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HETS has defined a “best practice” as an innovative approach or strategy that, with the effective use of technology, has proven to increase recruitment, promote student success, improve student retention and completion, and provide institutions with viable, effective, and efficient approaches for Online Learning and Technology Integration in Higher Education, including Artificial Intelligence. Certainly, HETS member institutions are experts in dealing with the Hispanic population and in finding ways to provide them with opportunities to succeed. We want to open a
space to share this expertise on the following tracks:
Track 1: Access (Faculty and Administrators)
This track targets innovative projects that focus on increasing Hispanics’ access to higher education and internationalization initiatives. The project is expected to have had success in demonstrating ways to facilitate Hispanics’ understanding and awareness regarding available opportunities to access and succeed in Higher
Education. Some examples include:
- Hispanic-focused projects that use technology tools and resources to increase access to Higher Education and increase student success and mobility.
- Creative technology initiatives developed to help overcome Hispanics’ barriers to Higher Education and facilitate college entry.
- 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 and multicultural life in your current campus environment.
- Best practices in addressing the internationalization of the curriculum for both face-to-face and distance education.
Track 2: Innovation (Faculty and Administrators)
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 transform educational activities or services to serve students, including student mobility initiatives. Some examples include:
- Projects that use technology tools and resources to increase access to Higher Education and increase student flexibility.
- Projects that demonstrate how your institution designs and integrates innovative strategies.
- Best practices focused on inclusion strategies, and facilitating broader access to disadvantaged populations, including the technology-assessment gap.
- Projects that demonstrate how the top leaders or administrators at your institution adapt their services and offerings to support and increase student retention and completion.
- 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 deal with student motivation and engagement in academic experiences abroad.
Track 3: Online Learning and Technology Integration (Faculty and Administrators)
This track is intended to showcase innovative practices that strategically use technology to support, drive, and optimize online courses or programs and promote effective development and design through the innovative and strategic use of technology in distance learning. We seek presentations focused on at least one of the following topics:
- Projects that demonstrate how your institution manages/assures the integration of new technologies like 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 or M learning, among others.
- Projects and/or project proposals for integrating virtual reality, augmented reality, and other advanced technologies focusing on demonstrations of how these are integrated into the curriculum and used.
- Projects that demonstrate how virtual environments can adapt: personalized approaches to learning online, instructional design and teaching strategies, or projects that provide students with opportunities for hands-on, active learning experiences while using advanced technologies.
- 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.
- Projects and initiatives focused on transforming the institution by adapting the “entrepreneurial paradigm” mediated by technology innovations like “Hubs and Incubators.”
- Project proposals and current initiatives to implement artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies.
- Projects using analytics as a source of students’ learning assessment processes and assessment and development of existing or new virtual academic programs.
Track 4: Technology Integration (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. Some examples of the projects we are looking for are:
- 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 multicultural life in your campus environment to optimize student engagement.
- Projects that demonstrate the usefulness of new technologies like mobile technology and social media, tablets, and lecture capture, Cloud Services, among others, to increase your academic performance.
- Enhance student leadership through initiatives using technology to increase engagement in online and face-to-face activities.
- 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 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 your academic or extracurricular experiences.