Podcasts, ELI2007, and Teaching and Learning

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.

With the ELI 2007 Annual Meeting fast approaching, I interviewed the University of Dayton's Deborah Bickford and David Wright on the ideas behind their upcoming featured session, "Creating New Spaces for Learning in Community." They will conduct their session on Tuesday, January 23, from 10:00-11:00 AM, along with fellow presenter Bill Dittoe of Educational Facilities Consultants.

My discussion with Bickford and Wright focused on the factors that motivated the University of Dayton to focus on learning spaces as a key component of its academic planning and development. They also reviewed the challenges the university encountered in effectively engaging the institutional community in learning space design, as well as the approaches the university took to overcome them. Finally, Bickford and Wright talked about options institutions might consider in assessing the impact of learning spaces on learning.