| The Instructional Technology Council Presents
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| The Annual Conference for
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| * Distance Learning Administrators
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| * Distance Learning Faculty
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| * Instructional Designers
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| * Online Media Specialists
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| * Web Course Developers
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| * Continuing Education Professionals
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eLearning 2010 is the friendliest and most comprehensive annual distance learning conference you will find for eLearning practitioners. It is the one place where you will learn who is doing what, what technologies they are using, what works, and what doesn't.
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Exchange your great ideas with colleagues from across the country and around the world. Learn about new and successful educational strategies, technologies that work, and special techniques for teaching at a distance.
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| Start off the new year with a visit to the friendly, laid-back city of Fort Worth whose tagline, for good reason, is “Cowboys and Culture.”
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| eLearning 2010 will feature pre-conference workshops, keynote speakers, and vendors exhibiting the latest eLearning technologies and services, and more than 60 one-hour concurrent sessions.
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| Featured General Sessions
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Late Night Learning LIVE!
Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010 - 5:30pm-6:30pm – Opening Keynote Presentation
John Krutsch, Sr., Director Instructional Design, Development and Delivery, and Jared Stein, Director Instructional Design Services, Utah Valley University
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John Krutsch and Jared Stein host this live education/comedy talk-show. Along with the news of the day and the Top Ten list, John and Jared interview educators and technologists both on-stage and from remote locations. During the show, John and Jared might go off-location for stunts, comment on their advertisers’ commercials, and could be surprised by walk-on characters.
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| Through banter, guest interviews, commercials, and more, this episode of Late Night Learning LIVE! will discuss recent happenings in the open education movement, examine self-forming learning communities, and survey social media sites and how they are being leveraged to provide unique and authentic learning experiences. John and Jared will debate the pros and cons of institutionally-hosted social media vs. "the real thing." Finally, they will analyze how the changing technologized culture will impact teaching and learning, and what it might mean for mammoth commercial learning management systems like Blackboard, which continues to claim patents related to online learning.
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A Sermon: "For Who Hath Despised the Day of Small Things?"
Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010 - 8:00am-9:30am – Featured Speaker
Jim Groom, Instructional Technologist, University of Mary Washington
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An exhortation, or how "small pieces loosely joined" combined with open source applications has come to bring a new Great Awakening upon the world of educational technology. A moment which affords a re-imagination of teaching and learning through distributed publishing, re-purposing, and syndication.
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| Jim Groom is an instructional technologist at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He has been working for over a decade in education with a consistent focus on the development of teaching and learning in higher education. In addition to his extensive experience teaching at the college level, for the past four years, he has worked primarily in the field of instructional technology, developing and writing extensively about open educational publishing platforms such as UMW Blogs: http://umwblogs.org.
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The Grand Debate: Colleges Must Monitor Student Social Networking
Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010 - 12:15pm-1:45pm – Luncheon
Patricia Hayes, Texas State University vs. Paul Harral, Fort Worth Star Telegram
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| Pro: Colleges must be proactive in combating the latest technological crazes – so they are not left liable for students who use the college network to enter social networking sites to bully, slander or send out misinformation about other students, college employees, or the college itself – to anyone and everyone who has Internet access. Colleges need to protect their students – from putting information on sites that will hurt their future job prospects and reputations. Is the college liable when a student uses their network to violate copyright laws to post images or videos on their Facebook page? What if the local newspaper gets hold of some of these falsehoods?
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| Con: “Foul” is the cry heard from all good civil libertarians and protectors of academic freedom! Censorship! Social networking allows students to communicate with each other in novel ways – to test their newly-found expertise in the latest technologies. Freedom of speech is a fundamental right – particularly for students and others in the academic community who are learning how to argue and take unpopular stances on controversial issues. Colleges should not trample on the Constitution as they try to protect their own fiefdom from legal malfeasance.
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Online Facilitation 13 Years On: What We Learned and What Do We Need to Learn?
Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 - 8:00am-9:30am – Featured Speaker
Nancy White, Founder and Owner, Full Circle Associates
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Thirteen has always been Nancy White’s lucky number. 2010 will mark 13 years that she has actively facilitated online interactions. Online facilitation used to be a practice centered on closed groups in online discussion forums and email lists. Today, we have a wide range of group forums, technology and types of interaction. With this diversity comes complexity and a whole new layer of competencies around figuring out what to use, how to use it and when. Nancy will share her views on online facilitation competencies in the networked, social media era, building on the richness of history, the groundedness of practice, and a little bit of imagination around possibilities.
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| Nancy White founded Full Circle Associates in 1997, a firm whose mission is to develop collaboration and facilitation strategies, communications, planning and Internet collaboration solutions for non-profits, organizations and businesses. She delivers online and offline learning and coaching with a strong emphasis on the design, deployment and evaluation of productive online interaction spaces. White is an international practitioner in understanding and practicing online group facilitation of distributed work, learning and community groups (presenter, writer, teacher, coach, facilitator, rapporteur).
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Sharing Across Generations
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 – 11:15pm-12:30pm – Closing Brunch
Jean E. Engle, Chief Knowledge Officer, NASA/Johnson Space Center
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How do you inspire and engage the younger generations in future space exploration? The Johnson Space Center has embarked on such a quest – to define a program that leverages the wealth of 50 years of human space flight knowledge – for today’s workforce and generations to come. Like most organizations, NASA is challenged with collaborating across multiple geographical offices, international organizations, four distinct generations, and about 230 miles of Low Earth Orbit (well, maybe the last part is unique). Add an exotic destination or two that takes a host of people to execute to allow a few to reach and return safely, and the challenge takes on a new perspective -- kind of like technology-based learning and distance education! Jean Engle will share how NASA’s learning program uses learner insights and teaching technologies to incorporate the essence of knowledge sharing to face these challenges.
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Pre-Conference Workshops
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Morning Sessions: 8:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., Afternoon Sessions: 10:45 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
These workshops will take place at the Tarrant County College campus. The meeting times are when participants should meet in the lobby of the Omni Forth Worth Hotel to board the bus that will travel to the college campus. Those who attend a morning session will already be at the college and will also be able to attend an afternoon session. Registration is $75 to attend one session, $140 to attend two sessions. Fee includes transportation, a box lunch, and a tour of the Tarrant County College Campus.
Morning Session
Meet in the Omni Hotel Lobby at 8:00 a.m.
Buses Leave Omni Hotel at 8:15 a.m.
Arrive at TCCD at 8:30 a.m.
Session Time from 8:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Campus Tour 11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Lunch 11:45am – 12:15 p.m.
Buses Leave TCCD at 12:30 p.m.
Return to the Omni Hotel at 12:45 p.m.
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Afternoon Session
Meet in the Omni Hotel Lobby at 10:45 a.m.
Buses Leave Omni Hotel at 11:00 a.m.
Arrive at TCCD at 11:15 a.m.
Campus Tour 11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Lunch 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Session Time from 12:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Buses Leave TCCD at 3:15 p.m.
Return to the Omni Hotel at 3:30 p.m.
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Addressing Challenges in Faculty Development – Part One - Morning
Mary Hricko, Library Director, Kent State University Geauga
Developing an effective training program to migrate faculty from traditional teaching methods to the use of technology for blended and fully-integrated online teaching can be challenging. Mary Hricko will provide strategies to address the challenges of faculty resistance and reluctance toward participating in development programs. The session will engage participants in problem-based activities to share solutions and ideas.
Register early since space is limited to 25 participants (first come, first served)!
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Improving the Sustainability of Faculty Development Programming – Part Two - Afternoon
Mary Hricko, Library Director, Kent State University Geauga
Mary Hricko will discuss assessing the impact of faculty development to help participants identify ways to improve the sustainability of their training. Discussion will provide an overview on why some faculty development programs fail to make an impact. Hricko will offer ideas and suggestions to increase the success of program directives.
Register early since space is limited to 25 participants (first come, first served)!
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Authentic Learner Assessment - Morning
Jean Runyon, Dean of the Virtual Campus, Anne Arundel Community College
Assessments designed to evaluate student performance in traditional courses are often ineffective for the e-Learning environment. Educators must develop and use assessment strategies that align with and promote the achievement of course learning outcomes while being authentic, reliable, and engaging. Participants will explore principles of authentic assessment and examine assessment methodologies most often used in higher education e-Learning courses. Participants will investigate formative and summative assessment strategies that can be used in online and hybrid courses to assess course-related knowledge and skills, student attitudes and values, and reactions to instructional methods.
Register early since space is limited to 25 participants (first come, first served)!
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Improving Your Online Course - Afternoon
Jean Runyon, Dean of the Virtual Campus, Anne Arundel Community College
Participants in this hands-on workshop will apply the research-based Quality Matters principles and Rubric to review their courses and develop a prioritized, course improvement plan. Jean Runyon will summarize the underlying principles of Quality Matters; identify the standards of the Quality Matters Rubric as crucial components of a quality online course, and explain the intention of each of these standards; help participants use the Quality Matters Rubric to review their online course, identify the areas of their online course that map to each of the Quality Matters Rubric standards.
Participants will indicate whether each area is exemplar or in need of improvement; and, develop a course improvement plan that includes: 1) the areas of the course to improve, 2) a description of how to improve each of these areas, 3) a list of resources, training, and assistance that will be required to make these changes, and 4) a timeline for making these improvements. This workshop will be of interest to faculty, staff, and instructional designers who have already developed an online course. Participants should have access to one of their previously-developed online courses to work on.
Register early since space is limited to 25 participants (first come, first served)!
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Screencasting 101: Free or Inexpensive Tools to Capture the Experience! - Morning
Stephen T Anderson Sr., Associate Professor, University of South Carolina Sumter
In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to create their own video tutorials using free or inexpensive software. Camtasia allows users to produce narrated Windows Media or Flash-based multimedia learning modules from "screen capturing" and transform PowerPoint slides into a narrated Windows Media or Flash video. Learn more advanced editing such as adding webcam input, ink input from a tablet PC, title slides, transitions, callout boxes, background music and audio editing. Learn how to locate and capture imagery for use in presentations using PowerPoint, JING and SnagIt. We will then explore screencast.com... a free/inexpensive video hosting service where your captures can be posted and easily distributed to your intended audience. Sound like a lot? It is very easy to do with the right software and just a bit of training/facilitating. There is something for everyone, from the neophyte to the intermediate user!
Register early since space is limited to 25 participants (first come, first served)!
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Enough is Enough! It’s Open Source of Course!! - Afternoon
Cathy House, WebCollege Instructional Designer, Professor, Computer Technologies, and Travis Souza, WebCollege Coordinator, Truckee Meadows Community College
So, have you had it with corporate take-overs of your learning management solution? Have you had to second-mortgage your instructional designer to pay this year’s increased licensing costs? Have budget cuts - well - eliminated your budget? Then open-source is the ticket! The session will offer a hands-on opportunity to learn open-source/free options for most/all of the functions of those high-priced licensed solutions. You will leave the session with the options you need.
Register early since space is limited to 25 participants (first come, first served)!
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Tweet This – Social Networking in Higher Education - Morning
Barry Dahl, Vice President, Technology and Connect eCampus, Lake Superior College, and Audrey Williams, Director of Educational Technology Services, Pellissippi State Community College
Are you connecting with your peers in meaningful and useful ways? Are you learning from others and are they learning from you? Do you believe in the premise that "none of us are as smart as all of us?" If so, what are you doing to take advantage of that? These are some of the questions we’ll take a look at in this session to see how social networking is changing the way the world works, and especially how education works.
Twitter, Facebook, Ning, and LinkedIn are some of the tools we’ll examine, plus others that probably weren’t even in vogue when this description was written. Particular emphasis will be placed on who in higher education is effectively using these tools and how. Uses both inside and outside of the classroom will be discussed.
Register early since space is limited to 25 participants (first come, first served)!
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Web 2.0 Applications - Afternoon
Maria H. Andersen, Math Faculty, Muskegon Community College
In the second generation of Web resources, technology proliferation is increasing at an exponential rate... seriously, I’m a mathematician… I’ve seen the numbers. It is becoming vitally important that we all teach our students so-called 21st century skills and begin to become "clickable" ourselves. I have been reading blogs, twitter feeds, Websites, books, national reports, and surveys; watching YouTube, TeacherTube, and podcasts; using wikis, mindmaps, and virtual classrooms. Let me show you some web resources and technology that can invigorate your professional development, spice up your teaching, and possibly even engage your students. I’ve got resources for every discipline and I will focus on the free ones that you can immediately begin using.
Register early since space is limited to 25 participants (first come, first served)!
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vTSTC: Beyond a Second Life! - Morning
Chris Gibson, Associate Vice President of Educational Technology, Texas State Technical College
Do you want to get past the question, "What is Second Life?" and to the heart of how to leverage virtual worlds for applicable teaching? Chris Gibson will outline how TSTC educators developed the college’s virtual presence (vTSTC) and their first college program entirely within the virtual world of Second Life. Participants will get a real-world experience of virtual world education and learn how it can be used to enhance curriculum for online delivery. Gibson will contrast the strengths and weaknesses of traditional distance learning methods with virtual world platforms as a delivery mechanism. He will address student engagement and vTSTC was able to overcome disconnect. Gibson will answer common questions and give new perspectives and ideas for the potential of online delivery.
Register early since space is limited to 25 participants (first come, first served)!
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Grants from A to Z: Make Sure Your College Gets its Fair Share - Afternoon
David Canine, Senior Dean of Resource Development, Richland College, Theresa Roffino, Dean of Distance Learning Planning and Development, LeCroy Center, Dallas County Community College District
The federal government has targeted an unprecedented amount of grant funding for community colleges. This is at a time when budgets are being slashed and colleges are being forced to restrict enrollment, cut courses and education programs, and lay off staff. Meanwhile, grant programs are newly available for training, curriculum development, equipment, technology, international education and expanded broadband infrastructure. Come learn from two seasoned development officers the basics of grants writing, how to find the grants, and some examples of what others are doing to get dollars to support their colleges. Register early since space is limited to 25 participants (first come, first served)!
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Concurrent Sessions
eLearning 2010 will feature nearly 60 one-hour concurrent sessions which will feature practical solutions and best practices offered by distance learning educators from colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. See the full schedule with the session titles and speakers.
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| ● Assessment & Quality Control
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● Online Student Support - Library
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| ● Blended & Hybrid Courses
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Services, Mentoring, Tutoring
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| ● Certificate & Degree Programs
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● Open Source Solutions
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| ● Continuing Education
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● PDAs, Wireless & Mobile Learning
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| ● Copyright Issues
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● Retaining Online Students
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| ● Course & Learning Management
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● Serving Students with Disabilities
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| Systems
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● Video-based Applications
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| ● Faculty Training
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● Video Games & Theory
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| ● Learning Objects & Repositories
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● Web 2.0 Applications (Blogs,
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| ● Management & Leadership
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Facebook, Twitter, Wikis, etc.)
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| ● New Technologies for Education
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● Other (you suggest!)
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Fort Worth Stockyards Tour
Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 4:45pm-8:30pm
- $20 per person, sign up when you register online
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Join us on this guided tour of the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District, including the Livestock Exchange Building, the Texas Trail of Fame, and the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame which pays tribute to 76 of the top cowboys and cowgirls who have excelled in the sports of rodeo, cutting, ranching and those individuals who have dedicated their lives to promoting and preserving Texas Western heritage. The tour will end at Billy Bob’s Texas, the world’s largest honky tonk and venue for countless musical acts, where you will receive a unique dance lesson so you can two-step the night away! Limited Spacing.
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Post-Conference Workshop: Quality in Online Learning
Tuesday-Weds., Feb. 23-24, 2010
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| eLearning Innovations is offering a 1.5-day post-conference workshop to eLearning 2010 that will focus on questions surrounding quality in online learning. The first half day coincides with the final day of eLearning 2010. The program will first look at good practice models for online learning course design, setting the stage for an examination of the quality of the learning and the quality of the teaching.
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| Presenters will explore the following topics and offer practical examples and ideas you can take back to your campus for immediate implementation:
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| 1. Peer review group of faculty for improving course design -- create a process for assessing quality of design.
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| 2. Course design rubric creation -- create your own or adopt an existing tool for assessing quality course design.
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| 3. Learning assessment project for online students -- assessing the quality of online learning.
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| 4. Developing clear expectations for online students.
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| 5. Developing formal expectations for online faculty -- quality of teaching baseline.
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| 6. Online student end-of-course evaluation instrument and process.
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| 7. Faculty evaluation process and instrument creation -- quality of online teaching.
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| Registration Fees: $200 for those attending eLearning 2010, $300 for non-eLearning 2010 attendees. Location: The Fort Worth Omni Hotel, Register Online Here.
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Hotel Information
Omni Fort Worth Hotel
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With the exception of the pre-conference workshops, all of the meetings will take place at Omni Fort Worth Hotel, located in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, five blocks from Sundance Square, the city's 16-block entertainment and shopping district which features restaurants, live and movie theatres, museums and art galleries, and live music.
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| eLearning participants can also walk to the Stockyards National Historic District to view the daily cattle drive, attend the Stockyards Championship Rodeo, hear live country stars, sip a cold brew in an authentic saloon and/or two-step the night away. View outstanding world-class art collections at the Amon Carter Museum, Kimbell Art Museum or Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. There is really something for everyone!
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| You can make your hotel reservation online here or call 1-800-THE-OMNI (1-800-843-6664) and mention you are attending eLearning 2010 before January 25, 2010 to receive a special room rate of $149 per night for eLearning 2010 participants. This rate includes complementary high-speed wireless Internet access in all of the guestrooms, hotel lobby and all of the meeting and function spaces; free access to the health and fitness center; on-site car rental; and, other standard hotel amenities. Come early and/or stay late! The Omni Fort Worth Hotel will honor the $149 conference room rate from February 15-27, 2010, based on availability.
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| The hotel is a 20-minute drive to/from Dallas Fort Worth Airport, about 40 minutes from downtown Dallas. Service via SuperShuttle costs $17 each way – contact 817-329-2000 or 800-282-6817. Local taxis cost $50-60. Parking costs $18 per day for overnight parking, $12 per day.
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| The address for the Omni Fort Worth Hotel is 1300 Houston Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76102; phone number 817-535-6664, Fax 817-882-8140.
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Conference Registration Fees
Budget to attend eLearning 2010
Register Online
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Basic Registration - $450
(meals include: reception on Saturday evening, continental breakfast and lunch on Sunday and Monday, Brunch on Tuesday)
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| ● Early Bird Discount – subtract $50 (postmarked before January 15, 2010)
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| ● ITC Member Discount – subtract $25
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| ● Presenter Discount – subtract $25
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| One-Day Registration – $185 (no discounts apply)
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Pre-conference Workshops – $75 for one, $140 for two (Saturday, February 20, 2010
Morning Sessions: 8:00 a.m – 12:15 p.m., Afternoon Sessions: 10:45 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Includes a box lunch.)
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| Introductory one-year ITC Membership - $200
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Testimonials eLearning 2009 Attendees
"Another outstanding conference!"
"I LOVE this conference!"
"The sessions were valuable and everyone is so passionate and genuine."
"I think this is the best conference I attend."
"It was exciting and reassuring to see/hear the range of eLearning opportunities and student experiences."
"This is a very good conference. All the presentations were useful."
"The best! I always learn new things and go back with great ideas!"
"Can't wait to return!"
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