Welcome & Announcements
Mark Heckler, Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs

Tech Eye for the Chalk Guy Introduction

Teaching in your PJs: It's a Hard Job but Someone Has to Do It
Welcome to your first online course. After struggling with the application, wondering what happened to the files you uploaded, embarrassing yourself by spelling your name wrong, and answering loads of student questions you swear are clearly answered in the materials, you ask yourself the age old question "whadamy'doing?" But somehow it grows on you. You're an online instructor. And you want to be a good one.

Patti Shank, Ph.D., internationally known instructional technology consultant, author of Making Sense of Online Learning, award winning contributing editor for Online Learning Magazine, and faculty member in CU Denver's School of Education, will begin the day with a heartwarming look at what it takes to teach online and why it's worth doing well.

Maintaining the Human Touch in Online Learning
Katica Jacob & Trinity Ryan, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Technology

Online courses are rapidly growing in popularity, and provide a means for educational institutions to offer more flexibility to their students. However, in the rush to move online, many traditional courses have simply been “dumped” onto the web, a strategy which has led to frustration for learners as they encounter screens full of text with little or no interaction with the material, their instructors, or their peers. Instructors of online courses need to recognize that these social problems are the leading cause of learner isolation and thus rising attrition rates. This presentation identifies and demonstrates the use of proven strategies for social engagement of online learners – strategies which are similar to everyday classroom techniques, but which have been specially adapted for the unique challenges of the online environment.

Course Makeover
Jeff Borden, eCollege & Doug Krause, College of Arts & Media

Is your online course in need of a makeover? Many courses are; that’s not to say your whole course needs a makeover, but almost every course has a least one area where it could use a little boost. For most instructors, the hardest part is finding out what needs to be changed and how to tackle it. eCollege instructional designers are here to help solve that problem!
Some of the areas the experts will address include course objectives, technical content, and performance measurement.
Join us in watching an online course be transformed and learn how you can do this too!

Session One: Discouraging Dishonesty Panel Presentation
Lorraine Evans & Gayle Bradbeer, Auraria Library, John Lanning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Sarah Bradford, eCollege, Chris Trivedi, online student

Moderator: Marty Tessmer, CITT

Teaching online seems like an invitation for students to cheat. And while new opportunities for cheating exist online, new tools and techniques for detecting and discouraging dishonesty are available online. Hear from your peers techniques for uncovering and preventing dishonesty in your courses, both online and in the classroom. A student will join the panel to offer an insight on how and when students cheat!

Visit the Auraria Library's Cheating Website summarizing the discussion and ideas that came from the panel presentation developed by Marty Tessmer & Gayle Bradbeer