Join your fellow online learning professionals, educators and administrators to hear from the experts and collaborate on solving the challenges we all face in online higher education today. You’ll get the chance to hear from regional experts regarding current and emerging trends in online learning, collaborate and network with your regional peers during group discussions on top-of-mind challenges that may impact the future of online learning – and your career.

Engaging speakers, relevant topics, and dynamic discussions   We will take a deep look at the challenges and impact of online learning in higher education today and work together to collaborate, define and help shape the changing university.   Presentations will be followed by facilitator-led discussions that will allow participants to delve into each topic in greater detail.   Speakers:    Marshall Hill Executive Director  National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements  NC-SARA

How new technological-driven models of education and evolving state and federal regulations coexist

John Whitmer Director of Platform Analytics and Educational Research  Blackboard

Using learning analytics to create our ‘preferred future’: vision, proof points & trends

Frank Tomsic Director of the McCormick Educational Technology Center Rush University   Karen Pedersen, Ph.D. Chief Knowledge Officer OLC 

A regional response:  culmination of the day’s thinking and invitation to continue the collaboration

Deb Bushway Associate Dean  University of Wisconsin-Extension

 

Marshall Hill Executive Director National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements NC-SARA

John Whitmer Director of Platform Analytics and Educational Research Blackboard

Frank Tomsic Director of the McCormick Educational Technology Center Rush University

Karen Pedersen, Ph.D. Chief Knowledge Officer Online Learning Consortium (OLC)

Deb Bushway Associate Dean University of Wisconsin-Extension

WHAT'S ON DECK FOR THE DAY The Changing University: A Regional Discussion Extraordinary Change Is Coming   What will teaching, learning, and working in the Digital Age of Higher Education actually be like in 2025?  How much should today’s faculty and administrators do to prepare for this future? There is no question that extraordinary change is coming.  The question is, how much of that change is within our powers of prediction, and how should we proactively prepare for the future?   Participate in the first regional OLC Collaborate discussion on the “Changing University” and share in an open dialogue with other colleagues from around the region.   Keynote speakers will offer insightful views of the changing university through short, focused presentations. This will bring together how the use of technologies, the dictate of economic realities, increasing regulatory oversight, the need for constant innovation, and new societal expectations of what colleges can and should be are bringing change to higher education.   Presentations will be followed by facilitator-led discussions to allow participants to delve into each topic in greater detail.  OLC Collaborate scribes will document the discussions throughout the day, culminating in a collaborate regional response to the changing university. 

BECOME A SPONSOR If you are an education technology or distance learning company, this intimate one-day session will give you the chance to collaborate with educators, administrators, and online learning professionals – your potential clients in discussion forums, at lunch and in our small exhibitor showcase.    To learn more, contact our Manager, Sponsorship Sales, Brenda Weiss-Pesta by email, brenda.pesta@onlinelearning-c.org or by phone, 617.716.1417. Or simply download our prospectus here: http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/attend/collaborate/chicago-2015/