Summer Institute 2014

Nipissing University

• Directions to the Muskoka campus can be found here: http://bit.ly/UZ19cc.

• Google Maps: http://bit.ly/1mfAzBP.

Dates: August 6-8, 2014

List of 2014 Participants

• Online Registration and Payment Form

Accommodations are available at the Muskoka campus. Please call 705-474-3450 x4805, or send an email to [email protected] to book a room.

Single rooms, two-bedroom suites (one bathroom) and four-bedroom suites (two bathrooms) are available at the campus, with costs of $89/night for the one-bedroom suites, and $40.50/night for the shared bathroom suites. If you need to arrive on Tuesday, rooms are available for the night of Tuesday, August 5.

Parking is free on campus.

Day 1: August 6, 1pm - 4pm

DRAFT

12:00-1:00pm: Lunch and registration - Classroom 3

1:00-1:15pm: Orientation to OUCEL Summer Institute

1:15-1:50pm: “Lightning round” meet and greet

• 5 minutes of fame: innovation for individual institutions

1:50-2:00pm: Formal welcome from the Provost's office

2:00-3:00pm: PIF - Project Achievements and Sharing Going Forward (activity clusters), facilitated by Giulia Forsythe

3:00pm-3:15pm: Break

3:15-4:15pm: Institutional Strategy: Conceptions of Flexible Learning - Michelle Lamberson (UBC) Web Link to Webinar - (text chat available)

Evening: Dinner is not provided but reservations have been made at Riverwalk.

Day 2: August 7, 9am - 4pm

DRAFT

9:00-9:30: Breakfast and good mornings

9:30-10:30: Online Teaching Certificate - Advice on Gearing Up - Panel: Aldo Caputo, Dragana Polovina-Vukovic, Nick Baker, facilitated by Laurie Harrison. Followed by Group Activity and Discussion. PPT Presentation from the Session

10:30-11:00: Break

11:00-12:00: Achieving Business Efficiency in Online Course Offerings - Naza Djafarova and Leonora Zefi (The G. Raymond Chang of Continuing Education at Ryerson)

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-1:30: Ontario Online Update - Julia Colyar

1:30-2:00: OOI Discussion

2:00-3:00: Discussion with Tom Carey regarding Centre for Excellence Projects: Assessment & Faculty Development

3:30-4:30: Eat the Data: Reclaiming Innovation - Brian Lamb (TRU) Link to Slides

6:30pm: Dinner is included with registration! Reservations made at One Fifty-Five.

Day 3: August 8, 9am - 12pm

DRAFT

9-9:30: Breakfast and good mornings

9:30am-10:30am: Alan Levine, True Tales of OER: using and reusing Open Educational Resources. Google Presentation

10:30am-12pm:

• Institutional Projects of interest:
  • ProctorU Experience (UofT) Fareed Teja - Online Proctoring Project - Lawrence S. Bloomberg School of Nursing
  • Course Evaluation (specific to online courses)
  • Ottawa Blended Learning Initiative - Two-Week Faculty Workshop
• Major Take-aways

Special Interest breakout groups

• Accessibility
• ePortfolios
• Shared Services - Network for Excellence

12:00 - 1:00pm: Lunch

Wrap up, discussion of next year’s event etc. To wrap up, we will summarize key ideas discussed over the past few days, and look ahead to next year’s summer institute: Location, Timing, Hosts and Participants

Additional Resources

• List of 2013-2014 MTCU-Funded Productivity and Innovation Projects

• Tony Bates Blog Post: Online learning, faculty development and academic freedom

• CU Open: Carleton’s Certificate in Blended and Online Teaching

• Ithaka S+R Releases Report on Hybrid Classroom Experiments

• Fareed Teja - Online Proctoring Project - Lawrence S. Bloomberg School of Nursing

• UofT - CTSI - Course Evaluation Item Evaluation Project

• UWindsor Open Learning Strategic Development Grants, including criteria, call, guidelines etc.