Live Sessions
Wired for Connection: Promoting Our Collective Well-Being and Success
Flower Darby
Restoring joy to all stakeholders involved in the education space is paramount to the success of schools. More than at any other time, students depend on us to lead them toward a brighter future, one in which the world's complexities are easier to understand. How can we as educators uphold that vow to educate a nation if we have hit a wall? If our educational methodology is stagnant, can we truly ignite a spark in our youth to be lifelong learners? Education is more than the rigor of the lesson, classroom management, and endless hours of grading papers or tests. Education is about learning, discovery, and feeding one's curiosity with rich and engaging information. How can that be done in today's time, when there are so many competing distractions vying for the attention of our students? Virtual reality (VR) is a tool that completely immerses students in the learning experiences they embark on without distractions. This leads to more fulfillment in the student but also in the instructor. Incorporating multiple pedagogies while using VR is also possible and allows for the differentiation of instruction. Morehouse in the Metaverse, the first Metaversity globally, has shown that student satisfaction increased during VR classes but also that grades increased. There are 450 Meta Quest 2 headsets circulating the campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, where students engage in the academic and social sides of campus life. The Metaversity model for transforming higher education can be polished and packaged for every level of education. To thrive in the era of Web3, we must prepare our future generations now. Create the joy for learning that your students seek. Be a transformational educator, and enter the Metaverse with your students. You will not regret it! Learn how to restore joy to the entire educational system, for it is something we must all do together. It's transformation and restoration time. Step outside the box and into the Metaverse.
Designing for Variability: Inclusive Learning Spaces
Adam Finkelstein
Designing learning spaces for variability supports more inclusive opportunities for diverse learners across multiple dimensions. This session will explore how they can be designed using University Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework as well as design principles to support diversity and equity for all. The Learning Space Rating System v3 (LSRS), with its new section on inclusion, will also be used as a framework to help design learning spaces to support diverse learners.
UNLV's Online Teaching and Technology Adoption Model
Nicole Hudson, Suzanne Becker, Ted Weisman
At UNLV, taking faculty development to the next level required a research-based approach coupled with an examination of the aptitude and appetite of our campus community. Through a process in which we reimagined faculty development, the Office of Online Education created UNLV's Online Teaching and Technology Adoption Model. This presentation is an examination of the development of the model, best practices for engaging your team, promoting the program, and having a little fun in the process.
Connected Classrooms: Digital Transformation at San Diego State University
Aurora Velasco, Kevin Krick
During the pandemic, SDSU adapted learning environments to facilitate flexible instruction by equipping classrooms with capture and streaming technology, which we call Connected Classrooms. Training and support resources included the Flexible Course Design Institute which helped faculty use these spaces most effectively. Additionally, we deployed a survey to these end-users in order to gauge which classroom technologies they utilized most, as well as the return on investment of these spaces.
ELI Annual Meeting Kahoot! The Online Trivia Game
Join us for a fun game of competitive trivia! You won't have to download anything to play. All you need is your laptop and your cellphone with a solid Wi-Fi connection to play the game. Get ready to test your knowledge and have a great time!
Build It and They Will Come: Benefits of Opt-In DEI Faculty and Instructor Development
Samantha Becker, Alex Stark, Sheila Stoeckel
Expanding faculty and instructional staff's knowledge of DEI is essential to creating dynamic and inclusive classrooms that benefit all learners. The project team has found much success in creating online, self-paced, and interactive training modules that can expand the instructor's knowledge of social justice concepts and practices. The team will discuss the paradigm-shifting approach, successes and challenges, and the longer-term vision.
Educational Transformation and Restoration Powered by Virtual Reality
Muhsinah Morris
Restoring joy to all stakeholders involved in the education space is paramount to the success of schools. More than at any other time, students depend on us to lead them toward a brighter future, one in which the world's complexities are easier to understand. How can we as educators uphold that vow to educate a nation if we have hit a wall? If our educational methodology is stagnant, can we truly ignite a spark in our youth to be lifelong learners? Education is more than the rigor of the lesson, classroom management, and endless hours of grading papers or tests. Education is about learning, discovery, and feeding one's curiosity with rich and engaging information. How can that be done in today's time, when there are so many competing distractions vying for the attention of our students? Virtual reality (VR) is a tool that completely immerses students in the learning experiences they embark on without distractions. This leads to more fulfillment in the student but also in the instructor. Incorporating multiple pedagogies while using VR is also possible and allows for the differentiation of instruction. Morehouse in the Metaverse, the first Metaversity globally, has shown that student satisfaction increased during VR classes but also that grades increased. There are 450 Meta Quest 2 headsets circulating the campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, where students engage in the academic and social sides of campus life. The Metaversity model for transforming higher education can be polished and packaged for every level of education. To thrive in the era of Web3, we must prepare our future generations now. Create the joy for learning that your students seek. Be a transformational educator, and enter the Metaverse with your students. You will not regret it! Learn how to restore joy to the entire educational system, for it is something we must all do together. It's transformation and restoration time. Step outside the box and into the Metaverse.
Town Hall: Looking to the Future with the EDUCAUSE Strategic Plan
John O'Brien, Helen Norris, Nicole McWhirter
Join EDUCAUSE President and CEO John O'Brien, Board Chair Helen Norris, and Chief Planning Officer Nicole McWhirter in a discussion about the association’s strategic planning process. Engage in this lively session focused on the EDUCAUSE commitment to a member-focused future, and be a part of clarifying and affirming the role EDUCAUSE plays and ensuring that our mission and vision are relevant and responsive to the challenges in a post-pandemic world. Come prepared to tell us what your hopes and dreams are for the future of EDUCAUSE!
Design to Engage: Crafting Laptop Lectures Recordings for the Learner Experience
Kimberly Hall
Digital transformation has instructors recording lectures on their own now more than ever. Lectures have their limitations; however, they remain an efficient form of instruction and many students prefer them. Through theoretical and research-based approaches to slide design and recording techniques, this session guides course designers with making pre-recorded lectures engaging, easy to follow, and memorable.
What They Need, When They Want It: Meeting Faculty Where They Are with Inclusive Programming
Kelly Scholl, Shannon Dunn, Crystal Bundrage, Angie Dick
How do you design development to meet faculty where they are—physically and cognitively—amid exhaustion, burnout, and shrinking budgets? How do you get faculty through the door, be it physical or metaphorical? We will discuss two models that found success through incremental steps rather than the giant leaps forced by the pandemic response. Participants will explore strategies to use empathy, space, and inclusive practice to create relevant and attractive development models for their campuses.
Digital versus Brick-and-Mortar Balancing Game: More Horizon Report Exemplar Stories
Kathe Pelletier, Rick Bryck, Bob Dolan, Solveig Brown, Eric Moore
The EDUCAUSE Horizon Report continues to identify and describe higher education trends, technologies, and practices that are likely to impact teaching and learning, and the EDUCAUSE Showcase Series provides resources and tools to help guide campuses forward on their most urgent issues. What happens when they meet? Expanding on the April Showcase Series installment, Digital versus Brick-and-Mortar Balancing Game, in this live session, institutions with exemplar projects highlighted in this year’s Horizon Report - will discuss innovative implementation of technology as they navigate the issues of culture, faculty development, and classroom design that come with a hybrid future. This session features Landmark College and Florida State University.
On-Demand Sessions
An Immersive Twin of a Chemistry Lab in Virtual Reality: How to Design and Use VR in the Classroom
Christian Cousquer, Thierry Koscielniak
During the COVID-19 crisis, the Cnam succeeded in transforming 95% of its planned face-to-face courses into distance learning. But among the remaining 5%, it was impossible to carry out the practical sessions of experimental sciences remotely. Designing immersive twins in virtual reality was a solution to this problem. In this session, the presenters will tackle the subjects of immersive twins, strategies to design VR modules for learning, and classroom uses of VR modules.
Learning Experience Design
Kristina Cibuzar, Grace Atkins
This session will introduce the learning experience (LX) design framework developed by the LX Team at UMN. Influenced by Moore’s Types of Interaction, OER, and UDL, the LX framework provides a new way of looking at instructional design by centering the student experience throughout all design decisions. This framework separates three specific design elements: site, course, and interaction design. This framework helps evaluate and improve courses to be more consistent for students.
Meeting the Need: An Institution-Specific Online Course Design Checklist
Jill Ballard, Angie Portacio
While many quality online course design frameworks exist, their range and scope are not always a clear fit for an institution. In this session, instructional designers from the University of San Francisco share their journey to determine needs and create a customized course design checklist integrating four frameworks to fit their institution in terms of breadth, usability, and scalability. Participants are invited to explore their own institutions’ needs for a tailored course design checklist.
Old Tools, New Tricks: Using SAMR as a Lens for Inclusive Pedagogy
Wendy Crocker
Familiar tools take on new applications in this session that brings together the SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) Model and considerations of inclusive pedagogy. A faculty member will discuss the use of the app Padlet to illustrate how student voices were integrated into the choice of reading material in an online doctoral course.
Transformational Leadership Opportunities to Support Retention in Higher Education
Sherri Braxton, Leah Kraus, Liv Gjestvang, Shannon Dunn
How is the Great Resignation impacting our organizations and staff? Panelists will share personal and anonymized peer experiences as leaders in higher education IT who have recently made career transitions or who lead organizations impacted by turnover. Discussion topics will include causes of attrition, impacts to organizations and remaining individuals, and opportunities to embrace this critical moment in leadership to implement organizational change models to better support retention.