EDUCAUSE *** 2014 Annual Conference Update - NEW! Photos of the Event

EDUCAUSE 2014 Annual Higher Education - IT Conference
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Explores Today's Toughest IT Issues Facing Higher Education
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AEFIS - Mustafa Sualp - President / CEO
Caitlin Meehan - AEFIS Operations Mgr.

• 300 Sessions
• 500 Speakers
• 60+ webcasts
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• 18 Exclusive Online Sessions Provided Online - Virtually
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• Convenes Some of the Brightest Minds in the Community
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  EDUCAUSE Annual Conference

  Virtual Conference

  The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference provides access to its robust program face-to-face and virtually. Gather a team in one room and learn together, or log in individually.
  (Additional logins are available at a reduced rate.)
  
  
  
  Virtual Conference Center Participant Guide and Tutorial: Get tips on how to best use all Virtual Conference Center spaces. This document contains information not on the website.
  To take a quick 4-minute tour, view this video.
  

  Conference Components

  Webcasts

  Webcasts of select general, featured, and concurrent sessions available live and on-demand. | Sample Webcast from EDUCAUSE 2013
  

  Exclusive Online Sessions

  Interactive sessions with current topic experts, available live and on-demand exclusively for the online audience. | Sample Session from EDUCAUSE 2013
  

  Recordings

  
  Virtual conference sessions will be available live, and recordings will be posted less than 3 hours after each session ends.
  

  Private Recordings Page

  Registrants will receive a link to all virtual conference session recordings that they can share with their nonregistered team members.
  

  Preconference Seminars

  Exclusive online, half-day preconference seminars on Monday, September 29 offer in-depth, highly interactive discussions. (A separate registration and fee are required.)
  

  Digital Poster Gallery

  Visit the Digital Poster Gallery to view onsite poster presentations.
  
  

  Public Webcasts

  
  The selected sessions below give you a taste of the best thinking in higher education IT that's taking place at this year's EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. You can view these sessions live, or in recorded format. Click on the embedded player under the abstract. Click on CC within the player to see closed captions. [NOTE: Closed Captions will be available about 72 hours after every session ends.]
  Webcasting sponsored by Sonic Foundry, Platinum Partner. 
  All times are listed in Eastern Time. Convert to your time zone.
  

  Tuesday, September 30
  11:40 a.m.–12:30 p.m.	Badging to Support Professional Development and Career Building Speakers: Veronica Diaz, Tracy Petrillo and Sondra R. Smith	Concurrent Session
  3:40–4:30 p.m.	Flipping Out over the Flipped Classroom? Speakers: Veronica Diaz, Tracy Petrillo and Sondra R. Smith	Concurrent Session
  Wednesday, October 1
  8:00–8:50 a.m.	Gathering No Moss: A Tribute to Followership Speaker: Gordon Wishon Sponsored by WOWZA Media Systems	Featured Session
  9:10–10:00 a.m.	It Takes a Community: Responding to Developing Leaders Community Leadership Award Recipients Speakers: Joanne M. Kossuth and Theresa Rowe	Concurrent Session
  1:30–2:20 p.m.	Leaning, Rising, Meandering, Holding: Your IT Career at Different Life Stages Rising Star Award Recipient Speakers: Katie L. Vale AEFIS   877-674-3122   www.aefis.com	Concurrent Session

Flipped Classrooms: Learning: Class Time "Flipped" From Lectures to Real-World Applications

Important Developments in Educational Technology for Higher Education

Flipped Classroom
Flipped Learning: Defined
The flipped classroom refers to a model of learning that rearranges how time is spent both in and out of class to shift the ownership of learning from the educators to the students.
 
Big Change: Class Time "Flipped" to Real-World Applications 
In the flipped classroom model, valuable class time is devoted to more active, project-based learning where students work together to solve local or global challenges — or other real - world applications — to gain a deeper understanding of the subject.  

Information Dispensers: Videos, Podcasts, E-Book and Online Communities
Rather than the teacher using class time to dispense information, that work is done by each student after class, and could take the form of watching video lectures, listening to podcasts, perusing enhanced e-book content, and collaborating with peers in online communities. 

Result: Increased Interaction, Tailored Instruction and Accelerated Learning
Students can access this wide variety of resources any time they need them. Teachers can devote more time to interacting with each individual. After class, students manage the content they use, the pace and style of learning, and the ways in which they demonstrate their knowledge; the teacher adapts instructional and collaborative approaches to suit their learning needs and personal learning journeys. 

Belief: Students Learn More Authentically by Doing

Blended Learning - Inquiry Based Learning
The flipped classroom model is part of a larger pedagogical movement that overlaps with blended learning, inquiry-based learning, and other instructional approaches and tools that are meant to be flexible, active, and more engaging for students.

Flipped Classroom: Pioneers
The first well documented example of the flipped classroom was in 2007 when two chemistry teachers at Woodland Park High School in Colorado wanted to address the issue of students missing class when they were traveling to and from school activities.

Social Media's Impact on Learning
Students were struggling to keep up with their work. The teachers, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, experimented with using screen capture software and PowerPoint to record live lessons and post them on YouTube. They immediately observed a dramatic change in the classroom: the focus shifted to increasing interactions and fostering deeper connections between them and their students, as well as between students.

Educational Coaching in Small Groups
Their roles transitioned from lecturers to coaches, guiding the learning of students individually. They observed students as they worked on assignments in small groups, made more accurate assessments about who needed extra attention, and then created mini-lecture videos that catered to those learners.

Free! Flipped Classroom Learning Resources
With a vast array of free resources readily accessible, faculty that are flipping their courses often do not have to create any materials from scratch, but instead focus on curating the best content for the subject matter.

Origin Flipped From Historical Learning Innovations
Whereas many learning technology trends first take off in higher education before seeing applications in schools, the flipped classroom reflects an opposite trajectory. Today, many universities and colleges have embraced this approach, enabling students to spend valuable class-time immersed in hands-on activities that often demonstrate the real world applications of the subject they are learning.

Increased Relevance: Efficient and Enriching - Class Time
Relevance for Teaching, Learning, or Creative Inquiry The flipped classroom model is becoming increasingly popular in higher education institutions because of how it rearranges face-to-face instruction for professors and students, creating a more efficient and enriching use of class time.

Learning Environment - More Dynamic and Social
By reviewing the comments and questions that students pose online, instructors can better prepare for class and address particularly challenging ideas during face-to-face time. The learning environment transforms into a dynamic and more social space where students can participate in critiques or work through problems in teams.

Duke Testing / UNC Confirms Scores Increase 5.1%
Healthcare is moving towards teams of collaborating practitioners; the Duke Institute for Brain Science has used the flipped classroom as a way to develop stronger collaboration and creative thinking skills in emerging practitioners. A study conducted on foundational pharmaceutics courses at the University of North Carolina shows that the flipped environment increased test scores by 5.1%.
Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Estrada, V., Freeman, A. (2014). NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.