Change Management and Teaching and Learning

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".

In this 58 minute podcast, we feature a session by George Siemens, Associate Director for the Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba, entitled, "Connectivism". This speech was recorded at the ELI 2008 Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

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.

The 2008 Western Regional Conference, "One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Finding Practical and Innovative Solutions for Your Campus," will be held March 31–April 2 in San Francisco. View the program and register by March 3 to save money with low early-bird rates.

The conference will focus on these topic areas:

The back-to-school issue of EDUCAUSE Review, focusing on faculty development, is now available online. Read articles from Gardner Campbell on experiencing a “computer romance”; Patricia McGee and Veronica Diaz on getting a handle on all the latest learning technologies; Anne H. Moore, Shelli B. Fowler, and C. Edward Watson on designing change for faculty, students, and institutions; and Joel L. Hartman, Charles Dziuban, and James Brophy-Ellison on assessing roles in shaping and supporting the assimilation of IT into the teaching and learning process.

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In this podcast, we feature 15 minute interview with Craig Gibson, Associate University Librarian at George Mason University. This interview was recorded at the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session in Boulder, Colorado, where Mr. Gibson presented a speech entitled, "Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy". A podcast of that speech can be found here.

The call for proposals is now open for the Southwest Regional Conference 2008, "Empowering Community Through Technology," February 20–22 in Houston, Texas. The program for this leading event in higher education IT will follow these tracks:

• Empowering Our Teaching and Learning Communities
• Leading the Charge for Change
• Making IT Work - the Confluence of Technology, People, and Expectations
• Corporate and Campus Solutions

Submit a presentation proposal. The deadline for submissions is October 10, 2007.

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