Event Program

The shift from an industrial society to a global innovation society places new demands on schools and universities. As we begin to understand the power and potential of online learning models, can we also ensure that our students experience deeper learning, student agency, authentic work, and rich technology infusion opportunities? Join Scott for an interactive conversation about possibilities for powerful learning! Read more about Can online learning also be DEEPER learning?

Faculty new to online and blended/hybrid course development may overestimate the amount of content suitable for online work, resulting in what is called the "Course and a Half Syndrome." This session introduces tools that help calculate the time to complete online tasks versus time allotted, to support weekly instructional planning. Read more about Avoiding the "Course and a Half Syndrome"

The presenter will review common barriers to students accessing mental health support and highlight benefits of tele-mental resources supported by utilization data from The Student Support Program (My SSP) by Morneau Shepell. Read more about Digital Mental Health: Expanding Reach and Reducing Barriers for Students

This workshop will cover how you can use BigBlueButton to engage students in virtual office hours, group collaboration, and full online classes. We'll show how you can use BigBlueButton both inside and outside of Canvas. Read more about Engaging Students Online Using BigBlueButton/Conferences

Professor Stephens discusses using the interactive video platform Playposit to lecture on Islam and jazz. After mixed student feedback, she reflects on how to better use Playposit in the future. She also speaks about embracing experimentation and creative adaptation during the shift to remote instruction in spring 2020. Read more about Jazzing up Remote Learning: Playposit and “Improv” Teaching in the Time of Covid

Learning experiences are often successful, in part, if they are tailored to the learner. This presentation will address quantitative and qualitative methods for collecting data to create programs that take the learner into consideration. Methods will include literature reviews, secondary data analysis, surveys, focus groups, and interviews. Read more about Look before you leap: Methods for assessing your audience’s learning styles and preferences

Previous research has found that using comics within health and science courses can help engage students and foster learning. During this presentation, I will summarize research using web-based comic design, share lesson ideas and guide attendees through hands-on assignments that can be easily implemented in any classroom with internet access. Read more about POW, ZAP, WHAM! Using Comics in the Science Classroom

Rutgers Online is at the crossroads. As the University is contemplating the future of this initiative, we have the opportunity to redefine parameters of program participation and improve faculty and student services. Read more about Rutgers Online at the Crossroads: The 2020 Opportunity

In this presentation, we will discuss the strategies used to transition a highly interactive survey research methods and questionnaire design course, which had been taught for many years in person to a fully online course. We will present techniques used to engage students, encourage interaction and provide frequent feedback. Read more about Transitioning a Mature Highly Interactive Course from Fully Face-to-Face to Fully Online

Join GRID for an in depth look at the process of making educational games for various Rutgers units. GRID will discuss their process for taking each project from pre-production, execution, to close out. They will also focus on how they make decisions that align with learning objectives for each project. Read more about Behind the Scenes of Gamification

The Rutgers Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education (CMSCE) will present and open for discussion the advantages and unique challenges of developing teacher professional development (PD) workshops and resources online. The CMSCE will invite participants to share best practices for online teacher PD while demonstrating several models in development. Read more about Building Online Teacher Professional Development and Resources in K-12 STEM, STEAM and Maker Education

Portfolium Folios are now integrated in your Canvas environment. Come learn about additional opportunities to simplify the assessment of student learning outcomes and engage students along learning pathways. Read more about Closing The Skills Gap With ePortfolios and Simplifying the Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes

Cidi Labs tools for instructional designers improve course design, content accessibility, course readiness tracking and file management or the Canvas LMS. We’ll show you how our customers have leveraged our Tools to improve the Canvas experience for content editors, designers, faculty and students. A demo will focus on DesignPLUS. Read more about Improving Canvas Courses with Instructional Design Tools by Cidi Labs

This workshop gives an overview of the role APIs can play in supporting an organization’s digital strategy, including examples of how established organizations are using APIs to innovate and create digital experiences today’s students expect. Read more about Reimagining Student Experiences Through APIs

Students need to learn to think critically, make decisions, and self-direct behavior - all of these aspects of cognition depend on executive functioning (EF). Together we will explore how to apply Quality Matter (QM) standards to develop and teach courses that effectively support EF. Read more about Supporting Executive Functioning in College Courses with QM Standards

People under economic stress may focus on certain tasks while putting aside other important tasks. Public college students juggle responsibilities and economic stressors, often functioning under cognitive effects of scarcity, including missed deadlines. Reducing impacts of scarcity-induced mistakes using the tools of hybrid, partially asynchronous course are discussed Read more about Using Online Tools to Increase Fault Tolerance in Courses with Working Class Students Impacted by Scarcity-Induced Cognitive Traps and Errors.

This session will focus on how instructors can use the learning and interaction analytics within Learning Management Systems to support student learning and success. Read more about Utilizing LMS Analytics to Support Student Success

The stark and unsettling reality is that the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has done more to disrupt all of higher education in a shorter time frame than arguably any other trend, development or impact that has occurred in the history of higher education. This session is going to look at the transition that all of us and higher education, in general, have made, and continue to make, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more about Institutional Responses to COVID-19

Below is a description for a COVID-19 related topic for an RUOnlineCon presentation, to be presented by Linda Lopez and Dr. Passannante from the School of Public Health. Read more about An On-going Unified Approach to the COVID-19 Emergency Transition to Remote Education

We have developed a suite of assets, the Unity Visualization Toolkit, for visualizing science data in Unity3D game engine. I will describe the use of a freshman research experience in the development and testing of the UVT, as well as a novel new project for viewing confocal microscope data. Read more about Development of Virtual Reality Tools for Science Visualization in a Student Research Experience

We will explore how the principles of Universal Design can be applied to instructional practices so as to maximize learning for ALL students. We will review the basics of UDL before discussing practical strategies and digital tools that participants will be able to implement in their own classrooms immediately. Read more about Empower Every Student In Your Class With UDL

This presentation describes an experimental project at The School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University. Students and faculty from different academic constituencies collaborated to produce content which they published simultaneously using a hashtag to create a "thunderclap" of student work. Read more about How we used a hashtag to engage students and collaborate

This presentation seeks to understand the implications of using OER to support adult learners, and how OER can challenge and better enhance the learning experiences of this unique population. Read more about Opening Learning: How Using OER Challenges Adult Learners’ Conceptions of Learning

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In 2019, the Rutgers University Division of Continuing Studies (DoCS) and the New Jersey School Boards Association (NJSBA) signed a formal agreement to work together to support a vision of lifelong learning across the state of New Jersey. Read more about Supporting Lifelong Learning in New Jersey: Reflections and Insights on the Partnership Between Rutgers University and the NJ School Boards Association

Rutgers Arts Online shares Canvas tools to detect and verify cheating in online exams. Read more about Using Canvas Access Reports and API Logs as Additional Tools to Identify (and Prove) Exam Cheating

The fundamental question that we ask and address in this presentation is as follows: How to provide students a whiteboard experience and beyond for online, hybrid and site courses to achieve the pedagogical goals in a world where technology has been changing constantly? Read more about Whiteboard and Beyond for Online, Hybrid and Site Courses

Collaboration, communication, and interaction among students and faculty enable learning in the virtual environment. To engage students and meet their learning needs, instructors should strive creating collaborative atmosphere in their online courses. Read more about Collaborative Strategies in Virtual Learning Environment

How can we use digital technologies to encourage knowledge creation among students? This session will explore the use of Hypothes.is, a text annotation tool, and VoiceThread, a multimedia discussion tool, to inspire students to engage with one another and contribute their own perspectives and research to course content. Read more about Digital technologies for collaborative knowledge creation

Experimental biochemistry is set up as technology assisted face to face laboratory course. Course content is organized on course management site and electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) are used in place of paperbound notebooks. We show how organized course content and ELNs benefit student learning in advanced biochemistry lab course. Read more about Enhancing learning with technology in experimental biochemistry courses.

MERLOT is a repository of over 90,000 educational resources, designed to assist its members in teaching online. This session will explore our recommender system, discipline portals, and our peer review process to help members discover quality resources. We’ll explore the use of the Content Builder to build websites for instruction. Read more about How to use MERLOT like a Pro: For Free!

Interested in teaching your first online course but don’t know where to begin? This introductory workshop identifies important pedagogical considerations you’ll need to get started teaching online, including the unique needs of online students and characteristics of successful online courses. Tools to address these needs will also be highlighted. Read more about Introduction to Online Teaching

As we experience more diversity in our classes, Faculty have to become more adept in finding ways to create engagement across cultures. Faculty need to be culturally sensitive, open, curious, respectful and ultimately savvy in both class design and management. Read more about Student Engagement Across Cultures

During this brief presentation I would like to discuss technology resources and techniques, digital humanities tools, and collaboration tools in general, that could help to enhance student’s proficiency and engagement in class. Read more about Teaching and engaging in the 21st century

This workshop will introduce you to the principles of Universal Design for Learning, which focuses on designing learning experiences that meet the needs of diverse learners. You will learn practical strategies and ideas to make your classroom a place where all students are welcomed and empowered to succeed. Read more about Universal Design for Learning: A Framework to Support Inclusive Teaching

I will present an NSF-funded project testing a video-game approach to undergraduate engineering education. The video games will be demonstrated. Study findings will also be presented: students learned more and were more engaged in the game-based approach compared to a control course. The transportability of the approach is also discussed. Read more about Using Video Games and Simulated Virtual Environments to Teach Engineering Dynamics: An Investigation of Student Engagement, Learning, and Transportability

If you are curious about learning best practices in engaging academic video content for your online courses, then look no further. In this presentation, Walker and Dave will discuss their methodology for helping faculty to create professional and accessible media. Read more about From Equipment to Engagement: Best Practice Considerations for Lecture Capture

For companies claiming "automated proctoring" : • Using solely a browser extension for proctoring exposes critical risks • False positives in proctoring reports are problematic Proctortrack solves it all. This talk will have you asking the right questions as well as preview the industry leading innovations in online exam integrity. Read more about How well do you trust your proctoring solution?

In developing an effective course design for online pedagogy, the following four components will be presented to address first-time online students: (1) assumptions related to online courses, (2) identify the importance of time-management and self-discipline,(3) identify appropriate writing skills, and (4) establish a self-reflective component in the online course. Read more about Instructional and Curriculum Design that Addresses the Challenges Experienced by First Time Students in a Fully Online Course

This presentation provides a story of one School’s journey. The Kismet of how the right people came together to make a successful Business School that is dedicated to world-class online and hybrid education. We will invite others to join into the conversation so that we learn from each other. Read more about One School's Journey: Making the Transition Online, with the student in Mind

Scenario based learning is effective for engaging learners and reduces the “forgetting curve” during the learning process. Create real-life scenarios using the 4 Cs and template from provided packet of resources, then see how simple it can be to show your scenarios visually using Articulate Rise 360’s 30-day free trial. Read more about Scenario Based Learning and Articulate Rise 360

This session will focus on how to utilize and balance synchronous and asynchronous techniques considering your course objectives to create a quality online course where you ensure your students to be successful. Read more about Student Engagement in Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning

Learn how faculty can make use of Learning Management System data to monitor and support their students' success. In this tool-driven session, we will explore how to design and implement well-aligned and timely data collection and reporting processes using Canvas Outcomes and the Learning Mastery Gradebook. Read more about Support Student Success​ Using Learning Outcomes Data in Canvas​

In designing and executing course curriculum utilizing technology in the classroom can be beneficial to students. The questions "Why are we using this tool"? and "How does this tool enhance and/or supplement my classroom instruction"? need to be thoroughly answered. Read more about Using Tech in the Classroom Goes Beyond TPACK and ASSURE