Seven Ways Technology is Unfolding, Everywhere We Look
After nearly a decade of tracking the evolution of emerging technology as part of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, Larry Johnson has uncovered seven clear patterns in the evolution of technology that can only be seen over time. While the technologies and practices highlighted in the many Horizon Reports published over this time are being implemented in ways that reflect local constraints and challenges, it is clear that these underlying patterns are at the heart of how learning, work and play are evolving worldwide and in every sector of education.

Many of the things highlighted in past Horizon Reports have already become quite commonplace and are integrated into everyday activities; others are still unfolding, converging and morphing along with parallel developments that are pushing them in one direction or another. While the currents and eddies of emerging technology are complex, it is clear that what the Horizon Project has been detailing are developments fueled by these seven profound channels of change.

Join project founder Larry Johnson, as he outlines the pathways of innovation and technological evolution that he believes are deeply impacting how we think about our world, and how we teach, learn, create and even communicate.

Concurrent Sessions

A Dynamic Approach to the Integration of a New LMS
Graeme Armstrong, Barbara Schultz — Upper Iowa University
Working in a complex organization in higher education can be challenging enough. Imagine launching a new learning management system to multiple stakeholders; full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, part-time students, staff and administrators? At Upper Iowa University, this created an opportunity for seamless integration achieved inside a relatively short time frame. This dynamic session will share successes, challenges, best practices and lessons learned after successfully completing the first part of this process. The session, through its carefully crafted learning outcomes, will aim to inform and support all early adopters and those considering the integration of the Pearson LearningStudio LMS.

Creatively Leveraging the Pearson LearningStudio Classroom to Obtain Data
Jon Eads — Kaplan Higher Education Campuses
The Pearson LearningStudio classroom is a data rich environment with respect to student activity. Unfortunately, there isn’t necessarily a simple way for instructors to communicate concerns or basic data to university administrators within the classroom. With the implementation of Enterprise Reporting, Pearson LearningStudio’s one stop data extraction tool, it is now possible to use the gradebook as a collection point for faculty generated data. This presentation will briefly showcase how the gradebook could creatively be used to collect important data from faculty.

Online Education: A Student’s Perspective
Robert Robertson, J. Campbell — Saint Leo University
With ever improving technology, students are increasingly opting to complete all or part of their university degree program online. This presentation will assess the online education experience from a student’s perspective. Major factors for students in regards to online learning are convenience, flexibility not only in time but location, learning enhancement and psychology. Quality standards will also be discussed. Are online courses meeting the academic standards of the institutions; the employers and the students? Do companies view graduates that have an online degree as comparable to those who have attained a traditional degree?

Making ClassLive Pro ‘Come Alive’
Tina Knebel — Palm Beach Atlantic University
ClassLive Pro is a dynamic synchronous tool which opens the door to endless creativity. Are you utilizing this online resource to its fullest capacity? Are you engaging students through effective use of ClassLive Pro? Experience a ClassLive session and actively participate in engaging activities. Bring your laptop (current Java required) and view ClassLive Pro from the student perspective, while moderator techniques are demonstrated. Alleviate technology apprehension by seeing the potential for “out of the box” thinking which fosters student interaction. Witness the effective use of ClassLive tools and consider how typical face-to-face student activities can be adjusted for ClassLive delivery.

Distinguished Lecturer Presentation
Cameron Evans, National and Chief Technology Officer — Microsoft Corporation

Imagine 2020: The Next Ten Years of Learning
We are at a unique point in American history. Today, digital consumers are also digital producers. Our identity and preferences can unlock deeply, personalized experiences. Moreover, we have the power to harvest everything ever known, including our own memories. These subtle and profound shifts will have broad implications on learning and the business of learning. The decisions educational leaders make today will affect generations and shape our economy for decades to come. In Imagine 2020, Cameron Evans deconstructs Microsoft’s vision for productivity, learning and technology in the year 2020 and provides the path forward for education leaders and learners.

Concurrent Sessions

Using Pearson MyLabs to Personalize Learning
John Thaeler—Weber State University
One year ago, the Developmental Math Program at Weber State University began the conversion to the Emporium Model of Math instruction. Following visits to Cleveland State CC and the University of Alabama by members of the Program, Tutoring Staff, and Technical Support, a commitment was made to introduce the Emporium Model using MyMathLabPlus in January 2010, leading to 3000+ students enrolled in all three Developmental courses by Fall 2010. Learn how the Program proceeded from a challenging idea to full implementation – how support was obtained from the administration, tutoring services, IT, and program members, what steps the University went through to fully implement the model, what the preliminary results are, and what the long-term expectations are based on the successes at other schools using a similar model.

Measuring the Sustainable Impact of Online Learning
Vanessa Cox — University of Dallas
While universities are increasingly focused on developing “green’ practices on their campuses and integrating sustainability concepts into their curricula, few have considered the potential impact that their online learning programs may already be having on the environment. Online classes result in miles not driven, classrooms not used, and paper not printed, thereby reducing universities’ carbon footprints. Internet-based learning also has the potential to create economic benefits via cost savings for host universities and social benefits for students and instructors that do not emerge in traditional classroom delivery. We will provide pilot results of a proposed framework for measuring the sustainable impact of institutions using online programs.

The Dirty Dozen: 12 Ways To Tell A Story Using Web 2.0
Jeff Borden, Dr. Gail Krovitz — Pearson eCollege
You’ve perfected your lectures and PowerPoint presentations, but what’s the next step? This session is intended to bring narrative to your courses, to make teaching and learning more engaging. Participants will see specific examples of how to take content and use various software and Internet based tools for classroom presentation and assessment, including Web 2.0 and other presentation tools. Participants will leave with a new understanding of “storytelling” in the classroom (online and Web-enhanced) and will be provided with working examples for both instructor presentation and student collaboration.

eReading and eBooks in Higher Education: What’s on the Horizon?
Rob Kadel — Pearson eCollege
This roundtable session will focus on the rapidly evolving world of electronic books and eReader devices. There has been an influx of eBook technology in the last few years, from PDF and TIFF images to optical character recognition to electronic paper and eInk. eBook texts formerly available only via computer are now available in new forms. Apple's iPad has a CourseSmart app (brought from the iPhone) that allows texts from publishers such as Pearson, McGraw Hill Higher Ed., and Sage Publications to be downloaded and read at nearly full size. Participants will gain a better understanding of these products.

Keynote Address
Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief — Wired magazine

The New Economics of Media in a Tablet Age
The arrival of the iPad and a host of other tablets represent the arrival of a new medium, perhaps the most important one for media companies since the Web. It is an opportunity to change how consumers interact with media and how they pay for it--a potentially immersive platform that could be more economically attractive for traditional media companies than the Web. Unlike phones, tablets have the ability to present media on a screen large enough create a compelling reading and viewing experience. Wired and Conde Nast have been at the forefront of this, creating the first digital magazines for the tablet. Chris Anderson will discuss the lessons learned and the emerging business models in this new market.

Distinguished Lecturer
Phil Hill, Executive Vice President - Delta Initiative, LLC

Enterprise eLearning: The Big Picture and Future Trends for Higher Education
While it is important to understand how eLearning systems look and operate, it is far too easy to get lost in the trees of features and miss the forest of market trends. Based on our consulting and research, it appears that the future of eLearning has reached another crossroads in its path as a key enterprise system for higher education—get ready for changes in the market! Higher education institutions need to be aware of what's happening at a strategic level and how future trends could affect current and future plans. How should an institution or system set its strategy based on the current solutions, but at the same time, be ready for future changes? What are some of the best practices that are available to help with system selection or implementation? How will online programs and courses affect the classroom-based learning environment?

This session will provide insight on the current state of the eLearning vendor market, highlight key trends in online learning, and help participants understand the big picture of enterprise eLearning.

Concurrent Sessions

Online Learning in Real Time: Using Synchronous Components for Connectivity Learning
Dr. Catherine Flynn, Dr. Joel Olson, Jeff Tyler — Kaplan University
Distance learning continues to earn a reputation as being just that: distant. Prospective students, faculty, and administrators believe they will feel disconnected in the online classroom, and will be forced to operate largely independently. While online education does have some characteristics of distance, strategies can be implemented to bring students, faculty, and administrators together electronically using real time instant messenger, teleconference, and voice/chat technologies. This session will outline strategies used by Kaplan University’s School of Business and Management to engage students, faculty, and administrators in real-time communication to reduce the barriers of distance often inherent in an online learning environment.

Unraveling the Challenges of Faculty Development Evaluation
Jane Snare, Chris Swanson —Clarkson College, Center for Teaching Excellence
Today’s faculty must adopt many roles: researcher, curriculum planner, program advocate, student advisor, subject-matter expert, instructional designer and technology wizard. Given these diverse demands, institutions must continually provide faculty development opportunities . However, how do institutions measure the effectiveness of these programs? Are the same techniques employed to assess student outcomes being applied to their own educational efforts? This session will reveal current practices in faculty development evaluation using Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation framework. Additionally, the session will provide examples of potential evaluation techniques and outline how documentation and reporting of development outcomes can be achieved using the Pearson LearningStudio’s Learning Outcomes Manager.

Beyond Lectures & Discussions: How to Effectively Engage Students
Pamela Kachka — Pearson eCollege
Good pedagogy delivers content via multiple methods to engage students and address multiple learning styles. Online learning resides comfortably in the realm of lectures and discussion. It is time to get over that hump and learn about a few free and easy tools to add to your online content delivery that will appeal to all students and address the needs of multi-modal learners. Inspired by Alan Levine’s Dominoe 50 Ways, this session will explore a variety of current tools that transform current lecture delivery into an interactive multimedia activity that will appeal to all learning styles.

Social Learning 101: An Introduction to Social Software
Nancy Rubin — Learning Objects, Inc.
2010 has been identified as the decade of social networking and learning. When you add the word social to learning it refers to learning which is collaborative and relevant to each student. Social learning tools foster creativity, innovation, and encourage students to collaborate, communicate, and, think critically; the goal of every educational institution. As an educator, system administrator, or, campus administrator, how do you make that happen? By incorporating 21st century tools into your LMS. Students, and educators, need tools for collaboration, personal learning spaces, community areas and departmental collaboration spaces.

Software and Soft Skills: Collaborative Design for Rapid Deployment
Rick Hubbard, Nathan Maxwell — Palm Beach Atlantic University Office of Online Learning
The framework for student success is constructed at the design level. The featured tools and processes can facilitate the interactions between the designers and subject matter experts to aid in on-time deployment of learning. In this workshop you will learn the software in use at PBA. Many are free or low cost with quick learning curves. You will explore software to make collaboration and rapid development less stressful, review soft skills to provide non-technical content experts the confidence they may need, and consider how software and soft skills are combined to achieve rapid deployment.

How TCU Implemented LOM to Measure Core Curriculum Outcomes
Jeff King, Romana Hughes —Texas Christian University, Koehler Center for Teaching Excellence
Texas Christian University’s Koehler Center for Teaching Excellence designed training for faculty to help them work with Pearson LearningStudio’s Learning Outcomes Manager to track student achievement of Core Curriculum outcomes in their courses. We share lessons learned as we piloted that process with four faculty last semester. We will show end-of-term reports that include Learning Outcome Manager data along with faculty comments about their plan to use data results to inform instructional improvement the next time they teach the course. Within two years we will have involved faculty teaching 50% of the university’s Core courses.

Using Games and Secret Clues to Increase Student Engagement
Joel Lundstrom — Barton County Community College
Originally inspired after a Pearson CiTE conference a few years ago, I worked to make my online classes more engaging and incorporated game components into my courses. Last year, I presented preliminary results from this course improvement in terms of student satisfaction, grade improvement, engagement, and increases in time spent online. The game that was created includes secret messages, video scenarios, widgets, wikis, MySpace, flash simulations, etc. This session is intended to serve as an update to past efforts as well as provide online educators with some do’s and don’ts that I have learned from attempting to incorporate a more engaging learning environment for students.

Teaching an Old Dog New Tweets
Mark Sarver — EduKan
This session will describe the strategies and tactics currently being implemented to transform and grow EduKan, a consortium of community colleges, through improved student recruiting and retention, assessment, expanded memberships and a comprehensive redesign of the operational systems. Attendees will look at the assessment, retention, educational and operational challenges they currently face through with a fresh innovative lens. Participants will not only be inspired to think outside of the box; they will crush the box and recycle it. Innovation exercises will be used to allow participants to begin to think differently about situations they are facing.

Distinguished Lecturer Panel Discussion
Mike Moran, Author — Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules
Mary Lou Roberts, PhD, Author, Educator — Harvard University Extension School
Hester Tinti-Kane, Director of Web Marketing — Pearson Learning Solutions

Social Media and Networking: Strategies for Professional Development and Student Learning
Hester Tinti-Kane hosts a panel of social media experts from across the country. Participants include Mike Moran, international speaker and author of Search Engine Marketing, Inc. and Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules and educators who use social media to connect with –peers—sharing and consuming valuable content to further their professional knowledge and take part in an international community of knowledgeable individuals who are doing the same. The use of social media in the classroom will also be discussed, with examples of specific strategies used by professors across the country.

Concurrent Sessions

Mission & Customer Service: Keys to Retention and Program Growth
Patricia Bassett — Palm Beach Atlantic University
The introduction of learning management systems at universities around the world have thrust many into becoming providers of forms of distance education, often with little strategic planning or consideration of academic staff capabilities. In laying a foundation for success, leadership initially needs to focus on two key elements: mission and customer service. During the past 6 years, the Office of Online Learning at Palm Beach Atlantic University has tested this premise and the resulting data concurs when the mission is clearly defined and quality service is a priority, retention and program growth are natural outcomes.

Enterprise Reporting for Data Informed Decisions
Rick Tanski — Academy Online High School;
Tracy Sleep — Iowa Community College Online Consortium;
Kimberly Harwell — Pearson eCollege
Representatives from the Iowa Community College Online Consortium and Academy District 20 will share their strategies to guide students and teachers towards successful learning with Enterprise Reporting. With this tool, the extent of student learning becomes evident, allowing institutions to quickly and easily identify areas for student improvement, teacher intervention and course growth. This session will also include discussions on academic analysis strategy, reporting lifecycle and implementation strategies.

Rethinking Feedback: Putting Value into Online Learning
David White — Pearson Center for Excellence
Do the students in your online courses think the feedback they receive is vague, patronizing or useless? Developing online learning solutions can be expensive but spending more money does not necessarily guarantee student success. Engaging online students in lean times requires more than just fancy media and flashy lesson presentations. Performance and motivational feedback costs very little but often adds the most value to the online learning experience. Vague, patronizing and useless feedback, however, can cost students a great deal in loss of motivation and lack of remediation opportunities. Come to this session to learn how to rethink feedback and ensure that it is taken seriously by your students.

Extending ClassLive Pro with Plan! and Publish!
Larry Jansen — University of Wyoming;
Sharri Godard — Elluminate;
Tom Thayer — Pearson eCollege
Participants will learn how to do more with ClassLive Pro by incorporating the use of two tools Plan! and Publish! Plan! enables you to package learning content and activities BEFORE your real-time session. Faculty can develop synchronous eLearning curriculum including session interactions and activities ahead of time. Then during your ClassLive Pro session, trigger each action automatically with a touch of a button. Publish! is designed to meet the needs of mobile learners. Using Publish! you can create portable, reusable content from your archived classes. Come learn how to do more with your classes by incorporated these two powerful tools.

You Can (and Must) Teach Old Dogs New Tricks
Richard Novak — Rutgers University Division of Continuing Studies
Many faculty are accustomed to a model of teaching and learning that works well in the F2F classroom but does not translate well into the online environment. Several major research studies and published national Quality Standards have identified factors that have a beneficial impact on the design and teaching of online courses. The challenges for those who support online learning are to: 1) identify those factors that are most salient for high quality and effective online courses; 2) determine how to design these factors into online courses and inform teaching practice; and 3) how to deliver this information and guidance to faculty.

The Care and Feeding of Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Mark Welch, Dr. Darren Adamson — Argosy University;
Dr. Robert Robertson — Saint Leo University
This panel will outline the unique challenges and opportunities associated with recruiting, training and managing adjunct faculty. Based on a literature review and case studies, a series of “best practices” related to the use of adjuncts in the delivery of online education programs will be discussed. The intent is to present a status report on the evolving use of adjuncts. More importantly the intent is to have a conversation on the issues related to the recruitment and use of adjuncts amongst three online program administrators. All of the panelists have direct experience in hiring and managing adjunct faculty.

Creativity in the Online Classroom
Jeff Borden — Pearson eCollege
Participants will discover new ways to design and deliver Internet based (or supplemented) courses, leveraging the power of the Internet, multi-media based instruction, Web 2.0 tools, and creative 'twists' on tried and true methods. Participants will leave empowered to use creativity in addition to effective teaching techniques for their learners. This workshop will show specific examples of how to make technology work in the student’s best interest, while at the same time allowing the instructor to keep the content fresh and interesting. In addition to practically applied examples, participants will also receive a 'resource course' including a list of almost 500 free websites that are dedicated to education.

Virtual Worlds: A Theme-Based Approach
Cindy Lohan — Pearson Learning Solutions
What does the next generation of Virtual Learning look like? Through this facilitated discussion we will show concrete examples of virtual worlds, while participants will engage in conversations around gaming and efficacy in online learning. We will explore various types of assessments in virtual worlds and how students respond.

Distinguished Lecturer Presentation
Peter Max Miller, Educator and Author — Unstoppable Attitude

Unstoppable Attitude in Education
The principles I have learned to accomplish my goals can be utilized by anyone to accomplish their own goals. I talk about my process of mentally and physically preparing for, and completing the IronMan® World Triathlon Championship in Kona, Hawaii. I also talk of the same principles used to win two “IronMan® events” against bone cancer.

You do not need an IronMan® event, of any kind, to have the “Unstoppable Attitude” of a champion. For whatever the goals are, that we decide are important, they are important enough to achieve with “Unstoppable Attitude.”

Concurrent Sessions

Using Enterprise Reporting to Assess Instructor Involvement in Online Courses
Janice Orcutt — University of Fairfax
Instructor involvement in online courses is critical to achieving student satisfaction and positively influencing perceptions of the online learning experience. Using Enterprise Reporting provides administrators the ability to assess the level of involvement instructors are demonstrating within their courses. This assessment provides insight on faculty behaviors, which can identify areas of faculty development that can be addressed to enhance the performance of instructors.

Yardsticking: Data, data, everywhere…
Mark White — Clarkson College, Center for Teaching Excellence
Data, data, everywhere and not a data driven decision in sight. Does this sound like your organization? How does your institution pull information together to ensure changes in teaching styles/techniques/practices positively enhance the students’ learning experience? Come view one method being used to put reports from eCollege plus observations and other institutional assessment data, into the hands of decision makers at your campus. Using a variety of reports from different sources (eCollege Enterprise Reporting, institution student information system, & Faculty Development workshop/events) the Center for Teaching Excellence at Clarkson College has created a customized data report to each academic department.

Pearson Social Networking and Online Technology in Higher Education Survey
Justin Levy — NewMarketingLabs;
Jeff Seaman — The Sloan Consortium;
Hester Tinti-Kane — Pearson Learning Solutions
Hester Tinti-Kane, Director of Web Marketing with Pearson Learning Solutions, will discuss the findings of the Pearson Social Networking and Online Technology in Higher Education Survey along with Jeff Seaman, Survey Director of the Sloan Consortium and Justin Levy, general manager of New Marketing Labs, who both consulted on the project. The goal of the survey was to find out how college professors nationwide use social media and other online technologies in their professional lives as well as in the classroom. Learn which technologies educators across the country are using, how they use them as professional and educators and what they find valuable in these new online tools.

Online Educators…Come Out Of Your Caves
Mark Welch — The Online Education Alliance
As a Dean of Online Education for 12 campuses, last year I attended my first Pearson eCollege Annual Conference. I loved it so much that I wrote an article about it entitled, “Online Educators…Come Out of Your Caves.” This article was published in eLearn magazine. Online educators crave to ‘get out of their cave’ to brainstorm and network with others. Attendees will analyze what they have learned at the conference and create a quantifiable action plan to recruit, support and retain their students—providing financial justification for colleges to continue to fund attendance for educators at online education conferences.

Keynote Address
Tom Kelley, General Manager — IDEO

The Ten Faces of Innovation: Thriving in an Environment of Continuous Change
Tom’s presentation on The Ten Faces of Innovation will highlight the meta-lessons IDEO has learned from working with its worldwide clients on thousands of innovation programs over 30 years. Find out how adopting powerful creative roles can make innovation personal—in a way that yields renewed energy and improved agility for individuals, teams and institutions. Learn the importance of innovation for success—and even survival—in today’s challenging environment. Tom will briefly introduce each of the ten innovation roles that he has observed in the thirty years of IDEO’s work. Tom will then dive deeper into some of the Learning Roles that help organizations continuously develop new insights about their work. He will focus in on roles like the Anthropologist, who finds new opportunities by observing the nuances of human behavior, and the Cross-Pollinator, who looks far afield for insights from other cultures, other industries and other countries. Tom will describe how nurturing those roles can help organizations build and reinforce their own unique cultures of innovation.