ONLINE TEACHING EXTRAVAGANZA (OTEx)
Leveraging Technology to Support Students
The University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus and its Faculty Online Teaching & Review Committee
will host the annual statewide online teaching conference on Friday, April 18, from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
This year’s Online Teaching Extravaganza explores how educators leverage technology, artificial intelligence, and evidence-based strategies to deliver engaging and impactful online learning experiences that support their student’s academic success. Sessions will provide practical strategies and tools for designing inclusive online classrooms, enhancing accessibility in your course, and refining your curriculum to meet the needs of diverse learners.
Register for OTEx Here
Registration will be open until April 16, 2025. The event will take place in Zoom; session recordings will be made available to registered participants. Hosted by the University of New Mexico–Valencia Campus, this online professional development event is free for online educators throughout New Mexico.
Call for Program Proposals
Submit Your Program Proposal Here
How are you Leveraging Technology to Support Students?
This is an opportunity to showcase innovative strategies, effective pedagogies, and diverse perspectives that inspire and inform our collective efforts to support our students throughout their academic journey. We hope to include a variety of perspectives and pedagogies to frame a robust conversation on this critical issue.
We are seeking 30-minute and 15-minute presentations associated with this year’s theme. If you have an experience, strategy, theory, or pedagogy you would like to share with colleagues, please submit a proposal.
Keynote Speaker: Jacob Torres
Jacob Pepperseed Torres is an engineer and plant scientist who worked with the NASA plant science team at Kennedy Space Center from 2018-2023. Contributing to 17 space biology experiments in several environments, he was the native New Mexican who contributed to Plant Habitat (PH)-04 which grew the first fruit on orbit in 2021, the New Mexico Chile pepper. Taking an untraditional route through academia, Jacob started at Northern New Mexico College at 27 where he was a LANL foundation scholar. In 2014 he completed a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico State University. In 2019, he wrote a M.S. thesis in Botanical Air Filtration at Purdue University, before accepting a scientist role with NASA at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Today, Jacob is working on a PhD at UNM. Jacob Pepperseed has relocated operations to northern New Mexico and is working with local K-12 schools on the next chapter of the Chile Challenge. The Moon Chile Challenge teaches students about local traditions and growing Chile while documenting growth data for a future mission to the moon. Join Jacob as he tells the NASA Space Chile story and how you can educate the next generation through your own experience.
For any questions, comments, feedback - please reach out to the UNM-Valencia OTEx Chairperson, Kat Gullahorn.
Call or text (505) 916-1647 or email otex@unm.edu
