All keynotes and sessions will be on-site at the Wyndham Orlando Resort, our host location for the conference.
We had nearly 150 submissions for speakers this year! Our conference schedule including speakers and session topics is a bit fluid but here is our schedule as of May 17th.
Conference at a Glance (All times are EST)
Orlando, FL – Week of July 17th, 2023
Event Registration open Daily 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Exhibitor Hall open Tuesday and Wednesday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Monday, July 17
2:00-4:30 PM ET – Pre-Conference Sessions
Leveraging Esports, AR, VR, MR, and Other Emerging Technologies to Enhance Student Success
Grants: How to improve your chances of winning an award
Transformation Accelerator: Online Course Instructional Design
Tapping into Tik Tok: Techniques for Teaching Today
Instructional Design for Learner Engagement: Getting to the Design Behind the Design
2:00-2:45 PM ET – Virtual Session
The Student Perspective: Is distance learning worth the cost?
3:00-3:45 PM ET – Virtual Session
Chat GPT is Great for Higher Education; Techniques to Improve Online Programs and Team Efficiency
5:30-7:00 PM ET – Opening Reception
Tuesday, July 18
6:30-7:00 AM ET – Morning Stretch | Yoga
7:30-8:30 AM ET – Coffee Chats and Breakfast
8:30-9:00 AM ET – Conference Welcome
9:00-9:45 AM ET – Concurrent Sessions 1
Freedom Writer to Freedom Warrior
Supporting Critical Student Well-Being Needs Virtually
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Distance Learning Futures
ChatGPT: An Educator’s Friend or Foe?
9:00-9:45 AM ET – Virtual Session
Coordinating an Online Teacher Preparation Program: The Challenges and Triumphs
10:00-10:45 AM ET – Concurrent Sessions 2
Federal Groundhog Day? Another Federal Rulemaking Affecting Distance Education!
There’s a Return on Learning (ROL) you can show!
The Power of Balance in Navigating Change
Leading the redesign of a course with microlearning
10:00-10:45 AM ET – Virtual Session
Kindness is an Expression of Appreciation
11:00 AM-12:00 PM ET – Networking Game and Sponsor Shoutouts
12:00 – 1:30 PM ET – Lunch and Opening Keynote – Kate Colbert
1:30 – 4:00 PM ET – Featured Workshop
Freedom Writers to Freedom Warriors: Lessons for Life Through Education
1:30 – 3:00 PM ET – Workshop Sessions 1
More Confident, Agile, Inclusive, Engaging, and Effective: The Improvisation Edge for Educators
The Chemistry of Success for Online Learning
Triggering Learner Stimuli with Aesthetics through Bitmoji Classrooms
Let’s Make Those Discussion Boards POP!
1:30-2:15 AM ET – Virtual Session
It Ain’t Wrong to Say
2:30-3:15 PM ET – Virtual Session
Social Determinants of Changemakers: Re-Centering Equity
3:00-3:45 PM ET – Concurrent Session 3
Best Practices for Teaching Multimodal Literacies for Perception, Proximity, and Transfer Realities Using XR and AI
Practicing Foresight at an Online University
Student, online faculty, and administrator student-3 roles in one
Engaging Technical Education in the Online Realm
3:30-4:15 PM ET – Virtual Session
Rhetorical Implications of Distance Learning Policy
4:00 – 5:00 PM ET – Cookies with Erin Gruwell
4:00 – 5:00 PM ET – Poster Sessions
Showcasing a Digital Escape Room for Student Engagement
Telehealth in our Libraries: a National Trend
Microlearning it is Time to Shine: A Research Review
Achieving High Quality Courses: This is how we do it!
Connectivism And Learner Engagement In An Online Graduate Level Course
Leading Remote eLearning Teams
Wednesday, July 19
6:30-7:30 AM ET – Bill Jackson Memorial Run/Walk
7:30-8:30 AM ET – Coffee Chats and Breakfast
9:00-9:45 AM ET – Concurrent Session 4
Top 5 Surprising Compliance Issues Beyond State Authorization
Novel distance learning partnerships to reduce health disparities and promote early/post-secondary health care careers
Esports: the new frontier of engagement and competition
CBE is a Solution that Benefits Learners and Institutions: Come Learn How!
9:00-9:45 AM ET – Virtual Session
Teaching Introductory Physics Courses with a Personalized Adaptive Learning Courseware
10:00 – 11:30 AM ET – Workshop Sessions 2
Reducing and Responding to Microaggressions in Distance Education
Sound of Conversation in 5 Steps with Pecha Kucha
Community of Inquiry: Enhancing Cognitive Presence and Learner-Content Interaction in the Online Learning Environment
Engage Learners Everywhere with Nearpod
10:00 – 11:30 PM ET – Virtual Workshop
Where to Start with IDEAs? Understanding the Challenges & Opportunities!
10:00-10:45 AM ET – Virtual Session
Enhancing Flipped Classroom to Improve Students’ Active Learning
11:00-11:45 AM ET – Virtual Session
Leveraging Technologies in Online Courses
11:30-12:00 PM ET – USDLA and Sponsor Trivia Game
12:00-1:30 PM ET – Lunch and Keynote with Jennifer Williams
1:30-2:15 PM ET – Concurrent Session 5
Checkout Telehealth @ Your Local Library
Behind the Scenes: A look at My Approach to Storyboarding for Gamification
Defining a Pathway for Broadening Access to and Engagement in a Blended Engineering Course Using DEI and SEL frameworks
Virtual Educational Mentorship (VEM)
Hyflex Programming as a Delivery Approach for Changing Student Demographics and Demands
1:30-2:15 PM ET – Virtual Session
The Tax is Wack! A Discussion of how Cultural Taxation impacts Black Women (and other BIPOC) in Higher Education
2:30-3:15 PM ET – Concurrent Session 6
Don’t You Understand? It coulda been online!
Early Intervention in Online Courses as a Form of Quality Assurance
Using Planning and Control to Enhance the Return on Investment for Distance Education
Mentoring: Ensuring Faculty Success In a Remote Workplace
Representation beyond Assimilation: Using Collaborative Technology to Empower Student Storytellers
2:30-3:15 PM ET – Virtual Session
Tracking OER Awareness and Adoption in US K-12 and Higher Education – Results from our 2022-23 National Survey
3:30 – 4:15 PM ET – Featured Speaker Peter Noonan
4:00 – 5:00 PM ET – Virtual Session
Strategic Improvements to Faculty Compensation Leveraging the Continuous Improvement Cycle
4:00 – 5:00 PM ET – Cookies with Keynotes and Table Talks
Thursday, July 20
8:00-9:00 AM ET – Coffee Chats
9:00-9:45 AM ET – Concurrent Session 7
Illuminating the SARA Universe: Resources and Updates for Institutions
Transforming Education: Achieving improved learner outcomes through quality course design
Engage Me with IT (Integrating Technology)
Designing an Inclusive Online Classroom
9:00-9:45 AM ET – Virtual Session
Join us for a conversation with our colleagues at EDEN
10:00 – 11:30 AM ET – Workshop Sessions 3
A Learning By Design Approach to Online Course Development
Microaggressions in Online Learning: Toward creating a more inclusive and accessible learning environment
Implicit Bias and Its Impact on Family Engagement
I Loved My Class: Gamification that Works!
10:00-10:45 AM ET – Virtual Session. 37
Leveraging Technology to Promote a Dialogic Feedback Process with Online Writers
11:00-11:45 AM ET – Virtual Session
Distance learning as person-to-person peacebuilding: Leveraging technology in the virtual intercultural borderlands
11:45-1:15 PM ET – Brunch and Closing Keynote with Amrit Ahluwalia
1:30 PM ET – Closing Remarks and Planning for 2024