2025 Distance Education Summit
Friday November 14th 8:30-2:00 pm
In-person & Online (Zoom)
CCE's North City Campus, 8355 Aero Dr. San Diego, CA 92123
RM 101 & Online (Zoom)
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College: #30045
CCE: #38032
Join Us for the 2025 Distance Education Summit!
We’re excited to invite you to the Annual Distance Education Summit, hosted by the San Diego Community College Online Learning Pathway Department on Friday, October 4th, 2024!
Welcome back to celebrate the incredible contributions of online educators. This summit honors the vital role educators play in bridging the gap between students and learning opportunities through online modalities.
This event offers a unique opportunity to connect, network, and collaborate with fellow educators. Together, we'll dive into cutting-edge topics such as Open Educational Resources (OER), the integration of AI into education, and innovative strategies for online learning.
We’re thrilled to feature Dr. Jason Gulya as our keynote speaker, sharing his insights on the assessments in the new era of educational technology.
Don’t miss out on this inspiring day of learning, growth, and connection. We look forward to seeing you there!
Schedule Of Events
8:00 - 8:45 AM Breakfast and Networking
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Online & DIstributed Learning Dean Weston will kick off the 2025 Online Summit with a presentation on distance education efforts across the District, updated numbers on our students, and support for the 25/26 year.
About our Presenter:
Brian Weston started working in California Community College’s as an American Sign Language Interpreter and progressed into Information Technology and Teaching. Brian serves as the Dean of Online & Distributed Learning at San Diego Community College District. He leads the Districtwide Distance Education Steering Committee, Educational Services Software Workgroup, and Student Textbook Affordability Committee for the district. His focus is enhancing online programs and course offerings while ensuring that students have access to necessary college services.
Event Description: In this interactive keynote, we'll cover what the rise of Generative AI programs like ChatGPT and Claude mean for the future of authentic assessment. We'll begin by covering some basics of the technology, with a specific focus on the challenges it brings for assessing students' knowledge and skill. After that, we will cover a menu of options for adapting our own assessments for AI — including AI-embedded assignments, process-focused assignments, and more. Our goal is to improve our assignments, both my making them more pedagogically sound and by discouraging the over-use or misuse of AI.
About our Presenter:
Jason Gulya is a professor of English and Communications at Berkeley College, where he teaches both online and in person. At Berkeley, he is the chair of the AI and Academic Integrity Committee, as well as a member of the AI Task Force. He has worked with dozens of colleges and universities, as they try to figure out what AI means for the classroom. He co-wrote a book titled “Artificial Intelligence, Real Literacy” in 2025, and is currently writing a book on process-focused teaching for the Age of AI. He has been featured in Chronicle of Higher Ed, Inside Higher Ed, Forbes, Business Insider, and other publications.
10:30 - 10:55 AM
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11:30 - 12:15 PM Lunch
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Suzanne Wakim
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Online Learning Pathways Team