
New Horizons 2018: Pulling Together for Student Success
NEW HORIZONS 2018 ― CONFERENCE THEME, TRACKS & SUGGESTED TOPICS
Conference Tracks & Special Session Categories
Innovative Teaching and Learning
Integrated Student Support
Effective Business Processes
Concept-based Nursing
Peer Groups (Distance Education, Open Educational Resources (OER), and Learning Resources
Chancellor’s Special Sessions (by invitation only)
Exhibitor
Innovative Teaching and Learning
We are seeking proposals that address innovative and practical ways to enhance classroom effectiveness, improve student outcomes, and create an environment that supports the teacher/student alliance.
Suggested topics that may fall under this track include, but are not limited to:
Next Generation Learning Models
Engaging Students in the Classroom and Online
Teaching Success in a Multicultural Environment
Competency-Based Education
Open Educational Resources
Improving Online Education
Effective Uses of Instructional Technology
Flipped Classroom
Assessment and Evaluation
Interdisciplinary Instruction
Collaborative Teaching
Creative Instructional Practices
Teaching and Co-Curricular Programming
Local Advisory Boards (best practices)
Integrated Student Support
We are seeking proposals that address innovative and practical ways to improve upon the student experience through the intentional design of integrated supports and support networks, addressing personal, soft-skills, and academic supports.
Suggested topics that may fall under this track include, but are not limited to:
Guided Pathways
Process Mapping and Improvement
Student Career Planning and Exploration
Communicating with Students
Advising Redesign
Student Onboarding
Effective Interventions
Creating a “One College” Approach to Student Support
“Living Libraries”
Effective Business Processes
We are seeking proposals that address innovative and practical ways to improve upon college and VCCS System operations, supporting the achievement of VCCS goals, and our student success.
Suggested topics that may fall under this track include, but are not limited to:
Scheduling and Course Availability
Defining ROI and Measuring Results
Enrollment Management
Grant Writing
Finance and Administration
Meeting Facilitation Skills
Equity and Inclusion
Faculty Recruitment and Retention
Faculty Engagement
Student-Driven Website Design
Outcomes-based Funding Success (college examples)
Dual Enrollment/Early College
Concept-based Nursing
We are seeking proposals that specifically address the new concept-based nursing curriculum and its implementation. Selected sessions will be presented twice during the course of the conference.
Peer Groups
We are seeking proposals from the Distance Education, Open Educational Resources (OER), and Learning Resources Peer Groups to be featured throughout the conference, with particular emphasis on Friday morning. Distance Education is a growing component in all 23 community colleges. New Horizons will be an even larger forum for those in the Distance Education Peer Group who have trouble attending because of location, distance, or scheduling. The interspersing of concurrent sessions within the larger format will create more opportunity for topics and discussion. Share your ideas with those who know distance education, and those who are curious. Having both OER-curious folks and experienced OER supporters at New Horizons means a critical mass of interest and the potential for plenty of sharing and networking, the cornerstones of OER development by faculty. We can span the range of OER topics: diversity and equity, student success, open textbook adopting and adapting, policy development, scaling and sustaining, open pedagogy, research and data, etc. We would love to see proposals for all of these, and any more anyone can think up! Sessions for Learning Resources may include those for sharing resource information and innovations with faculty and staff, and those of specific concern to learning resources personnel alone. The latter will be featured on Friday, to maximize participation for those with limited ability to attend the conference.