PimaOnline Educators' Conference

POEC is currently an internal conference at Pima Community College designed and hosted by and for faculty, staff and administrators. Beyond faculty and staff presenters from Pima, POEC also features national keynote speakers and Pima student panelists.  

Pending capacity, we also invite guest colleges to join us as attendees. In past years, guest colleges have included the other PCC (Portland Community College), The State University of New York, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Northwestern Michigan College, Central Lakes College, Minnesota, and Pikes Peak State College.    

This annual conference takes place each mid-Fall and has been an entirely virtual conference taking place via D2L Brightspace, connected ALT tools, and Zoom (enabling high accessibility and Hollywood Square view of attendees). Historically, this three-day conference has taken place during regular work hours. 

If requested by a high number of registered attendees, we may shift to include morning or evening offerings. 

As reflected in past years' schedules (POEC23, POEC22, POEC21, POEC20), we welcome proposals that advance highly effective teaching, design and support practices and address our conference themes. We are always excited to find proposals that share practices relevant across all disciplines.  Historically, POEC sessions have ranged across at least four major domains:

• The Big Picture (Student-Centered Teaching/Student Voice, Classroom Community and Belonging, Equity, UDL, Accessibility, HSI practices, Student Support Practices, Contemplative Pedagogy).

• Pedagogy-Driven Edtech.  Digital Innovation for teaching and learning through D2L Brightspace, our D2L-integrated ALT edtech stack, and other edtech tools (e.g. Google Docs, Zoom whiteboards).

• High-Impact Design & Resource Development including AI for Teaching and Learning, Video-Based Learning, Interactive Online Content Design/H5P, UBD/Backward Design, HTML Templates, OER and Low-Cost/Zero-Cost Textbooks, Open Pedagogy, and other curricular and instructional design practices.

• Effective Teaching Across Modalities from web-enhanced in-person teaching, Synchronous/Virtual live teaching, and Hybrid teaching to asynchronous online teaching practices (Personalization, RSI, Digital Teaching Innovation) to practices that apply across all modalities including first-week practices (knowing our students, student orientation and LMS navigation guidance), student-teacher communication, effective discussion practices (e.g. using Packback, Perusall, D2L Discussions, etc), assessment and feedback practices, project-based learning, and what students want. 

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