Keynote speaker Dr. Tony Picciano
2015 Rutgers University–Camden Faculty eLearning Conference
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Download printable program with presentation descriptions (PDF)
Session recordings will be available shortly.
Please e-mail christie.decarolis@rutgers.edu if you need to be added to the Sakai site! Conference materials are available there.
Our second annual Rutgers University–Camden Faculty eLearning Conference is scheduled for Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at the Campus Center. This year will be bigger and better, with mulitple tracks and expanded themes, including not only online and hybrid teaching, but also new technologies in the classroom and teaching live to distance students. This conference will run from 8:30am to 3pm, with lunch and refreshments served. Registration is required, but is free for all Rutgers University–Camden faculty, full or part time. Can’t make it for the whole day? Feel free to come whenever your schedule allows.
This year’s advisory council includes: Cindy Ayres, Nursing; Stuart Charmé, FAS Philosophy & Religion; Bill Fitzgerald, TMAC and FAS English; Dan Hart, FAS Psychology; Carol Kaufman-Scarborough, SBC Marketing; and Kwangwon Lee, FAS Biology.
Conference agenda
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, Campus Center MPR
Download printable agenda (PDF); Download printable program with presentation descriptions (PDF)
| Time | Online/hybrid track MPR |
Classroom technology track South BC |
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| 08:00-09:00 | Registration/interactive Padlet session | |
| 09:00-09:10 | Welcome from Rayman Solomon | |
| 09:15-09:35 | Tim Knievel (Political Science) Flipping the classroom |
Janice Beitz (Nursing) Engaging students with classroom technology |
| 09:40-10:00 | Sarah Allred (Psychology) Empowering students with iPads for team-based learning |
Meredith Bak (Childhood Studies) New ways to think about writing with Twine |
| 10:05-10:25 | James Genone (Philosophy) Teaching a hybrid class |
Georgia Arbuckle (Chemistry) Encouraging the active classroom |
| 10:30-10:50 | Lisa Zeidner (English) Constructing meaning in online discussion |
Sunil Shende (Computer Science) Enhancing classroom presentation with iPad apps |
| 10:55-11:15 | Interactive session: Engage your classroom students with free student polling apps | Steve Pyser (Business) Learning by doing: the “pracademics” model of teaching Millennials |
| 11:20-11:40 | Carol Kaufman-Scarborough (Marketing) Things I wish I’d thought of when developing my first online class |
Kim Mutcherson (Law) Teaching across the campus divide |
| 11:45-12:05 | Panel: Stuart Charmé and MALS grad students (Religion) Faculty & student perspectives on online learning |
Próspero Garcia (Spanish) Enhancing learning objectives and critical thinking through ePortfolios and social media |
| 12:10-01:25 | Lunch/Keynote
Dr. Tony Picciano, The online learning landscape: implications for teaching & learning |
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| 01:25-02:05 | Panel: Jim Brown, Robert Emmons, Michael Russo (Digital Studies) Cultivating nonlinear expression in Digital StudiesTwine interactive session (led by Digital Studies Center) |
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| 02:10-02:30 | Panel: Keith Green (English), Melissa Yates (Philosophy), Ben Panter (Fine Arts) Changing modalities: from the classroom to online |
Patricia Ojea (Political Science) Making group projects meaningful: gamifying student success |
| 02:35-02:55 | Dana Pilla (Spanish) Hearing the student voice: engagement and interactivity in an online course |
Charlene Mires (History) Building digital bridges between research and teaching |