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Join us for one of our special workshops on Thursday, 16 May after Learning Impact. These workshops require an additional fee, and you may signup to attend at the same time you register for Learning Impact.

 

Workshop for Higher Education Academic and IT Leaders:
Effective Instructional Innovation: How IT Gets There from Here!

Developers Workshop: 
Creating, Implementing and Delivering Run Anywhere Apps using IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)

	Early Registration	Regular Registration
Effective Instructional Innovation:  How IT Gets There from Here!	$75 (if not attending Learning Impact)/ $50 (if attending Learning Impact)	$75 (if not attending Learning Impact)/ $50 (if attending Learning Impact)
Creating Implementing and Delivering Run Anywhere Apps using IMS LTI	$150	$150

 

Workshop for Higher Education Academic and IT Leaders:
Effective Instructional Innovation:  How IT Gets There from Here!

As higher education transitions from print to digital, students, faculty, technology support professionals, and technology providers confront major challenges related to the effective deployment, acceptance, and instructional integration of these new curricular resources. For example, 74%of campus IT officers participating in the 2012 Campus Computing Survey identified "the instructional integration of information technology" as a very important IT issue for campuses over the next 2-3 years. Moreover,data from three recent national surveys of presidents, provosts, and senior campus IT officers conducted by Kenneth C. Green of The Campus Computing Project reveal that only a small proportion of all three groups of senior campus officials believe that institutional investments in information technology are "very effective. These survey data, coupled with the steady stream of new technologies being introduced for teaching and learning should be a cause for concern for technology officers and advocates, and also for technology providers.

What will it take to make academic IT "very effective" in higher education? New interoperability standards are available that make the integration of digital technologies, such as textbooks, classroom capture, clickers, study aids, etc. easier to use and more accessible to larger populations of students and faculty. But how can (should!) campuses scale their adoption for learning impact?

This IMS workshop will explore IT effectiveness in context of both a supporting infrastructure and also as reflection of institutional culture and a commitment to change — a willingness among campus officials to leverage technology as a catalyst for change to enable instructional innovation. The first half of the day will feature IMS institutional members discussing a range of IMS initiatives, including our THESIS institutional open standards strategy program. The other 1/2 day will be a session facilitated by Casey Green of the Campus Computing to drill down on how IT/academic technology can provide high quality support for "integrating technology into instruction," which was identified as a key priority in the 2012 Campus Computing survey.

 

 

Tentative Agenda for Workshop for Academic and IT Leaders
7:30 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Technology in Higher Education in Support of Innovation (THESIS):  Leveraging Technology as a Catalyst for Change Panel discussions to showcase effective examples of institutions currently leveraging IMS standards to support instructional innovation
10:00am	Break
10:30 am	Technology in Higher Education in Support of Innovation (THESIS):  Leveraging Technology as a Catalyst for Change Panel discussions to showcase effective examples of institutions currently leveraging IMS standards to support instructional innovation
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Achieving Transformational Change:  What Will it Take for Academic IT to Become “Very Effective?  Facilitated Discussion Led by Casey Green, The Campus Computing Project
4:00 pm	Adjourn

Effective Instructional Innovation:  How IT Gets There from Here! Sponsors:

 

Who Should Attend?

1. Presidents, Provosts, CIOs, Directors of Distance Learning, Directors of IT, and other academic leaders committed to reimaging the use of technology as a “game-changer” to enable innovative and effective next generation digital learning practices.
2. Technology suppliers committed to providing higher education customers with interoperable systems, applications and digital content to effectively and efficiently support and transform education.

 

 

Casey Green
Campus Computing Project

Kenneth C. Green is the founding director of The Campus Computing Project, the largest continuing study of the role of eLearning and information technology in American colleges and universities. Green is the author or editor of some 20 books and published research reports and more than 100 articles and commentaries that have appeared in academic journals and professional publications. Green also serves as the senior research consultant to INSIDE HIGHER ED and developed INSIDE HIGHER ED’s surveys of college presidents and provosts.  In 2002 Green received the first EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in Public Policy and Practice. The EDUCAUSE award cites his work in creating The Campus Computing Project and recognizes his “prominence in the arena of national and international technology agendas, and the linking of higher education to those agendas.”

 

Workshop For Developers:

Creating, Implementing and Delivering Run Anywhere Apps using IMS Learning Tools Interoperability

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Join us for a one day workshop where we will explore how you can create, implement, and deliver a multiplatform learning application that will run in any LTI compliant Learning Management System, Portal or other Educational Environment. Based on feedback from last year, we will be focusing on creating a MUCH more hands-on workshop than last year.

This workshop will provide an overview of  best practices you should consider when designing your LTI Integration, information on sample implementations where you can find code to make your development quicker, and tools for testing your application.  In addition, we will provide an overview of LTI v2.0, the next generation of LTI and how to plan for your migration from LTI v1.x to LTI v2.x

Who Should Attend?

• Supplier developers who are interested in learning best practices in developing LTI applications and details about the next wave of innovation with LTI v2.0
• K-20 Institutional developers who are interested understanding how to gain LTI certification conformance and learning development strategies by examining sample code.

Tenative Agenda
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Quick Overivew of LTI- The Basics            - types of data used by LTI            - the anatomy of a launch request
10:00 am	Best Practices for Planning your Implementation - outline procedure for handling the receipt of a launch request - determining suitable unique identity values for users, contexts and links - using LTI with a system pre-populated with users and courses - identifying suitable users roles - using custom parameters (e.g. for branding, overriding the interface)
11:00 am	LTI services (including Outcomes)
11:30 am	Known issues: - using cookies and iframes - P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) - IE zones
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Resources for expediting development: - example applications - sample code - class libraries - support fora
2:00 pm	Testing your application and Conformance
2:30 pm	LTI 2: - overview - migrating from LTI 1
4:00 pm	Adjourn