7:30am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee

9:00am – 9:15am Welcome and Introduction
Speaker: Irene Yukhananov, Senior Instructional Designer, University of Massachusetts - Boston

9:20am – 10:30am Keynote - What's the Flippin' Difference? Approaches for, and the Effectiveness of, Flipped Learning in Higher Education
Speaker: Thomas Mennella, Associate Professor of Biology at Bay Path University

In this presentation Tom Mennella will first share his approach for using flipped learning to achieve an interactive, student-centered and personalized education environment in his classroom. Then, in the latter portion of this talk, he will present the results of a comparison study that addressed the effectiveness of flipped learning versus other active learning approaches.

10:30am - 10:40am Break

10:40am – 11:50am The Wheel Decides - Panel
Speakers:
Luis Poza Garcia, Graduate Assistant, University of Massachusetts – Boston
Andrew Hinote, Instructional Technology Support Specialist, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
 Mike Lucas, Sr. Director of IT Services, University of Massachusetts – Lowell
John Mazzarella, Manager of Training, Communications, and Marketing, University of Massachusetts – Boston
Randy Tyndall, Instructional Technologist, University of Massachusetts – Lowell
Irene Yukhananov, Senior Instructional Designer, University of Massachusetts - Boston

Storytelling is central to learning. In this session, the panel will spin a wheel that will decide the nature of a video capture story and share stories about their experiences with video capture products into LMS and across institutions. The audience will be able to vote for the best story through PollEverywhere.

11:50am – 12:45pm Lunch

12:45pm - 1:55pm UMass Boston's Epic Screencast Lecture Capture Journey - Interactive Session
Speakers:
Ellen Foust, Instructional Designer, University of Massachusetts – Boston
Luis Poza Garcia, Graduate Assistant, University of Massachusetts – Boston
John Mazzarella, Manager of Training, Communications, and Marketing, University of Massachusetts – Boston

The eLearning and Instructional Support Team at UMass Boston has supported several tools to meet various faculty needs for screencast recording, lecture capture, and asynchronous voice and video discussion boards. Come to hear a harrowing tale of toppling silos, interdepartmental politics, and their journey to discover modern tools and create a unified support model. We'll discuss our experiences with Camtasia Relay, Adobe Presenter, Wimba Voiceboards, Echo360, VoiceThread, and all the tools we used along the way. You will learn the role of factors such as software complexity, level of student interaction, technical ability needed to produce the materials, dependency and autonomy from instructional designers, etc. You will come away from this presentation with the skills needed to choose a tool of your own.

2:00pm - 3:10pm Concurrent Sessions

Room 1:  Flipping Fundamentals
Speakers:
Andrew Hinote, Instructional Technology Support Specialist, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
Rachel Rebello, Instructional Designer, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth

Session participants will actively experience our technique for helping faculty identify and classify the active and passive components of their courses as we collaboratively develop a plan for their flipped instruction. Join us as we explore different tools being used to facilitate active learning in the classroom.

Room 2: Flipping with Minecraft
Speaker: Mish McIntyre, Instructional Designer Assistant, University of Massachusetts - Boston

This presentation will examine the use of the award winning video game Minecraft as a substitute for video capture. It shifts not only the class work, but the homework into a makerspace. Mish will present the resulting student artifacts from her spring course.

3:15pm - 3:45pm Wrap Up
Speaker: Mish McIntyre, Instructional Designer Assistant, University of Massachusetts - Boston

3:45pm End