CTLA Concurrent Sessions:

National Speaker:
Strive to be the Best Teacher that You Can Be - Perspectives on Effective Teaching
Markus Ahrens, St. Louis Community College-Meramec
Perspectives on High Quality Teaching from a Cook Prize Winner.

Session 1.02 What If Accounting Courses and Curriculum were the “Vision Model?”
Presenters: Gail Hoover King, Purdue University Northwest, Ronald Huefner, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Learn what faculty are doing to integrate the Pathway’s Vison Model into a course or across multiple courses.  Learn how schools are adapting their curricula to leverage the Pathway’s Vision Model’s higher level learning opportunities. http://pathwaysinspired.org

Session 2.02 Tips and Strategies for Online Accounting Coursework and Online Homework Managers
Panelists: Mary Kay Copeland, Palm Beach Atlantic University, Alisa Hunt, Post University, James Page, University of Bridgeport

Session 3.02 Sharing Best Teaching Practices Panel
Moderator: Gail Hoover King, Purdue University Northwest
Panelists:
Umapathy Ananthanaryanan, New York Institute of Technology
Ellen D. Bartley, Farmingdale State College
Christine Betts, Franklin Pierce University
Paul Tomolonis, Western New England University
Svetlana Vlady, Brooklyn College
In this session, peers from your region community will share with you new techniques and strategies that you can employ right away in your courses.

Session 4.02 Shaping the Learning Experience Utilizing Technology in a Changing Educational Landscape
Presenters: Markus Ahrens, St. Louis Community College-Meramec, Cathy J. Scott, Navarro College
Are you having difficulty keeping up with how quickly technology is changing? Do you feel that you already have too many topics to cover in your accounting course? This interactive session will examine where you and/or your campus are on the technology curve. Resources will be introduced which can help to successfully integrate technology into your classroom environment. Participants will be provided the opportunity to determine which technology resources can best facilitate meaningful learning in their courses, as well as fit with their teaching style.

Session 5.02 Embedding Big Data and Analytics into your Courses and Curriculum
Presenters: Guido Geerts, Lerner College of Business, University of Delaware, Necip Doganaksoy, Siena College
This session will help you introduce data analytics to your classes or repurpose/reuse existing favorite cases to give them a big data and analytics twist. You will gain a working knowledge of the resources available from the Accounting Is Big Data Conferences and located on the http://aaahq.org/AIBD website.