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Admissions Center 320 N DuPont Highway New Castle, DE 19720 |
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Wilmington University proudly hosted the 2011 Fall Northeast eLearning Consortium Symposium and User Group Meeting on Friday, November 4, 2011. The theme for this meeting was “Transforming Education Through Collaboration.” Research shows that increased interaction between instructors and students have a direct correlation with student achievement. Therefore it is pivotal for higher education institutions to use collaboration technologies to enhance the learning experience of students. |
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This includes the use of web 2.0 tools and pedagogical strategies which focus on sharing and utilize multimedia. This is of particular importance within the online learning environment as students find it hard to connect with their instructor. Additionally, this meeting will allow for collaboration among peers supporting course management systems, course design, instructional technology and online learning initiatives with an opportunity to share best practices and develop work relationships in an often isolated profession. Overall Meeting FeedbackThe attendees completed evaluation forms to provide feedback on the quality of sessions and the meeting overall. Below is a wordle which summarize their responses.
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We have organized 12 sessions to ensure we cover topics that are beneficial to these 4 major job functions:
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You will have the opportunity to attend any of the sessions. Expect to walk away with real world examples and strategies that will help you more effectively use web 2.0 tools and pedagogical strategies within your own institution.
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Rm. 311 |
Rm. 312 |
Rm. 309 |
Collaborate with Peers |
8:30 - 9:00am |
Registration and Breakfast |
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9:00 - 9:50am |
Vista to Learn/Self Hosted to Managed |
eLearning: Talk It Out, Using Voice in Your Course |
Blackboard: What is your Mobile Strategy? |
Course Designers |
10:00 - 10:50am |
Breaking the Ice: Creating Video Resources for Fostering Community in the Virtual Classroom |
Using Web-based Videoconferencing to Extend the F2F Experience to Distance Learners |
Approaches to Course Design |
IT and System Administrators |
11:00 - 11:50pm |
Keynote Presentation – The Blackboard Learn™ Platform Product Roadmap |
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12:00 - 12:50pm |
LUNCH |
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1:00 - 1:50pm |
Learn How to Enhance Your Institution’s Blackboard Learn™ Implementation with Rich Media |
Teaching Online Teachers in the Synchronous Classroom: Practices and Pitfalls |
Creating a Three-Year Strategic Plan for Online Learning |
Instructional Technologists |
2:00 - 2:50pm |
Apply Online: Using Wimba or Collaborate for Information Sessions and Boosting Enrollment |
Be VOCAL: How to Be a Successful Online Instructor |
The Integration of 21st Century Technology in the College Classroom |
Online Learning Leaders |
2:50 - 3:00pm |
Closing Remarks and Door Prize Drawing - Must be present to win |
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Format: Track Session
Topic: Technology
Abstract: Many universities are dealing with keeping enrollment stable or growing. See how the Educational Technology, Admissions, and Recruiting departments can team up to offer online information sessions to prospective distance and local students. There is very little technical skill needed to gain results.
Full
Description: Maintaining a growing enrollment in this economy is on the minds of many colleges and universities. By using either Wimba or Collaborate, see how Wilmington University combined the resources of Educational Technology, Admissions, and Recruiting to hold online information sessions. See the preparation involved and get an understanding of how to hold an information session online that would attract potential distance as well as local students. The logistics for three departments to merge online will be highlighted by the personnel involved.
Presenter(s): Dean Davis, Jeffrey Martino, Misty Williams
Format: Track Session
Topic: Teaching
Abstract: This session is geared toward course developers, course designers, and online faculty.
Full
Description: This session will focus on using the Backward Design model in course planning and provide examples of best practices for implementing content into a Course Management System(specifically Blackboard 9.1).
Presenter(s): Meghan Erickson, Kelly Winchell, and Stephen Buchanan
Format: Track Session
Topic: Teaching
Abstract: The acronym VOCAL reflects five basic principles of effective online communication with students. This workshop will discuss methods that help enhance Visibility, Organization, and Compassion, being Analytical, and Leading by example in the online classroom.
Full
Description: The online learning environment can be a challenge when it comes to teaching and management techniques. It requires a unique group of teaching practices; ones that are not bound by physical classroom walls. The VOCAL approach to teaching online presents key elements that an instructor uses to be effective in the online environment. VOCAL is an acronym for Visible, Organized, Compassionate, Analytical, and Leader-by-Example. When an instructor brings forth these characteristics into their instructional repertoire, it only serves to promote a supportive, rigorous, and constructive environment. By being VOCAL, students are more informed, more involved, and more successful.
Presenter(s): Sandra Bennett and C. Joshua Simpson
Format: Track Session
Topic: Teaching
Abstract: Fostering a sense of community in an online
course presents a unique challenge. Conveying a sense of persona
enables faculty to quickly build collaborative relationships with their
students. Multimedia options provide faculty with a forum for offering
an enhanced level of personalization. Faculty and IT collaborate in
creating video resources.
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Description: With minimal to no face-to-face
interaction, fostering a sense of community in an online course is
challenging. Students may find it hard to connect with their faculty. As
a result, students may feel isolated and neglect reaching out to their
faculty when assistance is truly needed. Conveying a sense of character
and personality enables faculty to quickly build collaborative
relationships with their students. Personalization is pivotal in
establishing good rapport and open communication between the faculty and
the student. Current practice typically involves online faculty posting
a photograph and a short faculty bio in the contact information section
of their LMS. Although informative, this static format can better
translate into a tool for cultivating community. A more dynamic faculty
introduction can be driven through collaboration with IT. Creating a
short 1 – 2 minute introductory video allows the faculty to personally
vocalize and share their educational and work background. Multimedia can
enhance description of vital content or emphasize essential points.
Furthermore, it is a favorable way to create a positive first impression
that will set the tone for the remainder of the course.
Presenter(s): Denise Westbrook, Jeffrey Jarrell
Format:Panel Discussion
Topic: Teaching
Abstract: This workshop will present participants
with a roadmap for creating a three-year strategic plan for online
learning at their institution.
Full
Description: This workshop will present participants
with a roadmap for creating a three-year strategic plan for online
learning at their institution. The components of the strategic plan
include course development and program completion, student services and
support, instructional technology, faculty development, and marketing.
The presenters will guide participants through a practical approach to
the strategic planning process and initiate conversations that will help
make the process relevant to each participant.
Presenter(s): Eileen Donnelly, Tish Gallagher, Bonnie Kirkpatrick, Sallie Reissman
Format: Track Session
Topic: Teaching
Abstract: Add voice recordings to supplement course
content and provide additional feedback to the student. This session
will discuss methods of utilizing audio in the classroom and offer
‘sound’ advice to the instructor. The audio enhanced classroom allows
instructors to communicate in the student’s digital world.
Full
Description: Today, students use a variety of technology to explore digital media.
The use of voice provides an effective means of communicating with
students. You will learn about many tools which can be used to record
voice; from lapel microphones, headsets, desktop microphones, voice
recorders, iPods, iPhones, android devices, laptops, software, apps, and
a good sound card, instructors can record one’s voice to provide a rich
learning environment.
•Learn ways to narrate a PowerPoint presentation so students can review and playback instruction.
•Utilizing the Blackboard LMS, you can add voice announcements and
voice emails to communicate effectively and remind students about
upcoming events.
•Instead of writing comments on a paper, learn how to record audio
and add it to a document easily and post it back to students as feedback
to user.
•Use your voice to make a Jing screencast (audio/video tutorial) to
provide directions to your students. Sometimes, you not only have to
spell it out, you have to ‘talk it out’ for the learner.
•Learn about eReader, a voice reader for web pages.
•Also, provide students an opportunity to collaborate using
VoiceBoard in your Blackboard course, and using voice to collaborate in a
VoiceThread or a Voki.
Presenter(s):
Mary Beth Youse
Format: Track Session
Topic: Teaching
Abstract: With the advent of online video, audio, and
podcasts, students are arriving at institutions of higher education with
increasingly higher expectations for online access to rich media
coursework and other university-related content. Learn how to enhance
your institution’s Blackboard Learn™ implementation with rich media.
Participate in an open discussion of multimedia best practices.
Full
Description: Join us for a discussion around best practices
for the use of media in education and an introduction to ShareStream.
See ShareStream’s new Building Block for Blackboard Learn™ in action.
Rich media—video, audio, podcasts, and lectures synchronized with
slides—is proliferating across universities and colleges at a rapid
rate, and has quickly become a key component of learning.
To fulfill rising demand for media for teaching and learning—for
licensed media that requires digital rights management,
faculty-generated content, and student-generated content—institutions
face the challenge of implementing a scalable, secure, and easy-to-use
solution for rich media tightly integrated with Blackboard Learn™.
However, implementing a rich media strategy that fulfills the needs of
wide arrays of user groups across an institution that does not create a
workflow burden for staff is challenging.
The ShareStream Rich Media Platform and ShareStream Building Block for
Blackboard Learn™—which was developed in collaboration with Georgetown
University—provides a turnkey system for uploading, editing, storing,
managing and securely delivering rich media assets, designed
specifically for educational institutions for integrating media into
online courses and university communications. We will review the
solution and discuss best practices for implementation.
Presenter(s):
Bill DiPietro and Gayraud Townsend, ShareStream
Format: Track Session
Topic: Teaching
Abstract: Synchronous sessions add warmth to an
online course but also add complexity and time. I will report on our
tips for managing the synchronous classroom based on three years using
Wimba Live Classroom in a certification course for online instructors.
Full
Description: The virtual classroom experience with tools like Wimba Classroom and
Elluminate is warm and immediate, unlike the mostly text-based anytime
experience of threaded discussion. In real time, group decisions can be
made in seconds, rather than in days or weeks that may be required in
the asynchronous space. The synchronous environment, however, requires
more planning, more equipment and a very specific time commitment.
Pitfalls of the synchronous classroom include the unscheduled
participant, the overscheduled teacher, the second class technology
handicap and the sage on the virtual stage. These potential pitfalls
can be avoided through preparation and practice.
Preparation:
Practice:
Format:
Track Session
Topic: Technology
Abstract: The Blackboard Learn roadmap will be discussed, including the Course Delivery, Community Engagement, Content Management and Outcomes Assessment products. Blackboard Learn 9.1 Service Pack 8 will be highlighted and a Collaborate 11 demo will be conducted.
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Description: This session will provide insight into the product roadmap for Blackboard Learn, including Course Delivery, Community Engagement, Content Management, and Outcomes Assessment products. We?ll give a little insight into our Service Pack strategy as well as what?s coming in Service Pack 8 and beyond. You will also learn how Blackboard is preparing its products for emerging trends in education - online collaboration and the application of social media to learning. Following the roadmap presentation will be a Collaborate 11 demo and discussion.
Presenter(s): Greg Ritter, Cathy Fowler
Format:
Track Session
Topic: Teaching
Abstract: Technological advancements double every two
years and our students are many times leaps and bounds ahead of us
[their college professors] in the area of technology. Join this
interactive workshop to discuss a learning centered approach to the
integration of technology into your classroom. Walk away equipped with
easy and usable technology that you can integrate immediately to support
learning in your traditional, blended or online classroom.
Full
Description: The selection and use of technology to
facilitate student learning in the college classroom will be emphasized.
The attendees will experience a lively, interactive session regarding
the use of technology to enhance classroom instruction and management.
Attendees will leave this session equipped with resources that they may
integrate immediately into their college classroom whether it be a
traditional, blended or online format. Some of the technology discussed
will include, but not be limited to the use of social network sites,
wikis, Prezi, Google Sites, etc. The overall goal of the workshop is to
provide strategies for the integration of technology to improve
effectiveness of instruction thus accommodating diverse learning needs
in the college classroom.
Presenter(s):
Tracey Pritchard
Format:
Track Session
Topic: Teaching
Abstract: Analysis of journals kept by students
attending class remotely via DimDim and Adobe Connect has identified
factors leading to effective use of Web-based videoconferencing to
extend the face-to-face experience to distance learners. This
presentation demonstrates the technology, identifies the themes, and
recommends the best practices that are emerging.
Full
Description: Delaware is a long and narrow state that
creates logistical issues for downstate students to attend classes on
the University of Delaware's main campus located in northern Delaware.
To solve this problem, we are investigating the use of Web-based
videoconferencing to extend the face-to-face experience to distance
learners. We began with a cloud-based collaboration service called
Dimdim that provided real-time videoconferencing, chatroom, and screen
sharing. When Salesforce.com acquired Dimdim in January 2011, we
switched to Adobe Connect, which currently hosts the videoconferencing,
chatroom, and screen sharing aspects of the project reported here. To
gauge the effectiveness of this project, students have been journaling
in an online discussion forum about their experiences with Dimdim and
Adobe Connect. We are conducting a thematic analysis of these journal
entries, which are overwhelmingly positive. Informed by this analysis,
we are compiling best-practice guidelines for professors to use
videoconferencing. This presentation demonstrates the technology,
identifies the themes, and recommends the best practices that are
emerging.
Presenter(s):
Dr. Fred Hofstetter
Format:
Track Session
Topic: Technology
Abstract: One school's experience moving from self hosted Vista to managed hosted Blackboard Learn.
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Description: Discussion of our LMS Project from
evaluation through selecting and implementing a new product. Factors to
consider: communication, training, marketing, support, migration
strategy. Current status and next steps.
Presenter(s):
Richard Stein
Format:
Track Session
Topic: Technology
Abstract: As Mobile solutions become ever more prevalent in Higher Education what might be the primary components of an effective strategy? This session will focus on market dynamics, best practices and potential cornerstones of an effective institution wide Mobile Strategy.
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Description: As Mobile solutions become ever more prevalent in Higher Education what might comprise the primary components of an effective strategy? This session will focus on market dynamics, best practices and potential cornerstones of an effective institution wide Mobile Strategy. There are several schools of thought that drive strategic mobile direction. We will discuss these as well as benefits and drawbacks of each. We will also take this knowledge and present the concepts in a framework of what makes up an effective strategy for such a technology. A discussion about how one makes a value decision once a selection on a direction is made will culminate the first phase of the session. Montgomery Community College of PA will then share certain insights and experiences to their deployment of MobileLearn as well as share the strategic drivers that led them to deployment. If time allows a short discussion on Blackboard's solutions may also be included.
Presenter(s):
Jim Brown
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Greg Ritter
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Cathy Fowler
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Mary Beth Youse
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Caroline County Public Schools
Delaware Technical & Community College
Montgomery County Community College
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Selected sessions were recorded for archive and viewing purposes. Additionally, some of the presentations were shared by the presenters for attendees to download. The available session captures and presentations are below.
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Tegrity Lecture Capture (audio & presentation) |
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Apply Online: Using Wimba or Collaborate for Information Sessions and Boosting Enrollment |
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Be VOCAL: How to Be a Successful Online Instructor |
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Blackboard Collaborate Demo |
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Breaking the Ice: Creating Video Resources for Fostering Community in the Virtual Classroom |
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Creating a Three-Year Strategic Plan for Online Learning |
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eLearning: Talk It Out, Using Voice in Your Course |
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The Integration of 21st Century Technology in the College Classroom |
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Vista to Learn/Self Hosted to Managed |
