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DLI Webinar, May 8, 2020 – Invitation and Resources

May 8, 2020 | News & Insights

UNC System Digital Learning Webinar

Special Edition: Virtual Labs Landscape

May 8, 2020, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Login: https://mcnc.zoom.us/j/943706306

Phone: (646) 558-8656   ID: 943 706 306

Download Agenda and Presentation Slides: DLIWeb.May 8-2020.Final

COVID-19 has accelerated the growing interest across the UNC System in examining the options for moving physical course labs to a virtual environment. This special edition of the Digital Learning Initiative webinar is designed to provide an overview of the major options available.

Faculty across the UNC System, and industry partners, will share their in-depth perspectives on specific types of virtual labs. In addition to demonstrations, there will be an emphasis on answering the following questions:

  • The problem addressed (e.g., give students a lab experience online when they could not physically go to a lab).
  • The alternatives considered – Were check-lists or rubrics used when considering solutions, commercial products or creating your own?
  • Any changes you had to make in the face-to-face learning objectives in order to move from a physical class to online?
  • Overall, how difficult was it to adopt or create these virtual labs and was the effort worth it?
  • What was the cost?
  • Other lessons learned?    

 Download Agenda and Presentation Slides: DLIWeb.May 8-2020.Final

 

Meeting Report: UNC System Quality Matters Council Summit, January 31, 2020

Feb 14, 2020 | Meeting Report, News & Insights

The UNC System Quality Matters Council Summit met Friday, January 31, 2020, on the UNC Charlotte Center City Campus. With representatives from most of the UNC System institutions, themes ranged from campus implementation to course design strategies.

The day opened with a warm welcome delivered by UNC Charlotte’s Dr. Garvey Pyke, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. He used the city of Charlotte’s recent tremendous growth as a metaphor for the Summit.

Birds of a Feather kicked off the sessions, allowing members to gather and discuss, in an unconference format, issues at their respective institutions. This was followed by two breakout sessions of five sets of presentations each, demonstrating the wealth of knowledge and interest in a variety of topics related to Quality Matters. During lunch, participants were treated to a keynote by Mr. Steve Kaufman, Quality Matters Ohio Consortium, detailing the success of Ohio’s programs. Highlights included the inter-institutional bartering system and incentives created to foster state-wide collaboration.

Recorded archive of keynote: https://tinyurl.com/UNCSystem-QMSummit2020-Keynote

After lunch, an additional breakout session offered another six presentations. Drs. Racheal Brooks and Enoch Park, co-chairs of the Council gave a few brief concluding remarks along with upcoming events. The full program and links to the presenters’ slideshow and additional resources are available at this link: https://teaching.uncc.edu/eventsworkshops/events-workshops/unc-system-quality-matters-council-annual-summit

Pictures from the Summit are available here: https://tinyurl.com/UNCSystem-QMSummit2020-Picture

(Photo Credit: Jules Keith-Le, UNC Charlotte)

Anne Ogg, UNC System QM Council Communication Coordinator

Ellen Wagner, Ph.D. to Deliver 2020 DLI Symposium Keynote Address

Dec 2, 2019 | News & Insights

Navigating the Learning Technologies Multi-verse

Despite their pervasiveness in higher education, learning technologies continue to be fraught with apprehension within the academy as educators are skeptical of the true impact that they bring to effective teaching and learning. Dr. Ellen Wagner’s keynote will make sense of the panoply of emerging learning technologies, strategies and desired outcomes that are shaking up the very foundations upon which so many of today’s education professionals have built their instructional practices. Ellen will discuss a strategy to help guide faculty identification of and engagement with learning technologies that considers their needs for research-based selection and pedagogical alignment, as well as faculty-specific digital learning experience. Further, Ellen will share how the rate of technological innovation leads to an ever-changing educational landscape and how innovations that center on learning will lead to transformative educational shifts.

Ellen is an award-winning learning designer and technologist. She is currently the Managing Partner of North Coast EduVisory Services, LLC and Research Scientist with the Mixed Emerging Technologies Integration Lab, Institute for Simulation and Training, and School of Modeling Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. She serves as an Affiliate Member of the Faculty for the College of Education at George Mason University and is a member of the IEEE Industry Connections Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering Steering Committee and Learning Engineering Among the Professions Special Interest Group. Ellen serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Computing in Higher Education, eLearn Magazine, and the Journal of Applied Instructional Design and serves on the Board of Directors for two private start-up companies. She received her BA in History and MS in Information Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in Learning Psychology from University of Colorado Boulder.