Collaboration, Presented at ELI Meetings, and Presentations/Speeches
Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy
| Title: | Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy (ID: ELI07302) | | Author(s): | Craig Gibson (George Mason University) | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (08/15/2007) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | 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.
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Expanding Cyber Communities
| Title: | Expanding Cyber Communities (ID: ELI0603) | | Author(s): | Cathy N. Davidson (Duke University) | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (01/30/2006) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | Information technologies provide us with tools to work together at greater distances and with more partners than ever before. But have we changed the intellectual communities in which we work? This talk illustrates the growth of cyber communities using HASTAC ("haystack": Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), an informal, voluntary consortium. | | View this resource: | |
Importance of Informal Spaces for Learning, Collaboration, and Socialization
| Title: | Importance of Informal Spaces for Learning, Collaboration, and Socialization (ID: ELI0535) | | Author(s): | Lori Gee and Terry Hajduk | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (09/15/2005) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | In the opening general session presentation of the focus session's second day, Lori Gee and Terry Hajduk highlighted the following principles as central to the importance of informal learning spaces:
* The entire campus is a learning environment that provides opportunities for further learning;
* Informal spaces for learning, collaboration, and socialization are critical components of both scheduled and unscheduled campus spaces; and
* Space drives behaviors and behaviors need to change for our society to realize its learning goals.
The presentation explores these principles across a range of institutional examples.
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Mapping the Learning Space
| Title: | Mapping the Learning Space (ID: NLI0309) | | Author(s): | Colleen Carmean (Arizona State University West), Flora McMartin, and Ray C. Purdom (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (2003) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | MERLOT and NLII are working collaboratively to explore and categorize emerging issues in teaching and learning online. The possibility of building a portal that guides faculty, faculty development officers, and instructional designers to rich, Web-based resources demands a new, accessible subject categorization of the field. MERLOT and NLII are now working on this mapping of topics, definitions, and materials. MERLOT's faculty development initiative, MERLOT TWO (Teaching Well Online), and NLII's research of effective learner-centered practices have created some interesting results. The panel will share these results with the audience and ask for input on refinement, next steps, and perceived bumps in the road ahead. | | View this resource: | |
Building Economies of Scale through Collaboration
| Title: | Building Economies of Scale through Collaboration (ID: NLI0304) | | Author(s): | Jay Fern (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis), Gerd Kortemeyer (Michigan State University), and Karen M. Partlow | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (2003) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | Representatives from three institutions will discuss their experiences in collaborating across institutional boundaries to achieve more than what could be achieved individually. Three different types of collaborative efforts will be discussed. The roadblock to interinstitutional sharing of online courses is rarely technology; more often administrative issues like student registration, grade and credit transfers, intellectual property policies, academic calendars, tuition sharing, and the like are greater obstacles. The CIC, an academic consortium of 12 large research universities in the Midwest, has committed to creating an administrative solution to interinstitutional course sharing, scheduled as a pilot in spring semester 2003.
The CIC CourseShare Web application will be overviewed, highlighting its support of the necessary information sharing between collaborating universities. Special considerations for related interinstitutional agreements among deans participating in the experimental shared courses will be discussed. The session will include examples of the Oncourse system's evolutionary transition plan for OKI conversion over the next two years through OKI partnerships and developing and leveraging those partnerships along with methods of cost savings by leveraging existing resources for support—both technically and pedagogically—the evolutionary transition plan for OKI conversion and developing and leveraging those partnerships along the way; and the LearningOnline Network with Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach (LON-CAPA) as a distributed Learning Content Management and Assessment System. | | View this resource: | |
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