Kent State University’s Office of Continuing and Distance Education will host the second annual Online Learning Symposium on Friday, Dec. 4, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. in the Kent Student Center. This year's theme is Kent State Online: Creating Community.

Please join your colleagues at the symposium for an in-depth exploration of creating and cultivating engaged, collaborative communities in online courses. The keynote speaker at the event will be Rena Palloff, Ph.D., author, faculty member, consultant and 2012 winner of the Richard Wedemeyer Award for Outstanding Practitioner in Distance Education. Palloff’s research involves organizational behavior and management and how institutions can use community to promote successful learning outcomes in online courses.

Interactive sessions will explore:

• New resources available to faculty;
• Examples of innovative work;
• Campus partner poster sessions;
• Breakout sessions on best practices; and
• Online accessibility, and much more.
  

This event, which includes brunch and an afternoon reception, is free but registration is required.

For more information and to register, visit
www.kent.edu/cde/conferences/online-learning-symposium/2015.