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Track 1: Innovation
This track is intended to showcase innovative practices that strategically use technology to promote or enhance regular programs or activities that have been adapted or transformed into distance education offerings to serve students. Some examples include:
- Hispanic-focused projects that use technology tools and resources to increase access to Higher Education and increase student flexibility.
- Best practices focused on inclusion strategies, and facilitating broader access to disadvantaged populations, including the technology-assessment gap.
- Best practices that showcase positive aspects of diversity in your current offerings.
- Projects that demonstrate how the top leaders or administrators at your institution adapt their services and offerings to support and increase student retention.
Track 2: Student Mobility
This track is intended to showcase innovative practices that strategically use technology to support, drive, and optimize student mobility opportunities and promote the development and implementation of collaboration efforts through the innovative and strategic use of technology. Some examples include:
- Initiatives to create, modify, or enhance support services to promote student mobility and a higher level of motivation among students
- Projects that demonstrate how your institutions manage/promote student mobility
- Best practices using technology to assess student performance in student mobility initiatives, and its features and effectiveness
- Strategic use of technology to manage/deal with/support student body diversity and cultural shock
- Best practices using technology to deal with student motivation and engagement in academic experiences abroad
- Implementation of technology-based remediation, counseling, tutoring, or mentoring services in English, Spanish, or Bilingual
Track 3: Online Learning and Technology Integration
This track is intended to showcase innovative practices that strategically use technology to support, drive, and optimize courses or programs, and promote effective development and design through the innovative and strategic use of technology for online teaching and learning. We seek presentations with one of the following topics:
- Projects that demonstrate how your institution promotes quality in the online environment and its focus on closing the student learning deficit gap
- Projects that demonstrate how your institution trains faculty and administrators to design online courses and offer Distance Learning
- Projects that demonstrate how your institution manages/assures the integration of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, tablets, and smartphones, interactive tools for discussion used in classrooms and online, digital publication and learning experience, Cloud Services, design and delivery of online and hybrid programs, and Mobile Learning, focusing on demonstrations of technology usage.
- Projects that demonstrate how your institution addresses cultural diversity among students in virtual learning environments, with emphasis on immigrant Hispanic students, and providing for the acquisition and development of coping and adaptive strategies such as resiliency.
Track 4: Student Track
The student track has been created specifically by students for students to share their innovative projects. This track is intended to showcase those projects that strategically use technology to support, drive, and optimize their academic goals and/or extracurricular initiatives. We seek presentations focused on some of the following topics:
- Projects to adapt or complement your institutional student support services to promote a higher level of motivation among your peers.
- Initiatives using technology to showcase positive aspects of diversity and multicultural life in their campus environment to optimize student engagement.
- Projects that demonstrate the usefulness of new technologies like artificial intelligence, mobile technology and social media, tablets, and lecture capture, Cloud Services, among others, to increase their academic performance.
- Enhance student leadership through initiatives using technology to increase engagement in online and face-to-face activities, and academic experiences abroad.
- Projects and/or project proposals for integrating virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and other advanced technologies as part of an academic course, student portfolio, or capstone.
- Projects using technology that address social and cultural diversity among students.
- Projects that provide students with opportunities for hands-on, or active learning experiences national or international while using advanced technologies.
- Projects focused on entrepreneurial initiatives mediated by technology.
- Projects using analytics to develop new initiatives in their academic or extracurricular experiences.