The Peer Showcase features a variety of online teaching and assessment programs and projects presented to you in an informal setting by the educators themselves. You'll have plenty of time to pick the brains of the Showcase participants to find out how you can construct similar projects on your own.

• Gina Scott, College of Veterinary Medicine, Online programs for veterinary students
• Socorro Herrera and Cristina Fanning, Center for Intercultural & Multilingual Advocacy, Video projects for Online ESL Methods course
• Abbey Nutsch, Animal Sciences & Industry, Research and outreach using Axio Survey
• Brian Lindshield, Human Nutrition, Using flexbooks to supplement/replace the traditional textbook
• Lynnette Brummett, Agribusiness, Award-winning distance education graduate program for food and agribusiness professionals
• Cathy Rodriguez and Sarah Silva, iTAC, Tools to enhance your online course

Some insist. Some resist. Others persist. Such is state of online learning today. But what is highly resistible for some is often passionately irresistible for others. Many are content to tinker with blended forms of learning. They dip their toes into the technology change movement by embedding shared online videos, simulations, timelines, collaborative groups, and open access articles in their courses. Others enter deeper waters and push toward the edges of what is possible. Their classes are teeter-tottering on the brink of transformation. Such instructors hand over the keys to their learners and let them drive for a bit. These risk taking instructors might enjoy reading a learner-designed wikibook, listening to a student generated podcast show, or watching the results of an international video competition. And then there are those who find themselves at the extreme edges of this learning planet. They might tap into virtual explorers, artists, archeologists, and adventurers to excite their learners. It is in such courses that scientific discoveries appear live. Mobile, virtual, and telepresence technologies become the new norm. It is time to stretch toward the edges of learning from those of us tinkering on the shores to those whose learning approaches are tottering in new directions and even landing in totally extreme or alien lands. This talk will showcase examples from all three worlds - the world of the tinkerer, the totterer, and the totally extreme.

Which world will you find yourself?

All those registered for the conference are welcome to a hot, sit-down lunch. During lunch, Dr. Curt Bonk, our keynote speaker, will join us for an informal question/answer session.

An open and moderated discussion among Axio community members. We'll candidly discuss the Axio, possible new features, how to improve current features, and the future of Axio as you envision it. We are pleased to welcome Mel Chastain, former director of the Kansas Regents Education Communications Center, as the Open Forum moderator.

Dr. L. Sue Williams, a veteran of online education, invites seminar participants to journey through surprising passages toward what she terms the “benefit of absence.” In this interactive session, conference attendees become accomplices in the paradox of education at a distance, where learning becomes non-linear, and 'awhereness' (Thrift 2010) negates conventions of space and time.

The word absence tends strongly toward a negative connotation. In this session, Williams invites participants to exploit the term absence as an opportunity to think differently about our existence as educators and learners – roles that are interchangeable. Learning/teaching/communicating – again, concepts inextricably linked – are an integral part of 21st century education, one in which physical space becomes much less relevant and creative modes of social interaction more so. Drawing on personal experience in teaching from a variety of physical locations, Williams draws on Thrift’s (2010) work on reforming learning environments through non-cursive, non-linear, reflexive, and unconventional geographies, which he dubs awhereness. In an interactive seminar-type setting, participants engage in communicative exercises, garnering both philosophical and practical tips on seizing teachable moments outside the conventional classroom.

Recently, the U.S. Department of Education issued a press release to all schools and universities as a reminder of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This letter states that "technological devices must be accessible to students with disabilities, including students who are blind or have low vision, unless the benefits of the technology are provided equally through other means." We are required to provide content accessibility in an equal manner and time-frame for all students.

This session will briefly cover the law and the responsibility that we have to provide an accessible environment. We will discuss the use of K-State Online as well as the media and content that we place within. The session will also cover video and how to set up captions. In addition, the session will show how to best create text, video and presentation files to students in ways that can easily be accessed using adaptive technology such as screen-readers. Lastly, you will receive resources for more guidance, including the Disability Support Services page "K-Access," where I am increasing resources available to faculty.

Hundreds of technologies exist for improving teaching and learning. There is one technology today that offers unique and free ways to change education and training across all sectors; namely, shared online video.

There are video explanations, demonstrations, documentaries, lectures, and news stories. They come from places like NASA TV, Link TV, YouTube edu, CNN, the BBC, Google, TeacherTube, Academic Earth, Fora TV, etc. All of these exist for free. It is time to create innovative courses, programs, and degrees which utilize them. As this happens, traditional education will be challenged. Dr. Bonk will discuss several controversial scenarios that might result. He will also offer 10 ways to use shared online video from an instructor-centered point of view as well as 10 ideas from a student-centered perspective. In addition, he will discuss what shared online video means to others (e.g., administrators, bloggers, podcasters, librarians, informal learners, corporate trainers, etc.). In longer versions of this talk, he will also highlight his research on the motivational and instructional design aspects of popular videos in YouTube. He will explain why people watch, share, or create such online videos. In the end, the audience will brainstorm ways in which shared online video can transform their own teaching and learning settings.

K-State Online is incredibly comprehensive so it's hard to know all the ins and outs. We often hear, "I wish K-State Online could do this really great thing" and often our reply is, "it does and we can show you!". This session will cover some of the most commonly under-utilized functions that could improve your experience teaching with K-State Online. Whether you consider yourself a beginner or advanced K-State Onliner, you'll leave this session knowing something new.

The instructional designers of K-State's Information Technology Assistance Center (Swasati Mukherjee, Ben Ward, and Shalin Hai-Jew) will be presenting on some mobile apps that have applications to online learning. Bring your mobile devices, and join this group for some early-morning mobile fun (and a game). If you don’t have one to use, the presenters will be bringing some to look at and try out. All are welcome!

Kansas State University strives to provide the best learning environment for all students. Technology allows us to reach students from around the world through e-learning. While it’s exciting to be able to expand our student base, we are faced with competition from other universities who seek to serve the same student groups we try to attract. It becomes imperative that our courses are of the highest quality.

A university-wide committee (representatives from DCE, iTAC, and faculty) has developed a set of online professional development modules for faculty members who are moving from traditional to online teaching or who want to enhance their online teaching skills. These modules are available at elearningfacultymodules.org.

The project was originally conceptualized as an online modular resource to meet the needs of faculty members who wanted to teach online and needed some guidance so they could successfully move into online delivery of course content. Kansas State University had many resources for faculty who teach online but there was not an asynchronous non-facilitated online instruction tool for beginners who wanted to learn anytime and anyplace. The module and wiki design will allow the faculty member to go through the material in sequence or select parts in a non-sequenced manner. It should be noted that although the original intent was to serve beginning online instructors, the team decided early on that the modules should be designed for all faculty and would be divided into areas related to experience levels.

In addition, a great deal of discussion concerning quality of instruction in online distance courses has been occurring. There is a real desire to ensure that all courses offered to distance students are well designed, expertly taught, and adhere to all legal considerations.

Roughly 97 percent of all teenagers play games, regardless of gender or socioeconomic status. But in spite of impressions to the contrary, this does not make them antisocial. What gaming does do is create instructional design opportunities. Come join a hands-on exploration of game design mechanics and social dynamics as we look for a way to re-envision the future of teaching and learning.

Mobile learning for “ubiquitous” learning anytime-anywhere is the new hot thing. This type of learning enables learners to learn more effectively out in the field (anywhere with wireless connectivity); it also allows them to interact with smart spaces (like location-sensitive museums); and finally, it allows them to capture information from the real world and interact with their peers and instructors using location-aware devices. Axio Learning may be brought into play in a number of ways to support mobile learning, from something as simple as (1) capturing mobile learning through the manual assignment assessment tool to (2) podcasting to mobile devices through RSS-enabled folders to (3) enabling interactivity through file-uploadable message boards (with images / sound / text captured from mobile devices to (4) multi-way communications both synchronously and asynchronously through student group work, Wimba, and digital “poster sessions”. With SoftChalk LessonBuilder 7, which enables the building of mobile activities (using HTML 5, not Flash) and versioning all outputs also for mobile devices, and free apps like FourSquare (which enable real-life real-time location awareness of others in the class), plenty of types of learning may be designed and deployed through mobile devices, with the support of Axio Learning. This presentation will showcase how Axio may support mobile learning, with a variety of learning examples from real-life.

The advent of the social web (e.g. Web 2.0) has resulted in an amazing and fascinating mixture of academically-sound, co-created content; creative mashups; blatantly commercial, self-serving propaganda; and trite garbage. The Wiki Master is an individual that gets to see all of it, unedited and raw. In fact, the very concept of a Wiki Master is somewhat contrary to the utopian idea that content will be socially developed and evolve from the mists via the keyboards of anonymous and good-intentioned users. This presentation first provides an overview of the role of webmaster and describes how a Web 2.0 mindset began to exert an influence on the duties of this individual resulting in the rise of the Wiki Master. Specific roles of the Wiki Master then are described in detail together with a case study-type overview of the wiki master at ELATEwiki.org. The presentation concludes by looking a typical day in the life of the Wiki Master at ELATEwiki.