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Program Track Break Outs
Enabling digital content: Succeeding with the next wave of digital content Facilitated by VitalSource
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Interoperability is a Two-Way Street: Common Cartridge as the
future for Open Content- Click for Synopsis
Greg Gay, Inclusive Design Institute: Ontario College or Art and Design
(formerly Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto)
We are finally beginning to see the fruits of the effort that has gone
into the development of the IMS Common Cartridge standards in projects
such as OpenLearn at the Open University U.K., in Desire2Learn, the
first commercial LMS to comply, and in ATutor, the first open source LMS
to comply with the standard. This presentation will look at the history
of content interoperability in ATutor, with its initial implementation
of IMS Content Packaging in 2003, to the addition of QTI in 2005, and
AccessForAll in 2008, and then bringing these all together with the
addition of common cartridge compliance in 2009. What makes ATutor
special? With the implementation of each of these standards there has
always existed a two-way street for content. It has always been possible
to import content, or tests, or AccessForAll adapted content, and it has
always been possible to author and export that content. While many
learning environments will now ingest standardized content, being able
to extract that content from these systems is virtually non-existent.
This presentation will also provide a demonstration of ATutor at work,
importing, modifying, and exporting open content in IMS Common Cartridges.
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Learning Matters: A New Ecosystem of Educational Resources - Click for Synopsis
Kendrick McLish, Vice President, Integration Strategies, Learning Technology Group, Pearson Education
The Connected Learning Environment is the new instructional "ecosystem" in education. This ecosystem is comprised of four main ingredients: (1) Educational Content Sources - from teacher-developed materials to commercial publishers to open source repositories; (2) Search Services including the creation of a truly useful search engine for teachers and students; (3) Solutions for Learning, including resources such as lesson plans, virtual courses, interim assessments, collaborative online activities and reference libraries, as well as learning systems that include online homework systems, portfolio systems, and assessment management systems; (4) Flexible Delivery Options embracing modern technologies including mobile devices, ebook devices and Smart Boards/White Boards. We’ll explore how these ingredients need to come together - leveraging technology, support and standards - to have a positive impact on student learning.
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Four Keys to Enabling Your Digital Content in 2010
William Chesser, GM, VitalSource Technologies, Inc
2010 is proving to be a bell-weather year for e-textbook publishing. Large institutional customers and other significant segments of the general market are (finally) converting to digital content. iPad, Kindle, and the like are wiping away old concerns about screen-reading and access, but they are at the same time creating a new wave of expectations about flexibility and content richness. This session will briefly look at four factors key to keeping content products relevant in this environment: 1) a flexible delivery strategy ("three-way access"), 2) a viable accessibility strategy; 3) a "play-well-with-others" system integration strategy; and 4) a meaningful media richness strategy (not just a "picture-of-a-page"). Included will be brief mention classic pitfalls and "gotchas" in each area.
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Electronic Textbooks and APUS: An Unfolding Saga from the Onlines - Click for Synopsis
Fred Stielow, Ph.D., M.L.S., Associate Vice President/Dean of Libraries & Educational Materials
With a growth rate in excess of 40% and over 60,000 current enrollees, the American Public University Systems emerges as a major exemplar of the new online universities. It is also challenged by the transit from printed course materials for a largely military clientele, which is scattered across over 100 countries and faces significant access problems. APUS responds with a four-part model: Conversion to electronic textbooks, inclusion of Academic library's book and article databases, addition of trusted Open Web resources, and building a university press. This presentation concentrates on practical lessons from textbook conversion. Seemingly the simplest element in the APUS model, e-textbooks prove problemmatic at this stage of the Web revolution. For example, technology, standards, princing, and even layouts remain uncertain--along with unfolding variations for mobile devices and ADA 508 compliance. Negotiations are complicated by a variety of re-sellers, reader services, and publishers--including internal departmental differences. Moreover, student surveys indicate dislike for the genre that question its future viability.
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Increasing Learning Effectiveness and Improving Online Learning Satisfaction - Click for Synopsis
Raylean Henry, EdD, Associate Vice-Chancellor, Regents Online Campus Collaborative
Debra Volzer, Ph.D, Senior Executive Director (East), Higher Education Solutions,
Pearson Learning Solutions
The Pearson-Tennessee Board of Regents partnership is aimed at increasing learning effectiveness and improving students’ online learning satisfaction by enhancing courses and programs.
This, one of several TBR-vendor partnerships, is an important development in the way students learn and faculty teach across TBR’s two-and four-year institutions as well as throughout the state’s twenty-six technology centers. Through this partnership, faculty have the opportunity to customize and integrate Pearson’s MyLab’s online homework and tutorial systems, animations, simulations and labs, video-and audio-based lectures and tutorials, customized and embedded e-Books and a variety of additional interactive and rich media tools and resources in their current online courses resulting in an increased college readiness, overall satisfaction and an enhancement to requisite job skills of Tennesseans.
This session will discuss the steps taken to design and implement this large scale endeavor, Pearson’s ability to provide content in Common Cartridge to meet TBR’s current learning environment needs as well as considerations on how this collaborative content can be easily managed to support future educational environments.
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Creating digital interactive textbooks efficiently - Click for Synopsis
Yuri Khramov, Evident Point Software, President
As education becomes more technologically sophisticated, publishers want to provide content in electronic formats. Including images, audio, video, and interactive functions such as searches, bookmarks, and annotations can make content more captivating and easier to learn and retain. The best electronic content boasts not only rich interactivity but also ease of access. Preparing a custom Flash presentation based on the book and delivering on CD is a current technology, but it is both expensive and not easy accessible for the readers.
As a part of Microsoft Semblio Education Platform, our company developed tools for automated conversion of the textbook into a web-deliverable, interactive rich multimedia content materials using latest Microsoft technologies. It supports addition of videos, high-resolution images, sounds, text notes, exercises. Readers can create their annotations, bookmarks and notes to facilitate the progress.
The editing tool is distributed by Microsoft and Evident Point for free, the viewing is platform independent and delivered via Internet. After the initial success of the first release in early 2009, we are about to release the second version in early 2010.
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How the CSU is Leveraging the Benefits of Digital Content Delivery - Click for Synopsis
Gerry Hanley, Ph.D.,Senior Director, Academic Technology Services, California State University and Executive Director, MERLOT
Dr. Hanley will present the results from the Digital Library Services and the initial deployment of Digital Marketplace solutions. These results include the benefits gained by students and faculty from using these solutions as well as the improved business outcomes realized by the campus. Dr. Hanley will describe the Affordable Learning Solutions campaign and its role as a deployment strategy for these solutions as they are made available throughout the CSU over time.
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Panel Session
This Panel Session will be moderated by the program track facilitator. Panelists will reflect on the presentations delivered throughout the day, noting key innovations that address priority challenges facing education institutions today and in the near future, including access, affordability and quality. Panelists will interact with audience members to identify opportunities for high value collaborations among product providers and end-users (higher education and/or K-12 leaders), which can be facilitated through existing or related IMS workgroups. The panel’s activities will lead to actionable outcomes to help advance end-user implementations of IMS standards and adoption practices.
- Joel Thierstein, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Provost, Rice University, Executive Director, Connexions
- Ted Hanss, Director for Enabling Technologies, University of Michigan
- Charles F. Leonhardt, Principal Technologist, Georgetown University
- Bryce Johnson, Director of eTextbooks, Follett Higher Education Group
- William Durham, Associate Vice Chancellor: Lone Star College – Online
- Brad Koch, Product Manager, Course Delivery Products, Blackboard
- Gerry Hanley, Ph.D., Senior Director, Academic Technology Services, California State University
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Digital resources: Impacting K-12 student success
Facilitated by Turning Technologies
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Achievement Standards Network - Click for Synopsis
Diny Golder, Executive Director, JES & Co. - Curriculum Standards
When most think of international education, they assume studies at the college or university level and seldom do they assume the implications of international studies at what UNESCO identifies as the various stages or levels in pre-college or pre-university--Level 0 (pre-primary education) through Level 3 (upper secondary). And yet, the development of truly global citizens begins when those students first encounter their national education systems.
This presentation covers the Achievement Standards Network framework for the machine description of national curricula in a manner that enables mapping of curricula to educational resources in support of: (1) the professional development and instructional resource needs of teachers; and (2) the learning needs of students in discovering educational resources. The framework provides for the cross-mapping of curricula thus achieving inter-jurisdictional, cross-cultural learning resource access. In addition to supporting resource discovery, the ASN assists in cross-jurisdictional assessment of student achievement which is increasingly framed in terms of learning alignment to national, regional and local curricula. Through cross-jurisdictional mapping, it becomes possible to compare student learning across-jurisdictions--comparison not possible without such a framework. Development of the ASN framework for machine curriculum description was initially funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Currently, all of the U.S. state achievement standards have been described and work is underway to provide a framework description of the emerging Australian National Curriculum.
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Advancing Content Authoring, Management & Distribution of Digital Boards in the K12 Market: Giunti Publishing Group, Art Education Case Study - Click for Synopsis
Bryan Eldridge, Solution Architect, Giunti Labs
Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO, Giunti Labs
Digital boards are an ideal medium for advancing innovative pedagogical models in the classroom and for bridging the digital gap, which still exists in many institutions, between teacher-led education and new generation technologies. After implementation in some of the most advanced markets, such as the UK, the US and Canada, new generation initiatives for the use of digital boards are rapidly spreading into other K12 markets, such as those in Asia, South America and Europe. This presentation introduces a leading European Publishing case, that of Giunti Editore, one of the leading Publishing Groups in Italy. This case will demonstrate how thousands of digital boards are being set up in various K12 institutions, using LCMS driven content production and a Digital Repository -based distribution of advanced content libraries for art education. We will present production models and tools, using Image Based Reasoning and Exploration, inter-class messaging, and intra-class gaming. It will also address Giunti Editore’s innovative business and architectural model (based on wireless tablets and digital boards), which brings the publishing marketplace into the direct reach of students, all taking place within their natural learning environment: the classroom.
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Digital Natives Don't Learn the Same Way: Strategies for Differentiated Learning in K12 - Click for Synopsis
Liz Wilkes, Cengage
Everyone’s talking about the need to give “digital natives” digital learning materials – but the issues go far beyond just the fact that kids know how to use computers successfully. Recent studies are showing that kids are actually processing information differently through the image centers of their brains versus the verbal centers. What are the tools we can use/devise to ensure that critical and deep thinking processes aren’t left out of the learning equation? Differentiated learning through digital instruction is key to moving into this new paradigm for education.”
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Managing the Madness: Leveraging the Power of Compatibility - Click for Synopsis
Jennifer Whiting, Sr. Manager, Curriculum Research and Discovery. Florida Virtual School
Florida Virtual School lives in the unique space of being a school and acting like a content publisher. Our lives are impacted daily by the need for standardization between content and systems. E-learning standards offer us the opportunity to remove madness of moving content between systems so we can transform education across the globe. Participate in this session and you will learn how Florida Virtual School is leveraging various technical interoperability standards to support their content development and distribution on a regional level and in support of global learning solutions.
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Every Child Matters - Click for Synopsis
Dhruv Patel, Nisai Group
Identifying the core values in its commitment to Every Child Matters: Change for Children (2004), Nisai are focused on merging the virtual world with life at the heart of the learner’s community in creating a safe, virtual environment that will wrap around the individual learner and forge valuable links between locality stakeholders involved in creating effective pathways towards lifelong learning and community involvement for those in its care.
In addition to a broad range of online courses, delivered “live” to their students, Nisai have embraced the exciting concept of establishing a facility for locality stakeholders to contribute to the holistic development of each learner. Experience has indicated that to benefit fully from the outstanding year on year increases that students have made in achieving accredited outcomes there has to be an additional layer of service to enable them to fully benefit from their reengagement with learning.
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How to Improve Learning Experiences Using Digital Textbooks - Click for Synopsis
Sung-Ki Choi, SK C&C
From the year of 2004, starting with the project for development of digital textbook prototype, Korean government, Ministry of Education and Science Technology(MEST), has attempted to converge the traditional paper-printed method of textbooks for K-12 schools with digital publishing method. In early stage, Korea's attempt of developing digital textbooks was focused on digitizing paper-type textbooks, however through some of research for interactive digital textbook with various resources and participants, digital textbook pilot project of MEST has been tried to adapt digital publishing format in order to improve learning outcome. The most distinctive features of developed digital textbook are:
1) Enabling development of teacher-customized digital textbook through the importing external learning resources to the published (default) digital textbook
2) Improving student's ability to concentrate through the delivery of learning materials suitable by the competency-based learning paths
3) Sharing of selected the lesson plans diversed by teachers between other teachers after evaluating instructional efficiency and recommendation for sharing
4) Providing virtual learning environment for level-based group learning after school hours
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Microsoft - Click for Synopsis
Chris Moffatt, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Education
The vast majority of digital resources being made available to educators and students today consist of digital versions of text books, perhaps supplemented with simple quizzes and simulations. This approach is lagging behind the engaging and immersive experiences that students interact with in their lives outside of the classroom, and leads to a situation where students dismiss, or are quick to abandon these resources, resulting in little impact on student success. While there are many examples of innovative, rich and immersive experiences that engage students, the cost and complexity of creating these experiences is often significant and unlike commercial markets (e.g. gaming and ad-driven properties), there is not a business model in the education sector to recoup these costs. This results in a situation where they are not yet being created, deployed or adopted at the scale necessary to impact K-12 student success in a comprehensive way.
This presentation will preview a sample of rich engaging experiences and tools that can be created, by students and educators alike, using off-the-shelf technologies and integrated into mainstream applications – thereby both lowering the cost and enabling wide adoption.
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Panel Session
This Panel Session will be moderated by the program track facilitator. Panelists will reflect on the presentations delivered throughout the day, noting key innovations that address priority challenges facing education institutions today and in the near future, including access, affordability and quality. Panelists will interact with audience members to identify opportunities for high value collaborations among product providers and end-users (higher education and/or K-12 leaders), which can be facilitated through existing or related IMS workgroups. The panel’s activities will lead to actionable outcomes to help advance end-user implementations of IMS standards and adoption practices.
- Jennifer Whiting, Senior Manager Curriculum Research and Discovery,
Florida Virtual School
- Yong-Sang Cho, Director, Korea Education & Research Information Services (KERIS)
- Christopher Davia, Lead Architect, Global Education
- Dr. Tina Rooks, Education Consultant, Turning Technologies
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The State of Student and Institutional Analytics: Metrics, systems, and actions that can make a difference
Facilitated by Wipro
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Outcomes & EPortfolios: A Strategy for Enabling Accountability, Transparency, and Learner Achievement - Click for Synopsis
Kim Pearce, Director of Assessment and Institutional Research and Brady Anderson, Sr. Manager, at Capella University
This session will take the audience member on a path of understanding the perspective of a university leadership that has embraced accountability and transparency of outcomes down to the perspective of an individual learner and their relationship with outcomes via an eportfolio. This session hopes to address why accountability and transparency is important to both the institution and the learner. A methodology for making expected learning outcomes tangible in an effort to bring superior academic and career results to the learner will be presented, as well as initial evidence of the effectiveness of the methodology.
Kim Pearce, Director of Assessment and Institutional Research and Brady Anderson, Sr. Manager, at Capella University will present a methodology for bringing theories of accountability and transparency in learning to the tactical level of ePortfolio implementation and the impact on learning achievement.
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The Grass-Roots Development and Institutional Embedding of the Tutoring Management System Co-Tutor. - Click for Synopsis
Melanie King (Learning Technology Co-ordinator) & Paul Newman (Web Developer), Engineering Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (engCETL), Loughborough University, UK.
This presentation will describe the development and use of a tutoring management system, Co-Tutor (http://co-tutor.lboro.ac.uk), at Loughborough University (UK) and will demonstrate the unique qualities it has and the impact and benefits it has demonstrated for the staff and students at the University over the past 10 years. This presentation will benefit those interested in the in-house development and spread of innovation and adoption of new technology. It will also interest those who want to lever technology to enhance student and staff communications to improve and manage student retention.
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Gather-it! Collecting Evidence of Student Learning for Program Assessment and Accreditation Review - Click for Synopsis
Mike Halm, Director & Senior Strategist, WebLion Group, Teaching and Learning with Technology, Penn State University
This session will discuss Gather-It!, an open source assessment management system developed for Penn State University. Gather-It! can store digital artifacts gathered using IMS interoperability standards from any learning management system, including ANGEL dropboxes, Blogs @ Penn State and others. Using Gather-It! is a three step process: 1) mapping the program outcomes to the curriculum, 2) setting up the appropriate folders to store evidence, and 3) collecting the evidence of student learning. Once the initial setup is complete, faculty and administrators gain ready access to longitudinal information about student learning to improve course content, better align individual courses with overall program goals, and, report out to various accreditation bodies.
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Trends and Challenges in Predictive Modeling for Student Success - Click for Synopsis
Tom Wagner, SunGard HE & John Campbell, Ph.D., Purdue University
Pressures on institutions to improve retention and graduation rates seem to be increasing daily as the result of many factors including Federal initiatives and State-level mandates. As institutions examine potential solutions, predictive analytics is emerging as a key strategy to improving retention. These predictive models improve with increased amount of data, but the utilization of the models is frequently impeded by data residing in numerous disparate systems. Come understand from Purdue and SunGard Higher Education where the state-of-the-art is headed and the challenges that remain in expanding the use of predictive modeling.
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A Technologically Based Approach to Providing Quality Feedback to Students: A Paradigm Shift for the 21st Century - Click for Synopsis
Richard "Rick" Lumadue, PhD, Assistant Professor & L. Rusty Waller, PhD, Assistant Professor,
Department of Educational Leadership, Texas A&M University-Commerce
This session will provide a solution for busy professors/instructors teaching in the 21st century concerning the issue of providing quality feedback to students through a technologically based approach. The software program Jing will be discussed and demonstrated. This is an innovative and effective, yet relatively simple option for providing quality feedback. The benefits of providing this type of feedback include time saved by making audible comments rather than typing comments, a more personal touch to students through listening to an instructors comments and a quality technological format. Jing serves as an efficient alternative to the cumbersome task of attempting to communicate with students via the traditional red pen. This method of providing constructive and thorough feedback is not only time efficient from an instructor’s perspective, but beneficial to students as well. During this session, participants will be introduced to the basic features of Jing along with a discussion of how to determine when to use either an SWF or MP4 screen capture format.
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Building a Culture of Assessment and Academic Oriented Intelligence with Pearson LearningStudio’s Assessment and Analytics Suite - Click for Synopsis
Jeff Borden, Senior Director of Teaching & Learning at Pearson eCollege
Pearson LearningStudio’s Assessment & Analytics Suite is comprised of five applications that bring institutions the power to build a culture of assessment and a greater ability to obtain operational and academic-oriented intelligence. These applications effectively collect and archive data related to student and faculty performance and learning outcome management and then give institutions the capacity to perform data analysis and generate meaningful reports for important decision-making processes.”
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How to utilize technology to execute a proactive approach for maximizing retention - Click for Synopsis
Jim Wiseman, Vice President of Enrollment, Carroll University
Retention is a college-wide endeavor for many higher education institutions, but few have systems in place to proactively target at-risk students. For too long retention has been an afterthought. This presentation will discuss how to Identify the factors that help predict student attrition, discover how to use technology to identify those students who are most at-risk of leaving the institution, and achieve the maximize return on investment by fully utilizing technology to support higher retention rates.
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Panel Session
This Panel Session will be moderated by the program track facilitator. Panelists will reflect on the presentations delivered throughout the day, noting key innovations that address priority challenges facing education institutions today and in the near future, including access, affordability and quality. Panelists will interact with audience members to identify opportunities for high value collaborations among product providers and end-users (higher education and/or K-12 leaders), which can be facilitated through existing or related IMS workgroups. The panel’s activities will lead to actionable outcomes to help advance end-user implementations of IMS standards and adoption practices.
- Paul Hollins, Director, JISC CETIS
- Kimberly Pearce, Director of Assessment & Institutional Research, Capella University
- Dr. Gloria Pickar, President and Chief Academic Officer Compass Knowledge Group, LLC
- Jim Chalex, Outcomes & ePortfolio Products, Blackboard
- Mike Sharkey, Director of Academic Analytics, University of Phoenix/Apollo Group
- Manoj Prabhakaran, Lead Consultant, Education Practice, Wipro Technologies
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Using Web 2.0 and Learning Tools to close the gap between technology and pedagogy
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Online Education and the Power of Social Networking for Student Success - Click for Synopsis
Felice Nudelman,
Executive Director, Education,
The New York Times Company
Jeremy Reed,
CTO,
Epsilen
As the education landscape changes institutions are challenged with finding effective strategies to engage and retain students in the virtual learning environment. By connecting with a Web 2.0 learning environment students and faculty can achieve higher levels of engagement and success. Join us as we introduce an innovative solution to the online classroom with Epsilen's powerful eLearning platform, a dynamic environment that includes ePortfolio, Course Management, Assessment tools, and The New York Times Content Repository.
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New Opportunites to Connect Learning with LIS and LTI - Click for Synopsis
Linda Feng, Architect, Oracle Academic Enterprise Solution, Oracle & John A. Lewis, Chief Architect, Unicon Inc
Today's students and teachers are active in an ever-growing number of group-based learning and collaborative environments. From Facebook, GoogleApps, Pearson MyLabs, Sakai, Moodle and more, there is a need to provide a reliable source of student, course and enrollment information to each of these various platforms. In addition, once the students and courses are provisioned into the group-based environments, the learning tools themselves need to be able to interact effectively in order to provide a seamless learning experience for both students as well as faculty. The IMS members have been working on 2 specifications to critical for enabling the interoperability of source learning information, as well as learning tools. We will show LIS and LTI working together in the same environments, and explore the new learning opportunities that this implies.
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Social Learning in Online Teaching - Click for Synopsis
Jeff Borden, Senior Director of Teaching & Learning at Pearson eCollege
This session demonstrates brain based learning theory as it aligns with education technology across generational and individual learning styles. Participants will explore innovative uses of Web 2.0 / 3.0, various learning frameworks from Mezirow's Transformational Learning to Pink's New Mind (etc) as applied online, and serious gaming / simulation environments as informed by experts like DeDe and Zhao. From Second Life to free online content, this session will review ideas for education to use immediately.
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Learning Objects in the Cloud (Not Pie in the Sky) - Click for Synopsis
Sue Evans, Founding Partner and CEO, SoftChalk LLC
The pervasive implementation of learning management systems in higher education over the past 10 years has led to heightened interest in allowing instructors and content authors to share, organize, discover and re-use learning content. SoftChalk will demonstrate its cloud-based, platform-as-a-service learning object repository (CONNECT) and demonstrate how SoftChalk simplifies the development of learning content; how instructors can automatically convert SoftChalk content into reusable learning objects and publish into repositories for reuse in lessons, blogs, webpages, wikis and more; how learning objects can be discovered and personalized to create more complex and engaging learning materials; and how SoftChalk-generated content supports OER authoring, meta data creation, 508-accessibility and standards-based packaging such as SCORM and Common Cartridge. In addition to demonstrating the new SoftChalk LOR, we will also demonstrate integration with MERLOT and CONNEXIONS LORs.
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Serious Educational Games: Current and Future Impact on Learning in Higher Education - Click for Synopsis
Leonard Annetta, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Science Education & Lead Principal Investigator HI FIVES, IGNITE and STIMULATE, North Carolina State University – Educational Gaming
Video game technology and pervasive virtual worlds have slowly made their way into the realm of teaching and learning at all levels of education. This presentation will provide insight into how Serious Educational Games are being implemented into to the educational systems through several federally funded projects. Further, a discussion as to how this innovative technology may evolve and the subsequent pedagogical and technological standards implications for the future.
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Education in a Web 2.0 World - Click for Synopsis
John Fontaine, Technology Evangelism, Blackboard
In the world of ever evolving tools and expanding possibilities the learning
tools interoperability (LTI) specifications are enabling Virtual Learning
Environments to stay nimble and connected to the latest web 2.0 tools.
Blackboard has been working with the IMS to shape this new specification and
connect new innovative tools to learning. Discover how this new standard
evolving technologies and Blackboard's Project NG are creating new
possibilities for innovative teaching and learning in education.
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Taking LMSs to the Next Level - Click for Synopsis
John Baker, President and CEO of Desire2Learn
In collaboration with several major academic institutions, Desire2Learn has created an instructional design wizard as well as an intuitive Course Builder tool within Learning Environment to help guide course designers through the process of creating pedagogically sound courses. The Instructional Design wizard will assist instructors and course designers in:
- Organizing course material into modular units
- Defining course objectives
- Identifying appropriate instructional methodologies
- Recommending Desire2Learn tools to help create the learning experiences you want to provide in your course
- Incorporating outcomes-based assessment through connections with the Competencies tool
- Creating structure, placeholders, and recommendations for Course Builder
- Reviewing instructional design strategies
The Course Builder and Instructional Design Wizard assist in aligning evaluation and assessment with course objectives by incorporating a variety of learning experiences.
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Panel Session
This Panel Session will be moderated by the program track facilitator. Panelists will reflect on the presentations delivered throughout the day, noting key innovations that address priority challenges facing education institutions today and in the near future, including access, affordability and quality. Panelists will interact with audience members to identify opportunities for high value collaborations among product providers and end-users (higher education and/or K-12 leaders), which can be facilitated through existing or related IMS workgroups. The panel’s activities will lead to actionable outcomes to help advance end-user implementations of IMS standards and adoption practices.
- Ingo Dahn, University of Koblenz-Landau
- Khalil Yazdi, Chief Information Officer, University of Mary Washington
- Steve Rheinschmidt, Director, Iowa Community College Online Consortium
- Brad Kozlek, Manager of Software Design and Development, Education Technology Services, Pennsylvania State University
- Leonard Annetta, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Science Education & Lead Principal Investigator HI FIVES, IGNITE and STIMULATE, North Carolina State University
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