Massachusetts College Online (MCO): Mission

Massachusetts College Online (MCO): Mission
Massachusetts Colleges Online (MCO) is a collaborative of public state higher
education institutions involved in the design, delivery, management, and assessment of
online, blended, and other technology-mediated learning formats. The collaborative
provides opportunities for members to address the issues and challenges arising from
professional practice, and the pooling of financial and intellectual capital toward the
development and enhancement of services.
COOPERATIVE
Membership in the MCO is voluntary, as is participation within its
programs, offerings, initiatives, and shared resources.
Membership is open to all state-supported public higher
education institutions through representation of their academic
technology and online learning officer administrators or
designees. The Chair is nominated by membership for up to two
academic years. This role has no decision making power other
than to set meeting agendas or to voice the decisions of the
collaborative with outside organizations.
RESOURCEFUL
MCO is not a top down collaborative. All members have an equal
voice. MCO is envisioned as an organization where professional
and programmatic objectives can be met within a context of
mutual support and combined, directed effort. MCO makes
decisions collaboratively and by majority agreement. The chair
may represent MCO at external organizational meetings, but no
decisions are made independent of the group.
COLLEGIAL
MCO Membership is open to all public higher education
institutions. Each member institution may appoint one liaison.
This individual is experienced in the delivery or administration of
online courses and related models; and/or general academic
technology services. Support for specific resources, programs
and initiatives shall be through the voluntary participation of
individual members, with fees and other appropriate shared
contributions to be determined by the specific requirements of
participation.
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Conference Notes
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
8:00 am to 8:50 am
Registration / Conant Science and Mathematics Center
Schedule
9:00 am to 10:00 am
Welcome / Keynote / Conant Science and Mathematics Center
Auditorium
10:10 to 10:20 am
Vendor Tables / Conant Science and Mathematics Center
10:30 am to 11:20 am
Concurrent Sessions / Conant Science and Mathematics Center
11:30 am to 12:20 pm
Concurrent Sessions / Conant Science and Mathematics Center
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Lunch / COD Awards / Rondileau Campus Center Ballroom
Vendor Tables / Conant Science and Mathematics Center
1:45 pm to 2:35 pm
Concurrent Sessions / Conant Science and Mathematics Center
2:45 pm to 3:35 pm
Concurrent Sessions / Conant Science and Mathematics Center
3:35 pm to 4:30 pm
Ice Cream Social / Raffle / Conant Science and Mathematics Center
Special Thank You
Conference
Committee
Rosemary Ahmadi, Nancy Curll, Mary Fuller, Silka Hermeling, Vin
Ialenti, Michael Leamy, Andrea Milligan, Robin Robinson, Lynn Zayac
Volunteers
Debbie Marx / Bridgewater State University
Deb Brennan / Mount Wachusett Community College
Cherie Hagan / Northern Essex Community College
Lisa DiMauro / NERCOMP
Vendor Sponsors
Conference Sponsors
Pearson College Readiness and Retention / Platinum
Pearson MyLab - REVEL / Gold
Blackboard / Gold
UMass Online / Silver
Atomic Learning / Silver
Vital Source / Bronze
Council of Presidents of the Massachusetts State University System /
Bronze
Massachusetts Community Colleges Executive Office / Bronze
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Meet the Keynote Speaker
Jay Bhatt
President and CEO of Blackboard Inc.
Jay Bhatt is president, chief executive officer, and a board member of
Blackboard Inc., a global leader in technology and services that help to
make education more immediate, direct, and personalized for learners
everywhere. Jay has a deep background building and growing software
and technology companies, spanning early stage privately held businesses to more mature
public corporations. Jay is also a former teacher with a passion for Blackboard’s mission of
“everyone educated.”
Jay will speak to the MCO Conference about the role of online and classroom technology in the
future: its impact on teaching and learning, and the expectations of 21st Century learners.
Jay previously served as President and CEO of Progress Software (NASDAQ: PRGS). Prior to
his role at Progress, Jay was senior vice president of the global architecture, engineering, and
construction (AEC) solutions division at Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK). In this role he
oversaw software development, marketing, product management, product design, business
development, finance, and human resources.
Join the MCO TweetChat using the hashtag: #mcoedu
Our Twitter leaders, NECC’s Cherie Hagen (@ms_hagen) and NSCC’s Lance Eaton (@leaton01) will be
live-tweeting throughout the day. Join the conversation to share your thoughts, experiences, and your
takeaways!
Continue to follow the hashtag after the conference for further discussion of today's topics as well as
follow up links to this year's presentations and other relevant information.
New to Twitter--Remember these 5 simple rules (thanks to NERCOMP).
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Use the official hashtag.
Ask questions, share ideas.
Retweet with comments.
Follow new friends.
Be respectful.
View the Courses of Distinction (COD)
The demonstration versions of the courses recognized by their institutions as Courses of Distinction are
available to the attendees of the conference until Nov. 1.
View the online and blended CODs at: http://www.codawards.com. You may access each course with
the username: cod and password cod246*8
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Course of Distinction Awards
Dori Digenti
Berkshire Community College
Marina Bograd
Massachusetts Bay Community College
Gregory Panczner
Berkshire Community College
Rob Peterson
Massasoit Community College
Jessica Birthisel
Bridgewater State University
Lisa Zinsius Supka
Massasoit Community College
Maura Rosenthal
Bridgewater State University
Denise Marchionda
Middlesex Community College
Melissa Cardelli
Bristol Community College
John Smith
Middlesex Community College
Kelli Hiller
Bristol Community College
Liane Jablonski
Mount Wachusett Community College
Michael Smith
Bunker Hill Community College
Rebecca Westphal
North Shore Community College
Kisha Tracy
Fitchburg State University
Jody Carson
Northern Essex Community College
T. Bridgett Galvin
Framingham State University
Jill Becker
Northern Essex Community College
Zhe Li
Framingham State University
Judy Colson
Quinsigamond Community College
John Cipora
Holyoke Community College
Gaelan Benway
Quinsigamond Community College
Donna Francis
Holyoke Community College
Jennifer Hanselman
Westfield State University
Christopher Daniele
Massachusetts Bay Community College
Cassondra Gendron
Westfield State University
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9 – 10 AM KEYNOTE SPEAKER – JAY BHATT, CEO, BLACKBOARD INC.
Concurrent Sessions Schedule
CON 240
CON 124
CON 120-Auditorium
CON 122
CON 465
CON 340
CON 422
CON 260
CON 259
Westfield
Resources to
Enhance
Student
Online
Success
Middlesex
Online
Library
Instruction –
Flipped
Classroom
and
Blackboard
Westfield
Engaging
Diverse
Learning
Styles in an
Online Course
QCC
Bb Goals +
Quality
Matters = ?
Middlesex
Textbooks
Unbound
Initiative in
an Online
Course
Pearson
College
Readiness
and
Retention
Best
Practices for
Encouraging
Online
Tutoring
Usage
NSCC
“Ready, Set,
Go”:
Preparing
Students for
Success in
Online
Courses
MWCC
Librarians
Run a MOOC
GCC
Orientation
Modules
Enhance
Student Selfefficacy and
Empowerment
Framingham
Why Quality
Matters
Middlesex
Project
Kaleidoscope:
Lumen and
Three OER
Perspectives
Pearson
MyLab –
REVEL
Enchancing
Teaching and
Learning with
Pearson
Products
10:30 - 11:20 AM
STCC
Is Your Online
Course
Student
Friendly?
GCC
Advising
Students
About Online
Classes
11:30 - 12:20 PM
CCCC
CCCC Online
and Hybrid
Courses:
Creating a
Roadmap for
High
Retention and
Program
Success
HCC
Who are Our
Online
Students and
How are They
Doing?
12:30 - 1:30 PM LUNCH - COD AWARDS
CON 240
CON 124
Rondileau Campus Center Ballroom
CON 122
CON 465
CON 340
CON 422
CON 259
Mass Bay
Making Your
Online
Course More
Mobile
Friendly
HCC
Designing
and
Facilitating
Blended ESL
Courses
STCC
Enhancing
Online
Content
Delivery
Using
Instructional
Videos
Massasoit
How do You
Promote and
Scaffold
Learning?
NECC
Accessibility
Initiative
Roundtable –
Perspectives
of Three
Institutions
Blackboard
Blackboard
Outcomes:
College Wide
Artifact
Collection for
Assessment
BHCC
Moodle with
Mobile
Devices Can
Be Done!
GCC
The Roving
Reporter:
The World as
Classroom
Fitchburg
Lost in the
Online
Wonderland
Massasoit
Applying
Bloom’s
Taxonomy in a
Blended
Modality
Fitchburg
Using Bb
Collaborate
Live in Class
Atomic
Learning
Multiple Uses
of Atomic
Learning’s
“Just-inTime”
Training
1:45 – 2:35 PM
NECC
iTeach – Learn
About How
We Train
Faculty to
Teach Online!
2:45 - 3:35 PM
NSCC
Choose Your
Own
EdVenture:
Hybrid Flexible
Pedagogy
3:35 – 4:30 PM ICE CREAM SOCIAL AND RAFFLE
Conant Science and Mathematics Center
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Courses of Distinction Presentation Schedule
10:30 to 11:20 AM
CON 120 ONLINE COURSES
CON 367 BLENDED COURSES
Climate Change
Technical Mathematics and Physics
Jennifer Hanselman
John Smith
Westfield State University
Middlesex Community College
Fire Behavior and Combustion
Investments
Michael Smith
Zhi Li
Bunker Hill Community College
Framingham State University
Child Care Administration
Principles of Environmental Science 2
Jody Carson
Donna Francis
Northern Essex Community College
Holyoke Community College
Introduction to Psychology
Psychology of Sport and Physical
Performance
Judy Colson
Maura Rosenthal
Quinsigamond Community College
Bridgewater State University
Introduction to Sociology
Dynamics of Race and Ethnic Relations
Liane Jablonski
Gaelan Benway
Mount Wachusett Community College
Quinsigamond Community College
Human Development
Professional Issues in Nursing
John Cipora
Jill Becker
Holyoke Community College
Northern Essex Community College
Computers and Technology
British Literature I - Beowulf to Milton
Christopher Daniele
Kisha Tracy
Massachusetts Bay Community College
Fitchburg State University
Crime and Punishment in Literature
Elementary Statistics
Denise Marchionda
Cassondra Gendron
Middlesex Community College
Westfield State University
Human Development and Learning
Introduction to Clinical Laboratory Science
T. Bridgett Galvin
Kelli Hiller
Framingham State University
Bristol Community College
Media Literacy
Engineering Design with CAD I
Jessica Birthisel
Marina Bograd
Bridgewater State University
Massachusetts Bay Community College
Digital Culture
Introduction to Mass Communication
Dori Digenti
Lisa Zinsuis Supka
Berkshire Community College
Massasoit Community College
11:30 to 12:20 PM
1:45 to 2:35 PM
2:45 to 3:35 PM
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Concurrent Sessions 10:30 - 11:20 AM Conant Science and Mathematics Center
Courses of Distinction Presentations
ONLINE COURSES CON 120 or BLENDED COURSES CON 367
CON 240
CON 124
CON 122
CON 465
CON 340
CON 442
CON 260
CON 259
STCC
Is Your Online
Course
Student
Friendly?
GCC
Advising
Students
About Online
Classes
Westfield
Resources to
Enhance
Student
Online
Success
Middlesex
Online
Library
Instruction –
Flipped
Classroom
and
Blackboard
Westfield
Engaging
Diverse
Learning
Styles in an
Online Course
QCC
Bb Goals +
Quality
Matters = ?
Middlesex
Textbooks
Unbound
Initiative in
an Online
Course
Pearson
College
Readiness
and
Retention
Best
Practices for
Encouraging
Online
Tutoring
Usage
Is Your Online Course Student Friendly? / CON 240
Justin Lauzon / Springfield Technical Community College
Taking an online course can be overwhelming, even for the best-prepared students. Minor course design
decisions often play an outsized role in determining the user-friendliness of online course materials. This
presentation will discuss best practices that faculty course developers can implement to ensure the widest
number of students enjoy an accessible, comfortable, and efficient learning experience.
Advising Students about Online Classes / CON 124
Lisa Sheldon / Greenfield Community College
Advisors play a pivotal role in preparing students for online classes. Advisement topics should include learning
style, technology requirements, when and where to get help, workload and time commitment needed to be a
successful student. Completing a checklist of current skills can increase feelings of confidence and
competence and highlight areas for additional skill development.
Resources to Enhance Student Online Success / CON 122
Kathryn LaMay-Miller / Westfield State University
Let's examine methods and resources that help ensure that the online student avoids missteps in
understanding and completing assignments. We'll look at how the use of visuals, web links, and special group
discussion formats can lead, not only to a clearer understanding of course content, but to taking the student
from a solitary environment of individual computer learning, transforming the experience into an open and
sharing environment, helping to motivate a student to fulfill all goals.
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Online Library Instruction – Flipped Classroom and Blackboard / CON 465
Carrie Salazar & Ellen Royality / Middlesex Community College
The Library Instruction Team, comprised of librarians and faculty at Middlesex Community College, has
created a series of online video tutorials featuring our faculty and staff, designed to cover basic information
literacy concepts. These modules have been used in a “flipped classroom” setting. We are also developing a
series of online activities for Fall 2014 that can be used in conjunction with the video modules providing
students with the chance for "hands on" practice.
Engaging Diverse Learning Styles in an Online Course / CON 340
Supriya Sarnikar / Westfield State University
Universal design requires that we use multiple modalities of instruction to engage students with diverse
learning preferences. Often, when teaching a course online, we find that many of the innovative pedagogies
that we use in the classroom do not translate well to the asynchronous online environment. Devoid of facial
cues and body language, there is little scope for just-in-time switching of teaching strategies. It is necessary to
know your students before any substantive content is delivered and a need to design for multiple intelligences
at the outset.
Bb Goals + Quality Matters = ? / CON 442
Pat Schmohl & Louise Hamelin / Quinsigamond Community College
Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) has chosen Quality Matters (QM) as our guiding standard for online
course design. We are starting to use Blackboard’s (Bb) goals/alignment tool to highlight components of each
course that are designed to improve student success. We have our faculty members complete the QM’s
Design Your Online Course and then structure workshops for faculty to learn how to use Bb Learn.
Textbooks Unbound Initiative in an Online Course / CON 260
Johannah Segarich & Binnur Ercem / Middlesex Community College
As a result of participation in Textbooks Unbound Initiative in 2013, Binnur Ercem and Johannah Segarich
developed courses through Blackboard, using only free on-line resources. This presentation will explore how
those resources are used in two courses: Introduction to Sociology and Music Appreciation.
Best Practices for Encouraging Online Tutoring Usage / CON 259
Katie Turner Getty / Bunker Hill Community College - Lea Douglin / Pearson College Readiness and
Retention
In this session we will discuss best practices for encouraging online students to try online tutoring. Bunker Hill
Community College was one of Smarthinking’s first clients almost 15 years ago. Since then, BHCC has
experimented with and refined strategies for meaningfully reaching students as the number of online
enrollments has steadily increased. Katie Turner Getty from BHCCOnline will discuss reliable strategies that
work to promote online tutoring usage. These strategies are beautifully easy to replicate.
Smarthinking Implementation Specialist Lea Douglin will round out the session with lessons learned and best
practices from other Northeast campuses using online tutoring in a variety of settings.
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Concurrent Sessions 11:30 - 12:20 AM Conant Science and Mathematics Center
Courses of Distinction Presentations
ONLINE COURSES CON 120 or BLENDED COURSES CON 367
CON 240
CON 124
CON 122
CON 465
CON 340
CON 442
CON 260
CON 259
CCCC
CCCC Online
and Hybrid
Courses:
Creating a
Roadmap for
High
Retention and
Program
Success
HCC
Who are Our
Online
Students and
How are They
Doing?
NSCC
“Ready, Set,
Go”:
Preparing
Students for
Success in
Online
Courses
MWCC
Librarians
Run a MOOC
GCC
Orientation
Modules
Enhance
Student Selfefficacy and
Empowerment
Framingham
Why Quality
Matters
Middlesex
Project
Kaleidoscope:
Lumen and
Three OER
Perspectives
Pearson
MyLab REVEL
Enhancing
Teaching and
Learning with
Pearson
Products
CCCC Online and Hybrid Courses: Creating a Roadmap for High Retention and Program
Success / CON 240
Hemant Chikarmane & Max Woolf / Cape Cod Community College
This session will explore the methodology and results of a recent comprehensive assessment of Cape Cod
Community College's capacity to deliver effective online and hybrid courses. Participants will learn how federal
regulations and accreditation can create a culture of continuous improvement to support increased retention by
defining actionable short-term and long-term goals.
Who are Our Online Students and How are They Doing? / CON 124
Lindsey Rothschild, Karin Moyano Camihort & Michael Kowalewski / Holyoke Community College
During the Fall 2013 Semester, HCC conducted its first survey of online students. These findings from this
survey combined with data from Institutional Research are helping to inform the support needed to sustain and
grow the online program. During this session, we will use this data as a starting point to engage in dialogue
with colleagues to develop an understanding of who our online students are and how we can best support and
evaluate online learning on our campuses.
“Ready, Set, Go”: Preparing Students for Success in Online Courses / CON 122
Andrea Milligan & Lance Eaton / North Shore Community College
The nature of online learning and the necessary skills and characteristics to be successful in online courses
often leave students struggling in the beginning of the semester to “get off on the right foot.” North Shore
Community College will share their process for orienting students to online learning as well as other strategies
and best practices faculty employ to familiarize students to the online course and prepare them for a
successful learning experience.
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Librarians Run a MOOC / CON 465
Suzanne Levasseur & Ellen Pratt / Mount Wachusett Community College
Librarians at Mount Wachusett Community College will present the Research Skills MOOC they created to
address the college’s information literacy competency and to introduce students to the skills necessary to write
a college research paper.
Orientation Modules Enhance Student Self-efficacy and Empowerment / CON 340
Lisa Sheldon / Greenfield Community College
Using learning management tools can be daunting for new online learners. Orientation modules can reduce
anxiety, increase confidence and help students practice skills. Modules provide experience in online activities
before they are required on graded assignments, provide a course overview and set course tone. Orientation
peer sharing activity provides practical suggestions about self-management and skill building, and allows
students to engage with each other using course-based discussion tools.
Why Quality Matters / CON 442
Robin Robinson, T. Bridgett Galvin & Silka Hermeling / Framingham State University
We adopted Quality Matters (QM) at Framingham State University to meet the needs of students and faculty
and to increase the quality of our online learning experiences. However, growing a Quality Matters initiative on
a State University campus can be a challenge. Through the combined efforts of the Educational Technology
Office and the Faculty Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, Scholarship and Service (CELTSS), we
are building and nurturing acceptance. During this presentation will tell our evolving story, which includes the
creation of the QM Advisory Board, the collaboration of faculty and IT divisions, the growth of faculty QM
graduates and reviewed courses, and a collection of lessons learned. Finally, we will share our strategy for
developing an assessment procedure for how well our efforts in bringing QM to campus are working.
Project Kaleidoscope: Lumen and Three OER Perspectives / CON 260
Ashli Ree, James Dottin & Luciano Sappia / Middlesex Community College
The panel will discuss experiencing the promises and pitfalls of a blended approach that offers both
instructional design creativity and flexibility as well as the delivery of content that engages the student’s
learning experience. The three business faculty members each have different specializations – marketing,
fashion, and entrepreneurship. Along with using Lumen, other open educational resources such as HP LIFE,
Cotton University, and Khan Academy were used as additional resources.
Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Pearson MyLab Products / CON 259
Lynn Zayac / Westfield State University - Donna Baum / Pearson MyLab
During this session three instructors will demonstrate Pearson MyLab products that are examples of the
many MyLabs available for Professional & Career, Math & Science, and Humanities, Social Science, & World
Language courses. Professor Lynn Zayac of Westfield State will present MySocLab and REVEL (new Mobile
first immersive learning experience product).
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Concurrent Sessions 1:45 - 2:35 PM Conant Science and Mathematics Center
Courses of Distinction Presentations
ONLINE COURSES CON 120 or BLENDED COURSES CON 367
CON 240
CON 124
CON 122
CON 465
CON 340
CON 442
CON 259
NECC
iTeach – Learn
About How
We Train
Faculty to
Teach Online!
Mass Bay
Making Your
Online
Course More
Mobile
Friendly
HCC
Designing
and
Facilitating
Blended ESL
Courses
STCC
Enhancing
Online
Content
Delivery
Using
Instructional
Videos
Massasoit
How do You
Promote and
Scaffold
Learning?
NECC
Accessibility
Initiative
Roundtable –
Perspectives
of Three
Institutions
Blackboard
Blackboard
Outcomes:
College Wide
Artifact
Collection for
Assessment
iTeach – Learn About How We Train Faculty to Teach Online! / CON 240
Sue Tashjian, Cherie Hagen & Richard Lizotte / Northern Essex Community College
This is a three-person panel discussion focused on NECC’s iTeach faculty training course. The panel consists
of members of the CIT staff, including an Instructional Designer, Curriculum Developer/Full-time Faculty
member and Media Developer who have worked together as a team to develop the various components
required to prepare NECC faculty to teach and improve online courses. This panel also facilitates the course.
Making Your Online Course More Mobile Friendly / CON 124
Jim Grenier / Massachusetts Bay Community College
This workshop will include five things instructors can do to maximize student accessibility and success in their
online and hybrid courses, specifically for students using mobile devices. It will focus on practical steps that
can be adapted to any of the popular LMS platforms available, and will include discussion of universal design
principles to address the unique challenges faced by today’s mobile learners.
Designing and Facilitating Blended ESL Courses / CON 122
Lindsey Rothschild & Eileen Kelley / Holyoke Community College
As technology and language learning become more integrated, many ESL professionals are concerned about
the quality of interaction in online classes. The presenters demonstrate how they transformed their grammar
courses into a blended format, and they address the effects the changes have had on student engagement
and learning.
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Enhancing Online Content Delivery Using Instructional Videos / CON 465
Robert Vetrano & Justin Lauzon / Springfield Technical Community College
This presentation will explore ways faculty can utilize targeted video tutorials to enhance course content
presentation and promote student mastery of complex concepts. The session will include a demonstration of
common video authoring software and production practices, as well as a discussion of web-based tools
instructors can use to begin developing their own engaging video tutorials.
How do You Promote and Scaffold Learning? / CON 340
Michelle Manganaro / Massasoit Community College
How do you promote and scaffold learning in the online learning forum? Online course design must offer the
opportunity to learn content in diverse ways including collaborative learning. Promoting positive student
interaction online is critical to the learning process. Otherwise the course is no more than an independent
study. Purposeful redundancy, group learning process, and other best practice strategies are shared in an
effort to maximize the human side of online teaching.
Accessibility Initiative Roundtable – Perspectives of Three Institutions / CON 442
Melba Acevedo & Susan Martin / Northern Essex Community College - Andrea Milligan / North Shore
Community College - April Bellafiore / Bristol Community College
Ensuring accessibility to online and hybrid courses, and to the content used within the courses, is more than
just the right thing to do. Accessibility is a core component of the core values and mission statements of our
institutions and it is a legal obligation that we must uphold. Join three institutions as they share their
experiences with designing and implementing accessibility initiatives at their respective campuses.
Blackboard Outcomes: College Wide Artifact Collection for Assessment / CON 259
Pat Schmohl / Quinsigamond Community College - Anna Emery / Blackboard
Learn how Quinsigamond Community College has used Bb Learn to easily align assignments in a course to be
used to gather evidence (artifacts) for assessment. Using Bb Outcomes you can collect the artifacts and have
faculty assess (rubrics in Bb Outcomes) the artifacts. The faculty assessment of artifacts will create your
facts/data to improve your course/program/and general education at your college.
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Concurrent Sessions 2:45 - 3:35 PM Conant Science and Mathematics Center
Courses of Distinction Presentations
ONLINE COURSES CON 120 or BLENDED COURSES CON 367
CON 240
CON 124
CON 122
CON 465
CON 340
CON 442
CON 259
NSCC
Choose Your
Own
EdVenture:
Hybrid Flexible
Pedagogy
BHCC
Moodle with
Mobile
Devices Can
Be Done!
GCC
The Roving
Reporter: The
World as
Classroom
Fitchburg
Lost in the
Online
Wonderland
Massasoit
Applying
Bloom’s
Taxonomy in a
Blended
Modality
Fitchburg
Using Bb
Collaborate
Live in Class
Atomic
Learning
Multiple Uses
of Atomic
Learning’s
“Just-inTime”
Training
Choose Your Own EdVenture: Hybrid Flexible Pedagogy / CON 240
Lance Eaton / North Shore Community College
This presentation will explore the development, piloting and initial results of an American Literature 1 course
designed by using hybrid flexible pedagogy. The design approach allowed for students to take the course
entirely face to face, entirely online, or to move back and forth between these two formats as fits each
student’s needs. Additionally, the presentation will consider how choice is used throughout to enhance interest
and learning with regards to attendance, readings, and assignments.
Moodle with Mobile Devices Can Be Done! / CON 124
Paul Vitagliano & Carlos Matheus / Bunker Hill Community College
With the myriad of technologies, applications, devices and connection options, it is often quite confusing to any
faculty member or student when it comes to using mobile devices with Moodle. This workshop cuts through all
of that confusion and focuses on the mobile technologies that work best with Android, Apple and Windows
mobile devices.
The Roving Reporter: The World as Classroom / CON 122
Thomas Simmons / Greenfield Community College
With the explosion of technology, there is no reason for students or instructors to feel bored or confined by a
teaching location, be it classroom or an online work assignment. Any instructor can easily use a camera, cell
phone, or laptop to create videos that take students into businesses, galleries, wetlands, non-profits,
weightrooms, or any location appropriate to the lesson and discipline. Come explore how you might bring the
world to students in a way that engages today’s students.
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Lost in the Online Wonderland / CON 465
Kisha Tracy / Fitchburg State University
Given the number of digital pedagogical tools available for and used by instructors as well as the fact current
traditional students have grown up around (if not always with) technology, it is easy to lose track of students
who find more to fear than to embrace in the online wonderland, who fail to complete work, not out of
resistance, but distress. This session will explore the issues this type of student faces and consider potential
strategies to help students with this stage fright.
Applying Bloom’s Taxonomy in a Blended Modality / CON 340
Marco Dacaret / Massasoit Community College
Bloom's Taxonomy helps create and deliver ideal blended-learning courses; each category is relevant to the
online classroom realm and to the face-to-face classroom experience. The top three categories: "analyzing,"
"evaluating" and, "creating" are the focus for the online classroom realm, while the equally important bottom
three categories: "applying," "understanding" and, "remembering" serve as the underlying purpose for the faceto-face classroom experience.
Using Bb Collaborate Live in Class / CON 442
Nancy Murray / Fitchburg State University
This presentation takes a look at using Blackboard Collaborate for a hybrid course. The session itself allows
students to attend the session either in class or online. The presenter will share her experiences and
takeaways from this approach.
Multiple Uses of Atomic Learning’s “Just-in-Time” Training / CON 259
Paula Dinneen / UMass Boston, Brenda Weiss-Pesta / Atomic Learning
Transform the Classroom, and Redesign Faculty Development with Self-Directed Online Learning. Learn how
UMASS Boston and CAPS partnered with Atomic Learning to accomplish two objectives. First, offering faculty
a way to meet the expectations of teaching 21st century skills without compromising their important
instructional time, and second, meeting the needs of faculty development for those who are not present on our
campus or cannot attend face to face training.
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existing learning management system.
Designed specifically for education, Atomic
Learning’s online training courses facilitate
campus-wide academic and career success by
instructing faculty, staff, and students on the
effective application of technology. We partner
with your campus to provide personalized
customer service and integration in to your
Special pricing is available for Massachusetts Colleges Online members.
Blackboard is the world’s
leading education
technology company that is
reimagining education by
challenging conventional thinking and advancing new learning models. We rapidly deploy
relevant and meaningful technologies and services to meet the needs of the modern day learner
and the institutions that serve them, driving success and growth for both. In partnership with
higher education, K-12, corporate organizations, and government agencies around the world,
we help every learner achieve their full potential. For more information about Blackboard follow
us on Twitter at @Blackboard.v
Canvas by Instructure is the
LMS that gets used. Canvas
connects teachers, tools,
ideas, and students, and
then stays out of the way.
With all the built-in features
you need and the integrations you want, Canvas makes teaching and learning easier, enabling
you to take education to a higher level.
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A global leader in online learning solutions, Desire2Learn engages and inspires students of all
ages with technology that supports the unique needs of organizations, instructors, and individual
learners. Our integrated learning platform enables the delivery of a pervasive, perceptive, and
personalized experience for more than 10 million end users worldwide.
eScience Labs LLC. provides
complete and comprehensive
hands-on science kits to support
online and traditional courses in
need of a laboratory solution.
These are the same
experiments you would find in a traditional academic lab, but designed and scaled to be
performed by students anytime, anywhere. Written by PhD level educators and scientists, our
labs compliment any teaching style or curriculum.
Kaltura provides the world’s first Open
Source Online Video Platform, transforming
the way people work, learn, and entertain
using online video. The Kaltura platform
engages millions of viewers, employees,
students and teachers. Kaltura provides
educational institutions with disruptive
online video solutions for improved
teaching, learning, and engagement across
campuses and beyond. For more
information: www.kaltura.com, to join Kaltura’s community visit: www.kaltura.org and
www.html5video.org.
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Pearson College Readiness
and Retention
Personalized solutions and services to
help students prepare for credit bearing
courses, excel at all levels,
and succeed in their educational and career goals. Pearson Readiness & Retention solutions
positively impact student outcomes, persistence, and completion include the customized
personal learning experience of MyFoundationsLab and live, online tutoring from Smarthinking.
Engage students effectively with immersive content, tools, and experiences
MyLab & Mastering is the world's leading collection of online homework, tutorial, and
assessment products designed with a single purpose in mind: to improve the results of all higher
education students, one student at a time.
With input from more than 11 million student users annually, MyLab & Mastering creates
learning experiences that are truly personalized and continuously adaptive. MyLab & Mastering
reacts to how students are actually performing, offering data-driven guidance that helps them
better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.
Pearson will also be releasing a new product, REVEL our new mobile first immersive learning
experience product.
UMassOnline is your entry into
the University of Massachusetts'
online courses, certificates,
degree programs, and corporate
and professional education
opportunities. Recognized as one of the top universities in the United States, the University of
Massachusetts has been a leader in distance education for over 25 years. Now you can
leverage the power of the five-campus University by getting your university degree online. See
more at: www.umassonline.net.
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Vital Source Technologies is a global leader in building, enhancing and delivering digital content
for higher education and the VitalSource Bookshelf® platform is the most used delivery platform
for this market. Now, with the recent acquisition of CourseSmart®, Vital Source offers the
world’s largest digital content catalog, greater scalability and award-winning analytics, resulting
in a best-in-class digital content platform that provides more options for institutions as well as
more inventory for faculty and course designers.
The Massachusetts Community
Colleges Executive Office (MCCEO)
works on behalf of the community
colleges in Massachusetts, currently
representing more than 190,000
students in every region of the
commonwealth. MCCEO provides
key information on current issues
and policies connected to the community colleges in Massachusetts. Through policy initiatives,
research and strategic outreach to business/industry, policy stakeholders, and media outlets,
MCCEO assists the community colleges within Massachusetts in fulfilling their collective
mission.
There are six comprehensive state universities—
Bridgewater State University, Fitchburg State University,
Framingham State University, Salem State University,
Westfield State University, and Worcester State
University—and three specialized colleges—Massachusetts
College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts, and Massachusetts Maritime Academy. The six
comprehensive state universities integrate liberal arts and
sciences programs with professional education, and the
three specialized colleges also focus on academic areas
identified in the college’s name.
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Vendor Support
Thank you to our sponsors...
Vendor Partners
Ed Weisman / Pearson College Readiness and Retention / Platinum
Donna Baum / Pearson MyLab - REVEL / Gold
Jennifer Roth / Blackboard / Gold
Stefanie Henderson / UMass Online / Silver
Brenda Weiss / Atomic Learning / Silver
Amy Alder / Vital Source / Bronze
Vincent Pedone / Council of Presidents of the Massachusetts State
University System / Bronze
Bill Hart / Massachusetts Community Colleges Executive Office / Bronze
Vendors
Rachael Moore / Canvas by Instructure
Norma Jean Loftus / Desire2Learn
Emily Baker / eScience Labs
Meytal Burstein / Kaltura
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