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iTeach Online: Moving Faculty to ANGEL through Online Instruction
Monica E. Hogan, PhD & Ed Lovitt, PhD
Johnson County Community College
This presentation begins by touring iTeach Online ANGEL, our online class developed to 1) train faculty to use ANGEL, 2) promote quality, and 3) encourage engaged online learning. The course demonstrates the flexible settings of ANGEL tools. Additionally, assessments, wikis, mail, news, announcements, milestones, calendar, and agents are used.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.3
1:00-1:45 pm
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Building Vibrant Learning Communities; an Approach to Faculty Professional Development and ANGEL Adoption
Rick Kralevich & Kelly McVeigh
Immaculata University
Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation with a new Learning Management System can be a daunting task. Immaculata University's ANGEL faculty training program focuses on building vibrant learning communities. This presentation displays IU's strategy to facilitate campus-wide adoption of ANGEL in less than one year.
Audience Type: New User, ANGEL Version: 7.3
2:00-2:45 pm
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Supporting Faculty in the ANGEL Virtual Classroom
Melanie Bartlett & David Rausch
Macomb Community College
Quality faculty support requires an understanding of adult learning and a focused approach to reducing unnecessary faculty effort. The presenters will discuss techniques for successfully supporting faculty in the ANGEL virtual classroom including certification training, assessment, the use of open labs, and workshop formats.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.2
3:00-3:45 pm
Presentations during this time are part of the Partner Presentations.
4:00-4:45 pm
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Developing Processes to Support Exponential Growth of Faculty Adoption of ANGEL
Greg Ketcham
SUNY Oswego
What happens when faculty adoption of the LMS succeeds beyond your wildest dreams and your most optimistic planning forecasts? Strategies for just-in -time faculty training and developing scalable faculty development programs will be discussed in this session.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.3
8:00 – 9:30 am
10:45-11:30 am
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LCCC's Student Sandbox: Pearl of the Orientation
Mary Jane Pasky, Mike Substelny, Sandy Crobar & Tammy Macek
Lorain County Community College
LCCC's Distance Learning Design Team shares best practices in the development of its student orientation to ANGEL. The orientation includes a sandbox course that allows students to play in ANGEL before starting classes. The presenters will share background on the sandbox concept, data on its success, and lessons learned.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.2
Room Great American
Training Faculty: Encourage and Increase ANGEL Usage
Jamie Plaster
Gannon University
This session will provide attendees with strategies, procedures, and training techniques that will enable them to successfully coordinate and facilitate ANGEL training sessions that will increase ANGEL usage and self-efficacy. A detailed objective is developed and reviewed during the presentation that attendees can adapt and/or implement at their institution.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.3
1:00-1:45 pm
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Online Faculty Portal: Creatively Supporting Online Faculty
Melissa Kievit
Rue Education
How can you effectively reach all faculty members at once, on all issues pertinent to their courses, your institution, and the ANGEL LMS? Via an Online Faculty Portal! This creative use of ANGEL space features current Policies and Procedures, information on best practices associated with online teaching, an extensive FAQ, and a variety of resources for faculty, as well as items to share with students as they progress through their learning.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.2
Room Great American
Preparing Students for eLearning
Debbie Huffman
North Central Texas College
North Central Texas College requires every first-time online student to complete an online orientation course. Learn how to use the Action Editor, Environment Variables, and other ANGEL tools to navigate students through the required orientation course. Participants will be provided a demo account and free access to the course.
Audience Type: New User, ANGEL Version: 7.2
2:00-2:45 pm
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Improving Your Department’s Support Using Sharepoint
Michael Sullivan
Mercer County Community College
This session will explore our process of improving support in Mercer County Community College's distance learning program by searching for a cheap and effective means of addressing student needs via the use of metrics. Our solution of Microsoft's SharePoint has allowed us to track and pinpoint areas in need of focus within our execution of ANGEL's LMS. See how results of our endeavor enabled us to determine where improvement was needed.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.3
Room Great American
Campus Training and Adoption Rates & How to Create Great Buzz
Laura Cook & Marie Shero
SUNY Geneseo
Since launching in Fall 2007, we have 99% of our students logging into ANGEL and over half of our faculty actively using the system (in face-to-face courses). Come see how we have generated such a buzz on campus and how we have been so successful in our training programs, marketing, campus communication, and support.
Audience Type: Intermediate User, ANGEL Version: 7.3