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Retention and Assessment efforts in Distance Learning

This track is intended to showcase innovative practices that strategically use technology to support, drive, and optimize retention of Hispanic students in online courses, and promoting the effective development and implementation of assessment efforts through the innovative and strategic use of technology in Distance Learning. It considers projects that innovatively and strategically use technology to track, measure, support, and assess Hispanic student learning success and projects that demonstrate how their approach has had a significant impact on their success in supporting and increasing Hispanic student retention in online courses or programs. Some examples include:

1. Projects that demonstrate how your institution adapt student support services to promote a higher level of motivation among students in the online environment

2. Projects that demonstrate how your institutions manage/perform student assessment in distance education

3. Best practices using technology to assess students performance in online environments ,and its features and effectiveness

4. Strategic use of technology to manage/deal/support student body diversity in distance education and cultural shock avoidance in the online environment

5. Projects that demonstrate how your institution promote quality in the online environment

 

Equivalence

This track is intended to showcase innovative practices that strategically use technology to manage/assure contact hours equivalence of activities between distance education and regular courses.

1. Projects that demonstrate  how your institutions manage/assure contact hours equivalence of activities between distance education and regular courses

2. Best practices addressing equivalence issues among face-to-face education and distance education

 

Authentication

This track is intended to showcase innovative practices that strategically use technology to support, and optimize student’s authentication in Distance Learning. It considers projects that innovatively and strategically use technology to measure and assure in online courses or programs. Some examples include:

1. Projects that demonstrate how your institution manage/assure student authentication in the online environment using strategic technology, besides username and password, in the students’ authentication process

2. Best practices addressing authentication issues in distance learning