"Mix It Up!" will be a real time blended demonstration presentation showing how the Online Course Improvement Program (OCIP) at New Mexico State University combines emerging technologies to provide professional development (PD) for faculty teaching blended and online courses (http://distance.nmsu.edu /faculty/ocip/). The program framework, content, strategies and technologies will be shared as well as our successes, challenges, impact, and lessons learned. Any person providing K-20+ professional development services will benefit from this presentation.

Session attendees will log into an Adobe Connect room and learn how the OCIP team utilizes emerging technologies to deliver and provide professional development. During this blended presentation, participants will engage with each other and the presenters, via discussion, polling, and activities inclusive of online attendees who will also be attending the presentation through Adobe Connect. The presentation's emphasis will be on combining technologies and formats to provide faculty PD in blended, online, asynchronous and synchronous formats.

Goals of Professional Development "Mix It Up"

• Demonstrate in "real time" how professional development can be delivered in a blended format by utilizing Adobe Connect (a web conferencing system, http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect. html)
• Share best practices in professional development utilizing different modes of delivery formats
• Share open educational resources curated by the Online Course Improvement team including PBworks, Pinterest, and Learnist.

As You Like It! Combining Emerging Technologies for Faculty PD poster session will share how the Online Course Improvement Program (OCIP) at New Mexico State University combines emerging technologies and a research-based approach to support higher education faculty teaching blended and online courses. The use of different emerging technologies will be contextualized within the program's goals, framework, and strategies. Four years of data collected from faculty and students will highlight successes, challenges, and lessons learned. Take aways from this session include resources and models such as the OCIP Resources wiki, digital collections (Pinterest, etc.), and using blended webconferencing.

OCIP's use of emerging technologies allows it to provide services to NMSU faculty on five campuses, as they like it! Thus the 24/7 nature of many emerging technologies, and their synchronous and asynchronous aspects are leveraged to foster learning community to meet OCIP's primary goal of supporting faculty in quality online teaching and learning. The Quality Matters Rubric serves as the framework for the program and organizing mechanism for the PD (Maryland Online, 2010). Ongoing faculty engagement is fostered by topical monthly PD learning cycles of blended webinars, discussion, open labs, and integration of resources into a wiki.

OCIP includes in-depth professional development via the One Year Plus Fellowship (1Y+). With the small 1Y+ cohort, OCIP can more readily foster online learning community (OLC). As first-time online learners and members of an OLC, many 1Y+ Fellows have reported what studies clearly show that presence, connection and engagement among online learners positively contributes to their satisfaction and increases successful achievement of learning outcomes (Palloff & Pratt, 2005; Ebersole, 2012).

In order to provide PD, OCIP combines emerging technologies such as Adobe Connect, Skype, PBworks, Google Drive, Google Calendar, the program website, a learning management system, and digital curation spaces (Pinterest, Learni.st, etc.). Combining technologies supports access in blended, online, asynchronous and synchronous formats. Blended formats, as in, there are face-to-face attendees and online attendees participating in the same real-time event. The OCIP Resource Center wiki (http://bit.ly/pQM0ZO) is readily available to anyone with Internet connectivity. It houses the archived blended webinars and links to additional resources. To the maximum extent possible all program services such as course reviews, Let's Talk Online Teaching (LTOT) sessions, open labs and workshops, are provided using Connect, Skype, and Google Drive.

Four years of OCIP data show it has had its successes and made progress in meeting its goals. Faculty value the peer-to-peer interactions, have experienced ah-ha's and some report transformative experiences. Student feedback on course evaluations indicate redesigned blended and online courses have had a positive impact on their engagement and learning. Additionally, in developing, implementing, improving, and evaluating the program, the OCIP team has learned some valuable lessons worth sharing.

Although OCIP serves higher education faculty, this poster session will be useful to people starting or already providing a professional development program for K-20+ faculty teaching blended and online courses.

References
Ebersole, S. (Dec., 2012). Online learning communities: Connecting with success. The Journal of Education, Community, And Values, 12 (12). Retrieved from http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/article.php?id=382

Maryland Online (2010). Quality Matters Rubric Standards 2011-2013 edition. Retrieved from http://www.qmprogram.org/rubric

Palloff, R. & Pratt, K. (2005). Collaborating online: Learning together in community. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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