The UNL Office of Online and Distance Education will hold its third annual online and blended symposium with keynote speaker, Elizabeth Barkley, beginning at 9:30 a.m., Nov. 4, in the Gaughan Multicultural Center. UNL faculty and staff are welcome to attend any or all sessions.
The emphasis of the symposium, “Transcending Mode: Increasing Engagement in Online, Blended and Face-to-Face Class,” is on keeping students involved, motivated and actively leaning in face-to-face, fully online, blended, flipped or technology-enhanced classes.
Barkley is the author of “Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty” and “Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty.” Her keynote presentation is titled “Terms of Engagement: Understanding Student Engagement in Today’s Classroom” and will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Barkley will share a 5-element theoretical model for defining and understanding student engagement that provides a framework for promoting it in today’s college and university classroom.
Barkley will also lead a workshop titled “Practical and Effective Strategies to Get Your Students Engaged” at 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. This highly interactive session will help faculty better understand the elements that contribute to student engagement as well as learn solid, practical and effective strategies and techniques for promoting it in face-to-face, blended, flipped or fully online classes.
Other workshops and presenters include:
Sydney E. Brown, a UNL blended learning coordinator, will give a presentation titled “The Power of Place: Using GPS to Increase Content Engagement” at 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Angie Fedon Wassenmiller, Concordia University’s director of classroom innovation and online education, will give a workshop on “Enhancing Presence in the Online Classroom” at 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Stuart Bernstein, a UNL associate professor of construction engineering, and Tareq Daher, a UNL instructional design technology specialist, will discuss using blended learning to address instructional challenges at 10:30 to 11 a.m.
On the day of the event, check the information board for room numbers.
For more information and to register, visit http://go.unl.edu/symposium2014.
