EDUCAUSE | ELI Annual Video

ELI Annual Video: Human Futures for Technology and Education

gbayne — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:51:45 -0600

The slides and video of this presentation can be found here. The speech is by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, and is entitled, "Human Futures for Technology and Education". It was delivered at the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting.

Digital information technologies have profound implications for education and force us to rethink how we teach, what we teach, and who we think we are teaching. Understanding these implications and rethinking education will help us prepare our students to build a more human future in an increasingly digital environment.

ELI Annual Video: Teaching Metacognition

gbayne — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:29:48 -0600

Video and slides of this presentation can be found here. The speech is by Marsha C. Lovett, Associate Research Professor & Associate Director for Carnegie Mellon University, and is entitled, "Teaching Metacognition". It was delivered at the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting.

As educators, we teach students “content” but also want to help them develop as learners. Metacognition—the process of thinking about one’s own thinking processes and strategies—is essential to both goals, and yet instructors often feel they lack time or expertise to teach metacognitive skills. In this session, Lovett discusses recent research on teaching metacognition, including a Carnegie Mellon program where metacognitive instruction is integrated into first-year science courses.

ELI Annual Video: Technology and the Conative Learning Domain in Undergraduate Education

gbayne — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:44:17 -0600

The slides and video for this presentation can be found here. The speech is by Thomas C. Reeves, Professor of Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia, and is entitled, "Technology and the Conative Learning Domain in Undergraduate Education". It was delivered at the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting.

Although many instructors teach to higher-order cognitive, affective, and psychomotor outcomes and to specific objectives derived from their disciplines, they ignore critical conative outcomes. Fortunately, technology has potential to foster engaged learning and authentic assessment that address the full range of cognitive, conative, affective, and psychomotor outcomes in undergraduate education.

ELI Annual Video: The 2008 Horizon Report

gbayne — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:58:53 -0600

Video and slides for this presentation can be found here. This presentation includes:

Laurence F. Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, The New Media Consortium (NMC)
Alan Levine, Vice President, NMC Community & CTO, The New Media Consortium (NMC)
Cyprien P. Lomas, Director, Learning Centre, The University of British Columbia
Diana G. Oblinger, President, EDUCAUSE
Rachel Smith, Vice President, NMC Services, The New Media Consortium (NMC)

The annual Horizon Report, a joint publication of the NMC and the ELI, highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression. This session reviews the research and process behind the report.

ELI Annual Video: Connectivism

gbayne — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:33:13 -0600

Video and slides for this presentation can be found here. The speech is by George Siemens, Associate Director of the Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba. This plenary session is entitled, "Connectivism".

The waves of technological and social change have eroded the effectiveness of traditional views regarding what, how, and why to educate. To effectively educate learners, fundamental assertions need to be rethought: the design of schools and curriculum, the nature of knowledge in a connected world, the relationship between educator and learner, the means and methods of authenticating information and knowledge, and, perhaps most significantly, what it means “to know” in complex, rapidly developing, and chaotic environments. This session will present connectivism as a theory of learning that can bridge the rift between traditional and new educational approaches to prepare learners for the tomorrow they will inherit.

ELI Annual Video: Exponential Change in Traditional Organizations: McMaster University Libraries

gbayne — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:39:42 -0600

Video and slides of this presentation can be found here. The speech is by Jeffrey G. Trzeciak, University Librarian at McMaster University, entitled, " Exponential Change in Traditional Organizations: McMaster University Libraries". This speech was recorded at the ELI 2008 Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

McMaster University Libraries, one of Canada’s most innovative university libraries, is bringing together librarians, faculty, information technologists, and students in new and exciting ways. By focusing on emerging technologies, student success, and collaboration, the library is transforming from a "book warehouse" to the center for teaching and learning.

ELI Annual Video: What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies

gbayne — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:21:24 -0600

Video fand slides for this presentation can be found here. The speech is by Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, and is entitled, "What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies".

Emblematic of the new participatory cultures and the emerging practices of collective intelligence, Wikipedia has drawn fire from academic institutions and traditional gatekeepers. Using segments from a forthcoming documentary about the Wikipedia movement produced by MIT's Project NML, this session will discuss how educators might use Wikipedia to introduce students to the ways that new forms of cultural production and knowledge sharing are reshaping the research process.

ELI Featured and General Sessions Archives and LIVE links

cyang — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:24:46 -0600

ELI Annual Conference Featured and General Sessions are now available through the Sonic Foundry ELI Annual Conference web page.

Wed., Jan. 30: Live, Streaming Sessions from the ELI Annual Meeting

lgesner — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:53:19 -0600

Announcing two live, streaming conference sessions tomorrow from the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting in San Antonio:

Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins, Jan. 30, 9:00 a.m. ET, "Virtual Worlds as Web 2.0 Learning Spaces," in which she will discuss Second Life, its use as a learning space, and its predictive role in the future of learning.
Bob Young, Jan. 30, 11:45 a.m. ET, "Educational Publishing: Moving from the 18th to the 21st Century in One Step," in which he will look at today's competitive education industry and how to efficiently deliver more relevant information to our students.

Tune in to these and other conference sessions. Check out more conference highlights, including blogging, Twitter, and other buzz on the Net.

ELI thanks Sonic Foundry, An EDUCAUSE Silver Partner, for their assistance in recording the general and featured presentations.