Drexel 2015 e-Learning Conference - Call for Proposals

 Call for Proposals

The 2015 e-Learning Conference, which is being held on Wednesday, March 25^th in the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building on Drexel University’s University City Campus, is currently accepting proposal submissions. Proposals are for presentations that will run for 45 minutes on topics related to the use of technology in teaching and learning. Individuals can fill out the form located at:

http://drexel.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3ksMFn5Boe5veo5

Proposals are due by January 23, 2015 and will be reviewed after that deadline, with final decisions on which have been selected being sent out in early February. Please forward this along to your colleagues who might be interested in presenting. Updates to the conference can be found on the conference website at: http://drexel.edu/irt/news/e-learning-conference/.

Michael Shelmet
Associate Director of Online Learning

Office of Information Resources and Technology

Drexel University

3141 Chestnut Street
Korman Center 109
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215.895.1042 Fax: 215.895.6777drexel.edu/irt

PADLA Annual Conference and Expo!

The non-profit Pennsylvania/Delaware/New Jersey Distance Learning Association’s (PADLA) 12th Annual Distance / eLearning / Ed Tech Conference & Expo is coming!

Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Time: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Place: West Chester University

REGISTER NOW!

• Conference Only $25 (regular $50)
• Conference & Annual Membership $75 (regular $100)

Annual Membership includes our 4 bi-monthly meetings!

The Conference features a keynote address by a well-known industry leader, Will Thalheimer PhD & President of Work-Learning Research Inc, plus 20+ concurrent sessions in Corporate, Non-Profit, Higher Ed, and K-12 tracks.

With PADLA’s assumption of the now discontinued Villanova Tech Expo, we except attendance to easily exceed 300+ and exhibitors to exceed 30+. This is an excellent opportunity to join other Distance/e-Learning/Ed Tech professionals by becoming part of our regional community and expand your professional network.

National Distance Learning Week

The United States Distance Learning Association is an organization that promotes awareness of modern learning methods through technology. During the week of November 10-14, 2014, organizations across the country educate their constituents on the growth in distance learning and showcase local accomplishments.

REGISTER for these FREE webinars now:

• Achievement Badging: Certificates and Certifications for Lifelong Learning
• Adapting to Competency-Based Learning: An Industry Perspective
• Adding Game Elements to Online Courses: It’s Not That Hard!
• An Instructional Designer Supported Approach to Accelerated Online Course Development
• Connect, Collaborate, Serve, Learn: A Virtual Pathway to Educational Success
• Connecting Pathways to K12 Videoconferencing
• Continuous Improvement in quality course design - what is Quality Matters?
• Distance Learning Resources in Telehealth
• Engaging Online Students in the Career Development/Job Placement Process
• Enhancing Faculty Performance Through Coaching; The Walden University Coaching Model
• Exploring the Promise of Student Personal Learning Networks
• First Course Success: Using Data to Predict Program Success
• Five M's to Training
• Follow Positive Faculty Instructional Technology Adoption Strategies @SCADeLearning
• Helping Your Students Connect Their Learning
• How Easy Can Connections Get?
• If You PLEs ... You'll Thank Me Later
• Integrating Emerging Technologies and Information Literacy in Online Learning
• Leveraging the Model UN for Truly Global Learning Communities
• Mythbusters - Putting Online Testing to the Test
• Professional Development Resources for the Department of Defense
• The Impact of Transformational Technology on Collaboration and Innovation in the Classroom
• The State of State Authorization and Professional Licensure
• Too young for social media? We think not!
• USDLA State Chapters Program Overview
• Videoconferencing Solutions Connecting Leaders, Teachers and Students in Learning Networks
• Virtual Clinical Experiences for the Developing Teacher
• Where Competency Based Education is Leading Us: Interviews from the field
• Why Thurgood Marshall College Fund Is Building Blended Lab Schools

PADLA Distance/e-Learning/Ed Tech Challenges Workshop

In the PADLA spirit, you are cordially invited to share your expertise, insight, and ideas to help our Corporate, Non-profit, Higher Ed, Ed Tech, and K-12 presenters who are facing real-world Distance/e-Learning/Ed Tech problems within their organizations.

This is our annual "Challenges" workshop. Past presenters and attendees have found this peer-to-peer interactive workshop to be very valuable in meeting their own challenges and gaining additional insights into how others solved theirs.

REGISTER NOW 

Date: 23 September 2014
Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Place: Peirce College, Philadelphia, PA

Challenges include:

• Sunoco Corporate University: "Winning the Race: How will Sunoco University Implement Project Management?"
• The PA College of Health Sciences: "Temporary Teaching Technology Troubles"
• Viddler: "Controlling Interaction on a Smartphone"
• d'Vinci Interactive: "Bringing Interactive Technology to the Common Core"

View the details and register NOW!

PADLA: Social Media in Online Learning

Join us for this PADLA (PA/NJ/DE Distance Learning Association) event.

PADLA cordially invites you to attend our next meeting to be held on 5/1/14 at the Devereux Foundation Ronald P. Burd Conference Center in Villanova, PA, featuring two presentations on the use of Social Media in Online Learning:

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• Date: 1 May 2014
• Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Social and Mobile Shouldn't Be Distant from Learning

Presented by Shelly Blake-Plock, President & CEO at  An Estuary, LLC

Just as social and mobile technologies have changed the face of communications, entertainment, politics, and business networking, so too are they changing the ways we learn online. Join in this conversation as we take a look at what’s going on “under the hood” of social and mobile technologies and discuss what these developments mean for academic institutions and corporations looking to maximize the accessibility and impact of online learning offerings.

Beyond Likes and Hashtags: Leveraging Social Media for Learning, Training and Networking

Presented by Dr. Kimberly Wilson, College of Education at Temple University

This presentation will help socmephobes (those who fear social media) and experienced users alike get more out of social media.  In this informative and interactive program, participants will be introduced to the basics of social media for the purposes of training, learning, and networking. The program is divided into three areas:

1. Best practices
2. Case studies and examples
3. Suggestions and guidelines for using social media effectively

The effective use of social media in these contexts will be discussed using case studies and real-life examples.  Participants will learn how to incorporate social media such as Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube into their training even if they have little or no experience with it.  Whether you love social media or fear it, you’ll leave the program with a whole new outlook and concrete actions you can take immediately to elevate your work to the highest level.

Tech Day at AOTA: An Innovative use of ApprenNet

You don't have to be an Occupational Therapist to learn about ApprenNet and other elearning technologies. Tell us about your innovative uses of technology in teaching. At the same time, you will learn how ApprenNet works.

Join our "Meet", upload your video and see peer videos

ApprenNet works in 3 simple steps:

1. Drive Skill Practice: Instructors post videos that ask Learners to practice skills by responding to real world challenges.
2. Create Meaningful Review: With a few clicks, Instructors design peer review for Learners to observe each other and give and get feedback.
3. Share Expertise: Capture your organization’s know-how by empowering your Experts to share best practices quickly and easily.

For our Tech Day "meet", 1) watch our short video instruction, 2) post your own ideas to share, and 3) view other submissions and give them feedback. 

Tell us how you are currently using technology in your classroom.  We are especially interested in any problems you see in face to face instruction that you think technology might be a solution for!  For example, if a snow day prevents face-to-face instruction, technology might offer a way to deliver content without missing instructional days. Once you upload your video, you will be able to return to the program and view the videos of other participants.

Come by to see us at AOTA Tech Day (Saturday Morning, 4/5, 9:30 am - 11am, Baltimore Convention Center, Ballroom I-II) and lets talk about technology, teaching and this program ApprenNet!

Rondalyn V. Whitney, PhD, OTR/L
Assistant Professor
Samson College of Health Sciences
Department of Occupational Therapy
University of the Sciences

and

Rodney B. Murray, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Office of Academic Technology
University of the Sciences

eLearning 3.0 Conference at Drexel University

Save the date: Thursday, March 27, 2014.

Katie Blot, senior vice president of education services at Blackboard, will give the Keynote at 9am.

View Conference Program  

This conference features presentations on a range of e-learning topics including:

• Best Practices
• Pedagogy
• Learning Management Systems
• Support
• Administration

Share best practices and creative approaches for learning enrichment and student engagement. Join colleagues from across the region to learn how to utilize existing and emerging technologies, and develop engaging strategies to augment face-to-face classes, teach hybrid or online classes.

Register Now!

PADLA: eLearning Legal Issues and ApprenNet

I'd like to alert you to two presentations this week concerning eLearning Legal Issues and ApprenNet. If you are doing more teaching online, I'm sure you'd like to know how to make it interactive, engaging, social and legal!

Register NOW for PADLA this Wednesday, March 19, to learn about eLearning legal issues. It's being held at our neighbor Drexel University School of Law.

We are pleased to have Dina Leytes, Practice Group Chair, Intellectual Property and New Media, at Griesing Law, give a presentation entitled:

Understanding Content Ownership Issues in Online Education

This interactive presentation will address issues that pertain to content ownership in online education:

• Using third party copyrighted content with permission
• Fair use theory and practice
• Creating contracts that address ownership of multi-media materials
• Updating work-for-hire and institutional IP policies for online learning
• ApprenNet

The second presentation at PADLA this Wednesday is on ApprenNet.

We are happy to have Karl Okamoto the co-founder and CEO of ApprenNet LLC give a presentation entitled:

How to Make E-Learning Interactive, Engaging and Social

The heart of many e-learning solutions is a video presentation which is often passive, isolating and dull. Professor Okamoto has developed a training method that retains the efficiency of traditional e-learning while re-inserting the interaction, engagement and community that face-to-face and small group learning offers. He will demonstrate this innovative training method and share use cases from both corporate training and academia.

PADLA Free Event: Micro Instructional Design for Problem-Based and Game-Based Learning

Join us for this FREE PADLA (PA/NJ/DE Distance Learning Association) event.

Register now to join us either in-person or online for an exploration of some of the most advanced Learning Methodologies & Technologies in our region. Those who attend in-person will also have the opportunity participate in an exciting tour of the Harrisburg University of Science & Technology to experience these technologies first-hand.

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Micro Instructional Design for Problem-Based and Game-Based Learning

• Date: 30 Jan 2014
• Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
• Location: Harrisburg University (or online)

In this session you'll explore David Merrill’s Pebble in the Pond (PiP) instructional design model for problem-based learning and consider how it can also be applied to game-based learning design.

The presenter, Andy Petroski, coordinates the Learning Technologies Master of Science (LTMS) program and learning technologies at Harrisburg University as Director of Learning Technologies and Assistant Professor of Learning Technologies. His work at Harrisburg University has included efforts in the areas of educational technology strategy, games and simulations, classroom technology, web 2.0, patient education, social learning and faculty development.