Pre-conference activities.

Keynote web casts.

Keynote chat sessions.

Web presentations (papers & posters).

Presenter chat sessions (papers & posters).

Open forums (bulletin board).

Help Desk (TCCHELP-L).

Ability to locate papers and discussion topics of interest to you.

Your interaction with participants and speakers.

Conference web site.

Video tours of Hawai'i.

Benefit of this event to your professional development.

How many papers did you read?

How many hours per day did you spend on the conference?

For which activity did you spend the most amount of time?

For which activity did you spend the least amount of time?

Which of the following activities were helpful in creating a learning community among your peers?

What motivated you to participate in the online conference activities:

Has the conference activities helped you to develop working relationships with your peers?

How often did you participate in the discussion forums?

How often did you participate in the chat sessions?

Conference theme (Student Experience).

Effectiveness and usefulness of pre-conference and conference information.

The overall conference schedule.

Quality of your communication with the conference staff.

Quality of technical support received.

Registration procedures.

Conference fee schedule.

Feeling of belonging to a conference "community."

What were the strongest features of this conference?

# Response
1 - The async communication - Printer-friendly versions of all presentations - Live webcasts
1 -online...flexible with personal schedules -many opportunities to engage with other professionals and students in webcasts, chats, and discussions.
1 Ability to interact with people from all over the world. The feeling of belonging to a global community of learners was fabulous.
1 Access to information-at any time
1 Availability of materials after conference has concluded
1 Being able to communicate with others
1 Broad range of materials
1 Building communities internationally and between professors and students.
1 Bulletin board discussions Preconference activities Papers Very well organized
1 Cafeteria style approach was very good.
1 Chat sessions
1 community building
1 discussion forums and admin/tech support - emails etc received.
1 Diversity of papers and international interaction.
1 Ease of access; multiple timing; ability to join at will
1 everything!
1 Excellent key notes. Webcast technology.
1 Excellent keynotes. Strong papers. Super preconference with Rod Corbett.
1 Excellent papers.
1 For me, the strongest feature were the asynchronous discussion forums.
1 Getting more experience in synchronous and asynchronous modes of distance learning. Experience with live keynotes. Ability to review sessions missed.
1 Great organization of papers and chats Smooth webcasts (when not using video) Fun pre-conference activity
1 Great sessions, wonderful articles
1 having access to information on topics related to my teaching
1 I enjoyed many aspects of the conference. The discussion boards were great, and the ability to receive e-mail notifications for the ones you were most interested in was a definite plus.
1 I loved the audio of the presenters and the chat sessions referring to the presentations.
1 I really enjoyed the materials presented by Rod Corbett. They were well organized, rich with resources, applied good instructional design strategies, and applicable to all disciplines. This guy is a gem and I'd highly recommend him as a keynote for next year. No, I don't know him, never met/heard of him, and I'm not being paid. His materials alone made the conference worth the price of registration for me.
1 I think the live voice webcast with chat faclilty, because I was so happy that it worlked almost bug free for my Macintosh connection (which is not the usual experience I have witt web communication including voice).
1 I think the overall environment is wonderful. The chat sessions really help foster a very open feeling - great sense of community.
1 I thought the conference was excellent. I have been attending this conference off and on since 1997. I continue to find the quality of the presentations outstanding and very helpful in terms of keeping me current.
1 iits comprehensiveness
1 It was very interesting themes, presentations
1 Let me say, this was an outstanding conference. I've done this twice before, but those other times, I didn't cancel classes and "attend" the conference, I lurked, mostly after the fact. This year, I devoted myself to the conference and I had a wonderful experience. For me, the theme was outstanding, and I learned a great deal from the presentations, papers, and chat sessions. I did feel a "part" of the conference, and it seems to me that you guys make conscious efforts to build community among participants, and that's probably the strongest feature.
1 Many of the papers are now being written with shorter lines and shorter paragraphs. The writers seem to be more cognizant of the online reader. When I started going to this conference 5-6 years ago, I found that I had to copy the papers into Word and divide the paragraphs into smaller bits, so that I could read them on the computer screen.
1 meeting peers from all over the world
1 Online keynote addresses. I
1 Overall organisation and variety of conference interaction.
1 Possibility of bringing together a large number of professionals without the travel costs and hassles!
1 Pre conference presentations
1 Quality of the presenters, excellent theme choice
1 see above
1 Some really excellent papers adn presentations
1 Te quality of the papers.
1 The ability to had the web (audio/video) presentations (horizonelive)
1 The ability to participate in a conference from home; learning to navigate the web site, participate in preconference activities, and the ULiveandLearn webcasts forced me to become a student and learn even more than going to a conference where I might just sit and watch/listen to lecturers or their presentations - hands on experience!
1 The ability to see what other people/campuses are doing in the online environment. To gather ideas from peers.
1 The chat sessions were informative and active.
1 the chats
1 the community of sharing new ideas, getting to know new colleagues
1 The content! Wonderful stuff!
1 The depth of knowledge and the commitement to share.
1 The ease of navigating the site and the excellent communication from the conference staff.
1 The enthusiasm brought to the conference by presenters and particpants alike. It was a joy to engage in discussion with people who have such a great interest in the area and to share in their experiences.
1 The fact tht is was international; the use of webcast which is a new interest for me.
1 The feeling of a conference community. I think the informational, but informal messages from Bert are part of that. The frequency of messages as we got closer to the event draws participants in.
1 The focus on the student experience
1 The Horizon Live presentations were terrific. The workshop by the folks who did an assessment tool on the MOO was also outstanding. In general, the strength of the conference was in its organization, timing and scheduling, and ability to deal with glitches as they appeared.
1 The keynotes, and comments from peers. I also like the student experience section immensely.
1 The live webcasts and the interactive chats. Would prefer more of these to be timed to suit Australian time zones.
1 The multiple methods of interactivity
1 The papers were about topics (primarily) that everyone could relate to. Matt Wasowski's presentation, Carla Payne chat, Jennifer McLEarn papers, schedule with hyperlinks was excellent
1 The papers were concise and applicable. The format of being able to read a paper, attend a webcast, and then chat with the presenter created a great learning environment. Being able to read the papers ahead of time helped me to plan my time.
1 The papers were EXCELLENT this year.
1 The strongest feature was having so many people from so msnay parts of the world and so many areas of expertise.
1 The student perspective - keynote speakers and board discussions wonderful
1 The theme is very relevant. Most papers / presentations were based on hands-on experience.
1 The vast diversity of viewpoints.
1 The webcast sessions were very excellent and the speakers responded very well to the running comments in the chat. Do more of these.
1 Theme
1 There was a wealth of information available, though I struggled to find time to keep up with it all.
1 There were several ways to interact with the presentations and presenters which was appealing to many learning styles.
1 This was an excellent conference---wonderful use of technology and expertise in the field of education
1 This was my first conference and everything seemed easy to access
1 Topics and flexibility to tune into webcasts and discussions at any time.
1 Useful information.
1 Web cast when it worked properly.
1 Web casting
1 Web pages & presentations
1 Webcasts and chats.
1 Well organised. Extremely professional. Friendly and accesible.
1 Well organized web site. Live webcasts.
1 Wide variety of experts presenting in differenct venues

What significant problems, if any, did you encounter?

# Response
1 1. Netscape kept crashing. So it was necessary to use Internet Explorer. 2. Movie clips provided in web presentations did not work properly.
1 loss of my chatlog
1 1. Trying to figure out the time in AZ relative to the scheduled time for the events. This is a problem peculiar to AZ, because we do not go onto Daylight Savings Time. Our time is the same all year round. I would say that is MY problem, but I wonder if a note could be made for the states for whom that is true. 2. Trying to keep up with the chat at the same time that the keynote presentations were going on was frustrating. Again, that is probably due to my lack of experience at listening and chatting at the same tiem.
1 Any technical "local" problems - we have one IT person and he does not have time to figure out how to 'download" programs
1 Audio during webcast
1 could not download or view any of the Quick Time movies
1 couldn't see the videos in the student experience
1 Everything went smoothly-well organized, planned, and executed. My challenge was that the conference occurred during the busiest time of year for me - during registration and our annual fund raising event-both of which I am heavily involved with.
1 figuring out the schedule - still not sure what previous meant on the GMT time chart - think the information on time gets better every year but think it would be helpful if one could see the time conversion in the schedule itself somehow.
1 Finding my password! -but I clearly found it :-)
1 Finding/making time (a common problem, I assume)
1 Forgot the login id and password
1 Getting enough time to participate.
1 Getting the hang of working with GMT and my own time. However, once I got it figured out, I had no trouble.
1 Having enough hours in the day! Need to have the schedule of chat times and keynotes earlier, so I can convert the time and make Posters for the Faculty Media Center, where we provided local support of newbies to this conference.
1 I could not get the Web Casts to play.
1 I couldn't access the student voices section, but when the Windows media files were set in place, I could see the films then (they were terrific). I had this same problem with the Hawaii tours, which I never did get to see.
1 I encountered no problems.
1 I had some problems with some of the video downloads...bad links that wouldn't open...but these were corrected fairly quickly by your staff. (Note, my problem was software or plug-ins, the ones that had the correct pointers worked great.)
1 I missed the first two presentations due to not knowing the schedule sooner. It would be nice to see the first half-day's schedule (who presents which topic and at what time) earlier than that morning for planning purposes.
1 I only had a problem with my Uliveand Learn messages. They did not display my name, altho I loggged in and my name appeared as a participant. It happened in all three webcasts I sai in on, so I must not have set something up correctly.
1 I should have starting reading the papers more in advance, in order to partcipate in the discussions/chats.
1 I think navigating through the site could be much easier. In particular, I found it frustrating that there were no links from papers to their associated chat sessions or even to a schedule showing when and where a chat for that paper would be held. Once I read a paper and then went crazy trying to find it on the chat schedule - this could definitely be improved.
1 I was busy during many of the keynotes. Going to archives, it seems I always have to start at the beginning again. It would be nice to be able to fast forward to where I left off. If this is possible, I missed the info as to how.
1 It took until the second day for you to get our web address on the paper correct.
1 It was very very hard for me to get a grasp as to topics that would interest me... perhaps the program could be classified somehow, by tracks or topics? The list of presentations in alpha order was not enough to really comprehend what was going on, what topics were being discussed. There was so much information that it was difficult to get an overview of issues. Also, the chats are a great opportunity for meeting peers, as a presenter I would have liked to know the full names of the persons in the chat room, their affiliations, perhaps their photograph - chat sessions were usually small groups, so it would not be a great burden for the presenter to be able to glance at the list of names and affiliations of persons participating.
1 Keynotes almost always had video or ppt slides missing. Neede to constantly go to "lobby" to reconnect audio or get slides/video on screen. HorizonLive need some work.
1 Links on the conference site didn't work. Links in the email were incorrect.
1 Main limitation is probably outwith your control - being in UK, the timing of the webcasts I was interested in tended to be after ny bedtime!
1 Missed live presentations because could not figure out time differences.
1 Most synchronous sessions were difficult to reach in Euro-friendly hours
1 My computer crashed twicve while accessing a webcast live.
1 My Institute firewall wouldn't let me access webcasts ans chat.
1 My own computer's aged technology reduced my ability to receive the webcasts quickly and without breaks or delays. I also had more questions about navigating in the forum than were answered in FAQ - I think a more in-depth explanation of the forum would be helpful. I was also confused about the chat room discussion times - I wasn't sure if the presentation (not the webcasts/keynote sessions) chats were starting at the time listed on the schedule or not (some started within 10 minutes of each other it looked like on the schedule) and how long they were supposed to last and if one could join in after the time indicated on the schedule - anyway, that part was confusing to me.
1 My personal schedule interfered with my ability to participate in most of the interactive sessions.
1 NA
1 no problems with the conference (other than distractions in my office)
1 No significant problems
1 no significant problems although I found the forum soft ware a bit clunky..I prefer to be able to reply to individual messages rather than to an entire thread
9 None
1 none of significance
3 none.
1 None. Well getting up at 3:45 am in the morning for a 4:00 am webcast. I didn't mind really, it was all part of being part of an international scene.
1 None...all systems worked wonderfully!
1 Not having schedules further in advance to plan.
1 nothing
1 nothing really.
1 On my computer at home I could not use the chat which limited me a lot because there were many papers I wanted to chat about.
1 Only one, which was a bit disappointing. I was listening to a presenter and he put up a video and at one point (in the beginning), I was cut off. It was fine until the video went up and then shut down. I could not get back in in time to hear the rest of his presentation.
1 Only the timing of some of the web casts and chats.
1 Only with my own computer. These were solved fairly quickly.
1 sightseeing is only in quicktime.
1 The changing webcast times. This was a great frustration for me. It is part of why I was not able to attend any, except one. the other part was that I had an emergency come up on my job that I had to attend to on Day 2 of the conference.
1 The conference was held at perhaps the busiest time in the semester when I am extremely busy working with students and hearing their "voices' firsthand, thus I was not able to participate in any chat sessions.
1 The emails should have had the URLs in the messages in a configuration that would allow a simple click to move to that site.
1 The GMT time. In our country we have problems with computer and internet
1 The requirement to download real player and quicktime.
1 The schedule appeared far too late to be of any use in planning ahead. For those not in the US, the time difference means it's necessary to know if a discussion is happening at, for example, 2am so that contingency plans can be made for the working day. Not releasing that schedule until the latest possible moment meant that my attendance at discussions I would like to join was significantly curtailed.
1 The tag "Junior member" was a very bad idea. Active young people appeared to swamp and discourage discussion, even though the comments from young folks were good. It seemed though as if graduate students had taken over the discussions.
1 The time changes, GMT...totally foreign concept to me. Also, the sessions were very late in the day, after working hours. Sessions need to be earlier or more offerings of the same session would help a lot. I missed sessions because they were at night. I still cannot convert the GMT. Way too confusing. Put it on EST and I can convert very easily.
1 The understanding of concepts, such as "hybrid" learning differs. This makes it difficult to generalise the findings of other researchers in the field. It appeared as if the schedule was adapted automatically for different time zones. This did not actually happen.
1 This conference always occurs at end of term for me which makes it so difficult to find time away to attend.
1 This was during my final exam week so I could not spend time online. The papers were very useful but I would like liked and benefited from online interaction. The preconference materials state that people log on for a few hours a day and continue their regular work schedule. With the wealth of information, I would have preferred to have been able to be online most of the day. Please consider holding this during the summer months when many teachers do not have teaching responsibilities.
1 This was my first online conference, and I did not prepare myself for allocating time (this was also hampered by my having an unexpectedly hectic week at work). I failed to read in advance the tip that said I should set aside specific time just like a f2f experience. I read that after the conference started - and had already missed all of the pre-conference stuff that a newbie like me should have participated in.
1 Time computing as much as you all tried to help us. When I would see something I wanted to do, I would have missed it already.
1 Time difference to see livenet presentations.
1 Time zone - could not attend chats as they were scheduled for 2, 3,4 in the morning. The exchange rate!!!
1 Time zone difference - College Easter break meant that participation from my end was not as good as I would have liked it to be
1 Time zones! the webcasts etc were not very friendly to southern hemisphere people, and I also have difficulty workig out time xones:-)
1 Timing was a problem. Time management of my job and times in the conference. The virutal "conference" environment is new to me, I would do it different next time (plan time better)
1 Took too long to get horizon up on my iMac...missed a whole session it was so slow. Moved to a PC laptop instead.
1 We were bumped off our own browsers when viewing one webcast. But that was just a glitch. I had a hard time reading or following the times for the calendar. There was too much information in text form to wade through as opposed to at-a-glance visuals. It could just be the organization of the material was hard to decipher at times.

The overall quality of this year's conference was . . .

# Response
1 very good and fun.
1 A lot of good topics; in fact, a bit overwhelming trying to decide what to look at and/or listen to on each day.
1 Amazing. Superlative.
1 Don't feel I was able to participate enough nor have had previous experience to judge. Seemed to be a lot of people there so that certainly attests to the diversity of participation
1 Enthusiasm was high. Quality was... variable. The webcasts were a great idea, and the archiving of everything is terrific and means (I hope) that I can revisit things I was unable to attend due to scheduling problems. I was disappointed that people attended discussions with paper authors and hadn't read the papers in advance since the level of discussion in a couple of cases wasn't as high as I would have expected.
1 Even better than last year's. I believe that as the participants are growing increasingly familiar with online technology, the more they can focus on what they're learning at the conference as opposed to just trying to manage the technology behind it.
3 Excellent
1 Excellent
1 Excellent & informative. This was my first online conference, so yours will become my benchmark for future online conference.
1 Excellent - offering a wide variety of choice and it was great to see our Australian participation.
1 Excellent ...My First....I wish I had more time to participate. I see the advantage of 'leaving' work and going somewhere else for conferences.
1 Excellent keynotes. Lots of tips, information. The ADA keynote presentation was the most relevant for me.
2 excellent!
1 Excellent!
1 Excellent! I will definitely plan to "attend" next year's conference. And spread the word!
1 Excellent, very rewarding with interesting presentations and information available.
1 Excellent--Mahalo!!
1 Excellent-I really enjoyed the speakers and discussions.
2 Excellent.
1 Excellent. I really like the special presentation on learning about games.
1 Excellent. I will attend every year.
1 Excellent. Looking forward to one in 2004!
1 Excellent.....well done.
1 Exceptional. I participate every year.
1 fine
6 good
1 Good quality conference
1 Good to excellent. Though I personally would need to have more time during day to focus my efforts on conference alone. When you go to conference you focus on that conference alone. When you are online, you normal worklife surrounds you and calls you away.
1 good, but I could not participate as fully as I would have liked, due not only to time zone problems, but other committments on two of the three days.
1 good- is it too short?
1 Good-excellent
1 Good. I enjoyed speaking with colleagues and was impressed with the overall quality of the presentations and the knowledge of presenters and attendees.
1 Good. (4 out of 5)
2 Great
1 Great articles...WOW.
1 great.
1 great. I had a good time. I lliked the fact we could "attend" the week before and get acclimatized to all the features.
1 I enjoyed it. It was very good.
1 I thought it was useful time spent.
1 I thought the quality of presentations was very high and I enjoyed the chat sessions i participated in..the forum discussions seemed a bit underwhelming though
1 It was great; my first time, but not my last. I learned a lot. I would really like to see more video. You folks were great--patient and helpful.
1 It was outstanding! I'm very glad that I can access the whole thing when I have time since I had class for most of the conference. This is a necesity.
1 Loved hearing the student voice. Keep this strand going next year. Want to hear younger students and community college students.
1 My first ever - can't compare.
1 Not so hot. Few Interesting papers or discussions.
1 ok
2 OK.
1 Outstanding - hats off to the conference organizers. Best of all, my professional development doesn't end with the conference. As I read papers, I can go back to the archives. Thank you!
1 pretty good - I enjoyed the sessions I attended
1 pretty good - my first time here.
1 Pretty useful
1 Really excellent
1 Super! I wasn't so drawn to the topic as a whole, but surprisingly found many pieces of inspiration to take back with me to the classroom. I love your conference!
1 The best yet.....hope the ulivehorizon keynotes continue to be available for a while.
1 The website was not as inviting/welcoming as years past. The monochromatic colors looked more sophisticated and the organization of web information was more streamlined and efficient looking. The overall effect was colder and distant. If that effect was meant to be achieved, it was successful. It looked like a corporate site. In my opinion, this site minimized the warmth and friendliness usually associated with Hawaii and in the past created a uniqueness in participating with this particular conference. The coconut lounge was not occupied any time I logged on. Again, it didn't appear that conferees were guided to drop in and chat as before. The store and postcards from Hawaii was a nice feature that was missed this time. Although this feature may not generate much activity, it lended a more tourist flavor in tune with a tropical location.
1 This was my first conference - congratulations to all concerned. A great online experience!
1 This was my first time at the conference. I thought it was well done. What I appreciate most is the presenters willingness to continue dialogue AFTER the conference and on an individual basis. Thanks! for finding such open and giving people!
5 very good
1 Very good. It was enjoyable.
1 Very good. Wide range of itneresting papers.

Please provide any additional comments or suggestions about THIS YEAR'S conference.

# Response
1 A complete schedule prior to the conference may have been helpful to decide what to attend on each day. Just as with a f2f conference, I need to spend time with the agenda to plan my schedule. Perhaps dividing the topics into "tracks" would have helped organize the topics and help focus the participants. There was way too much pre-conference information that did not assist in knowing what was going on with the conference. In fact, it all became quite confusing.
1 A lot of great ideas evolved from the chats...but I was a bit disappointed in the number of participants in the chat rooms at any one time--usually no more than 15-20 people across all rooms. Most probably due to conflicts with individual's local times. I appreciate the considerable effort you have put forth to create a flexible schedule to meet various time zones. As part of the evaluation results, it would be interesting to see a general breakdown of participants by geographic area. Thanks for a great conference!
1 As mentioned above, Going to archives, it seems I always have to start at the beginning again. It would be nice to be able to fast forward to where I left off. If this is possible, I missed the info as to how. As I mention below, Would like to be able to access specific help on subject matter. I teach Math-predominately Elementary Algebra - and would like to know how the math is handled through WebCT. How to make graphs for on-line quizzes, etc. Last: At times I had to leave a chat, or join a chat late, it would have been nice to see all of the past chat. Although I know if I left an on-ground chat I would miss what was said too-it just seems that it would be a nice benefit.
1 Bravo --- you all did a great job. I look forward to the next one.
1 Chat sessions a bit hard to find - no radio button to locate them easily.
1 Daily announcements and contact form the staff was superior.
1 Dates coincided with our Easter break and so was good to be able to focus on the conference then. However, parts of the conference were happening during our ANZAC day celebrations on April 25 and this was a problem for access.
1 Each year I'm impressed with both the technology improvements (LiveandLearn) and the knowledge base created by practioners in the field.
1 First time I have joined this conference. I definitely will be back next year.
1 Have another fun pre-conference activity like this year. My computer passed the pre-conference test but still didn't handle the chats so maybe an emphasis and exercise to try boards and chats during this early time.
1 Hmmmm, this was my first one and think that I need more experience to provide useful suggestions! Oh, well, one thing that was frustrating is that the conference was held near the end of the semester and I couldn't attend several parts of it. It would be better if it were held during a break (summer, spring break, etc.) although I imagine that each part of the world has different school schedules... Regarding your question #35: the answer really depends on when the schedule is held - if during the school year, then the best time for chats is in the evening. If held during a break, then anytime.
1 I am probably mistaken, but I thought there were also going to be virtual vendor exhibits; if there were, I never found them. Also, probably due to the time zone "thing" I was only able to make one of the Keynote webcasts and seldom (if ever) found anyone in the R&R chat room. The one webcast I did attend was TERRIFIC.
1 I completely enjoyed this conference, and plan to participate every year. I have already suggested it to a fellow grad student at the KSU library.
1 i like the preconference
1 i looked for the link to the coconut room on the homepage of the conference
1 I missed my hawaiian postcards with the great music that we had last year. I was also wondering about the exhibits? Were there none this year?
1 I noticed that some of the international people did not participate, even though you gave them gifts of enrollment. Maybe their computers and time are needing improvements.
1 I paid by crdit card but it was not apparent how I would get my receipt. Still waiting for a response from Bert. The GMT table was useful and confusing. I'm not an expert but I associtae GMT with London time which varis with its day-light saving. I think you should have stuck to the term UTS (?) which feels more absolute in its definition. The table of events expressed in GMT time ws excellent but could have been improved in two ways. One, the table needed an extra blank column so we could write in our local time on a printed copy and thereby have a localised timetable. Second, the parallel events needed to be shown as parallel. It was very confusing to see two or thre events starting at the same time but but listed one after another. A solution to this might be to insert 'dummy events' after the last event of a one hour period which is blank and therefore shows as a blank line on the timetable. --Greg Webb
1 I really enjoyed having the uliveconference speakers hold chats afterwards. You could attend the archive and then catch them for a chat.....GREAT!
1 I was a little disappointed in the level of interaction in the discussion forums. Only a few voices speaking up.
1 I was extremely impressed with the quality of TCC 2003. This was my first online conference and was delighted with all the features that were offered!
1 I was unable to participate in the preconference activities because last week was Holy Week - a national holiday, and I did not have access to my office Internet connection.
1 I wish discussion threads and chats had been better attended. But you can't control that. It was a good experience for me. I would do it again.
1 I wish I could have participated more fully, but the format allowed me to at least hear the keynote speakers and the discussions, and to read papers and look over the forums.
1 I wish I had had more time to interact, but will get back to the site some day to read chtalogs and papers, as I still consider the shared information as an important knowledge repository
1 I would have liked paper organized by subject matter.
1 I would suggest having some sort of scrolling message in the Chat room lobby, broadcasting the theme in each room. That way I, as a participant, don't blindly enter a chat room without knowing what the theme/focus is.
1 Is it possible to have presenters videoed rather than their picture on the side when the audio is going. That is effective, but I was surprised they were not videoed. What is the reason for this? bonnie@aghai.com (please respond if possible; I am very interested). thank you
1 It was better than last year. Every year you have good experience
1 It was very good. I did have a few navigation problems when I kept going to the pre-conference site instead of the actual conference home page. I finally put the links all in one document and referred to it to ease navigation.
1 It would be helpful to have a way to see if there are people in the chat room before entering.
1 keep it up guys, good job.
1 Keep it up.
1 Let's do it again--please!
1 My only comment is that since this was my first online conference, I was too hesitant to participate as much as I should have. Because of my class schedule, I ended up having much less time to devote to this. I needed to seriously re-arrange things, but by the time I realized that, it was too late. I'm not going to let that happen again because I think I could really like and enjoy online conferences.
1 N/A I loved it
1 Next year I will make myself totally unavailable and may do conference from home.
1 none
1 One of the days was a jewish holiday that limited the participation in the conference
1 People were friendly and very helpful during chat.
1 Really couldn't find a "tour" of the conference modes. Had a hard time figuring out the various "passwords" and where they were needed.
1 Reinstate the tropical features that make this conference unique.
1 See above.
1 Some live events hard to view from Australia however this small inconvenience. Could participants be emailed conference program week prior in future to enable personal planning etc.
1 Thanks for all of the hard work - you really do a great job overall
1 The conference has one overriding problem: participants do not communicate. If you look at the postings for forums in 2002 and 2003 they are very poor. While over a hundred may view a thread, very few are posting. It makes you wonder where people are at in their heads about online learning...do they still see it as information gathering, open the head and passive receiving? It seems so. Many of the forums would have fallen over without the Australian contingent this year and their posting rate was way out of proportion to their numbers. What does that say about the way the Australians are approaching/developing online learning? What needs to happen for TCC to be a viable learning community?
1 The conference staff is really so helpful and should all be commended for their tireless efforts.
1 The java chat, for me, is a problem - it crashes a lot even though I have a computer that is only a year old. My really big sorrow was the loss of MOO (not sure when this changed since I haven't attended for a few years) - chat just isn't the same and it was quite clear in the discourse that occurred in the chat rooms that many participants were limited by the affordances of the chat technology. From the point of view of presentations, a MOO interface like encore that supports web touring, for example, would have allowed presenters to illustrate their presentations or even show appropriate slides in the way that occurred during the webcasts. The benefits, however, would be that participants would all participate via the same medium (rather than the presenters using voice and the audience text to communicate, as in the webcasts). While MOO can be quite complicated (which is presumably why chat is now used?) it really does, in my opinion, offer a richer experience than chat.
1 The success or otherwise really depends on how much the participant wants to put in. The forums were surprisingly under used given the number of people registered.
1 This was my first experience with an online conference and I was pleasantly surprised. You've set the bar high for future comparisons.
1 too short, not enough asynchronous activity/participation, maybe some social areas would help- the boards were very straight to the point to begin with.
1 Unfortunately, the schedule was such that most of the time we were unable to participate (time zone differenences)
1 Why is the date set for this time in the semester?

When should the TCC conference be held annually?

What time (GMT) is best for chat sessions?

What forum topics would you suggest?

# Response
1 - Handheld technology in education - International collaboration - Best practices for... (a wide open theme)
1 ??
1 A forum where all conference participants share learning and teaching strategies, compulsary to make a few postings in this forum to encourage participation. Inform participants prior to conference for preparation purposes.
1 A lis of web sites that would be useful for students to practice skills.
1 A look at specific technologies being used to facilitate online learning. I think everyone has a good grasp of the pedagogy and methods of web-based instruction, now the medium of how it's delivered should be touched upon.
1 a variety is nice, this conference had good variety
1 Accessibility, diversity and e-learning communities of practice
1 As I come from business, I'm not sure my suggestions would be appropriate. The only thing I could think of was something along the lines of helping students learn like they will learn on the job.
1 At this time I have no idea.
1 Distance Learning - Enrichment (DL-E)
1 enrollment limits
1 hybrid courses vs. fully online
1 I liked the freedom shown to set up topics of interest
1 I think presentations in chat that are discussions of theory and practice might work as well or better in webcast formats.
1 I would like to see topics that really break new ground and give participants a chance to share resources as well as ideas
1 I'm a beginner in online courses, so topics related to the very basics would be helpful to me.
1 Instructional design
1 Learning, Teaching, and Conducting Research on the Web
1 maybe a brainstorm activity.
1 Maybe a preconference, or even conference activity, would require everybody to post an introduction about themselves.
1 Mentoring and coaching for teachers online.
1 More on preparing students to participate in this type of exchange, and more on preparing faculty to get the most out of the material. Suggestions about how to organize the enormous amount of information that comes through an event like this. Women and Technology
1 Multicultural impact on students
1 My interest lies in Student Services and I really enjoyed paper dealing with tutoring online idea and how I could get something like this for rural Alaska.
1 need to continue thye focus on the student
1 No suggestions.
1 non-formal learning, harnessing the anarchy of the internet, open source platforms etc, a social place
1 Not experienced enough to know
1 Nothing springs to mind - I guess it would depend on the conference theme, however adoption of ELearning in institutions (by managers etc) appears to be a consistent issue people are dealing with.
1 On-line tutoring. Mechanisms to get students to self edit their writing, or respond to peer suggestions.
1 Perhaps a live keynote with students
1 Professional development activities for online faculty Successful models for online courses Retention
1 Retaining on-line students.
1 Retaining students in an online environment (no dropping classes) Software tools used to communicate online/creative uses of them
1 Sharing of lesson plans for online interaction.
1 So much has changed so quickly. Just this week, I found directions on how to get into the Caucus function at UHM. Yet, the reds and yellows continue to be out there, as the Maui speakers pointed out. How will we get people up to speed so they participate in these excellent opportunities?
1 strategy training good practice in moderating synchronous and asynchronous discussions towards a definition of the independent learner
1 Teacher training to keep up to date and NOT stressed out with everychanging challenges of working with technology
1 Teaching of corporate management in online, human resource management
1 The one used is fine.
1 Using blogs to teach writing What is the "classroom environment" like for the online student - computer in the living room? home office? local library? cybercafe?
1 Using publisher materials, copyright and DL, other forms of DL including ITV, telecourses, more on synchronous learning (HorizonLive is GREAT), WIMBA, etc.
1 What are some key differences to be aware of between online and hybrid classes?
1 What do students expect from faculty?
1 Would like to be able to access specific help on subject matter. I teach Math-predominately Elementary Algebra and would like to know how the math is handled through WebCT. How to make graphs for on-line quizzes, etc.
1 Your best online learning strategies -- provide your tips here Favorite tools for developing online courses How to use audio effectively How to use video effectively How do you evaluate the effectiveness of your online course? The future of distance education The use of avatars and virtual classrooms in the online course Roleplaying and simulation: how to use it in the online classroom Keeping it lively: Managing effective chats and helping students tune their "ears" in a noisy chat room.

What future conference theme would you suggest?

# Response
1 1. Copyright and distance education. 2. Library support for distance education
1 ??
1 Assessment - Yes and how?
1 Best Practices that take less time.
1 Beyond Distance Learning....Universal Classroom Technology Integration
1 Cognitive Models and Web Technologies
1 Continue the international/global theme.
1 Cool Tools, Hot Tips and Snazzy Techniques: Successful Online Teaching Strategies Tools, Tips and Techniques: Successful Online Teaching Strategies Building a Learning Community: Online Strategies and Methods The Learning Environment: From Development through Assessment
1 Disciplines and online learning
1 Economic themes in online and experience of teachers.
1 Educators as lifelong learners
1 Engagement. Ways to engage the learner and keep them.
1 Enhancing Learning with Technology
1 faculty loading
1 Global Education: What kind of an education do community college students need to prepare them to be citizens in a "global village" No Adult Left Behind: Let's take up the subject of why so many of our students come to us under-prepared. I'm sure there are enough programs out there that are trying to change this. What works, what doesn't. Do we need some drastic changes, and can technology help us accomplish that? How do we fund these expensive new technologies. Etc., etc. Wired vs. Wireless: Will wireless technologies change the way we conduct educational activities?
1 Hard science and the online community Can lab intensive classes be taught effectively online?
1 Hybrid Learning.....continue this.....with various themes. Is it cost effective? Can it enhance learning? Etc.
1 I liked the student centered theme... maybe a theme on collaboration and making it work (for students in the classroom and for faculty to collaborate with each other)
1 I'd like to see more emphasis on hands on work with online collaborative content free learning
1 Increasing not only global participation, but increasing cyberspace usefulness across all disciplines in academic settings. Continue to develop what exists, and consistently develop what you have achieved already.
1 Learning objects - Interactivity
1 managing the faculty workload
1 Marketing education - i.e. marketing/selling & promoting adult education (trends, issues and beyond)
1 maybe one more student centered
1 Methods of engaging learners. Sharing technological tips and uses.
1 more on hybrid courses
1 more on the hybrid classes
1 My interest lies with Student Services, so Financial Aid could be a topic, but I don't think you'd want it as a theme.
2 n/a
1 No idea, yet.
1 No ideas, sorry.
1 No suggestions.
1 Possible lesson planning
1 Professional development activities for online faculty Successful models for online courses
1 See 37
1 Sharing Knowledge
1 skills required for learning DL skills required for teaching DL
1 Sorry, no ideas at the moment!
1 Strategies so that Education Leads Technology and not the other way around
1 Technology Removes Barriers
1 The Best of the Best - Successful facilitators
1 The Technologies the Students Want
1 Themes are ok but should be worded in such a way to make one curious and excited about participating.
1 What value can online learning add to the overall learning experience? Why use online at all? Levelling the playing field - roles in the online environment: learner as teacher and teacher as learner. Intercultural issues in online education

Who would you recommend for keynote speakers?

# Response
1 ??
1 Alan Levine - MCLI - Maricopa - Arizona
1 Alan Levine, MCLI, Maricopa County Community College.
1 David Lassner
1 David Mikosz who has been running technology for Central Asia IREX, etc. projects. david_mikosz@yahoo.com david@iatp.uz
1 Don't know....you've got some of the best.....what about Roger Schrank? getting a corporate viewpoint? What about people who are experts in learning and who can help us understand the advantages of the technologies we are using in improving on traditional methods of teaching?
1 Dr. Trudy Abramson from NSU, Florida
1 Frank Christ - Providing Student Support for Online Classes Lucy MacDonald - elearning support for online classes
1 Garrett Brand. He is the director of online classes here at GRCC. He works hard to build up the program and improves his classes year after year.
1 Gilly Salmon
1 Gilly Salmon (author of E-Moderating and E-tivities)
1 I can't think of anyone off hand.
1 I have no one in mind at this time.
1 Lucy MacDonald (again)
1 Mauri Collins Gilly Salmon John Hibbs
1 Mike McNicholas-Chemeketa Community College Chris Strickland-Clackamas Community College
1 More of our Australian Flexible Learning Leaders.
1 movers and shakers fromASU, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, League for Innovation
1 Myself...again!!!!! :-), Matt Wasowski Richard Katz, VP of EDUCAUSE Steve Gilbert, The TLT Group
2 n/a
1 No ideas at the moment.
1 No suggestions.
1 Rod Corbett - University of Calgary on enhancing learning with interactive, multimedia activities
1 Rod Corbett -- Games and Simulations (putting the fun into learning) Bernie Poole -- Express it with confidence and humor in the online course One of the manufacturers of Quandry from HalfBakedSoftware
1 Roger Boston, Houston Community College
1 Roy H. Williams - the Wizard Ads
1 Sally Ride Alan November A CEO from one of the upcoming wireless companies
1 Slow down the pace of talking - some listeners may not be very familiar with your local accent, or non native English speakers, and leave some time for the participants to interact and repsond to the topic, instead of just delivering a readymade speech! Think of this as a many-to many communication channel - and not a reproduction of a traditional one way top-down f2f presentation, unless the audience is too large for a moderated discussion.
1 Thiagi? Laurillard?
1 Unknown
1 William Horton (web based learning) David Wiley (learning objects)

How can this conference undeniably become an International conference?

# Response
1 Advertise everywhere. Keep a mailing list of people who have attended before and let them know a new conference is scheduled.
1 Attendees including collegues.
1 By continuing to grow and include presentations from everywhere while spreading keynote presentations across all time zones.
1 Create a widely publicized "year round" information site for TCC with examples from conferences
1 Don't know your marketing efforts. Many countries do not have community colleges or TAFE. You could consider women's colleges, teacher colleges, technical/vocational institutes, especially in Asia, Africa, the Middle East. I was impressed, with the participants from Israel, Australia, Germany, so word is spreading. Ask those individuals to help spread the word further.
1 Don't let US-based presentations dominate the schedule (the challenge, though, is then attracting international presenters)
1 Don't understand the question....isn't it ALREADY one???
1 Gee, I think it already is!
1 Great question - it seems like a key is advertising it to try to make sure more people know about it - I heard about it just one week before the preconference began.
1 Have some of the presentations delivered in another language with simulcast in English (I know, that's a stretch) Invite speakers from Europe or Asia to present about the use of technology in education
1 I am too inexperienced to suggest.
1 I believe that the broader your invitations are distributed, the more people may get involved from all over the world of online education, or so I think.
1 i guess you need to advertise all over the world and do research to find onine education programs throughout the world. maybe you could wave or reduce fees for areas that didn't have the funds to pay for registration.
1 I think it has....of the 55 people logged on to my keynote webcast, 22 weren't from the United States!! -had people from Australia, India, China, England, Israel, and Denmark!
1 I thought it was. This year's conference was great; I met people from all over the world.
1 I thought it was. To increase its profile, more advertising, marketing, emphasis that it was the first international online conference, big name attarctors - something that you can't get at other conferences. I know I'm off the the beam here but these examples shows what I mean, Bill Clinton launches TCC2004 in a live webcast. Bill Gates leads a discussion forum on 'software, does it start and finish with Microsoft', some big name from private online university talking/dicsuuing why commercial online unviersties have failed or succeeded. The MIT free courseware model - how well has it worked, was there any pitfalls. --Greg Webb
1 I'm assumed it was
1 If the presenters are from more than one country and are discussing global issues, how can it NOT be an International conference???
1 International presenters.
1 isn't it already? More non-us participants Are you sure you want it ot be International- maybe it is about more effectively meeting the needs of smaller cohort? Lots of potential conflict re internationalisation- could be seen as imperialism by some- if you are feeling brave perhaps that is a suitable topic for a future conference- 'internationalising education'?
1 It already is! Link with AECT for even more exposure.
1 It felt international to me, is it not?? I guess marketing is the key, knowing the 'right people' on the global education scene to contact. The registration fee is so reasonable, it seems to me that more people would attend if they were aware of the conference.
1 It is already well supported and recognised internationally and is the best one for engaging people totally online. It might enhance those features by giving more prominence to the discussion forums and allowing a greater length of time to participate.
1 It is!
1 It seems that it already is.
1 keep doing what you doing--make international connection with colleges and faculty
1 Keep on doing what you're doing. This is more international than last year, I think.
1 Keynotes from different countries each year. Countries that host keynotes should receive some special considerations to encourage participation.
1 Language translation
1 More Australians, New Zealanders will bring in even more Asian participants.
1 More intereactive "presentations" using not only chat, but games, virtual tours, etc.
1 More international presence. Activities lead from other countries.
1 Multi-language, live closed-captioning
1 n/a
1 No comments.
1 Offer 2 timelines for the conference.....Timeline one for Hawaii and NOrth America.....Timeline two for........
1 Offer sessions at ALL times for all time zones and make conversions easy to understand. Like a 24 X 7.
1 Repeating KeyNotes at least once 8 to 12 hours later so everyone can reap the benefits?
1 Send out trainers/mentors to be sure international folks can get on board. Trainers go out once early in the year to gather sites, participants, and equipment. Trainers go out during the conference and help first time participants to be very active. Get a grant or two to support this.
1 sending e-mails to universities in the world- more advertizing
1 The conference feels very "American" to me, as a European. Partly, it's the terminology, partly the pedagogical philosophy. This, however, is true of all the US-based conferences I've attended in person or virtually. How to overcome this isn't a trivial matter. Perhaps increasing the number of non-US presenters would help? I didn't check the proportion of US to non-US presenters, but it did seem to me that there weren't many who weren't from the US, based in the US or US ex-pats. Advertising the conference more widely on non-US lists would probably also raise its profile.
1 unknown
1 We already have international participants. To get a truly international flavor, we need sessions that cover multicultural and international topics. Have a keynote speaker from a popular international online learning institution Add sessions about how one supports foreign students in the online classroom (overcoming cultural, political and language barriers while building a sense of community)
1 Why is this important? Is it important to you or the attendees? I attend because I always walk away with something I can use. I could care less if this was an international conference.
1 With Horizon Live and ULearn and Live, participants tell us their locations. This is always fun, when we find folks from South America, South Africa, Australian,Japan and Israel.This year we had a funny conversation about our participant in Spain, when we asked if anyone was joining us from Europe. As far as the participant knew, Spain was still part of Europe. Is there any way to post country domain stats after the conference to market the next year's conference?
1 Word of mouth.
1 You are almost there...on-line

Please provide any additional comments and suggestions for FUTURE TCC conferences.

# Response
1 "Nuf said! :->
1 - More realtime webcasts - Use some sort of CMS that allows sync communication beyond chat (etc. vClass or Centra)
1 Add product showcase opportunities--presentations (should be more substantive than typical marketing literature), case studies showing implementations/examples of products being used, chats, discussion forums for end-users opinions about the products, etc. This could also be tied in with offering some technical workshops, either during the conference or pre-conference. Once more, thanks for a very worthwhile conference! I will be referring back to the site many times to refresh on the ideas and discussions.
1 additional audio/visual software for presentationd
1 As yet, I am too inexperienced to suggest.
1 Be sure to have the main site URL at the top of every message sent to update attendees and presenters.
1 do we get a certificate for our participation? if not we should.
1 Experimentation with new technologies. HorizonLive has been around for quite a while but this was the first time I had experienced it in a live and purposeful way. You used to use MOO which gave me first hand experience of that technology. What new technologies are there that could be used during and as part of the confeence that would give people good first hand experience, You could then 'sell' the conference as one where you get to experience first hand innovative technologies. --Greg Webb
1 Future TCC conferences could feature the valuable Global Networking that takes place and the sharing of knowledge between countries, between states and between individuals. Perhaps this means providing some ongoing communication strategies.
1 Great conference. Thanks to all of you for your hard work.
1 How to make the transition from traditional teaching to online teaching smoother.
1 I am interested in exploring the way students interact with technology to create a learning community.
1 I wonder if registration and info should be tailored to the degree of online conference experience of the registrant...
1 I would like to find someway to have an exhibit hall, even if it is only links to web sites. Maybe publishers/ web developers/ web shells/ could provide a page that is pertinent to the theme of the conference to say how their materials would enhance the online experience.
1 It would be nice if more of the papers would be presented. In addition to being available to read online.
1 Keeep it up and maybe co-sponsor with other Hawaii cc's as well
1 Keep doing the same thing!
1 Keep up the good work!
1 keep up the good work! everyone's effort preparation, and attention to detail is remarkable and should be praised.
1 Keep up the good work. Renew your energy and carry on. Thank you all.
1 May-be include some presentations from companies involved in e-learning materials and programs at a trade-show section of the conference. Would enable participants to view a variety of available technologies while at the conferences and help with the growth of the conference and support the conference financially.
1 maybe use one weekend day since it is hard to be carrying on our regular schedule and still be available for the live presentations.
1 My only comment is that for those of us who are first time online conference attendees, we (I) needed much more encouragement to participate. I was too much of a spectator and not enough of a participant. I don't intend to make that mistake again.
2 n/a
1 No suggestions.
1 None
1 Nothing else from me - except thank you, I enjoyed my time here :)
1 Perhaps it would be useful to divide sessions according to disciplines. Although many things overlap and are useful to all, it might be easier to focus and schedule time according to disciplines.
1 Play it again, Sam (Bert, Karl, Joy, et al.):)
1 Please release the schedule earlier! And please consider returning to MOO! Re Q42 below (can't find anywhere else to say this!) - it should be a 'tick whichever apply' form rather than 'tick one only' since many people use more than one browser. I, for example, regularly use NS 7.x but also IE 6.x (because that's supported at my workplace). So, it depends where I log in from which I use.
1 Thank you! *smiles* I used both netscape and IE for the sessions...IE for the webcasts (java plug-in) and netscape for the chat sessions, forums and paper reviews.
1 Try to encourage more coordination in schools so as to better integrate this with professional development of teachers. Hmmmm.....is this only for post-secondary????
1 Virtual cafe.?
1 WE wish to contact with all countries in the world in online

What operating system does your computer use?

What web browser and version do you use?

From where do you primarily access the conference from, work or home?

What type of Internet connection do you have?