Strategies for Promoting Copyright Awareness in Student YouTube Video Projects

Session Description
This session provides a brief overview of copyright issues and awareness strategies pertinent to student YouTube video projects. The information is drawn from the presenter’s research and more than a decade of experience teaching an online YouTube for Educators course. Over the years, students in this course have struggled with confusion over copyright and fair use when creating YouTube video projects that contain media assets downloaded from the internet or acquired from other sources. Copyright and fair use are complex topics and most of us will never be legal experts in this area. However, there are strategies for promoting copyright awareness and ethical practice when acquiring and integrating media created by others in YouTube video projects.

Participants will gain (1) information about copyright and fair use problems that students might encounter when creating YouTube videos and (2) practical strategies to help students become more aware of copyright and how they might identify media assets that can be used in their videos.

The goals for this session are to discuss:

  • A brief history of copyright issues on YouTube and the implications for student video projects.
  • Considerations for ethical acquisition and use of media assets in YouTube videos.
  • Strategies for promoting copyright awareness during student YouTube video projects.
Presenter(s)
Chareen Snelson
Chareen Snelson, Boise State University, ID
Dr. Chareen Snelson is an Associate Professor with the Educational Technology program at Boise State University. She has worked in online education for more than seventeen years having designed and taught a wide variety of graduate-level educational technology courses including media design, leadership, and qualitative research methods. Her scholarly activity has focused on several areas including online learning, educational video production, educational applications of YouTube, and qualitative methods education.
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
All Audiences

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The Reality Of Self-regulated Learning In An Asynchronous, Online Learning Environment

Session Description
Self-regulated learning (SRL) occurs when students assert control in their learning environment to reach intended goals (Pintrich, 2004). SRL skills, such as time management and goal setting, are an important source of achievement differences (Stadler, Aust, Becker, Niepel, & Greiff, 2016; Zimmerman & Schunk, 2011) and a predictor of course satisfaction (Inan, Yukselturk, Kurucay, & Flores, 2017). Self-regulation in online contexts is thought to be particularly important for student success (Broadbent & Poon, 2015; Shea & Bidjerano, 2012; Allen & Seaman, 2010).

This presentation will share the results of a self-regulated online learning survey administered in a self-paced, asynchronous, online, university-level course. The survey, adapted from Jansen et al. (2016), has been completed by 385 students. Data previously collected in the course shows high levels of student procrastination, as evidenced by activity peaks around major course deadlines. Steel (2007) describes procrastination as the “quintessential self-regulation failure” (p.1) and research consistently shows that overall, students’ self-regulatory skills are suboptimal (e.g., DiFrancesca, Nietfeld, & Cao, 2016; Peverly, Brobst, Graham, & Shaw, 2003; Pressley & Ghatala, 1990). Indeed, students enrolled in our course consistently lament their lack of time management skills and our survey results indicate that students report only moderate self-regulation skills.

Summaries of the data will be presented, and strategies for designing activities to enhance students’ self-regulatory behaviors will be discussed. Attendees will be asked to share their experiences supporting students’ self-regulation in a discussion following the presentation portion.

Presenter(s)
Ariana Eichelberger
Ariana Eichelberger, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI
Dr. Ariana Eichelberger is an Associate Specialist and Instructional Designer in the College of Education. Eichelberger manages the Instructional Support Group of the College and coordinates the College’s faculty professional development program. As a faculty member of the Department of Learning Design and Technology, Eichelberger teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in instructional design and technology integration. She is also an instructional designer with the COE’s Distance Course Design and Consulting group (DCDC).
Hong Ngo
Hong TP Ngo, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI
Hong Ngo is an instructional designer currently living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Education 2020: Open Source Virtual Worlds

Session Description
Join us as we explore virtual world education in 2020 and where to find cool tech, start an online education program, design and host 3D immersive classes.
Presenter(s)
Cynthia Calongne
Cynthia Calongne, Doctoral Studies, Colorado Technical University, United States
Dr. Cynthia Calongne is a professor in Doctoral Studies at Colorado Technical University and CCCOnline. She taught 52 university classes that met in a virtual world and 24 years on campus, hybrid, and online classes. A pioneer in 3D immersive education, she received the Thinkerer award at the 2017 Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education for lifetime achievement, and her team won the $25,000 Grand Prize in the Federal Virtual World Challenge for their space simulation the Mars Expedition Strategy Challenge.
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Effectively Integrating Instructor-Generated Learning Materials in a Distance Education Environment

Session Description
In an online classroom environment, learning materials are often publisher-generated and instructor visibility can be perceived as low by students. A strong instructor presence is important because it improves student affective learning, cognition, and motivation (Baker, 2010). This presentation will discuss how online faculty can integrate instructor-generated materials, strengthening their presence while increasing student engagement and understanding.

A study conducted by Jennifer S. Hegeman found that integrating instructor-generated learning aids “not only placed a greater emphasis on conceptual understanding, but also positioned the course instructor prominently in the role of content provider, enhancing the course instructor’s teaching presence in the online environment” (Hegeman, 2015, p. 84 ). Therefore, best practices will be identified, such as chunking information, providing assignment support, providing an opportunity for students to ask questions, and being a part of the dialogue throughout the course. The use of tools such as Blackboard Collaborate, Screencastify, Flipgrid, Perusall, and podcasting will also be addressed.

Presenter(s)
Marsha Morgenstern
Marsha Morgenstern, University of Phoenix, AZ

  • M.A. Adult Education and Training, University of Phoenix
  • M.A. Business Communication, Jones International University
  • 11+ years experience in higher education
  • Associate Faculty, University of Phoenix, Pittsburgh Technical College
  • Communication and Marketing Administrator, Women In Bio
Jennifer Waldo
Jennifer Waldo, Pittsburgh Technical College, PA

  • DBA (ABD) Grand Canyon University
  • MEd. Innovative Instruction, Seton Hill University
  • MBA University of Pittsburgh
  • B. A. Westminster College
  • 25+ years within industry and higher education
  • Faculty member Pittsburgh Technical College
Marisa Haney
Marisa Haney, Pittsburgh Technical College, PA

  • M.S. Business Education, Robert Morris University
  • B.S. Business Management with a concentration in Tourism Management
  • 12+ years experience in higher education
  • Hospitality/Business Instructor, Pittsburgh Technical College
Session Type
45-Minute Interactive Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Don’t Muph it! Three Ways to Avoid Muphry’s Law

Session Description
Muphry’s Law states that “any criticism of a writing or editing error will itself contain such an error”, as Stockton (2014) has summarized it. Particularly in the multi-lingual, multi-faceted, and multiply mediated information-overwhelmed twenty-first century the speed and pressure put upon teachers and learners who want to find the error-free have led to a Muphry Law tsunami. But the error-flotsam tide can be stemmed. Three useful skills will do that: Details detection, improved editing, and repeated proofreading
Presenter(s)
Katherine Watson
Katherine Watson, Orange Coast College, CA
Dr. Katherine Watson has been teaching French, English, ESL, linguistics, anthropology, and journalism for more than five decades, at first among farm laborers in picking fields, then in traditional classrooms, and ultimately online. She co-conceived, developed, and taught the first online adjunct to a telecourse offered by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Annenberg Learner’s French in Action. Then, she launched the first completely-online course in California’s Coast Community College District. Her publications have concentrated on language and thought, as they are transmitted and learned through time, space, and mode of delivery, as well as the transdisciplinary nature of learning. Dr. Watson is also a professional translator and interpreter and a swimmer in any sea.
Session Type
45-Minute Interactive Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Designing a Blended Course on Global Librarianship for Delivery to ASEAN Students

Session Description
The presentation describes an academic experience from a cohort of graduate students from five ASEAN countries completing a library science master’s degree with specialization in theological librarianship at a university in central Philippines. Given that the course focuses on global librarianship, the presenter describes and discusses the different elements considered during the design and development process such as audience, objectives, instructional strategies, and outcomes. Also, the presentation discusses how the course design manages the diversity of the student background such as education, prior experience, and literacy skills (e.g., English language, technology). Finally, it discusses how the course was supported by technology to allow for delivery at a distance.
Presenter(s)
Danilo Baylen
Danilo Baylen, University of West Georgia, GA
Danilo M. Baylen, an education technology professor who studies visual representation of Asian children’s literature. Born in the Philippines, he studies contemporary Filipino children’s books. In 2015, he co-edited Essentials of Teaching and Integrating Visual and Media Literacy published by Springer. Currently, he serves as editor of The Books of Selected Readings of the International Visual Literacy Association. As one of the editor of the current publication, he believes that a focus on LIS Education in the Asia-Pacific region adds to the body of knowledge on current practices in training and developing librarians. Educators and curriculum developers will find this edited book a valuable resource in designing instructional experiences to prepare librarians and other library professionals in the 21st century.
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
Novice, Intermediate

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I’ll get to that later: Using data-driven nudges to help students avoid procrastination in an asynchronous online course

Session Description
The rapid rise of online learning creates an imperative for course design strategies that support positive student outcomes. Students’ ability to self regulate academic behavior, such as goal-setting and time management, is important for both higher education and career success. It is particularly important in online courses where students lack feedback and are prone to procrastination.

This presentation will describe a proposed project to implement and study the impact of digital nudges on student self-regulatory behavior in an online course. Nudges are a tool that help individuals make decisions in their own best interest without coercion. A brief introduction to nudges will be provided followed by examples of the nudge types proposed to be incorporated into the course. The nudges will be delivered to students via the online course platform and through SMS text messages and will be designed to promote self-regulatory behaviors such as goal setting, time management, and self-reflection.

A brief overview will be given of the proposed study’s mixed-methods design. Instruments and data analysis will incorporate an interdisciplinary approach, measuring the influence and perception of digital nudges on student behavior, achievement and satisfaction in the course. In addition, the study will examine how student characteristics, such as ethnicity, procrastination profiles and cultural self-construals might mediate impacts and perceptions. Preliminary results from a pilot will be shared and a question and answer period will encourage session attendees to share their feedback and related experience.

Presenter(s)
Faye Furutomo
Faye Furutomo, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI
Faye Furutomo is a project manager and designer, specializing in web development and instructional design projects. She has been with the UH Mānoa College of Education since 2008, serving as web designer and program manager for Distance Course Design & Consulting (DCDC), an award winning design and development team. She is also currently pursuing her PhD in Learning Design & Technology at UH Manoa. In addition, she earned her MBA from the Shidler College of Business, BA from Wheaton College in Illinois, BFA from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, a Certificate of Online Learning and Teaching (COLT) from the Learning Design & Technology department. Faye is interested in the fields of project management, leadership, strategic planning, design and is passionate about improving higher education for Hawaii’s current and future generations.
Ariana Eichelberger
Ariana Eichelberger, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI
Dr. Ariana Eichelberger is an Associate Specialist and Instructional Designer in the College of Education. Eichelberger manages the Instructional Support Group of the College and coordinates the College’s faculty professional development program. As a faculty member of the Department of Learning Design and Technology, Eichelberger teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in instructional design and technology integration. She is also an instructional designer with the COE’s Distance Course Design and Consulting group (DCDC).
Daniel Hoffman
Daniel Hoffman, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI
Dan Hoffman is an educator and researcher in the field of digital learning. His research focuses on the design of interactive experiences and their impact on learning and engagement. This interdisciplinary work takes place at the intersection of cognitive science, education and computer science. Seeing great potential in emerging human-computer interaction techniques, Dan studies interactivity and its ability to act as a conceptual and procedural scaffold in digital environments. In 2013, Dan earned his doctorate in Instructional Technology & Media from Teachers College, Columbia University. Before joining the Department of Learning Design & Technology at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, he worked as a Senior Education Analyst at Kamehameha Schools. His background includes classroom teaching, the New York City Teaching Fellows program, and designing software for Intel and the Games for Learning Institute. He was born in Vermont and enjoys building computers, watching movies, and listening to podcasts.
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Online Course Design for Active Learning within the UDL Framework

Session Description
What does active learning look like online? How can we provide it while addressing the needs and preferences of learners in a flexible learning environment? This presentation provides the definition, purpose, and examples of active learning within the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework from setting the stage, selecting instructional strategies and technologies, student selection of learner strategies, and designing feedback loops. A typology of instructional strategies and their examples are addressed to provide variety (i.e., activity-centered, content-centered, experience-centered, and learner-centered activity. Active learning aligns with the UDL framework when lessons provide multimodal representation and various pathways for action, expression, and engagement. CAST’s checkpoints for UDL will be woven throughout, as well as active learning and UDL’s intersection with the Online Community of Inquiry Framework (i.e., social, cognitive, and teaching presences). For active learning, students need the following in a UDL environment:

  • Preparation for learning events,
  • Situated learning environments for near transfer,
  • Planned multimodal interactions that are cognitively challenging,
  • Alternative and formative assessments,
  • Cognitive strategies to build comprehension and increase retention,
  • Feedback loops, and
  • Metacognitive strategies to monitor their learning.
Presenter(s)
Sandra Rogers
Sandra Rogers, University of California – Los Angeles, CA
Sandra Annette Rogers (aka Teacherrogers) has taught in a variety of K-16 educational settings from a rural hut in Honduras as a Peace Corps Volunteer to the University of California-Los Angeles Lab School as a Demonstration Teacher to elearning worldwide. She has taught bilingual elementary education, developmental reading, Spanish, and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL). She holds a K-12 bilingual (Spanish/English) teaching certificate from the California Commission on Teaching. She is a Quality Matters certified peer reviewer for online courses. She is also a Google Certified Educator. She is a content developer, instructional designer, researcher, and trainer. She has a doctorate in instructional design and a master’s in teaching ESOL. Her research interests include gaming, second language acquisition, and distance education. She currently serves as an instructional designer for UCLA’s Online Teaching and Learning Initiative. She will present on her recent publication, Curation of your online persona through self-care and responsible citizenship: Participatory digital citizenship for secondary education (2020).
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
Intermediate, Advanced

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Helping Students Analyze Healthcare Websites for Readability and Appropriateness

Session Description
Healthcare educators include information about health literacy in program curricula, since deficits are associated with health disparities. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 defines health literacy as the “degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015, para 1). Unfortunately, almost 90% of Americans have difficulty understanding health information if it is unfamiliar or contains medical terms (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019).

Digital health literacy is one of the goals of Healthy People 2020 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010), since approximately eight million American use the internet daily to research health-related topics (Eltorai, Ghanian, Adams, Born & Daniels, 2014). Patients with chronic disease are more likely to obtain information from websites (Rew, Saenz, & Walker, 2018). One concern is that unreliable websites may provide incorrect information to patients. Another concern is that the average readability of some consumer patient education websites is at 10.9, which exceeds the recommended sixth grade reading level (Bedaiwi, Alfaraj, & Pines, 2018).

This describes a learning activity in a graduate nursing program for a Patient Education and Advocacy course. Students analyzed national healthcare websites for readability, design, layout, cultural sensitivity, and appropriateness for a rural, low-health literacy population. Students obtained increased awareness of the issues of readability and appropriateness of information on national healthcare websites, better preparing them to educate patients in digital health literacy.

Presenter(s)
Tracy P. George
Tracy P. George, Francis Marion University, SC
Dr. Tracy George is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Francis Marion University. She has worked as a family nurse practitioner since 1999 in a variety of settings. Since 2012, she has taught undergraduate and graduate nursing courses. She has published and presented on the scholarship of teaching and learning, shared decision-making, and clinical nursing topics. Tracy has written several peer-reviewed articles and textbook chapters.
Claire DeCristofaro
Claire DeCristofaro, Ashford University, CA
Claire DeCristofaro, MD is a graduate of Hunter College of CUNY and Albert Einstein Medical School, both in New York City. Her family practice has been in both urban and rural sites in New York City, Tennessee and South Carolina. She is a full-time faculty member at Ashford University in the College of Arts & Sciences, aligned with the Behavioral Sciences deaprtment, and also teaching in the Gerontology and Health & Wellness programs. Other professional activities include serving as a federal grant reviewer for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). As university faculty, she has taught in multiple graduate and undergraduate healthcare and behavioral health programs, with an additional interest in continuing education for APRNs, physicians, pharmacists and physician assistants on a wide variety of topics, including her AHEC online courses on controlled substance prescribing and clinical topics. Her scholarship has included publications and conference presentations on healthcare topics as well as the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Strategies for helping first-year online students with stress management

Session Description
Research shows that stress is an issue for many college students; with the addition of online or distance learning factors such as unfamiliar technology and isolation issues inherent to online courses, this stress can be magnified and can lead to poor academic performance and other negative effects (Cohen, 2019). One contributing factor is that most first-year online students are not provided with stress management techniques as part of their courses.
The goal of this presentation is to discuss and elicit participant interaction based on the following questions:

  1. What instructional practices can be used to help first-year online college students with stress management?
  2. How does the online course set-up contribute to first-year student stress and what can faculty members do to mitigate this given Learning Management System (LMS) constraints?
  3. What additional resources both inside and outside of the online classroom can help first-year students with stress management?

In discussing these questions, the authors will provide research and personal experience-based information in the areas of instructional practices, classroom set-up and resources for helping online college students with stress management and success in college overall. As full-time faculty teaching at one of the largest distance education universities in the United States, the authors have researched this topic as part of a project related to helping first-year online students overcome feelings of stress and isolation.

Presenter(s)
Tracy Crawford
Tracy Crawford, University of Phoenix, CA
Tracy Crawford, MAEd, is a full-time faculty member teaching entry point and foundational courses for the College of General Studies with University of Phoenix where she has been working as a staff member for the past 15 years. She earned a Master’s degree in Education – Curriculum & Instruction/Adult Education Distance Learning and completed a Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Education Program for her Elementary teaching certificate. Tracy has been involved in education not only as a teacher and administrator, but also as a volunteer with United Way as a volunteer Reading Buddy, Head Start, Art Masterpiece and she has served as a Faculty Supervisor for student teachers. Tracy is a Certified Advanced Facilitator, has served as a Faculty Trainer, and facilitated both faculty and student workshops at University of Phoenix. Tracy’s true passion is helping students learn and grow!
Jennifer Romano
Jennifer Romano, University of Phoenix, CA
Jennifer Romano is a graduate of Auburn University, receiving her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Mass Communication. While attending graduate school at Auburn, Jennifer was an instructor of Public Speaking. Upon graduating she became an adjunct professor at The University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, followed by a full time instructor at Faulkner State Community College (now Coastal Community College) in Gulf Shores, Alabama. She taught communication and public speaking courses at both colleges. Then in 2007 Jennifer became a full time faculty member at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, followed by Herzing University in Birmingham, Alabama; she was an instructor of mass communication, public speaking and humanities course. In 2013 Jennifer became a full time faculty member at University of Phoenix, where she is currently working as a full time instructor of General Studies and Humanities courses. She has over 15 years of experience with online instruction and LOVES being an instructor at University of Phoenix!
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
All Audiences

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