| Transforming Higher Education: Using Social Media to Ignite Students Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013 - 5:30pm-6:30pm – Opening Keynote Presentation Tanya Joosten, Interim Director, Learning Technology Center, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
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 Tanya Joosten, author of Social Media for Educators, will discuss how social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, can be used to enhance the online classroom by encouraging contact and communication and engaging students with rich and current content, while managing your workload. Also, she will discuss considerations in implementing social media to achieve each of these pedagogical needs. With an effort to create an interactive session, Tanya will share how you can use social media to build your professional network and share resources at this conference and beyond.Tanya Joosten is helping develop plans for the future of education as she is a member of the UWM digital future steering committee, State of Wisconsin Superintendent's digital learning advisory council member, EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Steering Committee, EDUCAUSE IT Status committee, and Sage Publications digital media advisory board member. Joosten has taught online and blended classes for over a decade, co-chairs the UWM Online Program Council (OPC), is the campus liaison for online and blended programming, is a mentor for the Sloan-C certificate in online teaching, and is the 2013 chair of the Sloan-C Blended conference (#blend13) in Milwaukee. In leading the UWM LTC, she oversees the recognized faculty development team for online and blended teaching, the UWM Certificate in Blended and Online Teaching, the online and blended teachers users group (OBTUG), and the Sloan-C blended faculty development program. Also, she has worked with dozens of universities and colleges across the globe on developing their teaching and learning strategies and supporting instructors' use of technology. |
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Break Away to Uncharted Territory: New Frontiers in Online Education Monday, Feb. 18, 2013 - 8:00am-9:30am – Featured Speaker Dr. Chris Bustamante, President, Rio Salado College |
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Dr. Chris Bustamante is well-known as an advocate for increasing access to higher education. He has forged transformational partnerships with business, government, and other educational providers while working for Rio Salado College. Bustamante serves as a faculty member for the Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning, as Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education Commissioner for Arizona by governor appointment, and as a member of the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies executive council, the Continuous Quality Improvement Network executive committee, the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning board of trustees, the National Community College Hispanic Council board of directors, and the American Council of Education’s Commission for Lifelong Learning. Before joining the Maricopa Community College District, Bustamante served as the assistant to the superintendent for community and government relations for the Phoenix Union High School District, and as a legislative aide in the Arizona House of Representatives. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona, and received a master’s degree and doctorate in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University. |
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The Grand Debate: Resolved: Open Education Resources are an Unsustainable Passing Fad Monday, Feb. 18, 2013 - 12:15pm-1:45pm – Luncheon Shane Stroup, Philosophy Instructor, Inver Hills Community College, versus James Glapna-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons and President, Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Advisory Board Moderated by Dr. Michael Catchpole, Professor, North Island College |
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| At eLearning 2012, Cable Green discussed breaking the "iron triangle of access, cost and quality," to promote the "obviousness of open policy," to provide free public access to publicly-funded resources. At eLearning 2011, David Wiley said that teaching is synonymous with sharing. Stinginess, holding back, restricting free and open dialog, and quashing diverse points of view, should not be welcome in any place of learning. "Free education now!" writes Wiley. Don't OERs simply cut out the middleman—so state governments and students no longer need to finance the fancy New York offices for today's publishers, in the digital age when printing and distribution costs are no longer relevant? | |
| Are Green and Wiley idle dreamers? How can open educational resources offer a sustainable business model for education that cuts costs for students, educators and state governments? Who will reimburse the OER authors to ensure they can continue to make a living, to create fantastic OERs, after their grant money has run out? Who has the time or money to review the content to make sure it is acceptable, if publishers, with their army of fact checkers, are driven out of business? How can educators, who take pains to wrap their curriculum around an OER that is freely-available one day, know it will still be accessible to their students in six months? Our presenters have a great deal of experience in this area to argue both sides of this issue! Join us in this lively debate—an eLearning tradition, once again moderated by Michael Catchpole from North Island College! | |
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Be What's Next in Teaching and Learning Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 - 8:00am-9:30am – Featured Speaker Cameron Evans, National and Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Education, Microsoft Corporation |
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 For more than 400 years, the collegiate academy model has remained largely unchanged. Meanwhile, cognitive research has given rise to more effective learning styles and teaching techniques. Join Cameron Evans to discuss how educators can blend research with modern IT practice and improve learning outcomes through cloud, emerging and business intelligence technologies.As the first, national and chief technology officer of Microsoft Education, Cameron Evans is responsible for shaping and executing Microsoft's technology and policy strategy in U.S. education. Evans chairs Microsoft's Higher Education Advisory Group and the K12 Advisory Group for connecting customer insights into Microsoft's industry engagement. As Microsoft's education chief technology officer, Evans' principle work focuses on large, complex, and strategic innovation for public/private schools in K-12 and higher education, museums, libraries, research universities, and academic medical centers across the nation. Evans is a member of Microsoft's Education Leadership Team and is the national spokesperson for institutional innovation and transformation. Before he was named national technology officer/chief technology officer in July 2009, Evans was the group sales manager for higher education. |
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ITC 2013 Awards for Excellence in eLearning Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 - 12:45pm-12:30pm - Luncheon Presented by Anne Johnson, Chair, ITC Board of Directors, and Dean, Business, Social Sciences and Online Learning, Inver Hills Community College |
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At this special luncheon, ITC will announce the winners of its 2013 Awards for Excellence in eLearning. A panel of judges that included ITC board members, past board members, past award recipients and other ITC members will have reviewed and chosen these exemplary and outstanding distance educators. Award categories include: outstanding eLearning faculty, outstanding online course, outstanding blended course, outstanding technical support and service, outstanding use of new technology and/or delivery system, outstanding student services, outstanding eLearning program, lifetime achievement and outstanding eLearning student. ITC will also recognize all of the eLearning faculty who are nominated by their institutions as exemplary members of their community, as distinguished eLearning educators. |
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On Making Education a Game Changer Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 - 11:15pm-12:30pm – Closing Brunch Dr. Mark Milliron, Chancellor, Western Governors University Texas |
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 Many students look to education to be a "game changer" in their lives. However, outcomes data tell us that all too many students are not succeeding. This presentation presents a framework for catalytic conversation on what research and practice are showing we need to expect of students and the education systems that serve them if we want to drive positive change in this dynamic. From challenging students to bring purpose, engagement, and tenacity to bear on their education journeys, to exploring how we put innovation and technology-use in our institutions on purpose to create more learning-centered, data-rich, and high-value education pathways, we’ll share models and vision a future where more striving students succeed.Dr. Mark David Milliron is chancellor of WGU Texas, an innovative nonprofit university established by the state of Texas in partnership with parent institution Western Governors University to provide Texans affordable, accredited, rigorous, and relevant online degree programs in high-demand fields. Prior to taking this position, he served as the deputy director for Postsecondary Improvement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leading efforts to increase student success in the US postsecondary education sector. Milliron is an award-winning leader, author, speaker, and consultant well known for exploring leadership development, future trends, learning strategies, and the human side of technology change. He has worked with universities, community colleges, K-12 schools, corporations, associations, and government agencies across the country and around the world. Milliron also serves on numerous corporate, nonprofit, and education boards and advisory groups, including Civitas Learning, an Austin-based learning analytics company; the Global Online Academy, a not-for-profit educational partnership serving independent schools nationally and internationally; and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), the parent organization of the Big Ideas Fest. Among his many accomplishments, Milliron served as the president and CEO for The League for Innovation in the Community College from 1999 to 2004. |
eLearning 2013 General Session Speakers
