Dear Commons Community,

I am still in Orlando for the Online Learning Consortium’s Accelerate Conference. 

I attended several sessions yesterday, all very informative.  The keynote, given by Dr. C. Edward Watson, Vice President for Digital Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), was excellent. Watson talked about generative AI and the quick way it has had an impact on the ways we learn, work, think, and create.  Among his themes was that while higher education’s initial response was to develop strategies to diminish AI’s influence in the classroom, it is now clear that AI competencies and literacies must be embraced as essential learning outcomes for most colleges and universities. 

I spent the evening at dinner with a dozen old friends and colleagues that was organized by Tanya Joosten of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.  Great camaraderie.

Today I will be on a panel with Patsy Moskal and Chuck Dziuban, the title of which is “Thirty Years of Online Learning Research: A History of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida” and it is at 9:15 am in the Southern Hemisphere Room II.  I would love to see you if you are at the conference.

Tony

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