EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and Virtual Learning Community

Emerging Learning Spaces

drupal — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:25:56 -0600

The library information commons. Technology-enhanced classrooms for projecting multimedia. Labs to support team-based projects and student-generated content. These examples continue to inform campus learning space design decisions. Best practices from these spaces can also point to strategies for assessing next-generation space needs and designing discipline-specific spaces and might help us understand effective design in virtual learning spaces.

Glimpses of Our IT Future: What's Green, Mobile, and Regulated All Over?

drupal — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:03:38 -0600

Come hear the outcomes of this year's Evolving Technologies Committee's research and join the discussion! Committee members will share their research on selected evolving technologies and operational trends. Topics will include virtual environments in academia, next-generation "green enterprise" computing, location-aware computing and unified/mobile communications developments, and business and regulatory process trends.

Thinking Outside the Virtual Classroom

drupal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:42:55 -0600

Educating our students is certainly our priority, but how can we connect learners to each other in a way that provides more opportunities for personal growth, networking, and connections? By taking advantage of virtual spaces like Facebook, Twitter, and Second Life, we give our students space to learn outside the classroom.

Teaching Nurse Anesthesia in a Second Life Operating Room Simulation

drupal — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:28:49 -0500

An operating room simulation was developed in Second Life to teach KUMC Nurse Anesthesia students basic operating room procedures. This presentation will describe the design, development, usability testing, and outcomes of this simulation. It will also examine how to adapt our simulation method to teach procedural content in your courses.

Teaching and Learning in Second Life

drupal — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:52:33 -0500

This presentation will examine teaching techniques in virtual environments, particularly Second Life, from the perspectives of an instructor and instructional designer and demonstrate how a second-year nursing program successfully uses Second Life to teach clinical procedures, critical thinking, and decision making.

Virtual Worlds: Fad or Future?

drupal — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:27:17 -0500

The education industry has grown weary of the "next big thing." Technology has promised much over the years, but have virtual worlds finally delivered on the promise? This session will focus on the major issues facing teaching and learning in a virtual environment.

Teaching and Learning Experiences in a User-Created Virtual World

drupal — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:49:43 -0600

Second Life is a user-created virtual world simultaneously played by thousands of people around the world. In this session, we’ll share our experiences of teaching in Second Life. Using the interaction combinations integration model we developed as a framework, we will describe our projects, outcomes, and recommendations.

Managing Online Discussions Through a "Participation Portfolio"

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:41 -0500

If you want students to use online discussions, how do you avoid initiating every thread or simply counting all their replies? By defining and rewarding substantive Q&A (and requiring an online "participation portfolio"). Students will take responsibility for discussions and reduce your burden in assessing them.

Models for Collaborative Online Learning: Pedagogy, Design, and Epistemology

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:41 -0500

This session will examine models for collaborative learning evidenced within the context of an online Master of Educational Technology program. This session will examine models of online learning from pedagogical and instructional design perspectives and consider the epistemological implications of collaborative spaces for learning and knowledge production.

Xavier University's Web 2.0 Strategy: The Virtual Learning Commons

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:36 -0500

The Road to Xavier portal for admitted students was named Best University Web Site 2006 by the Web Marketing Association. Beyond enabling the recruitment of a banner class, this Web 2.0 project laid the foundation for the Virtual Learning Commons, Xavier's comprehensive fully integrated Web presence to support 21st-century learners.