Approximately 140 higher pedagogy professionals in addition to faculty from across the Commonwealth, in addition to a few from beyond Virginia, late attended J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College’s The Art & Science of Online Education Conference. Faculty, staff in addition to applied scientific discipline professionals collaborated during this two-day conference to verbalize over lineament inwards online education, educatee success, faculty evolution in addition to engagement, in addition to emerging technologies.
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A virtual conference was held inwards tandem amongst Reynolds’ conference on online learning. Avaya, the fellowship that hosted the virtual conference, was on site to exhibit attendees how virtual coming together infinite tin hold upward used for education. |
Conference highlights included a keynote address from Anne Arundel Community College Dean Jean M. Runyon in addition to a panel give-and-take amongst JSRCC online students. Dean Runyon highlighted the nationwide efforts that are beingness made to develop in addition to ameliorate online pedagogy opportunities; these efforts attain from developments inwards lineament course of instruction design, grooming in addition to back upward for faculty teaching online, in addition to expanded back upward services for online learners. At the educatee panel session, conference participants listened in addition to learned from students equally they shared their experiences amongst online pedagogy in addition to how they developed their skills inwards fourth dimension in addition to resources management, in addition to how they engaged amongst instructors in addition to peers through digital technologies.
The conference was supported amongst grants from the the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in addition to the the U.S. Department of Energy. The FIPSE grant has significantly supported the College’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), The Ripple Effect: Transforming Distance Learning, One Student & One Instructor at a Time. J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College is accredited past times the Southern Association of Colleges in addition to Schools (SACS). The College’s QEP is business office of SACS accreditation process.
Presentations from the conference volition hold upward posted shortly to www.reynolds.edu/conference.
