Conference Track Details

When submitting your abstract for review, you will have the option to have it considered for one of the following Conference Tracks. If none of these tracks is appropriate for your proposal, select "no track".

1. Innovations in Online Teaching and Learning. As new technologies emerge and students become more familiar with technology, faculty must explore and discover new, and sometimes old ways of connecting effectively with students. Some topics may include:

• Approaching teaching and learning in innovtive ways
• Developing new learning materials  
• Researching the effectiveness of online pedagogy 
• Using next-generation technology in the online classroom  

2. Faculty Development. The best technology is only effective if faculty know how to utilize it. The focus of this track is to find ways to cultivate a tech savvy faculty. Presentations should explore ways in which to encourage, promote, and educate faculty in the best practies technology has for improving teaching. Suggested topics may include:

• Implementing emerging technologies to influence instructional design
• Supporting faculty in learning new tools
• Improving teaching and learning with new technologies

3. Featured Community of Practice. Mathematics and Statistics presentations can come from all levels from arithmetic through advanced mathematics, from the basics of finding a mean through sophisticated statistical analysis, or from how technology is used in communicating ideas between math and statistics educations. Suggested topics may include:

• Creating math and statistics learning objects
• Supporting student projects in math and statistics with emerging technologies 
• Teaching math and statistics with modern communication tools
• Using MERLOT to promote student learning in math and statistics 

4. Creative Collaborations. In this track, presenters will discuss local, regional and larger-scale collaborations that enable us to reach more students, create more effective learning objects, and leverage existing efforts. We will also discuss challenges associated with collaborative endeavors. Suggested topics may include:

• Creating shared learning objects and on online learning communities
• Customizing courses to integrate industry needs and experience into courses
• Creating shared services that increase recruitment, retention, transfer, and effectiveness of online learning in higher education and K-12
• Teaching across borders, considering language, scheduling, and cultural issues  

5. Evaluation and Assessment of Success. Growth of distance learning opportunities generates new challenges for assessment of learning and teaching while technology innovations provide a wider array of assessment tools, opportunities, and applications. This track provides a forum for those who have found effective and innovative ways of strengthening assessment through technology. Potential topics include:

• Assessing programs through course management and electronic portfolio systems
• Assessing learning and teaching through innovative uses of technology
• Designing effective student peer and self-assessments
• Developing authentic assessment of student learning