Podcasts, ELI2007, and ELIAnnualMtg2007

In this one-hour recording from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Julie Evans in a session entitled K-12 Students Speak Up About Technology: Are We Listening? Evans will share results from the 2006 NetDay SpeakUp online survey, which asks K-12 students about their use of technology and their expectations for technology in the classroom and in their social lives.

In this 41-minute recording from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Carl Berger in a session entitled The Millennium Student: And Now, Evidence for the Millennial Instructor. Berger shares results from research at the University of Michigan that indicates a new millennial instructor is emerging, sometimes resembling the millennium student, and sometimes the traditional faculty member, but most often unique.

In this 52-minute recording from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual meeting, we'll hear from Carie Windham in a session entitled Father Google and Mother IM: Confessions of a Net Gen Learner. Learn what goes on in the mind of a Millennial learner and how to bridge the generational divide.

In this 52-minute recording from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Richard Baraniuk in a session entitled Connexions: Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge. Baraniuk will explain how Connexions, an open source software tookit, is helping authors collaborate and publish; instructors rapidly build and share custom courses; and students explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines

In this 50-minute recording from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Bryan Alexander in a session entitled First Generation Ubiquitous Computing: Social, Mobile, and Gamelike. Alexander explores how gaming, social software, and mobility have synthesized the first generation of global, ubiquitous computing.

In this 34-minute recording from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Laurence Johnson, Rachel Smith, Cyprien Lomas, and Diana Oblinger in a session entitled The 2007 Horizon Report: Six Technologies to Watch. Learn the results of the annual Horizon Report, a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and ELI, which highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression.

In this 48-minute recording from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Joel Smith and Candace Thille in a session entitled The Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative: Cognitively Informed Web-Based Instruction. Learn how Carnegie Mellon is using expertise from the congitive and learning sciences to produce high-quality online courses and how studies of student use inform both the next iteration of the course and learning theory.

In this 53-minute recording from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Kate Wittenberg in a session entitled While You Were Out: How Students are Transforming the World of Information and What it Means for Publishing. Wittenberg discusses the partnerships that publishers must create with online game developers and search engines, among others, in order to keep pace with the next generation of users

In this 53-minute recording from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Tracy Mitrano in a session entitled Youth, Technology and Privacy. Mitrano will share anecdotes and interviews from traditional-age college students to delve deeper into the issue of privacy in a digital age. She'll ask, "Are expectations of privacy different between students and administrators?" And, if so, what implications do these new definitions of privacy have for university regulations and public policy?

In my final preconference interview before the ELI 2007 Annual Meeting, I talk with Bryan Alexander, Director of Research for the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE). Alexander is presenting the 3:00-4:00 PM featured session on Monday, January 22; his topic is "First-Generation Ubiquitous Computing: Social, Mobile, and Gamelike."

Our conversation starts with Alexander explaining what NITLE is and what it does, and how his role as research director allows him to explore emerging trends in teaching, learning, and technology. He then discusses some examples of how gaming, social software, and mobile technologies are converging to create the ubiquitous computing environment of which he speaks. Alexander also highlights the implications this developing environment holds for higher education, as well as the importance of gaining and maintaining historical perspective on these changes.

For more information about NITLE, please see http://www.nitle.org.