EDUCAUSE | Podcasts and Collaboration

E08 Podcast: Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge

gbayne — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:11:33 -0600

This forty-two minute podcast features a session recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference. The speech is by Christine L. Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. Her session is entitled, "Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge."
Video of this session is also available.

Imagine a freshman college student in the year 2015. She has grown up in a world where learning is as accessible through technologies at home as it is in the classroom, and digital content is as real to her as paper, lab equipment, or textbooks. In high school, she and her classmates engaged in creative problem-solving activities by manipulating simulations in a virtual laboratory or by downloading and analyzing visualizations of real-time data from remote sensors. Away from the classroom, she has had seamless access to school materials and homework assignments using inexpensive mobile technologies. She continues to collaborate with her classmates in virtual environments that allow not only social interaction with each other but also rich connections with a wealth of supplementary content. Her teacher has tracked her progress over the course of a lesson plan and compared her performance across a lifelong “digital portfolio,” making note of areas that need additional attention through personalized assignments and alerting parents to specific concerns. What makes this possible is cyberlearning, the use of networked computing and communications technologies to support learning. Cyberlearning has the potential to transform education by enabling customized interaction with diverse learning materials on any topic, from anthropology to zoology. Today’s students already enter the university with high expectations for the use of technology in their learning and for maintaining relationships with their high school classmates, wherever they may have scattered for college or career. The educational system must respond dynamically to prepare our population for the complex, evolving, global challenges of the 21st century. Advances in technology are poised to meet these educational demands. Cyberlearning offers new learning and educational approaches and the possibility of redistributing learning experiences over time and space, beyond the classroom and throughout a lifetime. This talk presents the report of the National Science Foundation Task Force on Cyberlearning and its implications for higher education.

ELI In Conversation: The Fear 2.0 Group

gbayne — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:06:22 -0500

Web 2.0 tools have the power to transform education. Such a transformation requires that faculty, students, and institutions take risks. With those risks comes fear, which is often unarticulated. How do you tackle this fear and make real change?

In this 43 minute podcast we feature a conversation from the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting. Our particpants consist of a group of five higher ed professionals who co-presented the session, "Who's Afraid of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and the Big Bad CMS? A Digi-Drama About Fear 2.0."

They include:

Laura Blankenship, Senior Instructional Technologist, Bryn Mawr College
Martha Burtis, Director, Teaching and Learning Technologies, University of Mary Washington
Barbara Ganley, Lecturer in English and Writing Program, Middlebury College
Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Teaching Resources Center, University of California, Davis
Barbara Sawhill, Director Cooper International Learning Center, Oberlin College

CNI Podcast: Bamboo - Community-Defined Shared Services and Cyberinfrastructure for the Arts & Humanities

gbayne — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:51:36 -0500

This 18 minute podcast features an interview with Chad Kainz, Senior Director of NSIT Academic Technologies at the University of Chicago and David A. Greenbaum, Director of Data Services at the University of California, Berkely. It was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota where they presented a session entitled, "Bamboo - Community-Defined Shared Services and Cyberinfrastructure for the Arts & Humanities".

Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort to bring together researchers in arts and humanities, computer and information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to collectively tackle this question:

How can we enhance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

CNI Podcast: Research Cyberinfrastructure Needs at the University of Minnesota - An Interview with Ann Hill Duin

gbayne — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:36:15 -0500

This 17 minute podcast features an interview with Ann Hill Duin, Associate Vice President & Deputy CIO at the University of Minnesota. Our conversation was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dr. Ann Hill Duin is Associate Vice President and Deputy CIO at the University of Minnesota where she provides direct oversight of two large units within the Office of Information Technology--Academic & Distributed Computing Services (ADCS) and Networking & Telecommunications Services (NTS). Dr. Hill Duin serves as a catalyst for innovatively leveraging technology to advance and support extraordinary education, breakthrough research, and dynamic public engagement. She provides leadership for establishing a long-term vision and innovative IT strategic plan that is consistent with the mission, vision, and action strategies for the University.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

ELI In Conversation: Web 2.0 and Digital Storytelling

gbayne — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:12:13 -0600

In this podcast we feature a conversation with Bryan Alexander, Director for Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) , and Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Associate Director for Academic Technology at Simmons College . This discussion was recorded at the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Digital storytelling merges leading-edge technology with age-old storytelling processes. Digital stories are typically in video format but can also include Web pages, digital maps, and other emerging technology mashups. With the addition of a Web 2.0 focus, audience also becomes co-author. How do these concepts apply to pedagogy and how can instructors evaluate and assess the process and final product?

Gail Matthews-DeNatale presented a session at ELI 2008 entitled, "Digital Story Making: Understanding the Learner's Perspective".

Bryan Alexander presented a workship at ELI 2008 entitled, "Web 2.0 Storytelling".

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Kim Milford, Special Assistant to the CIO at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

gbayne — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:00:50 -0600

In this 12 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Kim Milford, Special Assistant to the CIO at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis . She spoke to us at the Coalition for Neworked Information Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting, where she .co-presented a session entitled, "IU ChaCha Search: Research Development, and Services".

Kim Milford recently joined Indiana University as Special Assistant to the Vice President for Information Technology. In this role, Ms. Milford is leading initiatives that cross IT and university domains, such as the development of strategic alliances, enhancing online search and identity management. Prior to joining Indiana University, Ms. Milford served as the Director and Information Security Officer at the University of Rochester, where she successfully incorporated security planning and operations into strategic IT initiatives. Additionally, she developed and led an information security program that included disaster recovery planning, identity management, incident response and user awareness.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

Podcast: The Changing Literacy Landscape: An Interview with Kathleen Tyner

gbayne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:24:09 -0500

In this 12 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Kathleen Tyner, Assistant Professor of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. She presented a speech at the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session entitled, "One Click at a Time: How Net Savvy Learners Are Transforming Educational Institutions".

Podcast: Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy

gbayne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:52:58 -0500

In this 37 minute podcast, we feature the opening plenary session from the ELI Fall 2007 Focus Session. The speaker is Craig Gibson, Associate University Librarian at George Mason University. His speech is entitled, "Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy"

The family of literacies now promoted in higher education (information literacy, IT fluency, and media and visual literacies) continues to multiply. These educational agendas call for more pervasive collaboration among all stakeholders (faculty, administrators, librarians, technologists, student life staff, assessment specialists, and others) because of conceptual and programmatic linkages and convergences among them. The blending of these literacies can become a catalyst that taps into student learning and engagement at a deep level and effects cultural change within and across institutions.

An Interview with Jack McCredie at CNI's 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting

gbayne — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:16:49 -0500

This podcast features a 13 minute interview with Jack McCredie, Associate Vice Chancellor, Emeritus, CIO, Emeritus, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He discusses collaboration between departments, campuses, and institutions and the issues and challenges facing system unification.

An important issue in planning, managing, and funding the broad range of information services on campuses is how to get departmental, campus, system-wide, and external organizations to work well together. Often they do not, and sometimes they actively compete.

The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), the Common Solutions Group, CNI, the UC Berkeley campus, and many other organizations have been working on developing collaborative models that provide better service and that save money.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An Interview with Peter Brantley at CNI's 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting

gbayne — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:39:11 -0500

This is a 19 minute interview with Peter Brantley, new Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation.

The collective expertise of digital libraries in making available the diverse literatures of science and artistic expression, in concert with the increasing sophistication of commercial partners and the development of distributed, interactive forms of publishing, require libraries to chart the engineering of new architectures for teaching, learning, and research. Digital Libraries must work to forge the new collaborations required to enable and build these services. Peter Brantley talk about the digital library landscape and the challenges that lie ahead.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An Interview with Dennis Trinkle

mpasiewicz — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:54:57 -0500

In this 23 minute recording, we'll hear from Valparaiso's CIO, Dennis Trinkle. Listen in as he shares a few thoughts on his 361º Model for Transforming Teaching and Learning with Technology, scholarly communication in a digital age, learning space design and cyberliability insurance.

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Dennis was also recently quoted in a recent Chronicle article about cyberliability.

E2005 Podcast: Partnering to Achieve Campus Technology Needs

podcaster — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:56:10 -0600

This 49 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled A Technical and Nontechnical Model of Partnering to Achieve Campus Technology Needs.

E2005 Podcast: Teaching Music Effectively Online

podcaster — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:52:08 -0600

This 42 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Teaching Music Effectively Online.

E2005 Podcast: Building a Collaborative Digital Preservation Network

podcaster — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:12:01 -0600

This 46 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Building a Collaborative Digital Preservation Network.

E2005 Podcast: Collaborating on Digital Collections

podcaster — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:55:03 -0600

This 54 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Getting IDEAS: Liberal Arts Colleges Collaborating on Digital Collections for Asian Studies.

E2005 Podcast: Building the LAMS Community Web Site

podcaster — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:33:32 -0600

This 42 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Sharing Learning Designs: Building the LAMS Community Web Site.

E2005 Podcast: The Open Student Television Network

podcaster — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:52:04 -0600

This 42 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Collaborative Television Networking: The Open Student Television Network.