Massachusetts Colleges Online (MCO)
18th Annual Conference
Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 9am - 3pm
Online via Zoom Events
Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 9am - 3pm
Online via Zoom Events
The MCO Conference is a great opportunity to explore and discuss how colleges and universities in Massachusetts design and deliver online and hybrid education. Get tips and ideas to engage students online, create accessible learning environments, innovate with technology, and manage online programs.
Who should attend?
Faculty teaching or interested in teaching online and blended courses
Administrators
Instructional Designers
Librarians
eLearning Support Staff
Register Now!
As an MCO member, we have 25 free seats reserved for this conference. You may wish to create a waiting list if your campus exceeds that number.
To register for the conference, complete the following registration form.
Keynote Presenter
Lance Eaton is the Director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College, and a Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, with a dissertation focusing on how scholars engage in academic piracy. He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on artificial intelligence generative tools in education, academic piracy, open access, OER, open pedagogy, hybrid flexible learning, and digital service learning. His musings, reflections, and ramblings can be found on his blog, By Any Other Nerd, as well as on Twitter: @leaton01
He recently taught a course on AI and education with students to develop usage policies for College Unbound. He has also recently given some of the following talks and workshops in Generative AI:
Institutional Policy Development for AI Generative Tools in Teaching and Learning (NERCOMP; March 2023)
ChatGPT, AI Generative Tools and Your Career: Parallels, Possibilities, and Problems (Rhode Island Career Development Association; February 2022)
The Future’s Already Here: AI Generative Tools and Teaching (NERCOMP; Feb 2023).
His work on generative AI policy development with students was also recently featured in the Chronicle of Higher Ed (March 2023), Teaching: What You Can Learn From Students About ChatGPT.
If I have questions?
Please email Kyle Kraus, MCO STCC Representative, with any questions.