective campuses and how we have accomplished collaborative research, we will discuss the methods and results from our ongoing analyses of the impact of educational analytics arguing that individual student prediction is not a tractable approach.
We contend that integrating student information system data with real-time class data provided by Realizeit effectively improves the odds of success for like student cohorts. We will present data about: 1. Assessing the granularity of adaptive courses, 2. Prototype analysis of student learning path behaviors, 3. Student success based on the institutional contexts, 4.
The possibility of real-time adaptive predictive analytics, 5. Simulating student behavior based on learning analytics, and 6. Implications of adaptive learning for helping underserved student populations. Used effectively, this innovation can positively impact teaching and learning in higher education. The work in this presentation relates the concept of intersectionality that emerged in the late 20th century addressing educational and financial inequity citing the impossibility of decoupling concepts such and poverty and racism and that their interaction is more impactful that either concept considered separately.
Understanding these principles and the basis of adaptive learning analytics can help us understand that one-to-one student prediction of risk or success must be based on the intersection of many components and that clearly the most effective approach is one that levels the playing field by increasing the odds of success. Nothing in higher education appears to operate independently because higher education is a complex system.
The interactions matter more than the nature of the units. Studying individual ants will almost never give us a clear indication of how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants.
It has been instrumental in catalyzing the rapid uptake of digital technologies and educational development opportunities. It has been alarming in the glee with which so many educators and institutions have willingly become brokers for surveillance capitalism.
And it has been especially revealing in the sudden prioritization of teaching and learning within post-secondary institutions. But what have the cracks in our pandemic pedagogies taught us? What lessons can we glean as we envision and plan for the future of online, digital, and blended learning? As part of this keynote and discussion we will explore what higher education might look like if we truly understood practices that centre inclusion, trust, and care as critical to learning.
Teaching in an online setting requires appropriately setting up and facilitating an environment that maintains the same rigor and support students receive in a face-to-face setting. With minimal funding and subsequent lack of support, teachers need to develop systems and resources on their own to ensure students remain engaged and motivated in their learning. This presentation will discuss tips, strategies, and tools that teachers can use and implement right away to provide a meaningful learning experience.
Teacher training and educational programs have focused instruction on pedagogy and strategies for a familiar brick-and-mortar classroom environment. This shift to online education has left teachers to develop strategies and tools on their own with very little guidance. Having spent the last year in a half working in and out of this new landscape, teachers have had insufficient time and training to develop the necessary tools and strategies needed.
As many teachers now know, using online content to support or enhance their curriculum is quite different from teaching entirely online. How can you create or maintain a rich and supportive classroom online? What tools, technologies, and methods have proven to be most useful? This presentation will answer these questions, and it will also suggest some strategies for making your time with students online feel constructive and rewarding.
Higher education needs to move towards a mentality of kindness in pedagogy and practice. The presenters will discuss how they implemented a process towards that through combination of active faculty course design collaborations and a focused discussion series on the different facets of the Pedagogy of Kindnes.
The pandemic shift to emergency remote instruction revealed there was not just a dearth of knowledge about best practices for teaching online, but a far more ingrained problem: a lack of necessary empathy in our courses by themselves. The Pedagogy of Kindness is a paradigm which restructures and reframes course design and teaching as a whole into a more collaborative, emphatic learning process- where accessibility and inclusiveness are woven into the design itself.
This reframing towards the Pedagogy of Kindness seeks to build learning experiences that are of higher quality, with better engagement, and inclusive and accessible to all. The massive shift online that occurred during the Spring semester was a major disruption to not just education, but our society as a whole. People lost their livelihoods, family members, and support systems. Instead of focusing on accomplishing learning goals, assessments were copied directly from the face to face environment, often relying on ineffective, invasive processes.
This extended beyond an approach to assessment. We were alarmed at the entrenched, unempathetic rhetoric coming from faculty who sought our support. It is important to note that much of this reasoning came from a place of misunderstanding, not malice. Faculty were often unaware of why such non-inclusive design is both harmful and ineffective at accomplishing goals.
Some of these alarming requests and ideas faculty shared with us were:. Hearing of extremely similar experiences from colleagues in other institutions, we realized this is an endemic and widespread problem.
Our office pursued a two pronged approach at changing this paradigm. Second, we facilitated a faculty run discussion series aimed at changing the mentality of the campus community as a whole.
As course design and review was an essential aspect of our existing training structure, it gave an easy window into making sure courses were in line with UDL and Pedagogy of Kindness best practices. An important, if not the most important component of these conversations, was backing up all best practices with extensive data and research. We found academics, if nothing else are extremely receptive to data backed arguments. As an example, if a faculty member was demanding to use remote proctoring invasive solutions for their assessments, our process would be as follows: First, we would identify the ultimate learning goals and objectives for the course.
Then, we would analyze if their test accurately and effectively assessed accomplishment of those goals. At the end of the collaboration, faculty mostly realized why remote proctoring which our campus does not support , will neither ensure academic integrity nor effectively assess students, and use a more authentic assessment model.
This process was repeated with great success with hundreds of faculty collaborations across disciplines. The expectations that faculty members had for students in an online environment were similar to that they had for them in person, which proved to be too unrealistic. This garnered a reset for faculty members to evaluate the practices they are putting forth in an online environment.
A faculty member who also worked in the Center for Teaching and Learning, noted that this was more than just a pedagogical problem but more of a problem of lack of kindness. Hence, the Pedagogy of Kindness discussion series came to fruition. The topics were tailored to the common issues in this vein that we noted in the faculty population at our institution.
The initial events in the discussion series were:. The main objectives of the sessions were to build community in the classroom through creation of learning collectives, establishing classroom boundaries during pandemic remote learning, effective alternative assessment styles for online learning, generation of mindfulness in the classroom such as syllabus transparency, being able to use trauma-informed teaching practices during a time of social reform, collaborative projects with international students and faculty, and creating a caring environment within the classroom.
The process of choosing the faculty presenters was mainly done through reaching out to the chairpeople of different departments on campus, asking them if any faculty members in their department had demonstrated incredible resonance with their students through the transition to distance learning. The panel discussions were excellent ways to demonstrate faculty within and across different disciplines course design, such as large-classes, asynchronous, and synchronous implemented the relevant Pedagogy of Kindness topic.
We found a discussion series was very effective for this series, as it provided experienced faculty with a platform and resources to share their experiences, while engaging directly with their peers. Our aim was to encourage organic and fluid discourse with the panelist s and the attendees. This allowed faculty members to be comfortable sharing their experiences while getting guidance and context for the related pedagogy of kindness topics.
Assessment: Efficacy of faculty collaborations and the series as a whole was gauged on the following metrics: First, the collaborations were measured against overall course design and how well they aligned with UDL and Pedagogy of Kindness guidelines. That was measured against faculty survey feedback and experience with the collaborative process and workshop as a whole. This information was used to adapt and improve on collaborations measures. Series impact will be measured by attendee feedback surveys, follow up requests, and longitudinal analysis of attendees implementation of topics through future collaborations.
We plan on expanding on topics that garnered the most interest during the series as well as offering related hands-on workshops on how these concepts are applied through other facets of teaching. One requested topic so far has been how to implement these essential pedagogies with a specific lens towards technology and online learning.
This is a highly participatory session. At key intervals defining the challenges that faculty bring and what strategies were used in other institutions , the presenters will poll the audience for how they handled similar scenarios and challenges.
A large chunk of the session will also be spent in scaffolded engagement breakout rooms. Essentially, after presenting the problem at large audience members will have the option of moving into a breakout room guided by a presenter focused on one following topics:.
Audience members who attend this session will emerge with a clear understanding of what the pedagogy of kindness is, how it applies to higher education, and why it is so important. They will have solid strategies on how to work with colleagues and faculty at their institutions on integrating the pedagogy of kindness strategies and methodologies into their courses.
They will also have a full framework of launching a similar series at their institutions. This interactive session will introduce the Purposeful Learning Framework to inform course design and delivery that creates effective outcomes for the greatest number and diversity of learners. Presenters will specifically demonstrate and engage participants in 5 principles for inclusive teaching and learning, with proven resources and methods for applying each. This session will begin with introductions by the presenters and sharing of their respective experience and expertise related to the topic.
Session participants will be asked to introduce themselves, how their role connects to the session topic, and what they hope to gain from the session.
Presenters will then share the designed session outcomes to inform participants and to ensure that needs of all participants are met, as much as possible. Discussion will begin by establishing that DEI efforts do not belong to one office or entity on campus, but rather are something critical to be mobilized through creating more inclusive learning experiences where all students see themselves as belonging, represented, and destined to succeed.
This will be shared in the context of a Purposeful Learning Framework, a set of objectives developed by the presenters and used to inform effective online-blended-hyflex course effectiveness. Presenters will emphasize critical course design and delivery aspects that proactively foster diversity, equity, and inclusion while increasing student success and closing equity gaps. It should be noted that all this is done without changing the course learning outcomes.
Participant sharing, input, and engagement will be fostered using multiple in-session active learning techniques. Multiple hands-on activities will enable participants to initiate their enhanced equity and inclusion plans in a learn-by-doing manner and to set goals for near-terms goals they will meet in going back to their respective roles post-conference. At the conclusion of the session, participants will be provided access to the Purposeful Learning Framework and a wealth of other related Creative Commons licensed resources demonstrated in order to enable their efforts to create the most inclusive learning experiences for their students.
Student recruitment for hybrid graduate programs can pose a challenge due to a variety of factors. Leaders can adopt the Community of Inquiry Framework to enhance student engagement in the educational experience. This session will generate ideas to develop social, teacher, and cognitive presence during a virtual student onboarding plan. The impact of COVID in healthcare education continues to evolve and forced educators to pivot from traditional face-to-face instruction to an online format rapidly.
Alternative modes of instruction required educators to rethink instructional methods for hands-on lab sessions. Social distancing, hand washing, and temperature checks became the new normal.
Mask wearing and protective gear kept faculty and students safe. Despite good intentions, students experienced the negative consequences of emergency remote instruction, leading to isolation, anxiety, and depression. How do you make connections with students in the virtual space during student onboarding activities?
Research shows that the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework supports social, cognitive, and teaching presence in online teaching and learning. Additionally, the literature also implies students may exhibit heightened levels of intrinsic responsibility to collaborate with educators and help solve the problems institutions face during the pandemic.
However, there is a gap in the literature that cites limitations with applying the Community of Inquiry framework throughout the new student onboarding process. As programs strive to build a sense of community, effective communication, collaboration, and reflection contribute to high levels of student engagement. The purpose of this research is to describe an online student onboarding program that supports student engagement and promotes student retention in a hybrid graduate Doctor of Physical Therapy DPT program in development.
Questions and answers will generate ideas for the participants to establish social, teaching, and cognitive presence. Building a sense of community and belonging is an integral part of the onboarding process for hybrid and online programs. The Community of Inquiry Framework can help educators select intentional learning activities that address social, teacher, and cognitive presence.
Through networking and sharing ideas with peers from other institutions, participants will have new ideas that can translate into virtual onboarding processes for future reference. Learning design is usually taught to faculty, but faculty are not usually the subjects of learning design. This presentation focuses on centering learning design on faculty using a variety of alternative subject matter experts to teach faculty how to operate an online course in times of crisis.
The subject of learning design most frequently centers on faculty learning and creating for the betterment of their students, but faculty themselves are less likely to be the direct subjects of the same efforts. At Mississippi State University, the Covid pandemic brought this disparity to the forefront as the entire institution shifted to bring over 3, courses online in a single week, with only one full-time employee dedicated to assisting faculty.
This presentation focuses on how many experts in varied technical fields came together to create an innovative, effective, and efficient method to assist faculty learning to teach online for the first time. This session will open with a brief introduction to how Mississippi State Online is structured, and then move into how we informed and mobilized the CRM coordinator, web developer, and student support coordinator into a viable technology unit actively assisting with moving courses online and answering faculty questions.
We will then explain the foundational knowledge that each specialty found missing in our faculty at large and how we used each technical specialization to address those gaps in more advanced faculty training and assistance. Finally, we will speak to how we are continually pulling on the varied technical expertise to create new and relevant training to assist faculty in teaching online.
Online proctoring now more than ever needs to not only provide test integrity but should also mitigate the stress and anxiety a student experiences while testing. In addition, many students also have specific testing accommodations which must be considered. A solution to creating a positive testing experience, while addressing the unique needs of both the student and the school, is not a one size fits all.
Attendees will walk away with actionable takeaways they can implement into their online proctoring program to create a more positive experience for students. Hear from HBCU leaders, as they share about the many challenges and opportunities for aligning their institutional mission to digital strategy, as well as what they have learned along the way while engaging in this work.
This collaborative workshop aimed to:. In this panel-style session the first session of our multipart Fusion Summit , we welcome back colleagues from that event to discuss the experiences with building out a digital learning strategy for their institutional contexts. Specifically, we will explore the challenges and opportunities that surfaced around the implementation of a digital strategy and the complexities of building capacity to support a digital learning strategy.
Session attendees will leave with a better understanding of the potential impact s of operationalizing digital learning strategies within higher education institutional contexts specifically HBCUs , as well as benefit from the critical guidance and expertise the panelists and session facilitator, Dr. Crisi Ford bring to the session. About the Fusion Summit: The success of the field of online, blended and digital learning is bolstered by the dimensions of diversity present across our community, centering practices of sharing and collaboration in support of student success.
Focusing on the quality characteristics of online learning as well as digital strategies prioritized by these visionaries through their work in online education, this multipart summit uses actionable design practices and collaborative work to create a community of practice supporting work well beyond the conference. The post-inoculation phase of the pandemic has raised serious questions about right-sizing the mix of instructional modalities to meet student demand, faculty readiness, institutional capability, and regional needs while simultaneously preparing to offset future challenges to normal operations.
The pandemic ushered in use of digital, blended, and online learning at scales never before imagined in higher education. Do the leadership structures of institutions and organizations play a role in the success of online and blended programs? How do reporting structures and departmental organization make a difference in how programs function and are supported? This primer offers insights for academic leaders who aim to create resilient institutions, providing strategies to adopt big picture thinking, respond to external factors, leverage the strengths of their institution, maximize relationships, and take strategic action to develop responsive planning in a post-inoculation era.
The time to go from reactive to strategic with regards to instructional modalities is now. In creating institutions that are able to adapt to growing needs, the promise of the resilient college and university is restorative and transformative. It provides a moment to create an orchestral arrangement of opportunities and experiences through strategic activities centering the student of our time and in preparation for the evolutionary student of the future.
Amidst changes in student demographics and projected enrollment declines with a backdrop of campus closures across the United States, we are aware of the urgency of the call to action to create resilient and nimble institutions for our post-inoculation future, adroit in all instructional modalities. To go from reactive to strategic, we must reflect on what we have learned during the pandemic about remote work and learning, nurture our capacity for big picture thinking, and capture the advantages of digital, blended, and online learning.
This session will discuss actionable strategies for how to apply them to the strategy, systems thinking, and intentional culture building that must follow. Our aim is to help you create and refine leadership systems that are scalable and adaptable to all future modality challenges our nation and its education system might face.
Join the conversation! We’ll discuss how we’ve advocated for a statewide LMS this past year in several states, why some states can benefit from education-related bills, and what a K collaborative is. We will share student survey results during the pandemic, and how we responded. Our University is a HSI, and also serves students from tribal communities facing health disparities. This presentation details instructional modifications and student supports, and follow-up survey results. Participants will gain ideas to support students during difficult times.
During the COVID pandemic, students struggled under the emotional weight, economic hardship, and logistical chaos of the evolving crisis. Students needed more from their degree programs than just adequate online classes—the uncertainty and isolation associated with COVID called for increased attention to student and community well-being, as well as modification to regular teaching practices.
In late Fall , we surveyed our students about their experiences and what they needed from their program. Our student body is wonderfully diverse and presents a range of unique challenges—our University is a HSI Hispanic-serving Institution , and we also serve a large number of students from tribal communities, students who may lack citizenship documentation, and those who are first-generation college students.
Additionally, our largely rural state lacks widespread access to broadband internet; the digital divide here runs deep. COVID death rates in tribal communities were significantly elevated, reflecting a serious health disparity. As a result, many of the challenges experienced throughout the country during the pandemic were amplified for our students. After sorting through our survey responses, several themes emerged: students were struggling with lack of reliable access to the internet and the costs associated with increased data usage, and were frustrated with certain features of the LMS and Zoom course delivery.
As a program with a large number of adjunct faculty, we needed to improve instructor consistency related to online teaching skills. Our students also identified that they were feeling the strain of isolation and were craving peer interaction. Students expressed how difficult it was to maintain motivation during this uncertain time, and to balance home, school and work expectations after their daily routines had been turned upside down by COVID After reviewing these concerns, we conceptualized a list of teaching and learning modifications, as well as additional student supports to address the increased mental health challenges.
In this presentation, we will share what we learned from that initial student survey and the details of the interventions we decided to try. We will share how we aimed to improve teaching, find new ways to create community, and address students’ emotional and academic needs. We will discuss specific Ideas that were subsequently implemented related to teaching; one of these was assigning all adjunct faculty an online mentor to offer training and assistance.
Instructors were given specific recommendations for LMS usage, as well as asynchronous training modules to help troubleshoot common issues. Simplification and consolidation of assignments was initiated by our Lead Instructors for all courses, and all faculty were encouraged to send weekly announcements to remind students of approaching due dates.
In a response to the isolation, mental health issues and other hardships that students were experiencing, we mobilized a number of resources to enhance wellness and increase a sense of connection within our learning community.
We increased use of breakout rooms during Zoom sessions, and provided ongoing social opportunities, including virtual student hangouts and social justice topic discussions open to all which allowed students to process current issues around racism, health disparities and immigrant experiences that were impacting the communities we serve. A few tangible resources were also offered to students, including a ream of paper and an office supply gift card.
For students experiencing a financial crisis due to lost wages or illness, referrals were made to the University emergency hardship funds. Not all of these ideas were successful; some were quickly tossed out or significantly adapted.
And like all institutions, our University has an administrative bureaucracy that does not always lend itself to rapid, agile changes. We look forward to sharing what we learned from our process of needs assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. We will explain how the follow-up student survey results are now informing our work going forward. Participants in this session will engage in a brief mindfulness activity, as an example of one activity that we utilized during this period to support student well-being.
The OLC Community is vibrant, collaborative, and inclusive. This session gives you the chance to let us know what services and experiences can make your OLC membership even more rewarding. From the website to the research center, to quality scorecards and collaborative learning events such as conferences and online gatherings, OLC is your partner supporting the entire online, blended, and digital learning strategy at your institution.
But, what more could we do? We want to hear from you – what can we do to make your community experiences more meaningful, useful, and extraordinary? Join us to imagine what. This panel discussion situates change-oriented and action-based work within a critical reflection on the ways in which we do and do not build and lead with models that center the diverse experiences and expertise in our community.
Join us for collaborative storytelling, strategy sharing, community building, and future landscape-reflecting. In the second session of our multipart Fusion Summit, Angela Gunder will moderate a panel of visionaries and leaders.
Together, they will engage in a dialogue around the future landscape of our field, focusing particularly on the ways in which we do and the ways in which we do not build and lead with models that center the diverse experiences and expertise in our community. Included in this commentary will be a critical reflection on the implications of our actions and leadership, as related particularly to our engagement with community experience and expertise.
Participants who attend this panel session will leave with a better understanding of key differences between the types of actions which serve to benefit the field of online, blended, and digital learning, and those which serve to further perpetuate harmful narratives and practices often western and colonial in our field. Apart from stories, panelists will offer up a digital strategy, model, or practice they have utilized in their educational spaces. They will contextualize their examples within the lessons they learned along the way, their own journeys in coming to understand the characteristics of quality online learning, and how they came to prioritize digital strategies that center diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Given that an explicit goal of the Fusion Summit is collaboration and community building, session panelists and the session moderator invite participants to bring to this session their own stories, along with any specific questions they have.
By applying an effective course quality review process to assess instructional strategies, design teams can impact student outcomes, alignment, and student satisfaction in competency-based education. In this presentation, we will provide evidence of improved student outcomes based on applying rigorous course quality review processes in our design and development.
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Anonymity is key to ensure fairness. As instructional designers, we follow various processes to develop quality online courses. During design and development, teams often experience setbacks in processes that are complicated and difficult to follow. These setbacks result in missed deadlines, stressful collaborations, and misunderstandings among team members.
Design teams often have to solve these problems by creating processes which not only work for their own immediate team, but that are also user-friendly for other stakeholders. One of the approaches in creating processes is to use technology tools to apply strategies that support evidence of rigor, outcomes, and alignment. We utilize technology tools to manage processes that create time and workflow efficiencies among team members as well as to quality check the instructional strategies that encourage student engagement.
The use of technology plays a critical role in addressing these challenges we face as instructional designers to develop and safeguard course quality through more streamlined processes. Course Quality Review. Creating a quality review process that all stakeholders are amenable in applying can be a challenge. To solve this problem, your design team can utilize technology tools which can streamline and clarify communications, track progress, and document possible project management issues.
In addition, sufficient use of these tools can create a more efficient and organized course quality review workflow among all stakeholders. This approach of utilizing a course quality review technology tool can assist your team to apply course quality benchmarks, apply strategies that improve student outcomes, and meet critical deadlines through more efficient workflows.
Review of Instructional Strategies Process. By incorporating rigorous practice for students through interactive means, your team can create an engaging course which will improve student outcomes in both performance and satisfaction.
The course quality review process using technology can also provide your team the means to ensure that effective instructional strategies are employed and reviewed for functionality and accuracy. An effective course quality review tool can create a more organized review and approval or hand-off process between instructional designer, subject matter experts, and faculty and can allow for a more organized review of the functionality of interactive tools within your course design.
Your design team can benefit from utilizing existing tools within your organization as a means to create a more time and workflow efficient quality review process. During this review process, a more impactful quality review of instructional strategies, interactive engagement, and content quality can be measured, tracked, and documented by the entire team. The use of technology to allow this approach will create not only an acceptable process among your team, but can contribute to impacting student satisfaction and performance within a quality course.
Come join us to learn more about how our team was able to achieve both a more harmonious development and thus improve the student experience and performance outcomes using a new approach. Level of Participation : Your plan for interactivity this is often overlooked – including a strong engagement strategy is one way you can significantly raise your scores during the evaluation process.
This session is designed to be an educational forum, with each panelist presenting details within 30 minutes on how our team applied the course review process during design and development. The presentation will include evidence of student satisfaction and performance as a result of applying this new quality review process. There will be a short 5 minute poll taken with our attendees before the presentation and a 10 minute poll after the presentation to also include a question and answer session.
Session Goals : What the attendees are going to learn from the presentation the takeaways. Attendees of this session will 1 learn how to use technology tools to create a more streamlined course review process within their team, 2 learn how benchmarks were used within this tool to review instructional strategies and content quality, 3 learn more about what benefits the approach provides for tracking progress, communications, and meeting deadlines.
Finally, attendees will 4 see evidence of how one course design and development process using this course review tool improved student outcomes and student satisfaction. Amid disruption and hardship, faculty reached students this past year in new and creative ways, to help them engage and keep learning. This panel will discuss how professional development in effective teaching practices empowered them through new skills and knowledge.
During this experience, faculty gained new skills for effective online teaching. During the discussion, the panelists will share strategies they will carry forward to create inclusive, effective learning environments—and that you can also implement in your courses. Join us for this presentation about the value of SARA, including cost savings that participating institutions realize.
We will summarize the findings of a recent national cost savings study completed by NCHEMS, demonstrate a cost savings calculator, and share the additional benefits of SARA for states, institutions, and students. The National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements NC-SARA , in collaboration with the four regional higher education compacts, was established to develop and implement an effective and efficient reciprocal state-level authorization process for postsecondary distance education.
SARA establishes comparable national standards for interstate distance education program offerings. These reciprocity agreements help streamline distance education regulations, improve coordination between states and higher education institutions, reduce costly application fees and staff time, and help ensure member states and participating institutions adhere to a set of basic consumer protections for students.
This report reveals the significant savings that institutions participating in SARA can realize. In particular, the report takes a detailed look at the estimated cost savings that result from SARA participation, examining how institutions save time and resources while also expanding access to quality distance education programs for students nationwide.
Additionally, the perspective of an institution will lead a discussion on the benefits to students of SARA participation. Join us as we address some key points faculty should consider when adopting an online proctoring solution when assessed against the measures of fairness and reliability.
Institutions may have access to a multitude of tools to help them achieve this objective. Faculty must return to this purpose before introducing any new technology that may impact the fairness and reliability of the measures they are implementing.
The reliance on AI and machine learning algorithms alone, without human objectivity, for such a task like making determinations on human behavior, is a risky proposition. Many students have attested to this point over the past year and have demanded more transparency and accountability from their institutions and the technology vendors. Join us for this session that will address some key points faculty should consider when assessed against the measures of fairness and reliability.
Join the conference leadership and planning team for an introduction to all of the exciting events, programming, and ways to engage and connect in this conference kickoff session.
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China has the most number of international schools with almost in the country and will need at least to double that in the coming years to service the likely demand from high net worth families and the growing middle-class population. International education is one of the most commercialized aspects of the higher education, with millions of students travelling abroad each year to study overseas, undertake summer school or exchange programs, or as a pathway into higher education via English language and foundations studies.
Discoverable digital resources for teachers, facilitators and even those aimed at parents provide an easy to find, curate and contextualized content for teaching — saving hundreds of hours creating or searching for content and lessons. Not just covering the core curriculum, digital content, activities and instructional guidance also help teachers with age appropriate resources for skills such as critical thinking using authentic scenarios.
Ready-made interactive online resources and printable worksheets integrate on- and off-line learning. In addition to proprietary providers, peer to peer teacher sharing platforms engage tens of thousands of teachers, rewarding popular and well-designed resources with micro-payments and community kudos.
As learning productivity tools, apps are more popular with digitally savvy generations. Easy to use, organize, tag and find, study note tools are increasingly integrated with operating systems think Chrome extension.
Study and homework organizers range from tools for collating, and finding, going paperless by scanning and storing study papers, annotating and notetaking on PDFs, and putting together citations and bibliographies. Other apps in this category assist students organize their classes, assignments and exams while synchronizing across devices. Arguably the fastest growing segment in the Asian EdTech space, online and offline after school tutoring and coaching supports millions of students every day of the week in thousands of online and offline classrooms and clinics.
Whether learning English to better prepare for high school exams, remaining competitive in mathematics or undertaking broader critical thinking skills training to prepare for SAT-style exams, after school tutoring and coaching in core areas remains vastly popular, particularly in competitive, exam focused cultures. Technology enables high quality digital alternatives to physical classes and have been a catalyst for huge scale and broader access.
Tutoring platforms match tutors with student needs and provide interactive online class spaces for synchronous instruction. High stakes exams such as language tests, university admissions and entry into professions still feature heavily in the education landscape. As such, test preparation remains a thriving part of the sector, with more online and personalized options available.
As the cornerstone of learning, assessment design, delivery, grading and feedback has been digitized significantly over the past fifteen years. Now far beyond multiple choice question banks, technology solutions are enabling everything from online proctoring, handwriting and audio to text, analysis of video assessment, robust peer-grading systems and assessment design tools.
AI applications in text analysis supports machine-grading of complex written work and identification of engagement and participation in online classrooms. As careers are increasingly made up of many jobs or gigs, which are digital in nature, systems for capturing and recording work output are extending beyond the creative professions.
Digital portfolio platforms provide the opportunity to showcase non-academic work, while code repositories are effectively showcases of programming skills. Traditional credentials provided by universities and other educational institutions are less able to service the need for more granular verification of specific technical, content and professional knowledge and skills.
A number of proprietary and open badging and credentialing services are now available, which manage the design, issue and management of digital badges, allowing learners to evidence their learning, and keep digital credentials from different providers attached to their online social and professional profiles.
Blockchain technology is now powering a number of these providers, thus enabling tamper-proof, shareable and immutable records. Partnerships and integrations between traditional institutions and credentialing providers offers new possibilities. Tools in this space support the new job seeker as well as providing B2B solutions for government and industry managing workforce and industry transitions.
Other platforms use artificial intelligence to improve job-seeking performance through automated resume evaluation and feedback, online interview practice with a robo-interviewer and in-depth interview analysis and feedback.
Self-exploration tools help individuals identify their strengths and preferences and identify career possibilities and pathways. Employers are increasingly seeking evidence of candidate skills rather than just relying on education qualifications for hiring decisions.
Using artificial intelligence, solutions in this category assess in demand skills such as creative and critical thinking, problem-solving and communication. Understanding individual preferences, styles and traits and matching these against employer needs and profiles, or team culture fit are also part of this landscape, with some apps focusing on enabling graduates to uncover their skills and match these with employer needs.
From labor market analytics that help governments, universities and employers make decisions and understand local labor markets to platforms that assist in supporting whole workforces successfully transition into the fourth industrial revolution.
New models that take full advantage of big data are disrupting traditional talent acquisition processes with the promise of finding better matches, lowering search and turnover costs and eliminating bias from the hiring process. Others in this cluster are focusing on matching qualified talent by recirculating candidates who are not hired at one firm into their network of organizations or those that combine training solutions with outsourcing graduates as temp talent.
New players are prioritizing a full suite of features from on-demand video screening, mobile first interfaces to conversational AI chat-based candidate hiring. Solutions in this category are focused squarely on supporting organizations to keep their workforce engaged and updated with the capabilities required across the company, whenever and where ever needed. Rewarding, recognizing and managing performance solutions range from apps that focus on individual and team recognition for performance, to systems that provide non-salary benefits and rewards, to administrative systems for managing remuneration.
New solutions in this category aim to minimize complexity and provide a digital experience for staff as well as making full use of the data that is captured in these systems to support predictive intelligence and identify compliance issues in advance. Other solutions focus on ensuring that organizations can easily collect and act on staff feedback to support a positive work culture and collective performance.
Taking a holistic approach to staff management, solutions in this space range from re-inventing processes such as managing health benefits, to apps that support employee engagement, motivation and development through online community-building, creative challenges and health-habit improvement tools. Integrated solutions for companies also incorporate well-being assessments, wellness coaching and biometrics screening.
Other tools provide mechanisms for dealing with workplace conflict, giving tough feedback, preparing staff for performance review processes and other stressful work situations. In K12 and Higher Education solutions are supporting cyber safety, managing bullying, physical and mental health support for kids and young adults.
As workers in the twenty first century will likely have many jobs and multiple careers through their adult lives, they will need to constantly update knowledge and skills to remain relevant and able to fulfil ever changing job requirements.
Organizations in this cluster fulfil this need with on demand training in everything from digital skills, safety and compliance to hobbies and creative pursuits. Operating B2C, B2B2C and B2B models, companies are beginning to use these providers to manage their whole workforce onboarding and training needs, attracted by the ability to add your own content or use extensive provider libraries and easy monitoring and tracking functionality.
Other peer-based platforms highlight the community and social aspects of learning, encouraging members to actively contribute and become a trainer. Gaining practical experience in an area of career interest remains highly sought after by most students and universities are increasingly incentivized to provide internships as part of their programs. However, internship opportunities are hard to find and traditionally reserved for the elite few. Platforms specializing in promoting internship opportunities help to match candidates with employers and virtual internship models go one step further, allowing students to get hands-on experience while working remotely.
These models are increasingly popular as companies become adept at managing a remote workforce and technology is able to support virtual team collaboration and workflow. With a long-held tradition of practice-based learning with a mentor, apprenticeships have dominated vocational education for centuries. Over the last ten years there has been increased recognition of the importance of practical, vocational training both in traditional and in new skills that will be required of future workforces.
However, conventional apprenticeship models are hard to scale and new solutions are emerging to solve the scale issue. Combining online courses, mentoring platforms, skills assessment and on-site practice-based training, these blended models are becoming more accepted.
Meanwhile, technology is now supporting significant elements of traditional apprenticeship programs such as virtual reality training and video assessment of skills. Systems such as these are likely to become a more accepted and popular way of fulfilling specific projects or tasks as skills shortages in some geographies are balanced by a large number of trained and ready workers in other parts of the world, in particular in emerging economies.
Peer to peer mentoring platforms connecting alumni and students are enabling meaningful connections and scale that were not possible in face to face, localized models. Other services combine structured learning with one to one mentoring, where learners work through content and are paired with a mentor already working in the field.
On demand marketplaces connect professionals in specific fields such as coding, to enable project feedback and coaching. Platforms designed to support organizational mentoring programs manage matching, workflow, communication and administration, reducing manual processes and allowing mentoring programs to scale.
Global technology companies provide infrastructure, applications and services to support institutions, in both administration and increasingly learning contexts. Traditionally servicing consumer and business, tech companies are seeking to become the ecosystem platform for the education sector. Global publishing houses still provide a significant proportion of formal learning resources especially in the higher education and high school environments.
With traditional publishing business models under threat, publishing houses are investing in EdTech products and moving to digitize their traditional products and product delivery. Back to top. Firms, individuals and government organizations support education innovation by providing capital funding through direct investment, grants and equity financing.
In addition to traditional investment houses, corporate venture funds within education organizations, publishers and later stage EdTech startups also undertake EdTech investment and acquisition activity Back to top. Accelerator and incubator programs provide much needed support and structure for early stage EdTech entrepreneurs, from those with an idea through to assisting startups to develop their business model, pitch and product, through to help finding investors.
Typically between months in length, accelerator programs provide working space, structured support via programs and mentoring, and cash funding, often in exchange for a small percentage of equity.
There are a handful of dedicated EdTech accelerators globally and many education startups participate in broader programs allowing for collaboration across sectors. EdTech and education innovation events range from mega-conferences and expos to small meetups and practice sharing sessions. Events provide a focus for learning about specific topics, sharing practices and making connections to people working in the broader education ecosystem.
Expo events provide opportunities for products and services to connect with potential customers. Large EdTech conferences attract a global audience and allow connections between thought leaders, entrepreneurs, teachers, government, investors and service providers.
National and international awards are fewer in number but range from effective use of technology in teaching and teaching innovation awards, through to tech-product awards in the education sector. Sort original order name symbol number. Education Management. Traditional Models. New Delivery Models. Experiencing Learning. International Education. Learning Support. Management Em 6 B2B.
Pre K Pk 11 B2C. Language Lrn L 26 B2C. Workforce Wp 41 B2B. Learning Env Le 7 B2B. School S 12 B2C. Language Test Lt 27 B2C. Talent Acq T 42 B2B. Curriculum Cu 3 B2B. Class Tech Ct 8 B2B. Vocational V 13 B2C. Development Cd 43 B2B2C.
Admissions Ad 9 B2B. Alternate Al 14 B2C. Bootcamp 2. Intl Schools Is 29 B2C. Performance Pm 44 B2B. Finance Fi 10 B2C. University U 15 B2C. Test Prep Tp 35 B2C. Mentoring Mn 50 P2P. Investors I 52 B2B. Accelerators Ac 53 B2B. Log changes and suggestions via Github Visit GitHub.
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Knowledge Discovery. Open Research. Educational Resources. Education Management Platforms. Learning Environments. Classroom Technology. Admissions Platforms. Pre K. Alternate Schools. Proprietary Online. Online Program Managers. Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality. XR has the potential to solve key learning challenges such as engagement, but also offers the opportunity for lower cost training in high stakes situations such as medical, defence and aerospace XR startups focusing on education range from mobile solutions that allow multi-use in schools, the redefinition of experiential learning, to alternative models for vocational training in physical trades and lab learning.
Voice, Chat and Wearables. The development of artificial intelligence, voice recognition, GPS and micro-processing technology now supports innovations in both the administration of education as well as learning processes Chat bots are widely used to assist student choice for providers and courses, while voice enabled hardware is being installed in college dorm rooms to provide personalized information and in classrooms as teaching assistants.
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