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• Sunday, November 9, 2014
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Persistent Persuasion: Launching a Degree Program in Environmental Studies
        
        - Eric Friedman, Hudson County Community College
        - Nadia Hedhli, Hudson County Community College
        Faculty, deans, and administrators will learn about the challenges and rewards of crafting and implementing an Associate of Science in Environmental Studies at a vibrant, urban community college.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Improving the Transfer of Community College Engineering Students to Universities
        
        - Frank Lanzer, Anne Arundel Community College
        - Marjorie Rawhouser, Anne Arundel Community College
        Transfer of community college students to universities is challenging when multiple institutions are within the service area. A statewide outcomes-based solution will be explored, including some implementation rough spots.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • The HCC Texas-STEM Scholarship Program Improves Academic Student Success
        
        - Jackeline Gascon, Southeast College - HCCS
        The objective of this presentation is to inform the audience about the T-STEM program, which improves student success. In addition, the session will include impacting recipient testimonials and significant data.
      • Training Students to Become Self-Directed Learners
        
        - Lori Silverman, Foothill College
        Many students in first-year core STEM courses have not developed the skills needed to monitor and adjust their approaches to learning. Learn about activities designed to engage students in a variety of metacognitive processes.
      • Establishing an Early College With a High School STEM Academy
        
        - Ted Lewis, Pellissippi State Community College
        This presentation explains how a community college and STEM academy have partnered to create a pathway for students to earn an A.S. degree upon completion of high school.
      • Using Social Media to Find Hidden STEM Jobs
        
        - Joshua Waldman, College Transition Publishing
        Most jobs never wind up on job boards. This session will show you how to find hidden jobs, build a strong network, and master social media throughout your career.
      • Focused Recruitment of Neglected Majority Students That Works
        
        - Darlena Gallegos, Kentucky Community and Technical College System - KCTCS
        - Mike Deal, Madisonville Community College - KCTCS
        Participants will be introduced to a successful recruiting strategy that breaks through historical barriers to attract neglected majority high school students into an Advanced Integrated Technology program using an innovative career-coach model.
      • The Persistence of Black Women in Engineering: A Phenomenological Study
        
        - Joan Bush, Community College of Philadelphia
        The findings of this 2013 dissertation will enlighten participants about the topics of race and gender in the engineering field. All educators would benefit from this session.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Revenge of Soft Skills: Integrating Workplace Readiness in STEM Curriculum
        
        - Ken Knox, Eastern Gateway Community College
        Participants will learn how to integrate the interpersonal skills students need in today's highly competitive, global job market to complement their technical expertise. This session will be highly beneficial for STEM faculty and workforce development staff.
      • An Interest-Based Approach for Faculty Collaboration
        
        - Kathleen Paris, Madison College
        - Eddie Genna, Maricopa Community Colleges
        Interest-based negotiation techniques can be extremely helpful in bringing faculty together to determine joint outcomes. Participants will leave with a game plan for creating jointly agreeable outcomes for STEM and liberal arts integration.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • The Information Technology-Energy and Manufacturing Institute Alliance
        
        - Blaine Keener, Lone Star College System
        In May 2014, Lone Star College System launched its Energy and Manufacturing Institute (EMI). This presentation will demonstrate how IT has partnered with EMI to meet the demands of emerging energy and manufacturing markets.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Flipping the General Chemistry Classroom: A Practical Approach
        
        - Shay Bean, Chattanooga State Community College
        See an example of flipped chemistry that uses videos to deliver lecture content. We will discuss the organization and delivery of the technology to students. This technique could work with any discipline.
    • Poster Sessions
      Health and Science
      • Enhancements to Introductory Biology Courses That Increase STEM Student Retention
        
        - Scott Newbold, Sheridan College
        This poster session highlights elements of an introductory biology course that increase persistence of STEM students by focusing on student confidence, curiosity, and sense of community through active learning and early research.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • WeBWorK: Free Online Homework for Mathematics
        
        - Brenda Forland, Red Rocks Community College
        WeBWorK is free online mathematics software that offers more functionality than its expensive counterparts. This session covers the ability of WeBWorK, current use, and proposed future use at Red Rocks Community College.
      • Project-Based Engineering Instruction for Articulation to Four-Year Institutions
        
        - David Ely, Ivy Tech Community College
        - Isaac Rivera, Ivy Tech Community College
        - Todd Roswarski, Ivy Tech Community College
        Explore the use of state-of-the-art computational materials research projects as both a recruiting tool and a preparatory tool to facilitate pre-engineering student success and matriculation into engineering programs at R1 research institutions.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • NASA Content: Teaching Microgravity via Underwater Robotics
        
        - Sarah Janes, San Jacinto College District
        K-12 and college educators will learn how to use NASA materials and content to teach microgravity concepts via underwater robotics.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Showcase Student Design Work With Open Source Technology
        
        - George Paravantes, Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
        Are you looking for more interactive ways to showcase student interactive design work? How can open source hardware and software solutions help you design a better showcase of your students’ work?
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • Understanding Second Life Virtual World Adoption Experiences in Higher Education
        
        - Mark Choman, Luzerne County Community College
        - Rex Dumdum, Marywood University
        This presentation is based on a robust set of dissertation research findings seeking to better understand Second Life virtual world adoption experiences in institutions of higher education.
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM   top
    • Special Session
      Health and Science
      • Special Session Placeholder for Irving McPhail
        
        - Irving Pressley McPhail, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
        
    • Concurrent Session
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Create Inquiry-Based Science Lessons for the Environmentally Conscious
        
        - Sheila Wicks, City Colleges of Chicago
        Participants will understand the theory of constructivism, how constructivism relates to inquiry-based science learning, and how to effectively design inquiry-based science lessons. Participants will demonstrate their ability to create effective inquiry-based science lessons.
      • Latitudinal Project on Climate That Heightens Retention and Success
        
        - Michael Vollbach, Oakland Community College
        - Jeff Parent, Oakland Community College
        The results of a three-year project that not only support climate change but explain how science and math classes can become more relevant to students will be presented.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Journey to Redesign of Developmental Mathematics at a Technical College
        
        - Amit Dave, Georgia Piedmont Technical College
        - Cornell Grant, Georgia Piedmont Technical College
        Participants will become familiar with curriculum delivery packages, teaching strategies, student performance, and overall impact of the redesign process on student success in developmental mathematics courses.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Supporting the Math Underdog in STEM
        
        - Valerie Lundy-Wagner, Teachers College, Columbia University
        Learn about the findings from exploratory research on STEM community college students’ developmental math experiences. This presentation will highlight how in- and out-of-class experiences with math influence STEM decision-making and success.
      • Embracing the Un-Comfort Zone: Creating Success From Mandates
        
        - James Genandt, Neosho County Community College
        Join a discussion on how institutions stroll the balance beam of non-funded and semi-funded mandates and initiatives in career education, and how these become opportunities for innovation, networking, and accountability.
      • Building Strategies to Recruit Students Into STEM-Related Fields
        
        - Linda Davis, St. Clair County Community College
        - Denise McNeil, St. Clair County Community College
        - Eric Heinemann, St. Clair County Community College
        Learn how faculty and administrators collaborated to establish a STEM institute and host two annual STEM conferences for the community. Share strategies for recruiting students into STEM-related fields.
      • STEM College Credit in Middle School: Live in 3D
        
        - Dede Griffith, Lee College
        - Susan Jackson, Baytown Junior School
        Presenters will demonstrate how they hooked middle school students on STEM, affirmed students' plans for college, provided them with technical skills, and earned most of them college credit in one semester.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Mobile Computing in Distance Education STEM Courses
        
        - John Jones, Calhoun Community College
        This presentation will focus on the use of mobile devices, such as iPads, in the creation of instructional materials and synchronous communications with students in distance education courses.
      • Add Zing to Math and Science With PBL
        
        - Elizabeth Carrandi Molina, Broward College
        This session, geared toward educators, will introduce developing a driving question for project-based learning (PBL) in the mathematics and science disciplines, and explore Web 2.0 tools to support active learning.
      • MOOCs on the Ground: Underprepared Students Benefit From Open Sourcing
        
        - Allison Martin, Bossier Parish Community College
        Interested in fast-tracking higher education basics? Learn about Bossier Parish Community College’s video-based, noncredit, entry-level MOOC series - Open Campus. The presenter will share strategies for designing a successful, student-friendly template for open source coursework.
      • Virtual Textbooks: Amazing or Risky?
        
        - Terry Arndt, College Transition Publishing
        Virtual textbooks offer a wealth of opportunities, but they also present a number of issues. Before you implement a virtual program, be sure to attend this session.
    • Poster Sessions
      Health and Science
      • Isolation, Structure Elucidation, and Cytotoxic Evaluation of Oleandrin
        
        - Abdallah Cherif, Houston Community College System
        - Steven Dessens, Southwest College - HCCS
        This project involved the collection, extraction, structure elucidation, and evaluation of the antitumor activity of Nerium oleander cardenolides using 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, GC-MS, HPLC, and UV spectroscopy.
      • Using Topography to Guide Axonal Outgrowth and Schwann Cell Migration
        
        - Paul Kasili, Bunker Hill Community College
        Participants in this session will learn the role of topography in guiding axonal outgrowth and Schwann cell migration in PEI microchannels as a framework for developing neuroprosthetic devices for peripheral nerve regeneration.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • iPhooey in the Lab
        
        - Sarah Balizan, NMSU - Doña Ana Community College
        See how using iPads or students’ personal smart equipment has improved information retention and increased exam scores. This poster benefits community college or advanced high school labs.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Recruiting Future STEM Teachers: Challenges of a Two-Year College
        
        - Geralyne Lopez-De-Victoria, Midlands Technical College
        This session will address the challenges of recruiting two-year college students as middle or high school STEM teachers. Come exchange recruitment strategies that have worked or not worked at two-year colleges.
      • Community College Entry to STEM Bachelor's Degree
        
        - Sylvia Sorkin, The Community College of Baltimore County
        When full-time community college students receive need-based scholarships to pursue STEM transfer programs, how long is their path to bachelor's degree attainment? A case study of 99 awardees.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Turning STEM Into STEAM With Music
        
        - David Demuth Jr., Valley City State University
        This session offers an overview of a STEM+Arts program piloted in Fargo, ND, during the 2013-2014 school year, by undergraduates and their faculty mentors at Valley City State University.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Online Course Development Using the Udemy Online Learning Platform
        
        - Alisha Waite, INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications
        Participants will learn how a nonprofit course developer created online courses using the Udemy learning platform. This session will include a demonstration of a self-paced online course in Sociology.
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Community Colleges and Public Health
        
        - Cynthia Wilson, League for Innovation in the Community College
        
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Helping Developmental Students Become STEM Track Ready in One Semester
        
        - Yoshi Yamato, Pasadena City College
        - Marie McClendon, Pasadena City College
        - Jillian Blatti, Pasadena City College
        Accelerate under-placed students to be STEM track ready in one semester, and decrease burnout and dropout rates by using boot camps, adaptive learning, embedded counseling, and differentiated instruction.
      • Simple Approaches to Leveraging Flipped Learning in Engineering Technology Courses
        
        - William Russo, Sinclair Community College
        - Abdullah Johnson, Sinclair Community College
        Explore flipped learning techniques for engineering technology programs. Help disadvantaged students connect with content. No radical changes are required. Use basic technologies you already have. Implement incrementally as time and budget permit.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • Creating a Lower Cost Mechatronics Program at a Community College
        
        - Michael McGowan, Southwestern Michigan College
        Creating a mechatronics program in a small rural community college has many challenges. How can it be done at reduced cost while giving the students a quality education and meeting the needs of industry?
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Taking Direct Steps to STEM Careers via Early College School
        
        - Patricia Lytton, Lane Community College
        - Lee Kounovsky, Churchill Alternative High School
        Explore the Early College and Career Options (ECCO) School as it transitions students from K-12 to advanced technology and STEM programs of study through our new course - STEMtech - including applied, real-world mathematics.
      • STEM and the Nontraditional Student: Success Is Found
        
        - Kim Law, Anne Arundel Community College
        - Mindy Ursino, South Seattle College
        Students can succeed in a STEM-based curriculum, no matter the field. In this session, participants will share integration ideas and learn how STEM has been integrated in vocational technology.
      • STEM Trek: A Symposium Showcasing Best Practices in STEM Education
        
        - Tara Ebersole, The Community College of Baltimore County
        Come learn how to have your own STEM Trek - a local conference for STEM educators and professionals resulting in significant networking and opportunities to scale up STEM initiatives.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Real-World Connections for Biology Students Using First-Year Composition
        
        - Sarena Lee-Schott, Prairie State College
        - Christa Adam, Prairie State College
        Two faculty blend cellular and molecular biology with first-year composition to broaden students’ awareness about ethics, research, and career options. Insights from their learning community will be presented and modeled.
      • Reading and Succeeding in STEM Classes
        
        - Barbara Brown, San Jacinto College - Central Campus
        This presentation will help STEM instructors teach students to use course texts more effectively. Perform text and task analysis, complete evidence and interpretation worksheets, and create tests and activities that incorporate multiple critical thinking levels.
      • Using Social Issues to Teach Science and Engage Students
        
        - Caralyn Zehnder, Georgia College and State University
        - Lori Robinson, Georgia College and State University
        Have you considered using societal issues rather than textbook chapters to organize courses? Do you want students to understand concepts rather than memorize facts? Participants will actively explore strategies for designing innovative courses.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Moving the Math Emporium Online: What Works, What Doesn't
        
        - Myk Garn, University System of Georgia
        - Andrea Hendricks, Georgia Perimeter College
        Learn the secrets of the first fully online MOOC-Math Emporium mash-up. Explore the frankenstructure of innovative tools and resources that engage, instruct, and assess hundreds of precalculus students statewide.
      • Using Mobile Learning in an International and Experiential Environment
        
        - Natalie Lupton, Central Washington University
        - Ken Cohen, Central Washington University
        Participants will learn how to approach mobile learning practices in an international, experiential learning environment. Attendees who would like to infuse m-learning into their classes will benefit from this presentation.
    • Poster Sessions
      Health and Science
      • Strategies to Increase Student Success: TAACCCT Grant Impacts STEM Programs
        
        - David Barrientos, El Centro College
        Review how the H2P program used student success strategies to increase retention and completion in health career programs. Strategies included credit for prior learning, contextualized developmental education, and enhanced retention support.
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Human Ecology and Quality of Life in the Global South
        
        - Larry Frolich, Miami Dade College - Wolfson Campus
        - Esmeralda Guevara, Universidad Tecnica del Norte
        Using the midsize city of Ibarra, Ecuador, as an urban laboratory, the Ibarra Verde project will use connected digital technologies to promote best practices for a vital urban ecosystem.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Assessment of Community College Student Participation in STEM Research Programs
        
        - Candice Foley, Suffolk County Community College
        Findings at Suffolk County Community College indicate that student researchers perform better academically than their peers, and that success in STEM encourages increased persistence of underrepresented populations in college and STEM careers.
      • Honors Course Module Infuses Undergraduate Research Into the Curriculum
        
        - Sunita Thyagarajan, Montgomery College
        - Laura Anna, Montgomery College
        An honors course module was implemented to introduce an undergraduate research experience into a sophomore level organic chemistry course. Sample student projects, benefits, and sustainability strategies will be presented.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Moving Geospatial Technology Into the K-12 Classroom
        
        - Steve Jennings, Colorado Geographic Alliance
        The use of geospatial tools such as GIS is growing in today’s K-12 classrooms. This is a presentation of a program to develop capacity in teachers’ knowledge and use of geospatial technology.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • The T in STEM: Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, and Virtualization
        
        - Monica Ramirez, Front Range Community College
        - Kevin McFarlane, Front Range Community College
        Front Range Community College has developed three certificates that address workforce needs in high-skill, high-wage categories. This presentation identifies steps to successful program development and implementation, and discusses specific program elements.
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • There and Back Again: Students Lead Way in 3D Printing
        
        - Dianne Phillips, NorthWest Arkansas Community College
        - Lee Stidham, NorthWest Arkansas Community College
        - Nathan Sorey, NorthWest Arkansas Community College
        Participants interested in incorporating affordable 3D graphic design and printing into class projects will learn how a team of highly motivated students designed their own learning experience and developed and replicated their own 3D printer.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Strategies That Inspire Latino Students
        
        - Alba Cobos, Georgia Southern University
        Participants will explore how to establish successful relationships with community-based organizations, the effect of students’ participation on community leadership activities, and how those activities have motivated underrepresented students to persist in their educational goals.
      • A Proven Counseling, Assessment, and Retention Tool That Works
        
        - Abdullah Johnson, Sinclair Community College
        - William Russo, Sinclair Community College
        This hands-on session will provide educators a counseling, assessment, and retention tool (CART) that benefits both students and instructors by teaching them how to develop and implement a proven portfolio system.
      • Attracting and Retaining Hispanic Students Into STEM Programs
        
        - Melissa Gonzalez, Lone Star College System
        College and high school faculty and administrators will discover the proven strategies and practices used by Lone Star College-North Harris, in collaboration with neighboring high schools, to recruit Hispanic students into STEM fields.
      • Developing a Social Media Strategy to Promote STEM Initiatives
        
        - Valora Richardson, Georgia Perimeter College
        Participants will learn how to create a simple, yet effective social media tactical plan to communicate STEM initiatives. Participants will be provided with materials that will help them start or enhance their social media projects.
      • Enhancing Health and STEM Student Success: Multiple Approaches
        
        - Kathleen Sweeney, Middlesex Community College - MA
        Participants explore discipline-based strategies that enhance student success, including an achievement coach-led student support center in an academic division and an interdisciplinary course that grapples with a wicked problem.
      • The Hartnell College Summer STEM Internship Program and Symposium
        
        - Willard Lewallen, Hartnell College
        - Lauren Polo, Hartnell College
        - Joe Welch, Hartnell College
        - Shannon Bliss, Hartnell College
        - Alison Kerr, Naval Postgraduate School
        Through the Hartnell College Summer STEM Internship Program and Symposium, up to 100 students are prepared, placed, and matched with distinguished university faculty and research scientists for an 8 to 10 week, full-time research experience.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Beyond the Surface: Revealing Science and Humanities Thinking Patterns
        
        - Susan Lustick, San Jacinto College - North Campus
        - Karen Hattaway, San Jacinto College - North Campus
        Presenters demonstrate minds-on activities typically used in liberal arts instruction that strengthen science learning. Science teachers will take away metacognitive strategies using a variety of texts to externalize scientific thinking.
      • Diversifying STEM Minds by Connecting Culture Through a Mentoring Program
        
        - Victoria Marron, Lee College
        This session presents the Puente Project. Through a Hispanic Serving Institution’s STEM grant, transitions have been more fluid. Puente inspires critical thinking skills for creative solutions to global and societal problems.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • Practical Solutions for Using Devices in the Flipped Classroom
        
        - Harold Waterman, Anne Arundel Community College
        - Penny Foster, Anne Arundel Community College
        - Rajwant Gill, Anne Arundel Community College
        - Catherine Bosse, Anne Arundel Community College
        Participants will learn how to actively engage their students using a number of devices (i.e., Rasberry Pi, iPad, camera, Leap Motion, and others) using the flipped classroom approach to teaching and learning.
      • Today’s Tech: Better Serving Students by Cutting Administrative Red Tape
        
        - Alex Backer, QLess, Inc
        The CEO of QLess addresses the many benefits of mobile wait technology, explaining how a virtual scheduling system, via text message and the Web, ensures efficient staff and happy students.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Circles of Innovation: Reaching Out to Inform, Engage, and Inspire
        
        - James May, Valencia College
        Experience a different model of professional development, one that addresses the challenge of learning silos and re-deploys the best of our past with the ever-changing teaching technologies of our future.
    • Poster Sessions
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Natural Disaster Case Studies as a Tool for Teaching Sustainability
        
        - Lynnette Hoerner, Red Rocks Community College
        Learn about activities focused on the interactions of human communities with natural hazards. Detailed analysis of specific natural disasters allows college-level students to develop understanding of the complex issues involved.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • Get the Best of Two Worlds With Pathway to Purdue
        
        - Isaac Rivera, Ivy Tech Community College
        - Anneliese Kay, Purdue University
        - Todd Roswarski, Ivy Tech Community College
        A partnership between Ivy Tech Community College and Purdue University gives students the opportunity to co-enroll in both institutions, and, thus, simultaneously pursue associate and bachelor’s degrees in the agriculture field.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • STEMming Career Indecision: Strategies to Recruit Students Into STEM Programs
        
        - Dawn Gomez, North Lake College
        A middle school recruitment initiative between Career Services and TexPREP will be elucidated. Participants will learn about students from underrepresented groups who were provided assessment to explore careers and formulate STEM majors.
      • Fostering Math and Science in a North Carolina Rural Community
        
        - Cassandra Johnson, Robeson Community College
        - Louis McIntyre, Robeson Community College
        Participants will learn how a North Carolina community college increased STEM capacity through a National Science Foundation S-STEM Project, and review best practices for engaging students in service learning.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • STEM, Schools, and Library Services
        
        - Kayla Kuni, New Port Richey Public Library
        In this poster session, the presenter describes to participants STEM-related benefits when relationships between schools and local public libraries are established.
      • Integrating a Hydroponic System Into STEM Learning Curriculum
        
        - Masood Mowlavi, Delta College
        You will learn how to measure student STEM learning through scientific research while using a hydroponic technology. Presenters will show the impact of teamwork in promoting student interests and collaboration.
  • 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Academics and Facilities in One Classroom? Never. Until Now
        
        - Roger Ebbage, Lane Community College
        Lane Community College’s new 90K square foot LEED Platinum building incorporates teaching characteristics used by Lane’s Energy and Water Management programs. Discover interesting design components leading to STEM education and energy reduction on campus.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • A MOOC Case Study on Increasing Developmental Education Student Success
        
        - Michael Wilkins, Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus
        - Idrissa Aidara, Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus
        - Cheryl Knight, Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus
        - Donald Gabriel, Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
        - Curtis Kaschube, Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
        Cuyahoga Community College curates open educational resources, uses game mechanics to increase student success, and attempts to reduce the number of developmental education courses a student must complete before earning college credit.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • Integrating Technology in Teaching Applied Technology Courses
        
        - Melissa Gonzalez, Lone Star College System
        In order to fulfill the demand for welding and machining graduates, technology has been integrated in the teaching modality to expedite graduation. Proven methods will be demonstrated to faculty teaching in these fields.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Equipping Ex-Offenders for the Age of Technology
        
        - Cheryl Taylor, Sinclair Community College
        This workshop will focus on workforce preparation in hardware and software technical support and will outline the format within the correctional institution to recruit and transition students into STEM programs.
      • Persistence of African American Students in STEM
        
        - Latitia McCane, Bishop State Community College
        Discuss the experiences encountered by fifteen students participating in STEM pathways at five historically black colleges in Alabama. Findings indicate academic and social integration into the college environment, which resulted in persistence to graduation.
      • Choose Ohio First: A Comprehensive Statewide Model for Success
        
        - Briana Hervet, Ohio Board of Regents
        This presentation will discuss Ohio's model for local level, university-based programs that foster STEM success within a state-level context. Choose Ohio First is based on an access and completion approach to meet workforce demands.
      • NSF Funding Opportunities in STEM Education
        
        - Celeste Carter, National Science Foundation
        - David Brown, National Science Foundation
        Two-year colleges supply well prepared and qualified professionals to the high technology workforce that fuels the nation's economy. This session focuses on ATE, S-STEM, and IUSE; examples of successful projects will be shared.
      • Undiscovered Math Genius: Metacognition for Student Success and Career Decisions
        
        - Joy Tien, Harrisburg Area Community College
        Students must recognize learning difficulties and acquire strategies to assess depth of learning and skills that affirm college and career decisions. Learn to engage students in a metacognitive strategy for informed decision-making.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Faculty Voices: Join the National Conversation About Student Success and Completion
        
        - Cynthia Wilson, League for Innovation in the Community College
        Learn about the League's Faculty Voices initiative and join the conversation about improving student learning, success, and completion.
      • Video and Cognitive Load: Using Media to Improve Learning
        
        - Brian Bennett, TechSmith
        Students whose working memory is occupied with lower-level tasks will struggle with content application. Video and other media can be used to move students to higher thinking processes by lightening the cognitive load.
      • Show Me Your Thinking: Real-Time Formative Assessment With Digital Ink
        
        - Susan Kowalski, Red Rocks Community College
        Learn about using free, browser-based software (InkSurvey) with digital ink (iPads, tablets, and smartphones) for real-time formative assessment in a STEM classroom to actively engage students, inform instruction, and increase metacognition.
      • Bring It: Using Technology to Leverage Learning
        
        - Edward Bowen, Dallas Learning Solutions
        In the first 10 minutes, the presenter will demonstrate effective ways to use technology and effective learning strategies. Participants will actively engage in a sequenced discussion and demonstration via a series of problems and solutions.
    • Poster Sessions
      Health and Science
      • Development of Undergraduate Research Opportunities for Improving Student Learning
        
        - Mark Haefele, Community College of Denver
        - Fleur Ferro, Community College of Denver
        Those interested in undergraduate research programs at the community college level will learn about the model used by the Community College of Denver to implement research as a strategy to deepen student learning.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • From STEM to Stern: Steering Students Toward STEM Careers
        
        - Sindi McGowan, West Georgia Technical College
        - Rebecca DeMayo, West Georgia Technical College
        - Wanda Pierson, Georgia Institute of Technology
        This session presents results of a collaborative NASA grant funding initiative between two-year and four-year institutions in Georgia. Visual materials chronicle engineering initiative activities, and recruitment, retention, and transfer strategies.
      • Lee College CAD Junior Scholars Program: A Middle School Partnership
        
        - Dede Griffith, Lee College
        - Susan Jackson, Baytown Junior School
        Learn how the Lee College Junior CAD Scholars Program hooked middle school students on STEM careers, affirmed students' plans for college, and provided them with lifetime technical skills in one semester.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Exploring Students' Use of GIS for Meaningful, Mathematical Problem Solving
        
        - Dennis DeBay, Manhattanville College
        This presentation explores a social justice program that engages unrepresented youth in STEM-related fields. Students learn mathematics and science through urban planning technologies to interpret real-world, meaningful data.
      • Creating Engaging STEM Interdisciplinary Units
        
        - Diane Stegall, Coulwood STEM Academy
        Do you struggle with incorporating STEM across all content areas? Come explore an interdisciplinary unit on environmental and global awareness and be prepared to participate in engaging, interdisciplinary PBL tasks.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Smartphones Help Students Pass Mathematics Placement Exams
        
        - Mona Fabricant, Queensborough Community College - CUNY
        Millions of community college students are relegated to remedial math courses due to lack of preparation for their math placement exam. The AreYouReadyForMath app provides a solution to this problem.
  • 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM   top
    • General Session
      Health and Science
      • Opening Keynote - Mark Milliron
        
        - Mark Milliron, Civitas Learning
        Mark Milliron is known as a champion for education opportunity and a catalyst for conversations on innovation and the road ahead. He is an award winning leader, author, speaker, and consultant who has worked with universities, community colleges, K-12 schools, foundations, corporations, associations, and government agencies across the country and around the world. As Chief Learning Officer for Civitas Learning, Milliron focuses on a wide range of activities, from shaping product development to engaging the education community to leading research projects on student outcomes. Prior to joining Civitas, Milliron served in the education world in a number of leadership positions, most recently as founding Chancellor of WGU Texas.
• Monday, November 10, 2014
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Teachers’ Perceptions of Important Topics in Nutrition and Health Taught
        
        - Sheila Wicks, City Colleges of Chicago
        As a content area, health intersects with the goals, best practices, and special problems of adult education. Addressing health in the classroom enriches learning environments and experiences, as well as students’ lives outside the classroom.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Expanding the STEM Pipeline Through Collaborative Partnerships
        
        - Amelito Enriquez, Cañada College
        Learn to develop strategic partnerships to create programs for high school and community college students, and STEM faculty to promote the success of underrepresented students and strengthen the community college STEM pipeline.
      • Quantway and Statway: The Role of a Networked Improvement Community
        
        - Cinnamon Hillyard, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
        - Karon Klipple, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
        Carnegie’s developmental mathematics programs have seen unsurpassed success. The presenters will explore, with interested college faculty and administrators, the key role of a networked improvement community in this work.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • MindMapping: Utilized for Project Planning and Curriculum Mapping
        
        - Dave Hamilton, MatchWare, Inc.
        Brainstorm and expand on topics that will become the framework for written documents, presentations, and class lectures. MindMaps help facilitate students’ analytical thinking, comprehension, creativity, and writing skills across the curriculum.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Relevance and Career Engagement Skills (RACES) to Increase STEM Participation
        
        - Elizabeth Simonson, Coastal Bend College
        How one college reinvented their computer science program to increase from zero graduates in thirteen years to 30 students preparing to graduate, the majority of whom are women and/or minorities.
      • Unlocking the Field of Engineering Technology Through Robotics
        
        - Michelle Williams, Albany Technical College
        - Dennis Courtney, Albany Technical College
        - Noreen McGee, Albany Technical College
        Learn how ATC introduces engineering technology to prospective students via a Summer Robotics Enrichment Academy. The discussion will entail the strategic recruitment of academy students, and the retention of students through collaborative teaching.
      • Recruiting STEM Teachers Through Integration of Math and Science Activities
        
        - Clare Camacho, Guam Community College
        - Theresa Datuin, Guam Community College
        Participants will engage in science and math activities used to recruit students into STEM fields and to become STEM educators. Use of technology in STEM and teacher education fields will also be demonstrated.
      • The Power of STEM Peer Mentor Programs
        
        - Jessica Shillings-Barrera, Mission College
        - Kenneth Songco, Mission College
        Mission College is piloting a peer mentor program funded by its Title III AANAPISI grant to increase retention and success rates for STEM students. Explore this project for use at your institution.
      • Central New Mexico Community College's New STEMulus Center
        
        - James Darling, Central New Mexico Community College
        - Samantha Sengel, Central New Mexico Community College
        Learn how CNM’s new STEMulus Center is using accelerated business and technology education, a business accelerator, and a makerspace in downtown Albuquerque’s innovation district to educate students and entrepreneurs.
      • Informal Presentation Skills in Biotechnology: The Experimental Debrief
        
        - Elizabeth Boedeker, St. Louis Community College
        Students in a biotechnology laboratory course were asked to give a two minute debrief. Grades were assigned by other students in class. Other aspects of this exercise will also be discussed.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • Control vs. Freedom: WCJC’s Experience With Its Faculty Website
        
        - Xiaodong Li, Wharton County Junior College
        This presentation focuses on WCJC’s experience creating a faculty website that supplements the college's STEM teaching and learning activities. Participants will learn how to improve website appeal and provide a positive experience for website visitors.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Flip Your Science Lab
        
        - Rachel Dillon, eScience Labs, Inc.
        This hands-on workshop will show how to increase student success and learning, as well as the obstacles and opportunities related to developing an online or flipped science lab course.
      • Complete OER STEM Courses and Certificate Programs for Free
        
        - Susan Gallagher, Anne Arundel Community College
        - Kelly Koermer, Anne Arundel Community College
        Bring your portable electronic device and explore STEM OER packages - complete with program guides, curricula, instructor toolkits, and an overarching STEM Bridge - all designed to accelerate and reinforce STEM learning.
      • Collaborate to Educate: Find Success in Recruiting Online Students
        
        - Valerie Cavazos, Dallas Learning Solutions
        Learn how for-profit institutions are using your college’s name, employing aggressive strategies, and recruiting your students. Explore collaborative steps you will want to take to regain these students.
      • 3D Printing in Education: Integration Into Any Program
        
        - Kristian Medri, Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
        Educators will be guided through the process of identifying where 3D printing can be used for innovative teaching. Explore the device, bring student work to life, and create teaching aids.
    • Roundtable Discussions
      Health and Science
      • How Is the Institutional Review Board Involved in Undergraduate Research?
        
        - James Cronmiller, Monroe Community College - SUNY
        As community colleges develop undergraduate research as a high-impact teaching practice, faculty and administrators should be aware of the collaborative role the Institutional Review Board plays in the process.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Knot Mathematics: Using Inca Quipus to Motivate Deeper Mathematical Connections
        
        - Ryan Brown, Georgia College and State University
        In this roundtable, the presenters introduce Inca knotted cords. We explore how to encode information using quipus and discuss how to motivate students to tie this ancient technique to contemporary mathematics.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Creating a New Engineering Pipeline: An Innovative Urban Model
        
        - Susan Thompson, Houston Community College System
        - John Vasselli, University Of Texas at Tyler
        The projected national shortage in engineers and the need to educate the underserved in urban America is driving the creation of innovative STEM pathways to meet these challenges in Houston.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Reading E.O. Wilson: A Case for Literature in STEM
        
        - Joan Erben, New Mexico State University Grants
        How does literature enhance STEM student learning? This session uses the practice of reading E.O. Wilson - evolutionary biologist, rhetorician, and literary figure - to foster a discussion about STEM-focused liberal arts courses.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Are We There Yet? Flipping the STEM Classroom
        
        - Louis McIntyre, Robeson Community College
        Participants will engage in hands-on activities and collaborative discussions on strategies and best practices employed by STEM faculty for incorporating a learning management system into physical and life science courses.
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM   top
    • Special Session
      Health and Science
      • Special Session Placeholder for Russ Poulin
        
        - Russ Poulin, WCET
        
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Teaching Health and Nutrition: A Population Underserved
        
        - Sheila Wicks, City Colleges of Chicago
        This presentation describes approaches to education and training for underserved populations in health and science education. The various challenges and obstacles to effective training and education for underserved groups of students and faculty are discussed.
      • Growing Our STEM Initiative From Seedling to Sapling
        
        - Jackie Swanik, Wake Technical Community College
        - Cheryl Keeton, Wake Technical Community College
        This interactive session targets educators and administrators and includes a brief synopsis of the development of STEM initiatives, discussions of participants’ current and proposed initiatives, and brainstorming growth strategies.
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Creating a Pathway for Sustainability From High School to Bachelor’s
        
        - Jake Hildebrant, Madisonville Community College - KCTCS
        Sustainable programs in Kentucky have historically struggled. Discover how Madisonville Community College helped to create a viable pathway for sustainability using its Energy Management program in just its first year.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Integrated Capstone as a Catalyst for Program Development
        
        - Charles Setterfield, Sinclair Community College
        - Nate Goodrich, Sinclair Community College
        New or experienced educators will learn to develop a capstone that integrates technical training with academics and strengthens their program, with specifics on developing interdisciplinary teams, community partnerships, and underwriting.
      • Collaborative Lab Environment Stimulates Math Student Success
        
        - Steve Kolar, Lone Star College System
        - Butch Juelg, Lone Star College System
        Learn how Lone Star College-North Harris uses a new innovative instructional environment, Math Achievement Center, coupled with traditional teaching techniques, to promote student success in mathematics.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • Bridging the Skills Gap: A Community College/K-12 Partnership
        
        - Trent Mohrbutter, Nash Community College
        Jobs are available, but skilled employees are not. Participants will learn how the Industrial and Advanced Manufacturing (IAM) Academy has helped transform how students view and pursue STEM career opportunities.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Utilize Technology to Write Recommendation Letters Promoting Student Success
        
        - Kimberley McHale, Heartland Community College
        Use technology for writing recommendations - from the student request to the final letter. This process places the responsibility for the contents on the student, offering them an opportunity that promotes personal responsibility and self-awareness.
      • Give your QEP, Enrollment, Accreditation, Staff Meetings a Boost with MeetingBooster.
        
        - Dave Hamilton, MatchWare, Inc.
        Run your QEP, enrollment, accreditation, and staff meetings like a pro. Learn how to develop professional agendas, create formalized meeting minutes, and manage action items using a simple, yet powerful, online meeting management application.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Strategies to Better Engage Underserved and Underprepared Students in STEM
        
        - Gonzalo Perez, Passaic County Community College
        - David Burger, Passaic County Community College
        - Dennis Reer, Passaic County Community College
        - Anjali Thanawala, Passaic County Community College
        - Thomas Yip, Passaic County Community College
        Presenters will share unique strategies to maximize STEM preparedness, motivation, and success for three key populations: underserved high school students, developmental education students, and ESL college students. College STEM programs would benefit from these practices.
      • STEMTrek: STEM Transfer Readiness Through Extended Knowledge
        
        - Patricia Menchaca, Crafton Hills College
        - Ernesto Rivera, Crafton Hills College
        - Richard Hogrefe, Crafton Hills College
        Participants will learn about the strategies and resources used to develop the STEMTrek program and STEM Academy, review outcomes, obtain ideas to keep students engaged, and gain strategies to prepare students for transfer.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Student Enrichment Through Global Collaboration
        
        - Purnima Sharma, West Virginia Northern Community College
        - Virender Vats, Dav College
        A project across two continents was designed to share information on motivation and retention strategies in science courses. Analysis provides a framework for designing discussions in science courses to enhance student motivation in science courses.
      • It's Only Logical: What the Humanities Offer STEM Programs
        
        - Kevin Murphy, Anne Arundel Community College
        - Luther Riedel, Anne Arundel Community College
        Science professors and STEM programs that incorporate foundational preparation in logic into their courses would benefit from better retention rates and higher achievement of learning outcome objectives.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • Barcodes and Matrices: What They Have in Common
        
        - Susan Helser, Mott Community College
        This session introduces barcodes, an application predicated on mathematics and technology, with integral components including matrices and binary arithmetic. Participants will explore with hands-on examples that demonstrate processing via technology and discuss student assignments.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Nearpod: Real-Time Engagement for a Mobile World
        
        - Toney Phifer, Chattanooga State Community College
        - Hollyanna White, Chattanooga State Community College
        Attendees will learn to create and customize interactive mobile and computer accessible presentations which combine rich multimedia and interactive features while providing student learning outcome measurement.
    • Roundtable Discussions
      Health and Science
      • Problem-Based Learning: Increase Clinical Reasoning for Health Science Students
        
        - Kathy Luzmoor, Western Wyoming Community College
        - Heidi Brown, Western Wyoming Community College
        Problem-based learning (PBL) is an innovative strategy to deliver health care education while increasing student enthusiasm. See how you can improve your students’ reasoning skills using this method.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • Partnering With a Major Corporation for Education
        
        - Dexter Hulse, UC Clermont College
        Follow the quick response of education to a partnership opportunity with Cincinnati Milacron to provide training for new hires in manufacturing. The result was a $500,000 grant for machine tools.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Student Generated Internship Projects: Program Promotion and Career Builder
        
        - Virginia Hartman, Lord Fairfax Community College
        Generate a career building internship project within an existing capstone course. This session will share the project design, program promotion benefits, student career building opportunities, and use of Google Docs.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Elevating the Level of Mathematics in the Technical Curriculum
        
        - Alan Ross, Cuesta College
        This discussion explores the use of widely available software tools that provide an accessible and engaging introduction to the mathematics required for a complete understanding of technology subject matter. Bring your laptop.
      • Top Ten Lessons for Women in STEM
        
        - Natoshia Anderson, Georgia Piedmont Technical College
        Participants will discuss lessons learned from famous and not so famous women in STEM careers. This session benefits those who have direct impact on STEM students.
      • Middle School-Collegiate STEM Partnerships: Now Is the Time!
        
        - Dede Griffith, Lee College
        - Susan Jackson, Baytown Junior School
        Consider independent school district-community college partnership models with an emphasis on middle school opportunities. Using their own unique model, presenters discuss the benefits of teaching middle school students college-level STEM skills.
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM   top
    • Special Session
      Health and Science
      • Special Session Placeholder for Gary Lopez
        
        - Gary Lopez, The NROC Project
        
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Global Dimension STEM Education in Schools Utilizing Creative Domains
        
        - Sheila Wicks, City Colleges of Chicago
        The most influential creativity as inspiration tradition through the ages has been the cognitive one, for models to describe creative behavior. This presentation will help professors utilize creative domains in science technology in the classroom.
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Integrating Aspects of Sustainability Into a Precalculus Course
        
        - Andreas Soemadi, Kirkwood Community College
        At Kirkwood Community College in Iowa City, the sustainability group is collecting ideas and ways to include aspects of sustainability into courses. Presenters will share how they introduce those aspects through the learning sequence/series.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Vernier Technology for Hands-On STEM
        
        - Sam Swartley, Vernier Software and Technology
        Use Vernier's affordable software and sensors for data acquisition, controlling electronics, performing engineering design projects, building custom sensors, programming with NI LabVIEW software, and connecting sensors to LEGO, Arduino, myDAQ, and VEX controllers.
      • Transitioning Engineering Community College Students to Four-Year Universities
        
        - Susan Meardon, Wake Technical Community College
        Students starting their engineering education at community colleges are confused about what classes to take and what classes transfer. A model to advise students to succeed on this journey is discussed.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • STEM: Start at the Beginning
        
        - LeeAnn Fink, Orange County Public Schools
        This session will benefit elementary leaders looking for ways to promote STEM opportunities in school to create a lifelong foundation and interest in students that continues through higher levels of education.
      • Partnerships Between a Community College and a Pre-Collegiate STEM Program
        
        - Joan Petersen, Queensborough Community College - CUNY
        - Simran Kaur, Queensborough Community College - CUNY
        Participants will discover ways to establish successful partnerships between pre-collegiate STEM programs and a community college. These connections contribute to student success and inspire students to pursue careers in STEM fields.
      • Introducing the New Mathway Project’s STEM-Prep Pathway
        
        - Francisco Savina, The University of Texas at Austin
        The New Mathways Project is creating a STEM-Prep Pathway serving students from developmental math to calculus. Designed for faculty, this presentation will share best practices and the course design.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Helping STEM Students Learn Through Writing
        
        - Linda Rubel, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
        This session presents writing activities that enhance student learning in STEM courses. Topics include the value of writing, writing activities for in-class and out-of-class assignments, and effective response techniques.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • Using Google Drive to Enhance Collaborative Group Projects
        
        - Paulette Comet, The Community College of Baltimore County
        - Michele Clements, The Community College of Baltimore County
        Learn the basics of accessing and using Google Drive, a cloud-based software tool that allows students to create, collaborate, and access documents from anywhere. Group project ideas will be shared.
      • Say Goodbye to BORED Meetings
        
        - Dave Hamilton, MatchWare, Inc.
        Run meetings like a pro. Learn how to develop professional agendas, create formalized meeting minutes, and manage action items using a simple, yet powerful, online meeting management application.
      • Creating a Professional Development Program to Achieve Employee Nirvana
        
        - Benjamin Leung, Lone Star College System
        "Learn how the Lone Star College System’s Technology Services team created a professional development program to increase employee morale and retention. Discuss how career ladders, training, and mentorship were combined to achieve the program’s goals."
      E-Learning Resources
      • Are Your Instructional Videos Missing Something? Maybe It’s You
        
        - Carl Oliver, Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
        Explore the powerful connection between speech and gesture, and the importance of using them together. Discover how a Lightboard leverages an instructor’s natural tendency to use gestures to enhance learning.
      • The Library and STEM: Innovations in Career Pathways
        
        - Kent Seaver, Dallas County Community College District
        - Joan Mendez, North Lake College
        The presentation illustrates how North Lake College’s library uses its staff and learning resources to prepare students not only for STEM majors, but also STEM careers, leading to student success.
      • Quality Assurance: Three Strategies to Improve Any DL Program
        
        - Bobbi Jo Carter, Calhoun Community College
        - Sherry Stancil, Calhoun Community College
        Learn about Calhoun Community College’s three-pronged approach to quality assurance in distance learning: online and blended faculty development courses, DL course standards and review process, and technology orientation for students.
    • Roundtable Discussions
      Health and Science
      • STEM: Does Biology Have a Place at the Table?
        
        - Brian Earle, Cedar Valley College
        This discussion will focus on how we can be intentional about blending engineering and technology into biology. The session will be beneficial to anyone interested in undergraduate STEM education.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • STEM Education: Embedding Workforce Solutions Around Emerging Technologies Clusters
        
        - Pat Riddle, Pellissippi State Community College
        - Mary Kocak, Pellissippi State Community College
        How an innovations challenge project at a community college fosters partnerships between education, local industry, and government organizations. Teams of students assimilate knowledge to create real-world solutions while serving their community.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Engaging Students Through STEM Summer Camps
        
        - Paul Burkholder, Rhodes State College
        - Benjamin Frail, Rhodes State College
        Participants will engage in a hands-on demonstration of how Rhodes State College faculty provide experiential learning to get young people excited and interested in STEM-related fields.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Multiple Hypotheses Working: Building Geoscience Enrollment at Monroe Community College
        
        - Daniel Robertson, Monroe Community College - SUNY
        This session will discuss recruitment and retention strategies for students in geoscience programs, including K-12 outreach, field-based opportunities, new courses designed to attract students, and activities to increase student awareness of career paths.
      • SySTEMic Change: Creating a Culture of Completion
        
        - Melanie Eddins-Spencer, Prairie State College
        Explore how Prairie State College is creating a culture of degree completion among STEM students. Discussion includes the development of the SySTEMic Change project, lessons learned, and its impact.
      • Student-Faculty Interactions Among Students of Color in STEM Research
        
        - Donna Randolph, California State University
        This presentation explores faculty interactions with underrepresented students while participating in STEM research. Participants in postsecondary institutions will examine how these interactions shape the research experience of students of color.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Engaging an Appreciation Class With Technology
        
        - Kristen Westrick, Georgia Piedmont Technical College
        What technology tricks can improve student participation in appreciation classes that are not students’ major? Discussion will focus on best practices for lecture, hybrid, and online appreciation courses.
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Recitation Periods: Let Students Show You How It’s Done
        
        - Peter Wickley, Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
        Interested in energizing your office hours to increase student success? Come learn how to implement a recitation period - a simple yet effective way to promote student to student peer learning.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • STEM College/K-12 Partnership Programs: Never Too Early
        
        - Amy Crowley, Montgomery College
        - Elena Saenz , Montgomery College
        - Muhammad Kehnemouyi, Montgomery College
        Montgomery College invests substantial resources to collaborate to bring STEM programs to local K-12 students. College and K-12 administrators and faculty will learn about MC's kindergarten to college portfolio of STEM programs that engage students.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Transforming the Student Using Collaborative Technologies
        
        - Kim Otto, Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College - KCTCS
        - Carmen Gaskins, Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College - KCTCS
        Learn how digital literacy faculty use various methods to motivate collaboration among students and other faculty members. Topics of discussion will include LibGuides, social media, Web apps, and collaboration projects.
      • Collaborative Learning in a Modern Classroom
        
        - Steve Kolar, Lone Star College System
        - Butch Juelg, Lone Star College System
        Collaborative spaces are new and organizations are just learning to use them. Lone Star College-North Harris will share the successful technical and academic outcomes of their new STEM collaborative classroom.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Doing the Math: Data-Driven Improvements to Advising Practices
        
        - Stephanie Kraft-Terry, University of Hawai'i - Manoa
        Learn how analyzing quantitative student enrollment data can transform academic advising practices to increase student retention in undergraduate STEM majors.
      • Broadening Access to Mathematics Education: Effective Tools, Methods, and Technologies
        
        - Carol Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology
        - Dawn Kidd, Texas School For The Deaf
        Mathematics can be daunting, particularly for students who struggle with language. Experience the mathematics classroom of these students and learn about tools, methods, and technologies to address their needs.
      • NanoExperiences: Pathways to Workforce Success
        
        - Whitney Cobb, McREL International
        Come see how NanoEx prepares high school students for participation in the STEM workforce. Presenters will focus on sharing lessons learned in ways that may apply to your program.
      • A Critical Success Factor: Demand-Driven, Competency-Based Education
        
        - David Siefert, Sinclair Community College
        - Chad Bridgman, Sinclair Community College
        Competency-based education can only be as effective as the jobs identified and defined by employers. Learn about the Stakeholder Collaborative Framework, developed from lessons learned during a Department of Labor TAACCCT grant.
      • CLEP and STEM: Acronyms for Minority Student Success
        
        - Kent Seaver, Dallas County Community College District
        - Amy Zorka, North Lake College
        This presentation will focus on data compiled by North Lake College during a study which explored whether minority students taking CLEP exams are better prepared academically for various STEM majors.
      • Relationships in Science Education: Improving STEM Retention Through Community Building
        
        - Tom Fleming, Edmonds Community College
        - Deann Leoni, Edmonds Community College
        Join us for an overview of lessons learned during implementation of a NSF-funded STEP project aimed at recruitment, retention, and course progressions among community college STEM students.
      • Thinking Beyond the Equations
        
        - Patricia Menchaca, Crafton Hills College
        Participants will learn strategies to help transfer students think more critically about applying math skills in a scientific setting and to teach students the significance of thinking as a team. This session will benefit STEM faculty, STEM grant coordinators and directors, and learning resource department employees.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Algebra and Personal Finance
        
        - Amit Dave, Georgia Piedmont Technical College
        The session will discuss some of the algebraic, graphical, and financial concepts used in the classroom to educate students about personal finance and retirement planning. The session will benefit mathematics and business faculty.
      • Building STEM Competencies Through Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Creating Digital Partnerships
        
        - Sharon Burns, UC Clermont College
        - Katie Foran-Mulcahy, UC Clermont College
        - Jo Ann Thompson, UC Clermont College
        - Bozena Widanski, UC Clermont College
        Presenters demonstrate cross-disciplinary learning modules in first- and second-year STEM courses. Physics, chemistry, composition, and technical writing faculty and instructional librarians team up to create digital writing opportunities to foster successful learning.
      • Make, Play, Hack in Any Classroom
        
        - Jeannette Shaffer, Maricopa Community Colleges
        Be a part of the Maker Movement and gather ideas to create makerspace activities for the classroom using design-based learning. Attendees will walk away with lessons and templates to get started.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Screening Sharing: Having Students Teach the Lesson
        
        - Deborah Brock, Tri-County Technical College
        Many sources claim that learners retain approximately 90 percent of what they teach someone else. Come learn to create assignments using iPad apps that require your students to teach the content.
    • Roundtable Discussions
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Calculator Use in the Classroom
        
        - Cameron Redsell-Montgomerie, Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
        This discussion will explore how new calculator advances are becoming a significant influence in the classroom. Participants will debate these advances and the role of the calculator in the classroom.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Anatomy and Physiology Digital Lab Practical
        
        - Jeff Rorer, Pitt Community College
        - Arno Jaysen, Pitt Community College
        A digital iPad anatomy and physiology lab practical was developed using various Adobe products. Where applicable, images can be rotated and zoomed in.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Gauging Engagement Four Ways
        
        - Katherine Watson, Coastline Community College
        Participants will discover how best to define objectively, for institutionwide advancement, four commonly proposed, subjective, fuzzy science notions of student commitment, engagement, motivation, and success from across disciplines worldwide.
      • Work-Based Learning Opportunities for IT, ET, and Business Students
        
        - Sandra Kessler, Rhodes State College
        - Nanette Smith, Rhodes State College
        Participants will learn how Rhodes State College is using Ohio Board of Regents funding to transition its Information Technology, Engineering Technology, and Business divisions to a mandatory work-based learning experience.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Learning How to Eat, Learning How to Write
        
        - Ruth McAdams, Tarrant County College District
        An English professor is combining multidisciplinary learning in her Composition II hybrid courses, bringing in community resources and experts to help students learn to research and write about being healthy.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • Programs Helping Programs: Working Together to Build a Better Lab
        
        - Adam Dickinson, St. Clair County Community College
        - Eric Heinemann, St. Clair County Community College
        The presenters will discuss how the IT office and two separate St. Clair County Community College programs - Mechatronics and Computer Information Systems - came together to enhance the mechatronics lab.
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Additive Manufacturing Benefits in Research and Development of Upper Limb Prosthesis
        
        - Richard Weir, University of Colorado Denver
        - Stephen Huddle, University of Colorado Denver
        The biomechatronics lab at the University of Colorado, Denver, is using additive manufacturing technology (i.e., 3D printing) to develop and design new innovative upper limb prosthetic devices. Presenters demonstrate the design process with several examples.
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Leading the Way to a Greener Campus
        
        - Oscar Ramos, Lone Star College System
        - Blaine Keener, Lone Star College System
        - Doug Caesar, Lone Star College System
        Lone Star College implemented a Green Computing Plan. Learn about the challenges of initiating such a plan and how it can save your institution money.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Implementation of an Online Math Orientation Seminar for Student Success
        
        - Nanette Smith, Rhodes State College
        Participants will learn how Rhodes State College faculty used a collaborative action science approach to design, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness that an online math orientation seminar had on students taking developmental math.
      • The Engineering Design Process Puzzles Over 3D Printers
        
        - Susan Meardon, Wake Technical Community College
        Community colleges are integrating 3D printers into STEM courses. Learn how collaborative teams use the engineering design process to build a puzzle project on 3D printers in an engineering graphics course.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • Building the Bioscience Industry Through Community College Assistance
        
        - Richard Norris, St. Louis Community College
        - Elizabeth Boedeker, St. Louis Community College
        Discover how St. Louis Community College's Center for Plant and Life Sciences is having a major impact on small startup companies in the region, and how students are benefiting.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Effective Teaching and Learning With 3D Multimedia Content and Technology
        
        - Suhana Chikatla, Wallace State Community College
        Participants will discover ways to enhance teaching and learning by using free online 3D multimedia content development, creation, and publishing tools. School and college teachers will benefit from this session.
      • Working With Student Teams
        
        - Bernard Monette, Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
        If you teach technology, then you know that teamwork is a given in the real world. Come and talk about effective means of working with student teams.
      • Reaching Faculty Across Multiple Barriers for Professional Development
        
        - Walt Justice, Foundation Academy
        - Bethany Cordell, Hillsborough Community College
        Varying schedules, adjuncts, multiple campuses, and technology proficiencies are barriers to professional development. Learn how we are overcoming these issues in this session for all involved in faculty professional development.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Dating and Your New Career
        
        - Terry Arndt, College Transition Publishing
        What are the five basic strategies for success on a date and in your new career? This fun session outlines those strategies in a hilarious and educational format.
      • Technology and English Learners: A New Language, or Universal?
        
        - Kristin Lems, National Louis University
        - W. Jason Stegemoller, National Louis University
        Technology teachers need to notice the language and culture of technology, including text structures, resources, and usage patterns of multilingual learners, so that English learners can take full advantage of postsecondary educational opportunities.
      • Scholarships to Promote STEM Academics and Career Growth
        
        - Dianne Phillips, NorthWest Arkansas Community College
        - Marvin Galloway, NorthWest Arkansas Community College
        - Regina Thomason, NorthWest Arkansas Community College
        Learn how to establish a pathway for learners to engage in project-based STEM learning experiences; expand STEM engagement and skill development; cultivate K-12 academic partnerships; increase enrollment in STEM courses; and expand entrepreneurial opportunities.
      • Empowering STEM Programs at Community Colleges Through Internships
        
        - Amrita Madabushi, Baltimore City Community College
        - Anil Malaki, Baltimore City Community College
        This session will focus on internships as the key to success for STEM disciplines in community colleges, with a spotlight on the contribution of internships to the 25+ year success story of BCCC’s biotechnology program.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Grow Your Own STEM Initiative
        
        - Rosalie Richards, Georgia College and State University
        Tailored to faculty and administrators faced with increased STEM accountability, participants will leave with a value-added plan to promote leadership, creativity, innovation, scholarly activity, and outreach.
      • Success Strategies: Improving Learning by Addressing the Affective Domain
        
        - Adam Kempler, College of the Canyons
        Participants will learn about the affective domain, how to implement activities that address it, and how it promotes retention and success in the classroom. This presentation benefits faculty and students.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Engage Students and Enhance Learning With Technology: Beginner and Advanced
        
        - Terry Mullin, Cabrillo College
        The beginner-advanced technology session demos how to engage students using brain functions-based technology. Topics include Prezis, Camtasia videos with built-in assessments, customizing PPT video, writing term papers in half the time, and FleschKincaid Readability Statistics.
    • Roundtable Discussions
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Math Emporium
        
        - Elizabeth O'Neil, Olympic College
        - Elisabeth Briggs, Olympic College
        How is your school's emporium program going? Are you interested in starting an emporium program? Do you wonder what emporium means? Come to discuss successes and failures or come to learn.
      • Universal Design: Alternate Means of Representing Reasoning
        
        - Patricia Almond, University of Oregon
        Personalizing digital environments for exceptional learners without compromising standards when students submit varied digital responses to show what they know, what they can do, and how they explain their thinking.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Leading the Way With CTSOs
        
        - Kinga Jacobson, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
        Examine career and technical student organizations and their impact on student success. Collaboratively analyze their roles and goal changes over time, and identify untapped opportunities for CTE and STEM program students.
      • Novel STEM Education Programs in Ohio
        
        - Geza Varhegyi, Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
        Recruitment and retention of students in STEM programs will be discussed, including the college-level Choose Ohio First program and the new Believe in Ohio program for high school students.
      • Academic and Educational Homicide in American StemTech Programs
        
        - Lester Washington, NIOT Alliance
        Learn how academic and educational homicide was inadvertently incorporated into the American educational system by the founding fathers and has harmed all Americans. This session will benefit all participants in STEM education.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Focus on Learning, Teaching, and Practice
        
        - Norah Kerr-McCurry, Brookdale Community College
        In order to become eligible to teach online courses, faculty must successfully complete a certification course that explores the role of technology and utilizes the LMS for its hybrid presentation. The focus in on pedagogy.
      • Why Flip: Creating Authentic Learning Experiences
        
        - Cliff Goodacre, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
        - Selena Becker, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
        Learn how to maximize your class time with students and create authentic, student-centered learning experiences by using the flipped classroom at the collegiate level.
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Health Navigators: Exploring Opportunities to Fill a Vital Workforce Need
        
        - Katherine Johnson, George Washington University
        Discuss how community colleges are playing a role in training health navigators and community health workers. Preliminary findings will be shared from the League’s Community Colleges and Public Health Project.
      • Empower Students With Tools to Fight the Obesity Epidemic
        
        - Paul Rabaut, Hillsborough Community College
        Learn to create a student-centered nutrition class by adding a dash of community involvement, a sprinkle of competition, and a generous portion of eating.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Mix and Match Your Way to an Interactive Classroom
        
        - Linda Sue Hoops, Community College of Denver
        Build a collection of free and low-cost online math resources to support your students in becoming independent learners, leaving class time for interactive projects, puzzles, and games.
      • Developing an Analytics Associate Degree Program
        
        - Walter Martin, Wake Technical Community College
        - Tanya Scott, Wake Technical Community College
        The presenters will share lessons learned in developing a new business analytics program, as well as best practices in fostering student progression and completion through the program.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Online Video: Changing and Enhancing the Way We Learn
        
        - Laurie Burruss, Pasadena City College
        Educational videos reside everywhere; they are integrated in learning resources and libraries, students’ first choice, and essential in a flipped classroom. Learn how online video changes and enhances the way we learn.
      • Challenges and Best Practices for Instructors of Competency-Based Pilot
        
        - Marti Baker, Edmonds Community College
        - Suzanne Marks, Bellevue College
        - Ed Sargent, Edmonds Community College
        DOL TAACCCT, WGU, and Gates Foundation grant-funded colleges share the challenges and best practices of teaching a self-paced competency-based program. Topics include time management, student contact hours, creating a program flow, and team communication.
      • Credibility, Credentials, and Certification: Students Need All Three
        
        - Alan Rowland, CompTIA
        So often students take a course mapped to a technology certification but never pass the test. Skipping that final step may prove hazardous to their career. Here's how to offer the complete package.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • The Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative: Using Research as Teaching
        
        - Darren Mattone, Muskegon Community College
        CCURI is focused on developing and implementing undergraduate research at community colleges. Engage in a discussion of barriers to UR implementation, student impacts, and how community college faculty are implementing UR through partnerships with CCURI.
      • Retention, Student Research, Mentoring, Community College, STEM
        
        - Gloria Liu, Oakton Community College
        Come and discuss challenges and strategies to implement an undergraduate research program in a community college setting.
      • Dude...Where's My Money?
        
        - Terry Arndt, College Transition Publishing
        Graduating with debt sucks. Implement these 10 strategies before you graduate to get out of debt and begin your successful financial future.
      • Growing Your Own Mechanical Engineering Program
        
        - Shadei Jones, College of Southern Maryland
        - Rob Farinelli, College of Southern Maryland
        The College of Southern Maryland has partnered with the University of Maryland and the Navy to offer a Mechanical Engineering program so that students can study locally and receive support for their degree.
      • Junior College Student Community Service Promotes STEM K-12 Pipeline
        
        - Sharon Ellerton, Queensborough Community College - CUNY
        - Naydu Carmona, Queensborough Community College - CUNY
        Service learning programs can stimulate K-12 interest in STEM subjects through after school and weekend workshops. Learn how anatomy and physiology workshops were developed that strengthened biological knowledge for participants and student leaders.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • STEAM: Bridging Art and Computer Science Through Game Education
        
        - Mary Rasley, Lehigh Carbon Community College
        - Steven Weitz, Lehigh Carbon Community College
        By placing art and computer science students in paired game development courses, students work on team projects completing both art and programming tasks which simulate a real-world work experience.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • EMS, Analytics, and the Community College
        
        - Jeffrey Mills, San Diego Community College District
        - Kats Gustafson, San Diego Community College District
        Enrollment management is the key to ensuring that your college is scheduling classes according to the educational needs of students. EMS assists colleges in enrollment planning that allows students to complete their certificate, degree, and transfer programs within expected time periods.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Accelerate IT: Competency-Based Education Model
        
        - Nancy Thibeault, Sinclair Community College
        Sinclair Community College was awarded a TAACCCT grant to adapt Western Governors University’s competency-based model to support IT programs. Learn about the replicable model, processes, and tools developed to implement the model.
    • Roundtable Discussions
      Health and Science
      • Assessment and Accreditation: Strategies for Sustainable Faculty Engagement
        
        - Allison Phayre, Olympic College
        Discuss strategies for increasing faculty participation in assessment. How do you create sustainable assessment that provides usable data? Get faculty to lead assessment instead of making it a blanket policy.
      • Incorporating High Fidelity Simulation to Increase Clinical Application and Skills
        
        - Andrea Seay, Lone Star College System
        Participants will learn various methods to incorporate high fidelity simulation to increase clinical application and skills. The session will particularly benefit faculty or health care providers who utilize these simulators.
      • Engaging Today's Technology Students Through Holistic Teaching
        
        - Sharon Sexton, Texas State Technical College Waco
        Setting aside class time for meditation or personal reflection can boost students' concentration and critical thinking skills. Techniques for using holistic teaching in the classroom will be presented.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Preparing High School Students for STEM Majors Through STEM Competitions
        
        - Lori Brunsen, Eastern New Mexico University
        The HSI-STEM grant at Eastern New Mexico University has partnered with school districts to better prepare students for STEM majors in college through participation in the Southeastern Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
      • A Successful Research Program at Lorain County Community College
        
        - Rosa Rivera-Hainaj, Lorain County Community College
        - Harry Kestler, Lorain County Community College
        - Kathryn Durham, Lorain County Community College
        Research is not usually related to the community college mission. Participants will listen to the research success stories at Lorain County Community College and learn about how to build such a program.
      E-Learning Resources
      • What's to Like? Four Ways to Intercultural Awareness
        
        - Katherine Watson, Coastline Community College
        Participants will discover four features that define intercultural intelligence and discuss diverse means by which people around the world achieve them through social media, particularly Facebook.
• Tuesday, November 11, 2014
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Dual Enrollment Health Care: A Solution for the Graying of America
        
        - Mark Branon, Calhoun Community College
        - Bret McGill, Calhoun Community College
        - Gwen Baker, Calhoun Community College
        The graying of America requires a creative approach to satisfy a serious health care industry dilemma. Calhoun Community College developed an innovative dual enrollment education system, launching graduates into the health care workforce.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Role of Leadership in Promoting Change in Undergraduate Mathematics
        
        - Amy Getz, The University of Texas at Austin
        The Dana Center's New Mathways Project will provide context for discussion of how administrators and faculty leaders can build faculty support for sustainable change in developmental and gateway mathematics programs.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • Job Security: Teach Soft Skills Before Graduation
        
        - Patricia Guillory, SOWELA Technical Community College
        A great education, skills, aptitude, and creative genius - hired, but can’t keep a job? Soft skills are critical in maintaining that sought after position. Learn how to include these skills in your classroom.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Bellevue College's Competency-Based Pilot: Stunning Success
        
        - Suzanne Marks, Bellevue College
        Hear how a WGU grant-funded college converted their Business Software Specialist certificate to competency-based, added industry certification and course navigators, and made it a sustainable model.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Learning Communities Enhance Retention and Completion in a STEM Program
        
        - Scott Gevaert, St. Louis Community College
        A St. Louis Community College learning community engages students in bioscience training to transition from developmental education to a career. Discover the innovative instruction, student support, and professional development involved.
      • Partnerships That Pop
        
        - Cristina Lawson, El Centro College
        - Kristina Every, El Centro College
        Learn about outreach and retention techniques to ensure student success. Discuss building partnerships while bridging the gap to generate and strengthen STEM fields.
      • DPS K-16 Partnerships: An Intensive Pathway STEM Plan
        
        - Oscar Joseph III, Center for Urban Education and Research
        In this presentation, K-12 and higher education stakeholders will discuss essential factors, policies, and sustainability plans concerning the efficient implementation of a K-16 intensive pathway STEM partnership.
      • Administrative Support: A Crucial Component for Student Success
        
        - Mark Greenhalgh, North Orange County Community College District
        - Karen Rose, Fullerton College
        Fullerton College has partnered with local high schools, community colleges, and universities to recruit, support, and mentor students in STEM disciplines. Participants will discuss the role administration can play in these initiatives.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Performance Art Proposal Project: The Business of Education
        
        - Janet Lipp, Monroe Community College - SUNY
        How does STEM fit into performance art? Be enlightened when you create a group project and see how it can be applied to any academic area.
      • Using Mathematica Software in the Math Classroom and Beyond
        
        - Todd Troutman, Lansing Community College
        - Jing Wang, Lansing Community College
        Activities and authentic projects utilizing Mathematica will be introduced and developed. Share how it is used in mathematics, science, and statistics classrooms, and the possibilities within the liberal arts.
      • STEAM: Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics
        
        - Armando Rivera-Figueroa, East Los Angeles College
        East Los Angeles College is increasing the number of Latinos pursuing a STEM degree by exploring the integration of science and arts, and how they fuse to provoke our senses.
      • Art and the Cosmic Connection
        
        - Whitney Cobb, McREL International
        Using the elements of art, become an astronomer in minutes. Engage in a great STEAM exploration supported by a dynamic online platform, brought to you by NASA’s Discovery Program.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • 3D Visualization for STEM Disciplines
        
        - Aaron Ellis, San Antonio College
        Fragile artifacts and expensive models have long been confined to classrooms and labs. Extend the reach of physical teaching tools to improve asynchronous and online learning with 3D visualization technology.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Scientists + Learning Technologies + Instructional Designers = Science Learning
        
        - Michael Ayers, Forsyth Technical Community College
        - Kirsten Williford, Forsyth Technical Community College
        - Courtney Harrington, Forsyth Technical Community College
        - Dwaine Davis, Forsyth Technical Community College
        Forsyth Tech, with DOL TAACCCT funding, has created a library of science learning objects using scientists, an instructional design team, advanced learning technologies, and practical applications of adult learning theories.
      • Supporting the Tutor Training Process 24/7 With Online Videos
        
        - Valerie Kisiel, Innovative Educators
        - Erin Hoag, Innovative Educators
        Many tutoring coordinators don’t have time to provide a quality, real time tutor training program. This session will explore online tutor training videos and resources focused on supporting the tutor training process 24/7.
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM   top
    • Special Session
      Health and Science
      • Special Session Placeholder for Rhonda Epper
        
        - Rhonda Epper, Colorado Community College System
        
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Health Care Students Preventing Human Trafficking
        
        - Lyvier Conss, Mesa Community College
        CCNCCE, in collaboration with nursing and EMT students and faculty, engage in critical conversations with members of the college and local community to raise awareness about human trafficking and to become part of the solution.
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Training Renewable Energy Technicians: An International Perspective
        
        - Mary Slowinski, College of the Canyons
        - Roger Ebbage, Lane Community College
        - Kenneth Walz, Madison College
        - Troy Wanek, Red Rocks Community College
        Explore training models used outside the U.S. to prepare technicians for the energy workforce. Educators, funded by the NSF, learned firsthand about practices abroad; join us for lessons learned.
      • Green STEM Projects: Creating Purpose and Passion for Learning
        
        - Laura Arndt, McREL International
        Empower your students by conducting a schoolwide energy audit or school land assessment. Design a data-based recycling program, outdoor classroom, or learning garden. Leave with grant contacts and curriculum models.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Coalition Building: Broadening the Pipeline to STEM-Intensive Architectural Education
        
        - Randy Steiner, Montgomery College
        - Charles Setterfield, Sinclair Community College
        Learn how the Coalition of Community College Architecture Programs highlights our students’ unique talents and diversity to create new pathways to architectural education. Valuable session for educators and administrators.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • The Three Ws of Incorporating OER in Technical Programs
        
        - Cynthia Woodling, Northampton Community College
        Follow Northampton Community College's development of a Foundation in Trades basic skills class created for technical students and learn the what, why, and where of open educational resources.
      • Great Partnerships That Recruit for Middle Skills Careers
        
        - Allatia Harris, San Jacinto College - Central Campus
        - Ludith Gonzalez, San Jacinto College District
        What do JP Morgan Chase, industry, economic development corporations and San Jacinto College have in common? We are working regionally to meet unprecedented demand for an able workforce. Chase has funded a project to recruit workers for high-wage careers. We will share materials and lessons learned.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Doom's Taxonomy: A Quest for Usable Classroom Technology
        
        - Edward Schelb, Prince George's Community College
        Prince George’s Community College faculty members have gravitated toward a handful of effective classroom tools and mobile teaching apps. This presentation will help participants assemble their own technology toolkit for their educational journey.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Lessons Learned From Recruiting and Keeping Secondary STEM Teachers
        
        - Michael Degraff, The University of Texas at Austin
        - Alicia Beth, The University of Texas at Austin
        Come hear about the UTeach STEM teacher preparation model for recruiting and retaining students in STEM. Established in 1997, the program is now being implemented at 40 universities nationwide.
      • Get Ready, Really Ready, for STEM
        
        - Tim Dills, Chattanooga State Community College
        - Judy Lowe, Chattanooga State Community College
        This presentation shows how EdReady delivers individualized student study plans for college level math preparation, assists retention, and supports STEM programs with special math needs.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Liberal Arts Math Success: There's an App for That
        
        - Jesse Kiefner, The Community College of Baltimore County
        - Danielle Truszkowski, The Community College of Baltimore County
        Participants will receive an overview of an intermediate algebra course designed specifically for liberal arts students. Applications, including hands-on labs and mobile apps, will be showcased and then explored by participants.
      • Turning STEM Into STEAM With Music
        
        - David Demuth Jr., Valley City State University
        - Rebecca Engelman, North Dakota Council On The Arts
        Participants will instrument selected fruits to make music using the Makey Makey invention tool after learning how talented high school music students engaged STEM learning strategies, and touching their lives.
      • English Composition and Biology Learning Communities: Themes, Content, and Assessments
        
        - Chris Romero, Front Range Community College
        - Amy Holly, Front Range Community College
        Presenters discuss pairing biology and composition courses, including overlapping themes, content, and assessments. Participants should bring materials from their courses for a discussion and activity.
      E-Learning Resources
      • The Formidable Power of Hybrid Programs
        
        - Kinga Jacobson, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
        Discover the opportunities of hybrid CTE programs of study incorporating classroom and work-based learning. Next, move deeper and evaluate the benefits of hybrid CTE courses, including current and potential future innovative approaches.
      • Technology-Enabled Open Education Resources
        
        - Nicole Finkbeiner, Openstax College
        - Daniel Williamson, Rice University
        OpenStax College materials have been adopted by over 700 institutions across eight STEM areas. New technology tools allow frictionless customization and remix. This session will provide hands-on use of new online publishing editing tools.
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM   top
    • Special Session
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Using CBE to Pull Students Into STEM Programs
        
        - Sally Johnstone, Western Governors University
        - Tom Nielsen, Bellevue College
        - Linda Smarzik, Austin Community College District
        Learn how these colleges attracted more students than anticipated using competency-based education for STEM careers. Panelists share strategies and lessons to enable others to follow their examples.
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Teaching Physics With the Socratic Method Coupled With Clickers
        
        - Rihab Sawah, St. Louis Community College
        Learn techniques that couple the Socratic-teaching of physics with clickers. Get all of your students involved in guided discussions that lead them to formulating solutions rather than seeking answers from the professor.
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Educational Path From Wind Technician to Manager for Nontraditional Students
        
        - Andrew Wheeler, Excelsior College
        - Kailey Soundara, Excelsior College
        This session will explore how educational and wind industry partners can work together to create pathways within the growing energy and sustainability fields.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Successful Strategies for Math Learning Centres
        
        - Cameron Redsell-Montgomerie, Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
        - Rebecca Milburn, Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
        Humber College Math Centre’s mobile technology initiatives have resulted in more students getting support than ever before. Explore the tutoring model, initiatives, and technology used to track student engagement and feedback.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Transitioning Adult Learners Into Information Technology Careers
        
        - Sarah Linz, Lansing Community College
        Hear from the community college representatives who work with the ePathways program about the challenges, and successes, of the program and getting adults who are changing careers interested in STEM.
      • Transitioning Veterans to Engineering-Related Careers
        
        - Ashok Agrawal, American Society for Engineering Education
        The session will focus on transitioning veterans to engineering-related careers. Discussion will include preliminary work by two- and four-year colleges for a framework for transitions, including articulation, advising, and credentials review.
      • Opening Doors to STEM Teaching With a Learning Assistant Program
        
        - Carolyn Schick, Montgomery College
        Learning Assistants are recruited as support in STEM classrooms and laboratories, where they gain experience teaching and work with faculty mentors to enhance student engagement. LAs, faculty mentors, and STEM education benefit from this collaboration.
      • Clearing the Math Hurdle: Personalized Review for College Readiness
        
        - Terri Rowenhorst, The NROC Project
        - Judy Lowe, Chattanooga State Community College
        - Lara Urano, Community College of Denver
        - Erica Hastert, Colorado Community Colleges Online
        Three colleges share pilot experiences with new models to prepare incoming students for placement exams known to impact long-term student retention and success.
      • Don’t Have Roots? How to Grow Scientific Literacy Through STEM
        
        - Carla Bryan-Sheard, Clayton County Public Schools
        - Aaron Sims, Clayton County Public Schools
        - D'anna Muhammad, Clayton County Public Schools
        This session will provide a comprehensive definition of scientific literacy. It will highlight STEM initiatives in a high school which integrate the contributions of college and community partners.
      • Lessons Learned From Five Years of Teaching Developmental Mathematics
        
        - Barbara Savage, Roxbury Community College
        The presenter has taught developmental mathematics to STEM students for six years and aligned courses with the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. Discussion will focus on reflections and recommendations.
      • 28 Percent: What's Your Number?
        
        - Pamela Silvers, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
        - Steven Marcus, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
        - James Sullivan, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
        In identified STEM programs, female enrollment increased from 39 to 75 students in two years. This session will share strategies Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College implemented for recruiting females and retaining students.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • Predictive Analytics to Scale Learning Programs for Student Success
        
        - Matthew Milliron, Civitas Learning
        - Shannon McCarty, Rio Salado College
        This session will show administrators and faculty how they can make analytics part of the backbone of their institutions, with grant-funded programs to implement solutions to innovate learning and measurably improve student success.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Measuring What Matters
        
        - Angela Cantrell, SmarterServices
        At many institutions, the non-cognitive attributes of students are not being measured. This presentation will explore methods of measuring non-cognitive skills and review good practices and research findings.
      • Quest-Based Learning in the Blackboard LMS
        
        - Cynthia Marcello, Sullivan County Community College - SUNY
        In this session, participants will learn how to use the adaptive release and achievement features in Blackboard LMS to create a customized, quest-based learning experience that improves student engagement and learning outcomes.
      • Flipped Student Services: Restructuring How We Support Today’s Students
        
        - Valerie Kisiel, Innovative Educators
        - Erin Hoag, Innovative Educators
        We will explore online tools students can use to learn about career options, study skills, money and time management, and test-taking strategies. Learn how to utilize technology to flip service delivery.
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Health IT: OER Instructional Materials Including Stellar Carnegie Mellon Content
        
        - Margaret Murphy, Bellevue College
        College faculty and administrators, learn about free Health IT materials, including HIT modules and certificate programs, EHR simulations, and new HIT certification, developed with Carnegie Mellon, the gold standard in online learning.
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Collaborative Science as IT Capstone: The Valencia Bat House Database
        
        - Jerry Reed, Valencia College
        Bat houses are an environmental win-win-win. Good for bats, bad for bugs, great for student technology projects. Come learn the connections between IT, construction, biology, and bats.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Hybrid Engineering: Can It be Done?
        
        - Hollyanna White, Chattanooga State Community College
        - Toney Phifer, Chattanooga State Community College
        - Judy Lowe, Chattanooga State Community College
        This presentation covers planning and development of Hybrid Engineering programs, Welding & Nondestructive Testing, around competency based student-centered learning. Attendees will see the development from curricular design through online delivery.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • What You Need to Know to Implement a Mechatronics Program
        
        - Gary Morgan, College of Lake County
        The National STEM Consortium, with the support of a U.S. Department of Labor grant, funded the development of a certificate-level program in mechatronics. This session will share development strategy, implementation, and the curriculum.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Become a Blackboard Power User
        
        - Marie Hartlein, Montgomery County Community College
        - Linda Moulton, Montgomery County Community College
        Learn how to maximize the benefits of Blackboard Learn, and other online tools, to enhance student engagement and maximize your efficiency. Leave this session with ideas on how to refresh and streamline your course.
      • Using In-Class Technology to Keep Students Engaged
        
        - Mark Choman, Luzerne County Community College
        Keeping students engaged in the learning process is key to their comprehension and retention of course content. In this session, a variety of technology tools and strategies, some of which are free, are overviewed.
      • Minimizing Student Graph Anxiety
        
        - Karen Ernst, Hawkeye Community College
        Learn how a free, online graphing utility can enhance student graphing confidence. A mathematics instructor, two students, and a team member from the company that developed the utility will co-present.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Turning Failing High School Students Into STEM Wizards
        
        - Joyce Helens, St. Cloud Technical and Community College
        - Matt Keil, St. Cloud Technical and Community College
        - Jeremy Reisinger, St. Cloud Technical and Community College
        - Diane Moeller, St Cloud Area School District 742
        A college, K-12, and industry collaboration that reached out to high school students underperforming in or failing math and science to reverse a "you're not college material" mindset, turned students into STEM Wizards.
      • Kickstart High School STEM Partnership Connections With Our Institute Model
        
        - Charles Setterfield, Sinclair Community College
        Presenters will share how the Warren County High School STEM Teachers Institute helped more than 120 teachers develop inquiry-based lessons to link their classrooms to the real world. Learn how this NSF-funded institute model works.
      • Identifying Skills Required by Businesses Successfully Leads to Student Hiring
        
        - Ann Beheler, Collin College
        - Helen Sullivan, Collin College
        Attendees will learn how a one-day process working with businesses to identify required job skills will boost a student’s success rate in getting a high paying entry level position.
      • Redefining Engineering Mathematics Education: Uncorking the Bottleneck to Student Success
        
        - Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University
        This session will describe the longitudinal impacts of an NSF-funded curriculum reform to address math-related attrition in engineering, which has the potential to double the national production of engineers.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Edugaming: Keeping the Quiz Out of Educational Games
        
        - Steven Weitz, Lehigh Carbon Community College
        - Mary Rasley, Lehigh Carbon Community College
        In this interactive session, educators apply the Edugaming Framework to improve an educational game by removing quiz aspects while increasing the fun factor and encouraging learning.
      • Using Creative Writing Exercises to Increase Success in STEM Courses
        
        - Donald Carpenetti, Craven Community College
        Creative writing assignments used for STEM courses and their efficacy with regards to information retention and reaching students with differing learning styles will be discussed and demonstrated.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • NASA’s Dawn Mission: Ion Propulsion Propels Us to Two Worlds
        
        - Whitney Cobb, McREL International
        Dawn’s stream of blue xenon ions fuels a NASA first. Explore resources and develop an intuitive concept of how this unique, efficient propulsion system works. This is real-world engineering technology in action.
      E-Learning Resources
      • From Ditto to Digital
        
        - Maureen Kramanak, Kansas City Public Schools
        Prezi, Edmodo, SlideShare, WallWisher, Glogster, Edublog. Do you sometimes feel lost? Participants in this session will learn how to use these tools to increase student achievement, especially with special populations.
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Science Laboratories On Demand for Students With Unpredictable Schedules
        
        - Michael Ayers, Forsyth Technical Community College
        - Kirsten Williford, Forsyth Technical Community College
        - Cheryl Burrell, Forsyth Technical Community College
        - Shelton Charles, Forsyth Technical Community College
        Forsyth Tech’s DOL TAACCCT grant funded the creation of a flexible laboratory that is open for extended hours so that students may complete laboratory activities as their weekly schedules allow.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Focusing on the Academic Middle: A Chance to RISE
        
        - Karen Hogans, Lake-Sumter State College
        - Sybil Brown, Lake-Sumter State College
        Explore a partnership with local school districts to develop and deploy a summer program targeting high school students to RISE them to college-ready math status and orient them to college culture.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • STEM and Literacy: Classroom Methods to Develop Both Simultaneously
        
        - Mark Forget, University of Findlay
        - Kim Forget, University of Findlay
        This highly interactive session models reading and writing activities that engage students in higher-order thinking through reading, writing, and cooperative learning, developing literacy skills while facilitating deep learning of STEM subjects.
      • Creating Mobile Apps as a Gateway to IT Programs
        
        - William Smith, Tulsa Community College
        Students love to create apps for their mobile devices. MIT App Inventor allows students of all skill levels a fun and creative way to explore technology, logic, and programming.
      • What Women Want: Myths and Realities Behind Female STEM Participation
        
        - Jodi Carson, Olympic College
        Consider female participation rates in STEM and collectively explore the myths and realities related to cognitive abilities, stereotypes and biases, self-assessment and confidence, and personal motivations in a STEM context.
      • The Power of Invitation
        
        - Michael Cermak, Waubonsee Community College
        Unique invitations should be in your STEM recruitment toolbox. Invitations build relationships and provide a foundation of trust which helps retain students. A start-to-finish example with student voices will be provided.
      • The Hiring Process: A Student and Employer’s View
        
        - Ann Beheler, Collin College
        The National Convergence Technology Center will provide an inside look into the hiring process from a recent graduate’s and employer’s perspective. Participants will take away strategies to share with students.
      • Advising Intervention Programs for Undergraduate STEM Student Success
        
        - Stephanie Kraft-Terry, University of Hawai'i - Manoa
        - Kathleen Normandin, University of Hawai'i - Manoa
        Create an action plan to implement successful advising intervention programs aimed at increasing STEM student retention. Examples and best practices will be given from both college and departmental advising units.
      • Recruiting STEM Majors Through Summer Camp
        
        - Natalie McGathey, Prairie State College
        - Christine Brooms, Prairie State College
        How can faculty inspire students to major in one of the STEM disciplines? Learn how one community college responded to this challenge by creating a STEM summer camp for high school students.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Ciphers: Excel Applications to Engage Students
        
        - Susan Helser, Mott Community College
        The focus will be on cryptography, the related mathematics concepts, cipher applications, and using Excel with an emphasis on hands-on experiential learning opportunities for students.
      • Changing Attitudes About STEM Courses
        
        - Arminda Wey, Brookdale Community College
        Learn about one college's collaborative campaign to improve attitudes, awareness, and interest in math, science, and technology among all students, and even the community at large. The session is for those promoting STEM education.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • Optimize Your College Recruitment Efforts With a Customized Survey Technology
        
        - Sherri Bennett, Arkansas Northeastern College
        Learn how colleges optimize recruitment efforts by using innovative survey technologies. The session will demonstrate how survey software collects feedback, produces reports analyzing data, and triggers customized responses to designated individuals.
      • Platforms, Classes, and Student Services: Scaling Innovative Practices in Education
        
        - Kari Dickerson, Apollo Education Group, Inc.
        University of Phoenix will share lessons learned in meeting the needs of online students and how you can make technology work for you to meet the needs of your college.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Flipping Your Course to Bridge Multigenerational Gaps in the Classroom
        
        - Bobbi Jo Carter, Calhoun Community College
        Learn how to develop and implement a flipped classroom model that will bridge the gap between multigenerational students and instructors in your hybrid and traditional classes.
      • Providing Professional Development 24/7: Restructuring How We Deliver Training
        
        - Valerie Kisiel, Innovative Educators
        - Erin Hoag, Innovative Educators
        With limited resources and high demand, institutions are finding it difficult to provide training in a cost-effective manner. This session explores a series of online tools faculty and staff can use to provide training 24/7.
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • Sustainable Building Science Technology Applied Baccalaureate: An Industry-Driven Degree
        
        - Lauren Hadley, South Seattle College
        South Seattle College began its Sustainable Building Science Technology degree with learning outcomes identified by industry. This session will discuss how industry can impact education in a meaningful way.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • Hands-On Activities for All Aspects of STEM Education
        
        - Deb Newberry, Dakota County Technical College
        Nano-Link has produced over 20 complete, topical, activity-based modules that can be used to teach all aspects of STEM. Participants will use two hands-on activities in this session to experience the STEM application first-hand.
      • Preparing Students to Transfer Into an Online Electrical Engineering Program
        
        - Chuck Pfeifer, American Public University System
        - Daniel Benjamin, American Public University System
        This session will address specific strategies that can be used to prepare students at community colleges to transfer into online electrical engineering programs. Participants will learn the unique aspects of this program and delivery methods.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • 3 Angles for 3D Printing in a STEM Classroom
        
        - Herb Stachler, Sinclair Community College
        - Michael Atkinson, Sinclair Community College
        Learn about 3D printers in a STEM-inspired classroom. Three case studies will be presented. A 3D-printed quadcopter will be displayed. Participants receive a 3D model to inspire teachers and students.
      • Adventures in Designing a Technical Math MOOC With NROC
        
        - Brenda Perea, Colorado Community College System
        Offer students the opportunity to refresh or gain math skills outside a traditional classroom with a technical math MOOC. Learn how to design and deploy a technical math MOOC in six months using NROC material.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • An Exploration of Faculty Technology Resources to Stay Current
        
        - Mark Choman, Luzerne County Community College
        This session overviews a variety of strategies and online resources to assist faculty needing to stay current in their teaching discipline. Social media tools are targeted, but many additional assets are utilized.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Get Support From Corporate Funders and Increase Your STEM Programs
        
        - Linda Drobnich, San Jacinto College - Central Campus
        How do you get started on a path to get corporate support so you can create or expand STEM programming? Learn how to replicate this successful model in your area.
      • Integrated STEM: Place-Based Context for Career and Skill Development
        
        - Anne Seifert, Idaho National Laboratory
        - Louis Nadelson, Utah State University-Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
        Through hands-on, minds-on activities, explore how research is used to enhance STEM curriculum and instruction, and raise awareness of STEM careers and students’ desires to pursue STEM in your place-based setting.
      • Organizational Cultures’ Influence on STEM Students' Persistence
        
        - Doris Cross, University of Phoenix
        Distinguish elements of institutional cultures; understand educators’ responsibility in meeting student needs; and gain knowledge about the influence of leadership styles on student perceptions as factors in the recruitment, retention, and graduation of STEM students.
      • STEM Outreach for Elementary and Middle Schools
        
        - Rob Farinelli, College of Southern Maryland
        - Julie Andrews-Walker, College of Southern Maryland
        This presentation will describe the College of Southern Maryland’s efforts to engage local public school students in STEM fields. We will discuss the different programs and tools used to make this a worthwhile activity.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • New Standards and Curriculum for Video Game Developers: STEM Integration
        
        - Jamie Justice, Kentucky Community and Technical College System - KCTCS
        Explore new standards and curriculum framework aligned to STEM clusters and Common Core State Standards that engage students with high-demand skills and abilities within a variety of classes and programs.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • Six Sigma and Technology
        
        - Gwen White, Gateway Community and Technical College - KCTCS
        Learn ways to incorporate Six Sigma into your computer and information technology (CIT) courses and projects. Teach your students the principles and applications of Six Sigma to IT.
      • Virtual Desktops for Instruction
        
        - Oscar Ramos, Lone Star College System
        - Blaine Keener, Lone Star College System
        - Doug Caesar, Lone Star College System
        Come learn how Lone Star College implemented a desktop virtualization platform and is now using it in instructional areas such as learning centers, libraries, and classrooms.
      E-Learning Resources
      • Digital Learning Strategies That Inform, Engage, and Inspire
        
        - James May, Valencia College
        - Leonard Bass, Valencia College
        - Sharon May, Valencia College
        - Terry Rafter-Carles, Valencia College
        Experience Valencia College’s new Digital Learning Strategies course, which shares engaging learning technologies and mentors students in new worlds of learning. Leave with strategies and free technologies to engage your students.
      • CHEM 1010 Multimedia Redesign for Coursera Pilot: Advantages and Disadvantages
        
        - Judy Lowe, Chattanooga State Community College
        - Hollyanna White, Chattanooga State Community College
        - Toney Phifer, Chattanooga State Community College
        This presentation covers the advantages and disadvantages of developing CHEM 1010 for Coursera delivery. Attendees will learn about the process used to create and deliver multimedia video and learning objects.
• Wednesday, November 12, 2014
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Text. Tweet. Teach.
        
        - Heather MacKrell, Calhoun Community College
        - Tiffany Day, Calhoun Community College
        Engage health and science students using social media, apps, and technology. This session will provide practical, relevant, and innovative ideas to enhance student learning and support the flipped classroom model.
      Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
      • A Real-World Approach to Technical Certificates in Environmental Sciences
        
        - Michael Reynolds, Florida State College at Jacksonville
        - Ryan Sessions, Florida State College at Jacksonville
        - Karen Johns, Florida State College at Jacksonville
        Environmental technicians are in demand in numerous regional labor markets. National STEM Consortium has developed one-year certificate programs. Through active learning, participants will experience elements of the NSC environmental program.
      Manufacturing, Industry, Agriculture, and Aerospace
      • Designing the Countryman Rover Using a Cross-Disciplined Capstone Class
        
        - Benjamin Frail, Rhodes State College
        - Paul Burkholder, Rhodes State College
        Is it possible to improve student engagement by breaking down academic silos? Learn how Rhodes State College faculty from different Information Technology and Engineering Technology departments worked collaboratively to produce a capstone project for their students.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Projecting a Good Image: Basics for Producing Effective Video Content
        
        - Andy Curran, UC Clermont College
        If you have flipped or online courses, this session will review best practices for presenting video content. Planning, scripting, recording, editing, and distributing will be covered. Designed for introductory level.
      • Breaching the Perimeter: The Role of Social Engineering in Cyberbreaches
        
        - Jane LeClair, Excelsior College
        This presentation will concentrate on the role of social engineering in data breaches in personal, educational, financial, business, utility, and government computer systems.
      • Animation and Simulation for Mathematics and Science Courses
        
        - Richard Herbst, Montgomery County Community College
        Participants will learn how to increase interaction and cultivate student curiosity with free simulations that demonstrate topics in algebra, statistics, and physics. These simulations have been used successfully in traditional, hybrid, and online classes.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • Do Innovative Curricula Actually Improve STEM Retention? A Case Study
        
        - Joe Pow, Rochester Institute of Technology
        - Rose Rustowicz, Rochester Institute of Technology
        - Malachi Schultz, Rochester Institute of Technology
        There has been a nationwide movement toward the use of non-traditional pedagogies in undergraduate STEM programs to increase retention rates. One case study implies this may not work.
      • Bringing Success to Your Classroom
        
        - Kirsten Casey, Anne Arundel Community College
        - Debra Bartlett, Anne Arundel Community College
        Come learn the principles of success and specific strategies to help students in your classroom, and hear about a program that is increasing science student success. Attendees will walk away with customizable activities.
      • Students Can Beef Up Portfolios With Virtual Internships
        
        - Ann Beheler, Collin College
        This session will share case studies and processes of virtual internships in which students do not have to give up job responsibilities in order to gain an internship portfolio.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • Challenges and Opportunities: Delivering STEMtech Education at a Liberal Arts University
        
        - Tom Gallagher, The University of Montana-Missoula
        - Brad Layton, The University of Montana-Missoula
        - Xueying Shen, The University of Montana-Missoula
        Faculty from the Applied Computing & Electronics department present challenges, opportunities, and successes of delivering CTE at Missoula College, a two-year college uniquely embedded within The University of Montana.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • Envisioneering: A New Focus on Programs and Systems Thinking
        
        - Jamie Justice, Kentucky Community and Technical College System - KCTCS
        How do we change and adapt existing instructional programs and infuse systems thinking to offer new competencies and experiences for the future workforce?
      E-Learning Resources
      • Quest-Based Learning in the Blackboard LMS
        
        - Cynthia Marcello, Sullivan County Community College - SUNY
        This session will demonstrate how to create a quest-based learning (QBL) system platform using the built-in, adaptive release rules and achievement (badging) features of Blackboard.
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM   top
    • Concurrent Session
      Health and Science
      • Work Smart, Not Hard: Bring Your iPad to Life
        
        - Ava Cook, Madisonville Community College - KCTCS
        Have an iPad? Not sure what to do with it? Create lessons, active learning, and other ideals for you and your iPad. Construct a new environment for your classroom.
      Mathematics, Engineering, and Architecture
      • IMATH: Integrated Intermediate Algebra With College Level Mathematics
        
        - Karen Hulsebosch, Olympic College
        Does embedding prerequisite math skills into a college level course improve student learning and success? Discuss the strengths and challenges of IMATH and envision an integrated redesign on your campus.
      Technology, Multimedia, and Telecommunications
      • Supporting Completion Delivering Fire Science Instruction Using Virtual Presence
        
        - Robert Chambers, Sinclair Community College
        - Greg Deye, Sinclair Community College
        Participants will discover how Sinclair Community College supports fire science students living and working in a multi-county area by teaching face-to-face and distance simultaneously using Web conferencing and mobile tools.
      • Rethinking Middle-Skill Employment: An Opportunity for Action
        
        - Deborah Boisvert, University of Massachusetts - Boston
        - Lou Piazza, University of Massachusetts - Boston
        Nationally, 30 percent of more than five million IT workers are in middle-skill jobs. This session will present research that has been conducted to assess workforce demand and profile the competencies needed for these positions.
      Recruiting, Retaining, and Transitioning Students Into STEM Programs
      • The MESA Model to Increase Academic Success of Underrepresented Students
        
        - Armando Rivera-Figueroa, East Los Angeles College
        MESA implements a comprehensive approach to the concept of a learning community, providing a variety of academic support and enrichment opportunities that enhance, and therefore ensure, student success.
      • STEM-Bot Mentors: Supporting Struggling STEM Students With Informal Mentoring
        
        - Nathanial Wiggins, San Jacinto College - North Campus
        - Jorge Mota, San Jacinto College - North Campus
        Session leaders demonstrate informal learning projects addressing critical gaps in STEM student backgrounds. Participants are guided from planning to presentation with an emphasis on interdisciplinary cooperation to ensure student success.
      • Changing Youth Perception Key to Filling Career Pipelines
        
        - Tom Ledbetter, Midlands Technical College
        When the governor called on a technical college to help a major manufacturing company fill critical-need positions, a pipeline of technical talent was built from middle school to employment.
      • Cultivating the STEM
        
        - Ravichandran Manimaran, Essex County College
        The presentation will elucidate findings, results, and success stories of an NSF grant. Educators will learn an innovative approach for enhancing STEM education via pedagogies and best practices that increased underrepresented STEM graduates.
      The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts
      • STEMulating and ARTiculating Innovative Strategies in Learning Communities
        
        - Eugene Li, Montgomery College
        - Nevart Tahmazian, Montgomery College
        - M. Elvira Luna-Escudero-Alie, Montgomery College
        - Stephen Kcenich, Montgomery College
        Can learning community pairing of courses infuse active learning, engaging activities, and critical thinking skills? Interdisciplinary strategies in STEM and liberal arts learning community courses at Montgomery College are presented.
      • Summing Up Success: Linking Counseling, Reading, English, and Math
        
        - Amy Leonard, De Anza College
        - Sarah Lisha, De Anza College
        - Doli Bambhania, De Anza College
        - Anu Khanna, De Anza College
        - Tom Nguyen, De Anza College
        Participants learn the elements of linking developmental and transfer level reading, writing, and math classes with counseling to successfully engage diverse student populations of developmental at-risk learners through a year-long basic skills to transfer curriculum.
      • Scientific Communication: Breakthroughs at a Community College
        
        - Sally Asbell, Salt Lake Community College
        This session will provide experiences and opportunities to learn how to implement best practices in teaching communication across the science curricula. Academic administrators and faculty will benefit.
      Technology Systems and Applications
      • The Latest Innovations in Online Cybersecurity Programs
        
        - Daniel Benjamin, American Public University System
        - Chuck Pfeifer, American Public University System
        This presentation will involve discussions and demonstrations of the latest innovations in an online cybersecurity program. With an ever-increasing emphasis on network and computer security, academic programs in this field are becoming more popular.
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM   top
    • General Session
      Health and Science
      • Closing Keynote - Celeste V. Carter
        
        - Celeste Carter, National Science Foundation
        V. Celeste Carter is the Program Director for the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) at the National Science Foundation. Carter joined the Division of Biological and Health Sciences at Foothill College in 1994 to develop and head a Biotechnology Program. She served as a Program Director twice in DUE as a rotator. Carter accepted a permanent Program Director position in DUE in 2009; she is the Lead Program Director for the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program, and works on other programs in the Division and across the Foundation. She served as the Education and Human Resources Liaison to the Division of Polar Programs from 2012 to 2014.