EDUCAUSE | Collaboration and Teaching and Learning

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

Australia's Digital Education Revolution

catherine — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:16:49 -0500

Check out this innovative series of multi-site symposia, organised by the Australian Council for Educational Research and education.au, which runs until 12 June. Mark Pesce's key note, 'Those Whacky Kids', will raise your eyebrows and make you think.

The symposia theme is "to explore and illuminate the possibilities and the realities of the implementation of the Digital Education revolution (DER)." Now, I think I get it with regards to the digital revolution, but I have to say, "DER" strikes me as a somewhat pointless acronym, and an unintentionally humorous one at that. More creative thinking hats, and more collaborative events like this one, please -- and less acronyms.

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".

Midwest Regional 2008: The Evolving Challenges Facing IT in Higher Ed

cluckett — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:20:02 -0600

The 2008 Midwest Regional Conference, "New Directions in Higher Ed IT: Navigating the Course While Still Drawing the Map," will be held March 17–19 in Chicago. View the program and register by February 19 to save money with low early-bird rates.

The conference will focus on these topic areas:

Collaborate from Where You Are
IT Agility for a Constantly Changing Environment
IT Infrastructure: Adding Value and Helping Organizations Achieve Their Strategic Objectives
Technology to Support Learning
Libraries, Information Resources, and Literacy (New!)
Corporate and Campus Solutions

Keynote Speakers

Susan E. Metros, Deputy CIO & Associate Vice Provost, University of Southern California, Challenging IT Leaders to Mashup, Twitter, Tag, and Poke: New IT Strategies for a Digital Society
Bradley Wheeler, Vice President for Information Technology & CIO and Professor of Information Systems, Kelley School of Business (Topic TBA)

Half-day preconference seminars will offer a close look at important current issues, such as essential privacy practices, rendering animations and images for more dynamic courses, and using communication as an effective leadership strategy.

HumaniTech: Bridging Divides, Building Collaborations

drupal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:24:33 -0600

HumaniTech links humanities and technology by combining the perspectives and skills of faculty and staff from both humanities and campus-wide resources to work across disciplines and lines that often divide the research university: research/teaching, central/local control, faculty/staff, traditionalists/innovators. HumaniTech focuses on collaboration where IT is essential to these bridge-building efforts rather than a goal in itself.

Models for Collaborative Online Learning: Pedagogy, Design, and Epistemology

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:41 -0500

This session will examine models for collaborative learning evidenced within the context of an online Master of Educational Technology program. This session will examine models of online learning from pedagogical and instructional design perspectives and consider the epistemological implications of collaborative spaces for learning and knowledge production.

Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:39 -0500

The structure of the traditional term paper can limit its educational value. To make the assignment more meaningful, students published their papers in Wikipedia. This session will examine how publishing for a large online community motivated students to do better work and deal with issues of voice, knowledge, and community.

When Wikipedia Is the Assignment

ckeller — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:39:58 -0500

A professor and a technology specialist discuss their attempt to bring term papers out into the open with the resource many faculty members abhor.

Midwest Regional Conference 2008: Call For Proposals Now Open

cluckett — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:58:27 -0500

The call for proposals is now open for the Midwest Regional Conference 2008, "New Directions in Higher Ed IT: Navigating the Course While Still Drawing the Map," March 17–19 at the InterContinental Chicago Hotel in Chicago. The program for this leading event in higher education IT will follow these tracks:

Collaborate from Where You Are
IT Agility for a Constantly Changing Environment
IT Infrastructure: Adding Value and Helping Organizations Achieve Their Strategic Objectives
Technology to Support Learning
Corporate and Campus Solutions

Submit a presentation proposal. The deadline for submissions is November 5, 2007.

A related opportunity: consider submitting material for publication in EDUCAUSE Quarterly. EQ authors receive full editorial support and gain valuable exposure and recognition in a professional forum.

Scientists as Writers: Using a Content Management System to Promote Collaborative Writing in the Sciences and Beyond

drupal — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:42:46 -0600

A team of faculty, technologists, librarians, and writing specialists at Vassar explored the use of the Plone content management system as a tool for collaborative writing in a senior-level science course. We present an assessment of our experience and plans to extend the use of this technology beyond the sciences.