EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and Interaction and Engagement

The EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning Challenges, 2009

drupal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:12:52 -0600

This fall, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative invites you to embark on a journey to map the top challenges in teaching and learning with technology. Attend this interactive session to learn from a panel of community experts about some of the top challenges on their campuses. Then, weigh in on the discussion, joining your peers in a high-energy brainstorming session to help develop a community inventory. Youll also have an opportunity to explore how you can contribute as we inaugurate this project centered on community engagement and sharing.

Wagnerpedia: Civic Engagement in a Web 2.0 Environment

drupal — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:38:52 -0600

Wagnerpedia is a dynamic public campus-wide workspace that offers students, faculty, staff, and the community at large a place to create ongoing collaborative content. This presentation will examine how the cohesive quality of Web 2.0 technology can be used to connect a college with its community.

GameQuest: Creating an Education Game Program for Higher Ed

drupal — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:27:17 -0500

Experience a journey to create a campus-wide program to improve teaching and learning with simulations and games. This interactive session will involve the audience in the game structure of a quest. Join us for The Call to Adventure, The Road of Trials, and A Return to the Ordinary World. Expect to leave this session with an appreciation for the the complexity of creating a campus-wide program and with a smile on your face!

Growing and Sustaining Student Response Systems at Large Campuses: Three Stories

drupal — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:56 -0500

Recently faculty across disciplines have embraced student response systems (clickers). As the technology evolves and grows in popularity, effective use and continuity rely strongly on support and sustainability. Discussion and interaction will center on adoption, implementation, and sustainability, as well as data on current and projected usage.

Social Software in Higher Education: Isolated Accidents or the Start of Something Big?

drupal — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:39:00 -0600

Blogs, wikis, and networking tools appear to gain widespread acceptance. How are higher education professionals using social software tools in their practice? Is there any convergence with what students using them bring to the institution? We will invite participation to explore these questions and determine if there are international differentiators.

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.

Students as "Angel Investors": Technology-Fee Projects Drive Campus IT Innovation

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

At LSU , student government is extremely active in a spectrum of campus issues, including IT. Like many universities, LSU has a technology fee, but unlike most, student oversight is required by state law. Far from finding this oppressive, students have become "angel investors," initiating investment and stimulating interest in emerging technologies.

Digital Field Assignments: Course Projects for the Net Generation

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

Digital field assignments combine active-learning strategies with digital technologies to engage today's learners in team-based assignments in which students apply classroom concepts as they research real-world problems. This session will define the concept of digital field assignments, present case studies, and share best practices.

Technological Impact: Interactive Digital Centers as Digital Content Providers

drupal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:24:34 -0600

The Kentucky Community and Technical College system has implemented an Interactive Digital Center focused on digital content creation, visualization systems integration, simulation, and digital learning. This session will provide an overview of how the IDC is also focused on application development, training, integration, and deployment of visualization technologies.

Understanding and Engaging the Net Generation

drupal — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:04:34 -0600

The University of Rochester Libraries undertook a two-year study of undergraduate students, focusing on how they do research. Anthropological methodologies, such as cultural probes, were used to construct a holistic picture of the lives of undergraduates. The study results have informed how we make decisions and effected changes to align our efforts with the needs and expectations of Net Generation undergraduates.

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.

Immersive Marketing for Libraries: Alternate Reality Games and Library Orientations

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:40 -0500

Trinity University's Coates Library adapted an immersive marketing campaign strategy known as an alternate reality game when designing the library's 2006 new student orientation. Objectives emphasized critical thinking skills, orientation to the online and physical environments, interactions with librarians, and entertaining engagement.

Authentic Tasks and Assessments: The Keys to Effective E-Learning in Higher Education

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:37 -0500

Successful higher education e-learning environments exemplify clear alignment among seven factors: objectives, content, instructional design, learner tasks, instructor roles, technological affordances, and assessment. Objectives and assessment are commonly misaligned, but misalignments can be addressed using instructional designs focused on authentic tasks and assessments.

Clicker Pickers: Four Universities' Perspectives on Standardizing on a Classroom Response System

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:35 -0500

Many instructors are adopting clicker technology as a way to engage students during lecture. Usually, students are responsible for the purchase of their clickers. Hear how four universities standardized on a single clicker type, thereby saving students the cost of purchasing multiple products for classes that use clickers.

Transforming Earth Sciences via Next-Generation Internet Linkages Between the Oceans and Classrooms, Laboratories, and Living Rooms

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:33 -0500

New technologies and infrastructure that extend bandwidth and power to the seafloor are being developed within the Ocean Observatories Initiative of the National Science Foundation. A major component of this effort involving construction of major cabled subsea networks is focusing on science and education programs that will make use of this unprecedented interactive access to study the northeast Pacific Ocean. The last frontier on Earth—the deep sea—will be accessible to a global community of scientists, educators, decision makers, and learners of all ages. New technologies will enable new approaches to studies of ocean and earth processes that, for example, regulate global climate, absorb greenhouse gases, generate earthquakes and tsunamis, support major fish stocks, harbor life in the extreme environments of sea floor volcanoes, and form vast mineral resources.

"Clickers" in the Classroom: Analyses from the University of Wisconsin System Project

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:50 -0500

The University of Wisconsin System sponsored a major project to evaluate the interactive classroom technology known as student response systems or "clickers." This session will report on the data collected, including faculty and student evaluations, from more than 28 courses enrolling 3,500 students at four UW campuses.

E-Learning Tools and Didactics Increase Science Student Numbers in the Netherlands

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:48 -0500

The SURF Foundation, the Dutch sister organization of EDUCAUSE, funds a number of initiatives that aim to increase science and technology student numbers in the Netherlands in accordance with EU policy. The presentation critically discusses competency-based assessment tools and didactics of remedial education in science and technology studies.

Fostering Classroom Engagement with Electronic Whiteboards, Tablet PCs, and DyKnow VISION

drupal — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:26:16 -0500

We will present our experiences with DyKnow, software that fosters classroom engagement by allowing teachers and students to share and annotate material during class. Although DyKnow runs in various environments, our use incorporates electronic whiteboards and pen-based computers (tablet PCs). We will describe system features, underlying pedagogy, and evaluation results.