Workshops, Keynotes, and Presentations at the 2013 Online Teaching Conference, Long Beach, June 19-21 2013.

1. Online Teaching Conference
Catching the Wave of Online Student
Success
Conference Highlights

2. Pre-Conference
• Wednesday, June 19, 2013
• Long Beach City College
• Pre-registration required
– Workshops run concurrently
– ½ Day or Full Day workshops
– All workshops include lunch

3. Powerful Presentations with Prezi
• With Blaine Morrow
• 9 AM - Noon
• Bring Your Own Laptop
• $100

4. Getting Started with iPads in Education
• With Sam Gliksman
• 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
• $500 (includes 16 GB WiFi iPad Mini, Black)

5. Digging Deeper: iPads in Education
• With Sam Gliksman
• 1:30 – 4:30 PM
• Bring Your Own iPad
• $125
• All registrants receive a copy of
– iPads in Education for Dummies

6. Creating Quick and Easy Instructor
Websites with Google Sites
• With Anna Stirling
• 1:00 – 4:00 PM
• Bring Your Own Laptop
• $100

7. Creating Video for Your Course with
YouTube and Screencast-o-Matic
• With Donna Eyestone
• 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• $200
• All participants receive 1080p HD Webcam

8. Flipping Your Classroom with
CCC Confer
• With Micah Orloff
• 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• $100
• Participants receive Webcam and Headset

9. Introduction to Teaching & Learning
with VoiceThread
• With Rica Young
• 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• $150

10. Stephen Downes:
“What Constitutes Student Success?”
• Thursday Keynote
• 9:30 – 10:30 AM
Stephen Downes works for the National Research
Council of Canada where he has served as a Senior
Researcher, based in Moncton, New
Brunswick, since 2001. Affiliated with the Learning
and Collaborative Technologies Group, Institute for
Information Technology, Downes specializes in the
fields of online learning, new media, pedagogy and
philosophy. In 2008, Downes and George Siemens
designed and taught an online, open course
reported to be the first ever MOOC.

11. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti
“Society 3.0: Technology Transformations in
Society, Work, and Higher Education”
• Friday Keynote
• 9:30 – 10:30 AM
A leading authority on the convergence of
education, technology, and work, Dr. Tracey
Wilen-Daugenti is Vice President and
Managing Director of Apollo Research
Institute, where she guides the Institute’s
study of career and workforce issues
critically important to
employers, educators, and policymakers.
The author of 10 books, Dr. Wilen-Daugenti
is also a frequent contributor to The
Huffington Post, The Examiner, and other
national and international media outlets.

12. SB 1052 & 1053, OER, DL, MOOCs…
huh?
With Barbara Illowsky
Open Educational Resources (OER) is a catch-all
phrase that includes some e-textbooks, some
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and some
online learning. But some e- textbooks, some
MOOCs and some online learning are not OER.
Senate bills 1052 and 1053 require an
intersegmental council of 9 UC, CSU and CCC faculty
(3 each system) to oversee development of a digital
library of OER for the top 50-enrolled lower division
courses CA college students take. How do the
legislation, OER, and MOOCs affect distance
learning? Come learn how they tie … and how they
don’t.

13. They Want Me to Do WHAT –
What Online Faculty Should Know About Changing Regulations
With James Glapa-Grossklag, Patricia
James, Andrea Henne, and Cherry Li-Bugg
As online teaching and learning become more mainstream, federal
regulators and regional accreditors are applying evermore scrutiny
to this delivery format. Current hot-button issues include student
authentication, regular and effective contact, and accessibility.
Hear from a panel of experienced DE managers about what faculty
need to know about these and other evolving regulations.

14. Supporting Student Collaboration in
the Classroom
Kara Kuvakis
Looking for ways to encourage collaboration in your
online classes? Developing a blended class that needs a
collaborative component? From wikis to
blogs, discussion boards to Google Docs, this session
will offer quick and easy tools you can use to help your
students work together. Learn how these free resources
can be incorporated into peer reviews, lab
activities, data collection and evaluation, and more!

15. Tutoring for All:
A Consortial Model for Online Tutoring
Jim Julius
In 2012, MiraCosta College joined the Western eTutoring
Consortium. This enabled MiraCosta to provide cost-
effective online tutoring for all students. In this session, you
will hear about the details of participation in the
consortium, and have an opportunity to discuss how this
approach to providing online tutoring compares to others.
You will hear from various MiraCosta
faculty, staff, tutors, and students about their perceptions of
the eTutoring service. Finally, you will hear about a concise
and practical set of next steps if you are interested in
further exploring the Western eTutoring Consortium.

16. Adobe Captivate:
An Online Text-to-Speech Presentation Solution
Steve Linthicum
With Adobe's Captivate software, you can create
PowerPoint based online presentations that provide
text to speech conversion of your written lecture
content utilizing easy to understand and pleasant
computer generated voices. Final presentations are
easily modifiable by simply making changes to the
text and then regenerating the audio. Video content
can be produced in either Flash or HTML5
format, providing the ability for students to view the
content on any device. Presentations can be designed
to meet ADA requirements including closed
captioning.

17. The What, Why, Who and How of Finding and
Adopting High-Quality Open Educational
Resources
Una Daly
Whether it’s called open educational resources (OER), open
textbooks, or open online courses it can seem like open
education is the new green. It promises to lower student
costs while increasing faculty creativity but the shift from
traditional textbooks and course packs takes thoughtful
planning. This workshop will clarify the varying definitions
and motivations for OER and give you an opportunity to
search several OER repositories. In addition to reviewing
criteria for selecting high quality and accessible OER, you
will gain an understanding of how an open license allows
faculty to freely reuse instructional materials. We’ll finish up
with a discussion on getting buy-in from stakeholders and
how to become an advocate for openness on your campus

18. Creating Accessible Online Courses
Marlene Cevtko
Are you interested in making your course(s) accessible to all
students by following a few simple practices. Not only is
accessibility legally mandated for public education in
California, it's simply the right thing to do. It's not hard and
your students will benefit. You will learn to create accessible
documents and maximize accessibility within your course.

19. Sharing Online Student Services in
New York and California
Jacky Hood and Ric Ginn
In upstate New York, some colleges came together to create
the STAR-NY Consortium
http://www2.cortland.edu/offices/asap/star-ny/. The
founding members shared a license for an online
collaboration tool, designed online tutor training, created a
schedule where each college staffed certain
subjects/hours, and implemented shared online tutoring
services. By sharing technology and academic resources, the
students at these colleges are able to access more online
services than would be available by their school alone.
Within two semesters, the STAR-NY membership doubled. In
their second year, membership continues to grow as word
spreads about their success. We propose launching a similar
effort in California.

20. Surf's Up - Where do We Go From Here?
How to Develop a Good Orientation for your Online and Hybrid
Courses
Tori Bovard
Effective online instruction starts with a foundation of
an informative, engaging orientation. The orientation
sets the stage for the course, and can have significant
effects on student retention and success. This
presentation will include a discussion of essential
elements for an online orientation that may be used in
both online and hybrid courses. A round table
discussion will follow.

21. 3 Things You Might Not Know About
YouTube
Donna Eyestone
Sure, you know how to find a great YouTube video and add it
to your online class, but did you know you can record and edit
your own YouTube videos right through your web browser? Or
that you can easily add and search captions to get to just the
spot you're interested in watching in a long video? Or curate
your own playlist, even adding your own intros to other
people's YouTube videos? All you need is a webcam and a
YouTube account -- no software, no trials, no downloads so
you and your students can easily create videos.

22. Classroom of the Future
John Makevich
Several disruptions are converging in higher education:
budgets are tighter, tuition is higher, and financial aid debt
is growing fast. Massively open online courses (MOOCs)
are gaining momentum and destinations such as the Khan
Academy continue to amaze in their ability to reach the
millions. In this session, we will challenge the assumptions
about education as we know it. What factors should we
consider as we plan for the future of higher education?
What resources will we need? Participants will “tear the
walls down” and re-envision the way students will be
learning in five, ten, and 20 years.

23. Promoting the Value of Learning and
Knowledge through your Facebook Page
Ioan Elvis Sersea
Educators can use the transformative power of social media to
promote learning, academic knowledge, and collaboration
among current and potential students, as well as learners from
other countries, in order to become good will ambassadors of
positive change and help redefine the Internet. This session
will offer some useful tips for instructors to
create, update, and maintain no-cost Facebook Pages to share
news, research, activities, and encourage online participation
and collaboration among current students as well as
interested learners from across the globe.

24. Using Web 2.0 Tools to Enhance the Online
Teaching and Learning Experience
Anna Stirling
There are many ways that Web 2.0 can be integrated into the classroom
and daily tasks. In this workshop you will be introduced to two Web 2.0
sites: Wordle and Animoto, and see how they can be used separately or
together to enhance engagement and learning. Come participate in this
exciting hands-on workshop and leave with finished products! Please
create a free Animoto for Educators account PRIOR to attending the
workshop. Accounts can be created at: http://animoto.com/education

25. A Discussion about Discussions-
Discussion Board Best Practices
DeAnna Kirchen
Discussion Boards are often the best contact we have
with our online students and that they have with each
other. Please come to an open discussion that will include
sharing of ideas and best practices. Topics include the
pro's/con's of using groups, set up of groups, categories
of forums, how much guidance to provide
students, communicating expectations to
students, grading discussions with or without
rubrics, administration of logistics, timing and deadlines
for discussions, etc. Everyone should gain new ideas and
a list of best practices for using Discussion Boards.

26. Mobile Computing - How Is That
Working For Ya?
Eric Wilson
More and more people are migrating to mobile
computing in education. Come to this birds of
feather to discuss and share how mobile computing
may or may not be working for you. We will
exchange information and secrets on using
laptops, tablets and other mobile computing
devices.

27. Online 2.0: The Future of Online
Learning
Peter Campbell
What does Online 2.0 look like? How might 2.0
classes break through to students and faculty in
new ways? And how can these courses be scaled
to meet the growing demands of students? Get a
sneak peek at Blackboard's vision of the
future, including the next version of Blackboard
Collaborate.

28. Whiteboard Screencasting Apps
Francine Vasilomanolakis
and Rica Young
Learn how to record and post lectures in your site or course
management system using your iPad, Android and/or
Windows tablet! Get familiar with Whiteboard
Screencasting Apps that are inexpensive and easy-to-use.
Discover the instructional benefits of tools that allow you to
create video demonstrations and illustrate more examples
that your students can access and replay 24/7 .

29. Increase Student Success and Retention
with On-demand Online Academic Support
Darrell McCarron
Institutions of higher education in the United States and
around the world use on-demand online academic support
services to help increase student achievement and improve
student retention. Focusing on the unique needs of each
student, Smarthinking services provide student-
centered, active learning to students at over 1,000
institutions. Tutors and students work together on
Smarthinking’s proprietary interactive whiteboard in an
encouraging and collaborative learning environment. After
using the services, students get higher grades, pass their
classes, and continue their studies. Learn more about our
data-driven model and the results of our Research
Based, Research Proven approach at this session.

30. Opening Up Learning with
the Community College Consortium for Open
Educational Resources (CCCOER)
Dr. Cynthia Alexander, Una Daly,
Katie Datko, James Glapa-Grossklag
Openness is going mainstream, whether it's called open
educational resources (OER), open textbooks, or massive
open online courses (MOOCs). Attend this panel discussion
to find out how California Community Colleges are
leveraging open education to lower student costs and
expand access. Topics will include adopting open
textbooks, designing open online courses at community
colleges, and integrating openness into professional
development. You will also learn how your college can
become involved in the open education movement and
participate in a community of practice to share knowledge
and find partners for collaboration.

31. Creating Facebook Groups for
Teaching: Build it, They Will Come!
Deborah Lemon
Creating class community is a huge part of student -and
hybrid/online course- success. But how do you get students
to communicate freely in a virtual environment? Facebook is
inherently communicative, and naturally inspires interaction.
Come to this workshop and create your own Facebook
Group. Examine the extensive features. Interact with other
attendees to experience the powerful, fluid environment of
social media.

32. Designing a Partially Online (Hybrid)
Course - What Goes Where and When
Patricia James
Are you thinking that you would really like to develop a
partially online course from a traditional on-ground
course, but don't know where to begin? Are you an
instructional designer who has to guide faculty through the
process of determining what parts of their course should be
online and what should be in the FTF component? If so, then
this session is the place to be! You will be led through a
process to develop a hybrid course and leave the session
with a tool that you can use yourself or with others to
design that hybrid course of your dreams! (Really? Who
dreams about hybrid courses?????)

33. Online Student Dropouts - Causes and
Cures
Dr. Andrea Henne
One of the biggest issues facing online teaching is the
fact that fully online courses usually have lower
retention and success rates than on-campus courses. Is
this an issue at your college? Together, we will explore
and discuss course design, teaching strategies, student
preparation steps, and support services that are
proving effective in retaining students and achieving
online learning success.

34. Distance Education in the CCC System
2011-12 Report
LeBaron Woodyard
This workshop is a presentation of the results of the
latest Chancellor's Office bi-annual report on distance
education in the CCC System. This is the ninth report
since its beginning in 1997. It covers several areas
derived from data from the CCC Management
Information System (COMIS) and surveys of the colleges
and distance education students

35. The Magic of Online Teaching: Implementing
Technologies and Researching Results
David Kephart and Bailey Smith
Most important questions focus on the how and why of
technology in education. Working from a platform currently
being used, this presentation explains how to integrate
MOOCs, direct instruction, and mobile learning – all online.
Next, we explore recent and ongoing research from
California and elsewhere to see why the new techniques
contribute to student success. Finally, we offer ways to link
implementation and research to reinforce evidence-based
school decision-making processes and demonstrate the
equivalence of online and face-to-face programs. The
presenter is an instructor and researcher with a decade of
experience implementing and verifying the effectiveness of
online learning technologies.

36. EduStream - Learn how to
Upload, Share and Caption Your own
Videos
Osman Parada and Andrew Chang
Explore San Bernardino Community College District’s digital
repository EduStream and learn how online, hybrid and face -
to-face courses can benefit from and be enriched by
incorporating ADA (508)-compliant media-rich content. This
database includes over 7500 video segments and interactive
activities that can be utilized by faculty and course developers
for student enrichment.

37. Getting To Know FACCC
Evan Hawkins
Now in its 60th year, FACCC has provided focused
representation for the community college faculty to
promote funding, academic freedom, and retirement
benefits. With members at all 112 campuses across
California, FACCC continues to strengthen the position of
faculty in the State Capitol, the State Chancellor’s
Office, and the State Teachers’ Retirement System. Come
learn about what FACCC membership can mean for you
and don't miss our special incentives for joining during the
conference.

38. Strategies for Teaching a Successful
Online Course
Manjit Kaur
Retention is one of the biggest issues faced by online
courses. This presentation will discuss how conducting
periodic course surveys can help understand the major
issues that lead to dropouts, and how instructors can assist
students successfully complete the course. Instructors and
course developers need to recognize the challenges that
lead to dropouts. Some of the related concerns are lack of
student-to-student interaction, poor teacher-student
interaction, delayed feedback, excessive use of
technology, ambiguity, and rigidity. Periodic course and
assignment surveys can assist with these issues. Knowing
the students’ point-of-view can help create a conducive
learning atmosphere for the students.

39. The Perfect Storm - Developmental Mass
Open Online Class-Creation and Launch!
Ted Blake and Patricia James
Mt. San Jacinto College received a Gate's Grant to
develop a basic skills English writing course, which
launched in May of 2013. Come hear about our
experience and discuss the possibilities and future
development of free and open content with us! The
process of applying to the Gates
Foundation, development and offering our
"Crafting an Effective Writer" course will be
shared, along with access to our materials. Leave
knowing how to use our project within your own DE
and Basic Skills programs.

40. Designing Successful Faculty Training
for Online Teaching
Rolando Regino
Recent studies have shown the continual increase in the
number of online course offerings year by year within
higher education, including the recent introduction of
MOOCs. While technology has influenced the way in
which education to adults is being delivered, how to
teach within a Web-based format also requires a new
paradigm shift in the pedagogy (or andragogy) of the
teacher. This workshop will discuss the basic learning
theories which underlie current best practices and
methods of online teaching with examples, showing why
and how you should use them in order to develop a
successful faculty training program.

41. Learn and Earn
Dr. Cynthia Alexander
Learn how to integrate today’s technology into your
teaching and earn college credit for possible salary
advancement at the same time. The Cerritos College
Educational Technology program offers numerous online
college credit courses covering the integration of mobile
technology, creating problem-based learning
projects, creating virtual curriculum, grant
writing, creating educational media, and integrating
Microsoft Office products into your teaching. Additional
topics such as copyright and fair use and accessibility are
covered in many of the courses. Coming soon! A new
course in learning analytics!

42. Simple Ways to Reach More Students
Laura Paciorek
Considering ways to reach all students and insure their
learning is an essential aspect of high-quality online teaching.
This presentation will focus on low-threshold technology and
is most suitable for novice online instructors who are starting
to consider how to expand course content to include more
visual, interactive, and auditory components for content and
student assignment submissions. Specific examples from
online courses and student feedback received about these
different components in online courses will be provided.

43. Windows Speech - Learn to Dictate
Your Documents
Dr. Marlene Cvetko
Did you know that your can dictate rather than type
documents? Have you wanted to use speech to create a
document? This workshop will introduce you to the Windows
Speech recognition. You will train and create a document
using the built in Windows 7 Speech recognition feature and
learn tips to create documents using voice commands.

44. iPad? Yes iCan - Effective iPad
Integration in a College Course
Mauricio Cadavid
This session will provide participants with ideas and
strategies to successfully implement the iPad in their
class setting as well as integrate interactive and engaging
activities in their lesson. Participants will learn basic iPad
navigation shortcuts, and will be presented with an
array of applications that will surely enhance their
instruction.

45. Web Enabled SLO Assessment Tool
Cristian Racataian and Mark Lehr
The proposed Web tool is meant to provide a consistent
and unified reporting for SLO assessment. Closing the loop
for SLO create-analyze-modify, the Web tool is ideal for
gathering data supporting the analysis based on uniform
reporting across multiple sections and/or terms. Both
students and instructors can supply data for a more
inclusive assessment. The assessment data is gathered such
that it cannot be used for instructor and/or student
evaluation: it measures strictly the SLO. Different levels of
authentication provide for security and privacy between
students, instructors, and departments. The tool is
currently being evaluated at RCC.

46. A Hybrid Course Emphasizing Critical
Thinking, Lifelong Learning, and Active
Participation
Robert Kelley
Having recently attended a critical thinking conference (shout-
out to http://www.criticalthinking.org/), I restructured a
Psychology hybrid course (12.5% occurs online) to further
emphasize critical thinking, writing, peer review, student
panels, lifelong learning, group activities, resources for
learning-on-the-go (i.e., along the lines of a flipped classroom)
and broad student participation - with the help of online
technologies (e.g., Google forms, presentations, & documents;
and Crocodoc, Diigo, Moodle, etc.). Come get ideas for your
web-enhanced, hybrid, and online courses - and join our
workshop discussion.

47. Create Your Own Free Digital
Textbooks for All Your Classes
Dr. Robert Knight
MyMathText is a fully integrated digital textbook composed of
a Learning Management System (LMS) and Collaborative
Authoring Tool (CAT) which is completely compatible with
Open Educational Resources (OER) available for FREE on the
web. MyMathText is completely FREE to teachers and students
using it. MyMathText utilizes the Socratic method of teaching
by guiding the student through the course with a series of
homework questions which come complete with learning aids
created by the teacher for each particular question. These “real
time” learning aids may be videos produced by the teacher or
others, You Tube videos, and/or pages from OER textbooks
and/or OER websites.

48. How to Use Google Documents for
Student Collaboration
T. L. Brink
Having students submit their term projects on Google
documents has several advantages: mentoring the write up at
many stages of development, team projects involving several
students, peer review and rewrites. This presentation will show
how to maximize benefit and minimize instructor work. Free
learning resources will be distributed.

49. Regular and Substantive Contact: Easy
Ideas for Online Instructors
Margie White
Regular and substantive contact is one of the hot topics
in distance education. Not only is it good practice, but
it's required by Federal Financial Aid Regulations. Learn
ways you can implement these requirements in your
online classroom, and also create the most effective
learning environment for your students.

50. Design Educational and Training Videos for
Class and Online - Camtasia & YouTube
Dan Davis
Do you have an area of expertise that you would like to
capture as a video, for use in class or to publish to the web?
Or perhaps you want to make a training video showing staff
how to use new features on Blackboard, etc.? Curious how
the Khan Academy makes its short films? We will show you
that all of the above is much easier, and cheaper than you
think. You will be walked through some introductory basics
on video recording and editing with Camtasia, use of digital
writing tablets, and creating your own YouTube channel to
publish your videos for free (and maybe even make some
money). An example of what you can create, made by the
workshop instructor, will be videos from
PraxisEducator.com.

51. Just the Basics- How Managing your Class
Well is Essential Even in Cyberspace
Dr. Penny Pence Smith
Good management of all class elements is especially
important in on-line learning, eliminates ambiguity for the
students and allows the instructor to focus on connecting
with the class members. That means, advanced course
preparation, consistent and planned student engagement
during assignments, weekly maintenance and correction of
systems, review and monitoring of grades and submissions
and follow-up for every activity or assignment.

52. How to Create Criterion-Referenced
Tests and Instruments
Heather Rideaux-Henry
Assessment is an integral part of instruction because it
determines whether or not educational goals have been met.
Assessment affects decisions about
grades, placement, advancement, instructional
needs, curriculum, and, in some cases, funding. Criterion-
reference tests provide a way to assess learners on how well
the knowledge gained has transferred into a real-world context.
During this session, you will be introduced to common
criterion-reference tests methods, instruments, their
characteristics, when they should be applied, and the basic
rules and principles that guide the development of each form
of assessment.

53. Overcoming Challenges to Assessing
Learning in Massive Open Online Courses
David Dutra
In light of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers
moving towards accreditation, it is clear that securely
assessing their students’ learning will be crucial to their
success. Given the scope of MOOCs, several challenges to
assessing students effectively and securely have become
apparent. MOOCs offer unprecedented access to learners
worldwide and are being adopted by many institutions.
Educators express concern about whether such a large and
dispersed student population can be effectively assessed for
learning outcomes. This presentation will outline methods
that have been proven in distance education and can be
effectively implemented with MOOCs.

54. Technology in the Classroom-the New
Paradigm
Robert Blanck and David E. Balch, PhD.
Students entering college have an expectation to not only
increase their access to technology, leverage the World Wide
Web as a means to access information and each other, to work
on solving problems that “matter,” and to do so in collaborative
teams. This presentation discusses the results and implications
of the collected data. The respondents (students and faculty)
were asked to respond to two-dimensional answers to each
question; the choice to agree or disagree and at the same time
to rate the level of importance of the question as high or low.

55. Adventures in Social Media and
Language Learning
Deborah Lemon
Social Media provides a dynamic, fluid environment for
group interaction. Professor Lemon demonstrates how
teaching online and hybrid Spanish language courses using
social media for the past three years has made the classes
more interactive and spontaneously communicative, thus
increasing success and retention rates. Actual classes will
be examined, exploring their structure and features
(including security), with examples of activities and
interaction.

56. Does a Face Make a Difference? Comparing
Synchronous Online Education with Other Instructional Methods at California
Community Colleges and the Impact on Student Retention Rates
Claudia Tornsaufer
The main focus of this study was to investigate whether there is a
difference in mean institutional retention rates among California
community college students by the following institutional
characteristics: 1) instructional method (on-campus, asynchronous
and synchronous online courses); 2) ethnicity; gender; and age
groups. The study’s findings on student outcomes will shed light on
the impact of increased online student-teacher, student-student
and student-content interaction in synchronous online courses
and how it compares to the interaction on on-campus and
asynchronous courses.

57. Fun and Engaging Technologies for the
Online or Hybrid Classroom
Kimberly Vincent-Layton and Margaret Arroyo
Join this session to explore some free, innovative
technologies that support students’ learning. We will
demonstrate how the technology is being used in a
course, show how to set it up, and provide time for
participants to take a test drive of the tools. For
example, we will look at Piazza as a tool that moves
beyond the traditional discussion forum and opens up a
whole new collaborative world. Added benefit - bring your
“list” of great technology tools to share with the group!
Technology types include: community bulletin
boards, Q&A platform, social networking, and wikis.

58. Mentoring/Coaching Program for Online
Instructional Design and Facilitation SMEs
Dr. Carla Lane
Online faculty development has become too complicated to
cover even the basics in short training courses. Traditional
training courses no longer meet the needs of SMEs who must
produce media rich courses that create self-directed learners
in a facilitated environment. Clearly, there are too many
topics from course development, instructional
design, technology selection, media production, LMS
posting, to facilitation. This new coaching/mentoring
program was developed and successfully used for 70 courses
in less than 9 months. The method surmounted the obstacles
for new SMEs effectively and efficiently and will guide the
audience in doing this at their institutions.

59. Quality Captioning…It’s Easier than You
Think!
Dr. Lucinda Aborn and Cynthia Alexander
We know that the law says we must add captioning to our
videos, but there are other reasons for doing so. The
presenters will discuss why and how to create quality
captioning. Information provided will include the
foundations of good captioning and who benefits from
captioning. A practice step-by-step demonstration will show
just how easy it is to add captions to your videos

60. Recruiting, Training, Maintaining, and
Retaining Online Adjunct Instructors
Dr. Henry Roehrich and Dr. Michael Eskey
The development of online adjunct instructors requires a
professional adult learning approach that incorporates a
facilitation training program, mentoring process and instructor
informational resources. The presentation will outline and discuss
how this process can be effective and tailored to the needs of
institutions in higher education. This will include the required
online adjunct recruiting process, required training, online
resources, professional development opportunities, the formal /
informal mentoring process, required and optional refresher
training. Additionally, there will be a discussion of online adjunct
and online student perceptions of instructional needs and
requirements.

61. Responding to Difficult or Distressed Online Students:
Mental Health Assessment and Referrals
Ken Einhaus
Online students face the full range of mental health issues all
students face, yet assessing these needs and making
appropriate referrals can be complicated by virtual
environments. Some issues elicit concern as they impede
individual academic success, while others elicit alarm as they
disrupt classroom function. How can teachers respond
synchronously and asynchronously? How might the mental
health support needs of online students differ from those of
students in traditional classrooms? As online teaching gains
prominence among rural, international, disabled and other
groups of students, these questions will grow in salience and
interest.

62. Riding the Wave of a Developmental
Reading Hybrid Platform
Celia Cruz-Johnson
Presentation focuses on the successful hybrid developmental
reading course with basic skills students two levels below
freshman composition. The hybrid course meets once a week in
the class and once online and focuses on the theme “Becoming
Citizens in an Interlocking World.” The exciting course content
creates a synergy of ideas through which students are motivated
to discuss, read, and reflect. The instructor will show how
current themes and will discuss the creating of this innovative
hybrid seven years ago, how it has evolved, and research data
collected reflected students’ success and perceptions of the
hybrid experience.

63. The Importance of the Application of
Critical Thinking in the Online Classroom
Michael Eskey
Presentation will address teaching critical thinking skills
to our online students. Research indicates that academics
and students have differing perceptions of what happens
in university classrooms, particularly in regard to higher
order thinking, in particular, critical thinking. Higher
education is challenged with encouraging students to
pursue higher-order thinking and often fall short
according to industry standards. The current research
that will be discussed is directed at responses from full-
time and adjunct faculty teaching either face-to-face or
online mainly in the disciplines of criminal justice and
political science to assess their views and application of
teaching critical skills. The findings are applicable to all
disciplines and emphasize the importance of specific
instructor training to apply to the classroom in this area.

64. The Tide -- It is A-Changing!
Jean Redfearn
How do you engage your students in the online
classroom? They Twitter, they chat, they IM, and the
list goes on and on for outside of the classroom. So
how can we keep them focused in the classroom
and, more importantly, excited to keep attending
class? Tips to share and use when you return!

65. Using Concept Mapping to Enhance
Learning in an Online Classroom
Betsy Bannier and Johnnie Bannier
In this session, connections between concept mapping
exercises and student progress toward course learning
objectives in online classes will be discussed.
Quantitatively, we will examine correlations between final
exam scores and concept mapping variables including the
number of concepts identified by students, the number of
connections established, and time elapsed between
completing the mapping assignment and completing the final
exam. Qualitatively, student feedback related to the concept
mapping assignment will be discussed.

66. Yo Ho The Blackboard Life For Me
Eric Wilson
Do you have questions on using Blackboard tools? Do you need
help with Grade Center? Come to this open lab and open
discussion for fun way of learning or getting help on using
Blackboard. Bring questions and ideas and let’s share.