Conferences and Events
Tuesday, February 8 - Thursday, February 10, 2022
Tina Parscal, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor for CCCOnline and Academic Affairs
Colorado Community College System
The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in a significant increase in online learning and emergency remote instruction for many colleges. Although challenging, this crisis also produced strong innovation, the capacity to extend our services remotely and at a distance, and an opportunity to expand online teaching and learning at our colleges. In this session, we will discuss lessons learned from the transition to online and remote learning, explore ways to leverage the momentum of the pivot to online, and brainstorm where we go can from here in terms of sustainability, accessibility, quality assurance, wraparound services, and program offerings.
Tina Parscal, Ph.D., is the Associate Vice Chancellor for CCCOnline and Academic Affairs for the Colorado Community College System (CCCS). She provides executive leadership for Colorado Community Colleges Online (CCCOnline), the online consortium of the 13 CCCS community colleges. Additionally, she oversees system-wide academic technologies and online services and coordinates collaboration and communication among the colleges, CCCS, and CCCOnline. Dr. Parscal possesses broad higher education experience previously serving in such roles as an executive director, provost/chief academic officer, college dean, professor, and director. With over 20 years in higher education leadership, she has a breadth of leadership experience with online and distance learning, academic affairs, faculty development, enrollment services, and student affairs as well as extensive mentoring, teaching, and scholarship experience at the doctoral, master’s, undergraduate, and community college levels. Dr. Parscal received her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Regis University; Master of Social Sciences from the University of Colorado, Denver; and Ph.D. in Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University.
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Tina Parscal, Ph.D.
The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in a significant increase in online learning and emergency remote instruction for many colleges. Although challenging, this crisis also produced strong innovation, the capacity to extend our services remotely and at a distance, and an opportunity to expand online teaching and learning at our colleges. In this session, we will discuss lessons learned from the transition to online and remote learning, explore ways to leverage the momentum of the pivot to online, and brainstorm where we go can from here in terms of sustainability, accessibility, quality assurance, wraparound services, and program offerings.
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Kona Jones
Director, Teaching & Learning Center
Richland Community College
Curious about what makes students more likely to watch and engage with course videos? Instructorcreated videos can be a highly effective way to support learning, improve engagement, promote critical thinking, foster student confidence, and help students feel connected. This session incorporates student feedback to present advice and best practices for making course videos students will seek out and thank you!
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Morgann Quilty
Associate Dean, Learning Commons
Parkland College
Jane Smith
Instruction Librarian, Learning Commons
Parkland College
Lori Wendt
Instructional Technology Specialist, Learning Commons
Parkland College
Parkland College embarked on an initiative last year to bring academic support for students and faculty into a one-stop center. This culminated into the launching of the Learning Commons this past summer and encompasses the services of the library, tutoring, writing lab, as well as instructional technology and support. Join us to learn about the changes that have already been made as well as the plans for this coming year and the vision for the future.
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Meri Engel, Ph.D.
Instructor of Digital Media
McHenry County College
John Halliwell, Ph.D.
Intensive English Language Program Coordinator
Moraine Valley Community College
Debra Guerrero
Sleep Technology Program Coordinator
Moraine Valley Community College
Anne Humphrey
Instructor of English
McHenry County College
During this panel, faculty members from McHenry County College and Moraine Valley Community College will share their experiences teaching online and showcase strategies they used in their online classroom to promote student engagement and interaction.
Thursday, February 10, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Heather Moore
Instructional Designer
Rock Valley College
This session will showcase the Canvas course template created at RVC and discuss how we used Quality Matters principles to guide its design. The template gives online courses a consistent look and feel, which facilitates ease of use for the student. Templates also benefit instructors by giving them a well-designed structure for their courses, allowing them to focus on filling in content.
Thursday, February 10, 2022 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Lirim Neziroski, Ph.D.
Prairie State College
Manager of Online Learning
The Online Learning department at Prairie State College (PSC) developed a four-week Orientation to Online Teaching. The orientation is taught by the Manager of Online Learning, and it is administered as an online course on D2L. The orientation focuses on best practices for online pedagogy, quality assurance standards for instructional design, and tutorials for the college’s LMS. The course was launched in October 2021 with a cohort of 13 instructors with another cohort of 20 instructors scheduled for November. The course will help PSC instructors become qualified to teach online, and will help PSC expand its online course offerings. The presentation will describe the process of developing the course, the components of the course itself, and will share feedback from participants. This session could help any college develop its own orientation to online teaching.