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Wednesday, March 15 Thursday, March 16 Friday, March 17

Friday, 8:00 am to 8:50 am

Roundtable discussion:
UNC TLT Interest Group Meetings
Track: Collaborative Approaches
Presenters: Laura Rogers

Grand Ballroom 3-5

Professional development activities are the cornerstone of UNC TLT Collaborative (TLTC) work and serve to involve growing numbers of people, generate and disseminate TLTC ideas, and share experiences in TLT work. TLT interest groups provide opportunities to build community through participation and to build professional development resources for future use. For more information, visit http://www.unctlt.org/ and click on Interest Groups in the left navigational column. Selected interest group meetings will be held on Thursday and Friday morning from 8:00 to 8:50. A list of the interest groups meeting on each day will be available upon check-in at the conference.

Friday, 9:00 am to 10:30 am

Hands-on workshop:
Alternative Assessment with Electronic Concept Mapping Software
Track: Software Solutions
Presenters: Dianne Raubenheimer, Kevin Oliver

Renaissance 206

Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity for hands-on use of the free concept mapping software, Cmap. Through hands-on activities, we will address the following questions: What is concept mapping%3f What is the process for developing a map%3f How can we assess concept maps and use them for assessing student learning%3f What are some strategies for employing concept maps in the classroom%3f What other electronic tools are available to support concept mapping%3f

This session will be held in the Renaissance building, which is a short walk from the conference hotel. Advance registration for workshops is not required; however, seating is limited and is on a first-come basis.

Hands-on workshop, sponsored by Blackboard:
Ask the Expert! Hands-On Workshop to Explore All of the Tools Within the Blackboard Academic Suite
Track: Software Solutions
Presenters: Melissa Anderson, Karianne Naughton

Renaissance 209

This hands-on session will explore and help you better understand how to maximize all of the tools available within the full Blackboard Academic Suite. This will be for experienced users, as the focus will be how to map functionality to meet the goals and desired outcomes of your class.

This session will be held in the Renaissance building, which is a short walk from the conference hotel. Advance registration for workshops is not required; however, seating is limited and is on a first-come basis.

Hands-on workshop, sponsored by SAS:
Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide
Track: Software Solutions
Presenters: Sue Walsh, Lori Rothenberg

Renaissance 210

UNC has a systemwide license for many of the SAS software tools beneficial for teaching and research. This workshop will provide an overview and help you make the most of the SAS software that you already have licensed on your campus. We will outline the support materials available to university professors for use in teaching and research. The workshop begins with a general description of the SAS Enterprise Guide, the new graphical user interface to the power of SAS. We will cover its layout and design, followed by two demonstrations using data provided by a university as a “real-world” example. Attendees will be provided computers to follow along with these demonstrations. In the first demonstration, student data is used to create graphs and summary statistics of student measurements. The second demonstration examines faculty salaries in an effort to compare the salaries of male and female faculty members. The workshop also addresses how to use the output obtained from the statistical analyses and graphs to easily write reports and give presentations about your findings.

This session will be held in the Renaissance building, which is a short walk from the conference hotel. Advance registration for workshops is not required; however, seating is limited and is on a first-come basis.

Friday, 9:00 am to 9:50 am

Panel discussion:
Creating an Innovative Collaborative Satellite Program
Track: Collaborative Approaches
Presenters: Susan Peck, Michael Cato, Benjamin Rogers

Dogwood (room 1)

In response to a severe shortage of pharmacists in the northeast region of the state of North Carolina, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy and Elizabeth City State University agreed to partner in creating an innovative collaborative satellite program utilizing pedagogically sound approaches on both campuses. This collaboration extends the School of Pharmacy’s curriculum to incorporate students physically located at Elizabeth City State University. Significant portions of the curriculum are being presented by video-teleconferencing with students synchronously learning at both locations. This panel discussion will review the project concepts, premises for design, status to date, and revelations of the resulting multidisciplinary project.

Formal presentation: An Overview of Security Issues Track: Distance Learning Presenters: Carter Heath	Grand Ballroom 2
This presentation will provide an overview of network, end user, and personal security issues encountered on UNC campuses. Current state and UNC security guidelines will be discussed.

* Featured Session * Formal presentation: e-Learning Within the NC Community College System and UNC: Collaborative Opportunities Track: Distance Learning Presenters: Bill Randall, Frank Prochaska	Capital Ballroom E-G
This presentation will review current e-learning projects and activities of the NC Community College System, as well as describe planned initiatives. Ways in which the two public higher education systems can perhaps collaborate to improve educational opportunities for North Carolina students will be discussed with session attendees.

Roundtable discussion:
Have Your Faculty Been Think-In%3f Ours Have
Track: Learning Resources
Presenters: Sharon Collins, Ginny Sconiers

Grand Ballroom 1

Teaching with Technology 2005: A Think-In of Best Practices will offer participating faculty and staff many opportunities to discover new ideas and innovative technologies. Faculty from many colleges and schools across campus will be presenting via laptop poster sessions. The Think-In tracks include: innovative, effective/efficient, and social uses of technology. Faculty presentations will include course demonstrations showcasing the use of technology. Think-In attendees will have the opportunity to evaluate faculty presentations and the top presenter in each track will receive a prize. In addition to faculty presentations, campus resources will showcase their latest technology, information, and projects. The campus resources represented provide support for teaching and learning with technology. The Think-In will serve as a starting point in the development of faculty learning communities (FLCs). The FLCs will bring disciplines across campus together for the common goal of forwarding the educational opportunities of our students.

* Featured Session *
Roundtable discussion:
Quality Assessment for Online Courses: Exploring the Issues for Faculty, Students, Designers, and Administrators
Track: Learning Resources
Presenters: Steven Breiner, James Sadler, Betsy Brown, Hilarie Nickerson

Capital Ballroom D

As online courses have become more prevalent, a number of quality assessment rubrics have emerged. Examples include: 1) Quality Matters developed by Maryland Online, 2) the Online Course Evaluation Project (OCEP) created by the Monterey Institute of Technology and Education, and 3) the Rubric for Online Instruction from California State University, Chico. These rubrics may be used both as guides during course development and as assessment tools for existing courses. In this roundtable, join us for a lively discussion of the issues surrounding quality assessment for online courses. Here are some sample questions: 1) What are the benefits and drawbacks of quality assurance efforts%3f 2) What would a meaningful assessment be like%3f 3) Who should be involved%3f 4) What infrastructure is needed to support an assessment program%3f 5) Should assessment focus on baseline standards or on achieving excellence in online instruction%3f

Panel discussion:
Institutional Repositories: Collaborative Information Sharing
Track: Library
Presenters: Andrea Eastman-Mullins, Peter Fritzler, Rebecca Kemp

Capital Ballroom C

Institutional repositories (IRs) have received an increasing level of attention because of their potential to impact scholarly communication. Academic libraries have been exploring opportunities to manage and preserve digital access to intellectual property developed at their institutions through institutional repositories. The presenters will discuss questions and issues concerning IRs, including the following: What constitutes an IR, and how do IRs relate to content management systems%3f What are some of the issues concerning their creation, implementation, and sustainability, and what are the possible effects on teaching and learning%3f Andrea Eastman-Mullins will also discuss the TLTC content system initiative. The panelists will solicit feedback from program attendees regarding their institutions' responses to these questions and issues.

* Featured Session *
Demonstration:
The Use of Digital Inking to Enhance Instruction
Track: Software Solutions
Presenters: Sue Steinweg, Joy Stapleton, Sarah Williams

Boxwood (room 2)

Tablet PCs are providing university faculty members the opportunity to collaborate as they explore possibilities for the use of this technology to deliver instruction in multiple formats. This session by East Carolina University will highlight the use of Tablet PCs in face-to-face and online learning environments that include: K-12 public school classrooms, undergraduate university face-to-face teacher education classes, graduate online courses, and internship supervision settings. Session participants will learn how professors are using digital inking to efficiently provide specific and personal handwritten electronic feedback to students in both face-to-face and online classes. Additionally, presenters will highlight uses of the Tablet PC to deliver content in a way that goes beyond the traditional linear PowerPoint format. Participants will leave with helpful hints for incorporating this technology into their classes, and tablets will be available for session participants to explore the possibilities of digital inking.

Demonstration:
Using Blackboard to Teach Freshmen Composition Students the Research Process
Track: Teaching Considerations
Presenters: Michael Alewine, Mark Canada

Capital Ballroom A-B

At the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP), we created a Blackboard bibliographic research “module” that is organized into seven units. Each unit represents a component of a fairly accepted process whereby students search for, and critically analyze, information for their English 106 course (second semester English composition) research papers and projects. UNCP English instructors can assign any or all of the units to their students. Each unit contains a brief interactive lesson followed by a suggested review assignment.

Friday, 10:00 am to 10:30 am

Formal presentation:
Supporting the Minority: Teaching Online in a Traditional Environment
Track: Learning Resources
Presenters: Jennifer Summerville, Arnold Murdock

Grand Ballroom 2

Online programs, courses, and student-centered issues have become a way of life for us in twenty-first century. While there are still institutions whose primary population is a traditional, noncommuter student, even those campuses are seeing an increase in student demand for fully online classes. Given a current, more traditional climate, it may be difficult to encourage faculty to create courses for the online environment. What if the demand for fully online courses is there, but growing more slowly than at other campuses%3f What if the demand for entire programs grows faster than the supply of those willing to teach online%3f In this presentation, the speakers will address such issues as supporting faculty who teach in an online environment within the context of a more traditional campus, supporting students (many of whom have never taken an online class), and considering the impact of demand and growth in the future.

Formal presentation:
The Carolinas K–12 Programming Consortium
Track: Learning Resources
Presenters: Russell Teasley, Frank S. Lockwood

Capital Ballroom A-B

The Carolinas K–12 Programming Consortium proposes a collaborative R&D organization to produce digital programming and various supporting technologies. Its focus is to develop a robust portfolio of K–12 multimedia curricula as well as a capability for administration and delivery. The consortium will build collaboration at three levels: 1) as a user market—the NC K–12 learning community; 2) as a research and subject matter expert pool—the NC higher education research community; and 3) as a commercial driving force—the learning technology industry. Its administrative hub will be located within Western Carolina University’s Millennial Campus.

Demonstration:
What is a Wiki and Why Would I Want One%3f
Track: Library
Presenters: Kenneth Mentor

Capital Ballroom D

Wikis give students the opportunity to collaboratively create and publish a variety of writing assignments. This session provides an example of the use of a wiki in an ongoing collaborative project that includes students in several classes. The advantages and challenges of this collaborative learning process are discussed. The presentation concludes with an invitation to participate in the ongoing development of a web-based research and learning tool that relies on wiki software.

Formal presentation:
Developing and Implementing a WebCT Vista 4.0 Pilot Study
Track: Software Solutions
Presenters: Lorraine Stanton

Capital Ballroom E-G

UNC Charlotte will transition from using WebCT Campus Edition to WebCT Vista over the next two years. The Faculty Center for Teaching and e-Learning, who provides support for these products, is currently in the process of piloting WebCT Vista with 12 faculty members. This session will present an overview and objectives of our pilot study, including participant selection criteria, enticements for faculty participation, a description of our training development and delivery, and special events and milestones associated with the study. The presentation will include challenges and limitations of our study as well as assessments and measures of success. To conclude, we will present issues encountered and lessons learned as a result of the information gathered during our pilot test, as well as future directions in WebCT Vista training and support anticipated for faculty at UNC Charlotte.

Demonstration:
Evaluating the PDA as a “Point of Care” Resource for Clinical Reasoning of Baccalaureate Nursing Students
Track: Software Solutions
Presenters: RuthAnne Kuiper

Boxwood (room 2)

The use of handheld computers is tested as a technology support to assist in instruction and learning for baccalaureate nursing clinical education. Faculty designed and implemented a project where students used PDAs during a semester-long clinical nursing course in collaboration with the Information Technology Systems Department. Measurements conducted during the project reveal there are no significant differences in clinical reasoning scores between students who use PDAs and those who do not. Students average high confidence scores on a computer self-efficacy measure, and use the drug and laboratory manual most frequently. A PDA use survey reveal that students prefer the PDA for clinical preparation, prefer it as a resource in the clinical setting, and continue to use it as a resource when not in the clinical setting. This presentation is a summary of the research as well as demonstration of the hardware, software, and measurements.

Demonstration:
Expertiza: Reusable Learning Objects and Active Learning for Distance Education
Track: Software Solutions
Presenters: Edward Gehringer

Dogwood (room 1)

The Expertiza platform is a divide-and-conquer approach to producing reusable learning objects through active-learning exercises. Students select from a list of tasks to be performed, with several students selecting each task. They prepare their work and submit it to an electronic peer-review system. The work is reviewed by other students, who offer comments to help the submitters improve their work. The best submissions for each task are selected for use in later courses. These learning objects can be improved iteratively; next year’s class can refine and improve the previous year’s contributions. Expertiza gets students working together to improve others’ learning experiences. It helps them learn, by making them think through the lecture material and apply it to a real-world situation, just as they might do on the job. Because the interactions are asynchronous over the web, distance education students can participate on the same basis as on-campus students. We will present the philosophy behind the system, report on the initial experiments in Fall 2005, and demonstrate it. Members of the audience will participate by submitting and reviewing submissions on their laptops.

Formal presentation:
Challenges and Lessons of Designing and Teaching an Online Agroecology Course
Track: Teaching Considerations
Presenters: Huaiying Gao, Michelle Schroeder, David Howard, Amanda Robertson

Grand Ballroom 1

In Fall 2005, the Introduction to Agroecology course was offered online for the first time at North Carolina State University (NCSU). This course uses WebCT Vista as a delivery tool and incorporates videos, images, discussion boards, chat rooms, and online quizzes as teaching strategies to create a meaningful and collaborative learning environment and to promote student interaction, much like the face-to-face course. Agroecology is a new multidisciplinary program at NCSU, and this course establishes the foundation of this program. This agroecology course is the first of its kind to be taught in an online environment in North Carolina and the first from a land grant institution. In this presentation, we will discuss the teaching strategies and challenges during the design, development, and teaching of this course from the viewpoints of the course instructor, the instructional designer, and the multimedia specialist. We will also explore the lessons learned from online instruction of this multidisciplinary agroecology course.

Demonstration:
“What Was That%3f”: Helping Online Students Identify Learning Gaps
Track: Teaching Considerations
Presenters: Karen Smith-Gratto

Capital Ballroom C

Online courses create a dilemma for faculty who are used to asking questions during the course of instruction in face-to- face classes. We often use questioning during the presentation of content to “branch” back and reteach concepts that students have difficulty understanding. While we can plan for some of these in the initial design of an online course, we don’t always provide for reteaching. In this demonstration, participants will be shown how to create a tutorial module that includes reteaching. The design used does not make all students experience all parts of the tutorial. Questions are provided for students that let students who know the material move forward, but branches students who need reteaching to alternative materials and information. This type of online material will help students efficiently target areas for review. Participants will be provided with a packet that gives examples and suggestions for planning.

Friday, 10:40 am to 11:30 am

* Featured Session *
Panel discussion:
A Collaborative Vision: Can Multiple Campuses Share a Learning Management System%3f
Track: Collaborative Approaches
Presenters: Sharon Pitt, Mark Sivy, Frank Prochaska, Lou Harrison

Capital Ballroom D

The WebCT campuses within UNC have collaborated to pilot multiple campus hosting of WebCT’s Vista, an enterprise-level learning management system. MCNC provides networking, operating system, and basic hardware support. NC State provides application administration for the LMS service. To date, UNC Wilmington, Western Carolina, UNC Asheville, Appalachian State University, and UNC Charlotte have offered four courses through the centrally-hosted LMS. NC State released Vista on its campus this past fall, serving 10,263 unique students, 452 course sections, and 48 academic departments. UNC Charlotte will release Vista in Fall 2006. The Vista pilot has allowed these campuses to investigate cost of ownership, reporting needs, and new instructional features. Participants have begun to address concerns such as licensing costs, support structures, collaboratively planned outages and upgrades, technical support, and disaster recovery. With the recent WebCT/Blackboard merger, this project might provide a model to extend multiple campus hosting within UNC and beyond.

* Featured Session *
Formal presentation:
Overcoming a Semester Disaster: Sloan Your Way Out
Track: Distance Learning
Presenters: Sharon Collins, Ginny Sconiers

Sandalwood (room 7)

During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, students were left scrambling to continue their education. Thousands of individuals were looking for a solution. The SLOAN foundation organized a collaborative effort to provide a fall semester to affected students. Southern Regional Electronic Board, SLOAN, and 160 universities created the eight-week SLOAN semester. For our institution, it meant combining the efforts of the Board of Trustees, colleges, Registrar/Admissions, Library, Bookstore, and Continuing Studies. UNC General Administration approved a tuition waiver for participating students. Instructors from different disciplines and a myriad of individuals made this possible. The setup efforts to begin the semester seemed daunting, but everyone pitched in and made it possible. A portal was created for student registration. E-mail and Blackboard have been prime technology factors. Records were accessed across boundaries and everyone involved was flexible and swift in completing their tasks. The organizational effort was outstanding. Cost factors were reduced by pulling resources together.

Formal presentation:
Using Blackboard Creatively as a New Faculty Orientation Tool
Track: Learning Resources
Presenters: Dorothy Muller, Jennifer Raby, Joyce Joines Newman, Dorothy Clayton

Related Material: PowerPoint Presentation, Getting Started CD (Web version)

Capital Ballroom A-B

New faculty often feel overwhelmed with the abundance of information provided during orientation programs and becoming familiar with campus policies, procedures, and resources can be a somewhat daunting task. In 2005, East Carolina University launched a New Faculty Orientation Program that takes advantage of Blackboard as an asynchronous communications tool through which information about campus divisions, university administrators, essential teaching and learning resources and facilities, and research and service support is shared. This creative approach allows faculty to review orientation material at their convenience while providing those unfamiliar with course management systems (CMS) an opportunity to learn the ins and outs of CMS features. Faculty also attend networking luncheons and are equipped with a “getting started” CD that includes welcome letters from the Chancellor and Provost, along with a memory stick to hold their Personnel Action Dossier. Faculty can include completion of the program as part of their annual Professional Development report.

Panel discussion:
Using authorPOINT™ Lecturing Software to Improve Administrator Evaluations of Faculty Teaching
Track: Learning Resources
Presenters: Warren McDonald, Lewis Hershey, Carolyn Jewell

Capital Ballroom C

Most administrators are time-constrained and often pressed to coordinate their schedules with their faculty for required observations of teaching for annual performance reviews. This presentation discusses a new software program for distance learning, authorPOINT from authorGEN Technologies, and describes a procedure for adapting it to the assessment of faculty teaching. Key benefits of the procedure include asynchronous scheduling of faculty and administrator observation of teaching, a permanent record for both faculty and administrator of the event being reviewed, better control by the faculty of the selection of the event to be reviewed, and increased opportunity for faculty and administrator collaboration to review and discuss the event prior to the submission of a written evaluation of the faculty.

Roundtable discussion:
Lessons Learned: Collaborating Across Campuses to Develop and Share Learning Resources
Track: Library
Presenters: Tom Carey, Scott Simkins

Grand Ballroom 2

During the past year the UNC TLT Collaborative has been investigating the potential for developing a UNC-wide content system that would enable teaching, research, and training-related materials developed by UNC faculty and staff to be easily shared across institutions. Feedback from campus focus groups, however, has highlighted a reluctance to share locally-developed learning objects, often due to concerns about intellectual property rights. Overcoming this hurdle, a Canadian consortium of colleges and universities has developed a successful model for the development and sharing of multimedia learning resources that focuses on addressing common instructional challenges shared by member institutions. Using new collaboration strategies, the Co-operative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE, http://cloe.on.ca/) has been able to bring together 25 diverse institutions in Ontario as equal partners for shared learning objects. This presentation will highlight the lessons learned from the CLOE experience and their implications for fostering UNC-wide collaboration on the development and sharing of learning objects.

Formal presentation, sponsored by Harvest Road:
The New Generation Institution-Wide Learning Object Repository
Track: Software Solutions
Presenters: Grame Barty

Grand Ballroom 1

What we previously thought of as the challenges of the internet—and benefits—are only just starting to become obvious. Until now we have been trying to work with digital capability but using analog processes—new things in old ways. This is why in some instances we have a mixed environment of applications only doing a number of things half-well. We must create a capability and service that deals with the “always on” environment. Students and researchers want access to institutional repositories 24/7, and we must be able to deliver that service. It is possible that learning object repositories, content management, publishing, and library systems will merge to form new-generation, institution-wide learning object repositories.

Demonstration:
Pachyderm
Track: Software Solutions
Presenters: Ray Purdom

Dogwood (room 1)

Pachyderm is a freely available, open source presentation authoring system developed by the New Media Consortium. It provides a set of pedagogically sound screen templates, and it allows the user to create rich, interactive presentations through the use of a web-based application. Pachyderm will transform the user’s media files into the required formats and dimensions, producing rich interactive learning objects suitable for delivery on the Internet, via kiosks, or on CD/DVD-ROMs.

Friday, 11:40 am to 12:40 pm

* Featured Session * Plenary session: TLT Alchemy: A New Mix for the 21st Century Track: Other Presenters: Ron Bleed	Capital Ballroom E-G
TLT leaders can be viewed as alchemists. Although they don’t mix chemicals together in a fiery pot, today’s “TLT alchemists” mix many other types of modern potions to create a valuable commodity in the form of teaching and learning. A recipe of new ingredients will be presented that will create the “real” gold that students need for 21st century success.