DET/CHE 2018

This session brings together a panel of students from several institutions across California Higher Education to discuss how they learn, how technology impacts their learning, and what helps them achieve educational success. The conversation will span topics of active learning, mobility, accessibility, affordability, engagement, course modality, and student success strategies. 

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This is a panel discussion with 3 CSU campuses out of the current 13 who are adopting Ally. Ally is an LMS tool that makes instructional materials more accessible for all students, automatically providing several different formats of every file in LMS courses, including audio, semantic HTML for better mobile consumption, OCR and tagged PDF, ePub and eBraille.

UC San Diego, like many schools, is challenged to keep their classroom technology up-to-date. In this presentation, we will discuss the unique refresh cycle that continues throughout academic sessions and allows for rapid innovation adoption. This aggressive refresh cycles upgrades one classroom every two weeks. At the end of the two week process, the room has been completely upgraded and is brought back online. This rapid refresh model allows technology that has been successfully piloted to immediately be populated into the refresh cycle for rooms moving forward. This panel will discuss the hurdles and pitfalls for the refresh process; and how communication and transparency amongst the UC San Diego community has addressed some of these issues.

In this session, academic technology professionals from different campuses will discuss their approach to offering academic technology software and services at their institution. One end of the support spectrum is the perspective of standardizing technology tools to allow optimum support to faculty. In contrast, the other perspective is to offer faculty choice, which sometimes means supporting duplicate tools (e.g., TurnItIn & Safe Assign; ProctorU & Respondus Monitor; Zoom & Collaborate). What are the pros and cons of each approach? What are the challenges and opportunities in each case? Come participate in this lively facilitated discussion.

In the academic course work for instructional designers, ADDIE, SAM, and other ID models are generally at the core of the curricula and provide the critical foundation to best practices. However much of the process for delivering engaging, effective, online courses on time and within budget lies more in the domain of project/contract management and organizational dynamics, including; but not limited to: managing client expectations, clear definition of roles and responsibilities, defining scopes of work, client dependencies, approval authorities, review cycles, the change request process, and their impacts to schedule. The panel will discuss how to mitigate these challenges with project management strategies focused on the online course development context.

The Future will arrive in the of Spring 2019 for Instructional Technologists seeking a Doctoral Degree. The first CSU fully online, Higher Education course in post-secondary education leadership, titled Community College Administration and Leadership, will be offered. The CODEL (Cooperative Online Doctorate in Educational Leadership) program is a partnership between CSUCI and CSU Fresno. The philosophical cornerstone of this unique program is in its attentiveness to theories in learning in relevance and practice. The CODEL program is structured using advanced Learning Psychology Strategies and Theories. The new CSU EdD programs will have an important influence on Higher Education in California. This panel will describe, showcase, and explain the significance this program.