Hosted by the DCE team, the “Innovation Series” provides the LSU community with opportunities to initiate conversations through exploring new developments, trends, and best practices in the realm of online and digital education. These events aim to:
- promote a culture of innovation and transformational change;
- explore innovation and improvement in large-scale educational reform initiatives in the US and around the world; and
- assist in delivering and executing creative solutions to challenges as it relates to program development, course design, and teaching.
We are excited to announce that the following experts will be joining us in a kick-off panel session and they will be presenting throughout the day:
- Dr. Diana Oblinger; President Emeritus, EDUCAUSE
- Dr. Michael Moore; Chief Academic and Operating Officer, University of Arkansas System eVersity
- Phil Hill; Educational Technology Consultant and Analyst, MindWires
See below for the full agenda and description and locations of the sessions. We hope to see you there!
Innovation Series Event Agenda
| Time |
Description |
| 8:45-9:00 |
Registration |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Panel: Examining the Current State of Online Education and Looking Ahead
Lod Cook Alumni Center- Noland/Laborde Ballroom
Moderator: Dr. Sasha Thackaberry; Vice Provost, Digital and Continuing Education
Panelists:
- Dr. Diana Oblinger; President Emeritus, EDUCAUSE
- Dr. Michael Moore; Chief Academic and Operating Officer, University of Arkansas System eVersity
- Phil Hill; Educational Technology Consultant and Analyst, MindWires
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| 10:00-10:10 |
Break |
| 10:10-11:00 |
Session 1: Education for the Next Generation; Dr. Diana Oblinger
Lod Cook Alumni Center- Cook Conference Room
AI and robotics are reshaping how we share knowledge, experience and expertise, which has implications for our professions and higher education. People are developing new relationships and dependencies on machines and systems, reconfiguring our roles as professionals. Systems can amplify human performance, working alongside tomorrow’s professionals as “partners.” In a world in which computers are increasingly capable, we are challenged to move beyond the use of technology to deliver education to considering how AI, big data, analytics, robotics, and wide-scale collaboration might change the substance of education.
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| 11:10-12:00pm |
Session 2: What Picasso’s Bulls Can Teach Us About Scaling Online Learning; Dr. Michael Moore
Lod Cook Alumni Center- Cook Conference Room
Online learning is no longer a new phenomenon. Institutions of all shapes and sizes now commonly offer online courses and degrees across a wide swath of the curriculum. Increasingly, the challenge facing institutions of higher education is not “if” they should engage in online learning, but rather the mission, strategy, and scale of the online learning operation. This talk will share challenges and lessons learned from two very different approaches to scaling online learning – an internal online operation at a large public university utilizing an OPM and the launch of a new, public fully-online university from the ground-up. |
| 12:10-1:00pm |
Session 3 & Light Lunch: Innovation in Online and Hybrid Education: Implications for Educators on the Front Lines; Phil Hill
Lod Cook Alumni Center- Cook Conference Room
As online and hybrid education enters its third decade, there are significant efforts to move beyond the virtualization of traditional face-to-face classrooms and move more towards learner-centric approaches. This shift has the potential to change the discussion of whether online and hybrid approaches “can be as good as” traditional approaches to a discussion of how online and hybrid approaches “can provide better learning opportunities”. What are the major changes affecting higher education today? What examples are available at different institutions? How do models vary among different disciplines? During this talk we will explore this long-term trend, several of the drivers enabling the change, and the implications for current and future educators.
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