July 11, 2023: USDLA News — National Conference is next week! If you can’t make it, join us for these virtual sessions

It’s Conference Time! The USDLA’s 2023 National Conference is next week: July 17-20 in Orlando, FL

We hope you are as excited as we are to attend this year’s conference at the gorgeous Wyndham Resort in fabulous Orlando.

If you still need to reserve your spot for $500, be sure to do so, as the on-site registration cost goes up on July 16.

Click here to register: https://usdla.org/2023-registration/

Photo opp: We are also excited to bring back JDLHorizon’s Tom Lapping and his team this year. They will be shooting videos and offering free headshots to conference attendees. We’ll tell you more about that in Thursday’s USDLA Brief, but in the meantime, you can click here to register for a 30-minute time slot that works best for you. Please provide your name, cell, and email address. Learn more about Tom’s company – jdlhorizons.com.

Visit us to learn more about the conference:

We’ll see you the week of July 17th! — The USDLA Communications team

USDLA 2023 National Conference: Live Virtual Sessions

Note: Virtual attendees will have access to select live sessions as well as post-conference access to concurrent session recordings

Monday, July 17

2:00pm – 2:45pm — The Student Perspective: Is distance learning is worth the cost? Jeff Seaman and Julia Seaman

3:00pm – 3:45pm — Chat GPT is Great for Higher Education; Techniques to Improve Online Programs and Team Efficiency, Joseph Evanick

4:00pm – 4:45pm — Enhancing Flipped Classroom to Improve Students’ Active Learning, Chiayi Lin and Hong Zhou

Tuesday, July 18

9:00am – 9:45am — Coordinating an Online Teacher Preparation Program: The Challenges and Triumphs, Tracey Hoffman

10:00am – 10:45am — Kindness Is an Expression of Appreciation, Sheryl Kristensen and Steven Verrone

12:00pm – 1:20pm — Keynote Kate Colbert

1:30pm – 2:15pm — It Ain’t Wrong to Say, Gabriela Johnson

2:30pm – 3:15pm — Social Determinants of Changemakers: Re-Centering Equity, Nina McCune and William Schulz

3:30pm – 4:15pm — Rhetorical Implications of Distance Learning Policy, Mandy Taylor

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

9:00am – 9:45am — Teaching Introductory Physics Courses with a Personalized Adaptive Learning Courseware, Archana Dubey and Baiyun Chen

10:00am – 10:45am — Mentors’ Transformative Emotional Intelligence to Positively Influence Virtual Learner Engagement, Tom Butkiewicz

11:00am – 11:45am — Leveraging Technologies in Online Courses, Veronica Rodriguez

12:00pm – 1:20pm — Keynote Jennifer Williams

1:30pm – 2:15pm — The Tax is Wack! A Discussion of how Cultural Taxation impacts Black Women (and other BIPOC) in Higher Education, Rebekah Adderley

2:30pm – 3:15pm — Tracking OER Awareness and Adoption in US K-12 and Higher Education – Results from our 2022-23 National Survey, Julia Seaman and Jeff Seaman

3:30pm – 4:15pm — Featured Speaker Peter Noonan

4:00pm – 4:45pm — Strategic Improvements to Faculty Compensation Leveraging the Continuous Improvement Cycle, Bryan Aylward, Cassie Hurst and James Moreno

6:30pm – 9:00pm — Awards Ceremony

Thursday, July 20

9:00am – 9:45am — Panel Discussion with EDEN: Global Perspectives of Distance Education and Emerging Trends, Sandra Kučina Softić , Farah Bennani and Kae Novak

9:00am – 9:45am — Best Practices for Teaching Multimodal Literacies for Perception, Proximity, and Transfer Realities Using XR and AI, Rebecca Blankenship

10:00am – 10:45am — Leveraging Technology to Promote a Dialogic Feedback Process with Online Writers, Darci Harland and Joe Gredler

11:00am – 11:45am — Distance learning as person-to-person peacebuilding: Leveraging technology in the virtual intercultural borderlands, Sarah Dietrich

11:30am – 1:00pm — Keynote with Amrit Ahluwalia