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![]() | SAN Meeting for SAN Members only (invited event) Wednesday, October 12th. Please select this box if you plan to attend Ballroom 3-4 Facilitator: Marianne Boeke, Senior Associate, NCHEMS Facilitator: Cheryl Dowd, Director, SAN, WCET This session is reserved for WCET State Authorization Network (SAN) Coordinators. Beginning with a gathering on Tuesday night, participants will create the personal relationships that build the network. The SAN meeting will include special guest presentations. The coordinators will also identify priorities for activities to be placed in the SAN statement of work for the coming year. Breakfast and lunch provided on Wednesday. |
![]() | Creating & Diffusing Online Instructional & Institutional Practices From Data & Evidence Excelsior + Lafayette Facilitator: Rachel Cusatis, Instrumentation Innovator - Research, National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements (DETA) Facilitator: Tanya Joosten, Director, eLearning Research and Development, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The session is round table brainstorming discussions that takes finding from a cross-institutional study (10+ institutions) on distance education (blended, online, and CBE) and challenges the participants on determining how to interpret these findings, turn them into practice, and develop diffusion processes across the institution. We often hear people discuss data-driven decisions or evidence-based practices, yet many times the data and evidence that is driving our decisions and our practices within our educational institutions lacks the rigor of empirical research. The DETA Research Center spent two years designing research models and conducting rigorous research in higher ed across a dozen institutions (2-year and 4-year) to help us identify effective instructional and institutional practices in blended and online courses and programs. The research models including guides to research, survey instrumentation packet, data codebooks, shared definitions, and operationalizations of variables were shared in the DETA Research Toolkit. The data from student surveys and institutionally warehoused data allowed us to gather empirical findings as to what actually works for the students, in particularly underrepresented students, rather than administrators, instructors, or instructional support staff deciding on anecdotal, experience, or assumptions based on partial or inaccurate data. This sessions brings those cross-institutional findings in blended and online learning and ask the participants -- what do we do next? It is round table brainstorming discussions that takes these finding from this large on distance education (blended, online, and competency-based education) and challenges the participants on determining how to interpret these findings, turn them into practice, and develop diffusion processes across the institution. Results alone are useless. • Let's talk about how to interpret these results and determine what they mean for us and our institutions. • Let's talk about whether or not we can turn these results into practices in our organizations, and if so, what practices would we develop. • Let's talk about how we would diffuse these innovative practices across our institutions for students, instructors and faculty, support staff, and administrators. Preconference workshops are free for WCET Members and $75.00 for non. |
![]() | E-learning Consortia Workshop – Learning from Each Other, Working Together St. Croix 1 Facilitator: Kevin Corcoran, Executive Director, Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium Facilitator: Tricia Donovan, Executive Director, eCampusAlberta Facilitator: Carol Gould, Executive Director, Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance Facilitator: Russ Poulin, Director, Policy and Analysis, WCET Facilitator: Sue Maes, Co-director, Institute for Academic Alliances at Kansas State Are you leading or actively participating in a multi-institutional partnership that shares academics, student support services, or technical services? If yes, this workshop is designed for you to learn from others and design new ways to cooperate across institution or across consortia. The session will begin with sharing of lessons learned in the development, operation, and evolution of successful (and maybe some not-as-successful) consortia. You will participate in small group discussions on innovations being implemented from other consortia. We will also identify projects on which consortia could partner or work collectively. Bring your ideas! |
![]() | Optimizing Student Success Should Be Your Institution’s #1 Strategy Grays + Wayzata Speaker: Linda Baer, Senior Fellow, Civitas Learning Speaker: Lisa Foss, Associate Vice President and Associate Provost for Strategy, Planning and Effectiveness , St. Cloud University Speaker: Don Norris, President and Founder, Strategic Initiatives Many institutions have substantially enhanced student success through a variety of data-supported best practices and interventions. By leveraging predictive and prescriptive analytics, leading institutions are demonstrating the capacity to optimize student success. Data analytics has matured to the point where many institutions have developed effective initiatives for collecting and analyzing data and are moving towards effective strategies for student success. Attend this interactive workshop to learn how to enhance and eventually optimize student success. Data analytics experts Don Norris and Linda Baer will guide attendees through the process of: • Assessing the current state of student success through case studies and reflection on their on institutional strategies. • Connecting the student success dots at their institution (who to include, key metrics, strategies). • Learning about the seven dimensions of student success. • Developing a roadmap for optimizing student success. This workshop will be hands-on and collaborative, bring your experiences and ideas. Attendees will receive a copy of the white paper "What Every Leader Needs to Know about Student Success Analytics." Preconference workshops are free to members and $75 for non. Workshop slides |
![]() | WCET Academic Leadership Forum (by Invitation) Spring Park Bay Facilitator: Constance Johnson, Chief Academic Officer/Provost, Colorado Technical University Facilitator: Diane Auer Jones, President and CEO, AJSquared Consulting Facilitator: Matthew Prineas, Vice Provost and Dean The Undergraduate School, University of Maryland University College Facilitator: Dick Senese, Interim President, Capella University The WCET Academic Leadership Forum is an invitational meeting of chief academic officers. The Academic Leadership Forum provides academic leaders with a peer-to-peer opportunity to network and discuss issues of common interest and concern |
![]() | Opening Keynote: Iteration and Innovation in Education Ballrooms 1-2 Speaker: Jaime Casap, Chief Education Evangelist, Google, Inc As the world gets more connected, it also gets more complex. We now operate on a global scale and our job in education is to help learners develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities they will need to thrive in this new environment. We are preparing them to solve global problems we haven’t defined yet, using technology that hasn’t been invented, in roles that do not exist. To thrive in this new era, learners need to know how to learn, engage, create, collaborate, communicate, and to think critically. We need to continually iterate and innovate education in pursuit of making it a powerful, effective, and engaging learning experience. View the recorded session. |
![]() | How Open Educational Resources are Being Used and Implemented (Part I) Ballroom 3-4 Moderator: TJ Bliss, Program Officer, Hewlett Speaker: Matthew Cooper, Associate Provost, Thomas Edison State University Speaker: Dave Ernst, Chief Information Officer, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Speaker: James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons Speaker: Eszti Major-Rohrer, Director of Products and Services; CURATE, Ed Map Speaker: Tanya Spilovoy, Director, Distance Education and State Authorization, North Dakota University System Open content and resources are taking hold as a key step to improving access and affordability in higher education. Students who withdraw from college often cite that the cost of textbooks and materials are a significant barrier. In response, institutions are, increasingly, adopting open content and resources as one way to improve course materials’ accessibility, affordability, and efficacy. How are institutions across the U.S. implementing open content and improving student success and completion? Open content initiatives range from course-based to full degrees that utilize open educational resources. In the first part of this two-part, in-depth session, several institutions — representing varying stages of implementing their initiatives — will share their stories.
In the second part of this session, audience member will be invited to join colleagues who are at a similar stage of OER adoption and implementation initiatives in facilitated roundtable discussions. This two part session will span two concurrent session blocks and include presentation and roundtable discussion. |
![]() | Adaptive Technology to Increase Recruitment, Readiness, and Retention Deer Lake Moderator: Deborah White, Director of Distance Education, The University of Michigan-Flint Speaker: Scott Beckett, Distinguished Lecturer, Jacksonville State University Speaker: Ahrash Bissell, EdReady Project Director, The NROC Project Speaker: Courtney Peppers-Owen, Director of Learning Services, Jacksonville State University
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![]() | Growth Opportunities in Higher Education: Degrees and Alternate Pathways St. Croix 1 Moderator: Debby Knotts, Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives, Extended Learning, University of New Mexico Speaker: Andrew Magda, Manager of Market Research, The Learning House, Inc.
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![]() | Levers, Dials, and Switches: The UCF Online Student Performance Dashboard Minnesota Moderator: Russ Adkins, CEO, Russ Adkins, Inc., Higher Education Consulting Speaker: Thomas Cavanagh, Associate Vice President of Distributed Learning, University of Central Florida
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![]() | Managing Online Accessibility: A Tale of Two Institutions Pine/Cedar/Birch/Maple Moderator: Jennifer Brock, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Bryan University Speaker: Anne Honaker, Senior Instructional Designer, Western Kentucky University Speaker: John Raible, Instructional Designer, University of Central Florida Speaker: Julie Uranis, Director, Distance Learning and Continuing & Professional Development, Western Kentucky University
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![]() | The Goldilocks Test: Finding the “Just Right” Student Authentication System Prefunction Terrace Moderator: Deb Gearhart, Director of Operations, Division of Distance and Continuing Education, University of South Dakota Speaker: Lara Mabry, Instructional Design Specialist, University of Missouri-Kansas City Speaker: Melissa Messina, Instructional Design Specialist, University of Missouri-Kansas City In response to current federal regulations that require the authentication of online students, the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) spent the past year evaluating possible solutions offered by three separate vendors: Examity, ProctorU, and BioSig-ID. The primary goal of the authentication project was to identify an approach that allowed authentication to occur not only when students were engaged in an online assessment activity such as a exam but at multiple points within an online course. The ideal solution would be an authentication system that requires a student to authenticate at random points throughout a class and at a frequency that would not disrupt the natural flow of the course or learning activity. Each of the solutions offered by the vendors was piloted separately and proved useful in understanding the scope of student verification. Feedback from faculty, students, and administrators was instrumental in evaluating these tools, informing the development of institutional policies, and surfacing essential features. Key attributes of an ideal system include security and accuracy; scalability; ease of use; integration with the LMS; and cost-effectiveness. This presentation will tell the story of how one university is navigating the student authentication landscape to evaluate and identify a system that is “just right” for its institutional infrastructure and culture. |
![]() | Three Models for Successful Course Design St. Croix 2 Moderator: David Lindrum, Founder and Course Designer, Soomo Learning Speaker: Ashley Gosseen, Director of Instructional Design and Technology, Columbia College Speaker: Colin Marlaire, Associate Vice President for Innovation in Learning, National University Speaker: Jaymes Myers, Assistant Vice President, Learning Science and Assessment, Southern New Hampshire University Online
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![]() | Traveling the CBE Faculty Path: New Ways of Teaching at Three Colleges Elk Lake Moderator: Brooks Doherty, Department Dean, Rasmussen College Speaker: Curtis Newbold, Assistant Professor, Communication, Westminster College Speaker: Christine Seifert, Associate Professor or Communication, Westminster College
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![]() | WCET/ State Authorization Network (SAN) Health Sciences Task Force Update Crystal Lake Moderator: Evan Smith, State Regulations Compliance Coordinator, University of Missouri, Mizzou Online Speaker: Ronald Brownie, Director, Online & Continuing Education, Northern State University Speaker: Kenneth Heard, III, Director, Department of State Authorization, Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, The University of Mississippi Medical Center SAN member only session – Presenters will provide a task force update on the collection of professional licensure board contact information and best practices for institutions to provide notifications and disclosures to current and prospective students about programs leading to professional licensure. |
![]() | How Open Educational Resources are Being Used and Implemented (Part II) Ballroom 3-4 Moderator: TJ Bliss, Program Officer, Hewlett Speaker: Matthew Cooper, Associate Provost, Thomas Edison State University Speaker: Dave Ernst, Chief Information Officer, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Speaker: James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons Speaker: Eszti Major-Rohrer, Director of Products and Services; CURATE, Ed Map Speaker: Tanya Spilovoy, Director, Distance Education and State Authorization, North Dakota University System Open content and resources are taking hold as a key step to improving access and affordability in higher education. Students who withdraw from college often cite that the cost of textbooks and materials are a significant barrier. In response, institutions are, increasingly, adopting open content and resources as one way to improve course materials’ accessibility, affordability, and efficacy. How are institutions across the U.S. implementing open content and improving student success and completion? Open content initiatives range from course-based to full degrees that utilize open educational resources. In the first part of this two-part, in-depth session, several institutions — representing varying stages of implementing their initiatives — will share their stories.
This two part session will span two concurrent session blocks and include presentation and roundtable discussion. |
![]() | Brainstorming Working Session: The Price and Cost of Distance Education Minnesota Facilitator: Joan Bouillon, Director of Regulatory Compliance, Pearson Facilitator: Russ Poulin, Director, Policy and Analysis, WCET Facilitator: Reed Scull, Associated Dean and Director, University of Wyoming Outreach School Students, higher education administrators, policy-makers, and the press all focus on the price (what a student pays) and cost (funds expended by institutions) for distance education. It seems that price and cost often suffer conflation. Come and join a WCET panel presenting the preliminary results of a survey tool dedicated to distance education price and cost including examples of the policy impact in a few states. This interactive session will be an open discussion with the audience sharing and brainstorming ways to address these financial issues. The audience will be asked for input on how to educate the public on the rationale behind current price and cost levels. |
![]() | Change is Hard. Manage it Well. St. Croix 2 Moderator: Cali Morrison, Director, Alternative Learning, American Public University System Speaker: Luke Dowden, Director, Distance Learning, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Speaker: Cristi Ford, Acting Associate Vice Provost and Directory, CILSS, University of Maryland University College Speaker: Pat James, Executive Director, California Community Colleges' Online Education Initiative
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![]() | Creating New Paradigms with Institution-Wide Analytics at UMUC Prefunction Terrace Moderator: Brenda Perea, Instructional Design Project Manager for Special Project Grants, Colorado Community College System Speaker: Beth Mulherrin, Assistant Vice Provost for Student Success, University of Maryland University College Speaker: Jack Neill, Vice President, Client Services, HelioCampus
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![]() | Game Change: The Theory, Practice and Possibilities of Competency-based Education Deer Lake Moderator: Fred Hurst, Vice President, Institutional Advancement , Western Governors University Speaker: Van Davis, Associate Vice President, Higher Education Policy & Research, Blackboard, Inc. Speaker: Karen Yoshino, Principal Strategist, Enterprise Consulting, Blackboard, Inc. Now that the debate over the quality of e-learning has died down, CBE is arguably becoming the next game changer in higher education. It’s the next thing that will push educators to see their work through a different lens. It has the potential to bring clarity to all of the catchy but heretofore undefined goals of higher education: student success, personalized learning, outcomes-based, transparency, accountability, and many more. That said, building and sustaining a high quality competency-based education program can be simultaneously exhilarating and daunting. It requires engaging multiple stakeholders from across your campus and community and touches every piece of an institution. This presentation will include: how CBE animates theory that’s been around for decades, gives definition to well-intentioned shibboleths in higher education, the implications for changes in our work as educators, and the promise of dispelling criticism of accountability, affordability, access, and preparing the nation’s workforce. The presentation will cover the necessary pieces of successful program development and a tool to help institutions design and plan for CBE. Special attention will be placed on lessons learned from a number of institutions developing CBE as well as the change management practices necessary for sustaining innovation. Presentation slides. |
![]() | State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA): Myths and Tall Tales Pine/Cedar/Birch/Maple Moderator: Mary Larson, Director, S-SARA, Southern Regional Education Board Speaker: Sandra Doran, Director, New England State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement, New England Board of Higher Education Speaker: Marshall Hill, Executive Director, National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements Speaker: John Lopez, SARA Director, WICHE Speaker: Jenny Parks, SARA Director, Midwestern Higher Education Compact How familiar are you with SARA? NC-SARA and the regional compact directors will dispel some of the frequent statements about SARA that are absolutely incorrect! Test your knowledge. What is the status of the new national reciprocal plan for state authorization 'SARA' ? How? When? And what next for your institution? For the region? For states in other regions? How does it impact SREB's Electronic Campus Regional Reciprocity Agreement? Using a Q & A format, an update on the status of the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement and the impact it has on the complex and rapidly changing landscape of state authorization in distance education will be provided. Real questions from the past six months will be used to dispel SARA myths. What is the difference between SARA, SECRRA, and SREB? Which one is going away? |
![]() | All Things Adaptive Learning Elk Lake Facilitator: Niki Bray, WCET Adaptive Learning Fellow, WCET, University of Memphis In this roundtable discussion, WCET Adaptive Learning Fellow, Niki Bray, will lead a discussion on all things adaptive learning, from what it is to how to get started and who is doing what across the field. Come meet Niki and discuss adaptive learning. |
![]() | A Testing Evolution: Building an Institutional Assessment Strategic Plan Minnesota Facilitator: Kevin Shanley, Director, eLearning, Utah State University Facilitator: Robert Wagner, Executive Vice Provost & Dean, Utah State University
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![]() | Brief Update on Newly Released Teacher Preg Regs Ballroom 3-4 Speaker: Sophia McArdle, Policy Analyst, Department of Education The new teacher prep regulations (regarding institutions and other entities that prepare new teachers) were announced today, October 12. Sophia McArdle will give some highlights of what was released and answer a few questions. |
![]() | Meet and Greet with WCET Windows Terrace Mollie McGill, Director, Programs and Membership, WCET Come meet the friendly WCET team and enjoy some light appetizers. If this is your first WCET Annual Meeting or if your organization is not a WCET member, you won't want to miss this session which will help you navigate the program, connect with others, and understand more about WCET. |
![]() | Canary in a Coalmine? Course Reviews as an Indicator of Accessibility Gaps St. Croix 1 Facilitator: Ritchie Boyd, Principal Strategist, Enterprise Consulting, Blackboard, Inc Facilitator: Scott Ready, Director - Customer Relations, Enterprise Consulting, Blackboard, Inc.
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![]() | Through the Looking Glass: Virtual and Augmented Reality Pine/Cedar/Birch/Maple Facilitator: Dave Dannenberg, Director, Academic Innovations and eLearning, University of Alaska Anchorage Technology changes faster than we can keep up. It seems that every week a new, must-have tool is released which promises to fix all of education’s shortcomings. Augmented and virtual reality are two technologies that have recently received a lot of attention. While they are not new, with the release of Pokémon Go they seem to have finally hit the mainstream media and captivated millions of people. So the question is, “How can we, as educators, use them in our classrooms?” Presentation slides. |
![]() | When Innovation and Reality Collide St. Croix 2 Facilitator: Kim Siegenthaler, Director, Mizzou Online, University of Missouri
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![]() | Welcome Reception Atrium/Ballroom Join your colleagues on the opening night of the Annual Meeting! Meet and mingle with other attendees while enjoying complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. |