OLC Live! Pulse Of The Conference
Brief Abstract
Join OLC Live! co-hosts Jenae Cohn and Terry Greene as they seek out the emerging trends and topics, as well as engaging members of the conference community at Accelerate 2021. Keep your head on a swivel during this lively, participatory session, because you might just be a featured guest!
Presenters
Jenae Cohn writes and speaks about how to support engagement, communication, and critical thinking in digital learning experiences. She currently works as the Director of Academic Technology at California State University, Sacramento and has held prior roles at Stanford University and University of California, Davis. She is the author of the book, Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading (West Virginia University Press, 2021), and contributes to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and Faculty Focus. Supporting instructors in mindful approaches to digital pedagogy, she leads workshops and events for colleges nationwide. As a researcher, she explores digital literacy, student experiences with online learning, and reading and writing across the curriculum. Learn more at jenaecohn.net or on Twitter @jenae_cohn.
Terry Greene is Senior eLearning Designer at Trent University. He is an ardent supporter of the affordances of open education and shares this excitement through his podcast, Gettin' Air - The Open Pedagogy Podcast. He is interested in both the cutting and trailing edges of uses for technology in education. Especially those that increase the human element in technology-enabled learning. Hint, hint, those are
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