Gary R. Brown, Director, Office of Assessment and Innovation, Washington State University Malcolm B. Brown, Director of ELI, EDUCAUSE Joanne Dehoney, Director of Strategic Programs, East Carolina University Veronica Diaz, Associate Director, ELI, EDUCAUSE Charles D. Dziuban, Director, Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Central Florida John Fritz, Assistant VP, Instructional Technology & New Media. University of Maryland, Baltimore County Phillip D. Long, Professor, Director Centre [...]
Is the Internet Making Us Stupid? W. Gardner Campbell, Director, Academy for Teaching and Learning, Baylor University, Bruce Maas, Chief Information Officer, Wisconsin-Milwaukee Right blogging on the fly in case lose it all again. This is a counterpoint session where two opposing views are argued. They each introduced each other disparagingly eg CIO = Condemn Information Oppressively – how [...]
Andrea Lisa Nixon, Linda A. Jorn, University of Minnesota and Carleton College Minnesota Learning environment research project team lead work at Minnesota. Wrote all questions down that wanted to ask. Written up in Fall 2010 Educause quarterly – whole issue is on learning environments. Built a new science building which has 13 interactive classrooms. Had [...]
Day 2 Between stasis and chaos: creativity , empathy: Paul Kleiman Palatine, University of Lancaster McWilliam (2007) citation on curriculum design. Allowance to take risks. Example from LIPA of risks taken with the design of new institution and curriculum not seen elsewhere [as former LIPA myself would agree with this wholeheartedly] Chaos and complexity Learning [...]
Well the conference is now over and it ended well. I decided to theme all my posts with buddha photos, no reason other than I liked them So some more thoughts… Interesting presentation on digital notebooks and their use in encourage creative design. Got me thinking about whether we could use these at City and [...]
Philip Long, Faculty of Education, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK Dearing report (1997) which suggested all lectures should have professional development for teaching. At Anglia Ruskin all new staff must do pg certificate . It is taught over 2 semesters and one afternoon per week. Although all staff are ‘pressed’ to do course, staff satisfaction [...]
Adam Sheffield, Nicholas Spratt, Graphic Design and Animation Department of Design and Visual Arts, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand Change in practice from physical to virtual notebook. Notebooks are a way of understanding how people think and the way that they work. Notebooks are descriptive and analytical tools. Historical tradition of artists and scientists using notebooks [...]
David Barton, Lancaster University and Carmen Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong Looking at Flickr and how images and text work together. Selected 30 active Flickr users in Chinese and Spanish. Multi lingual nature of Flickr- people take pictures in one language and put comments in another. Use different languages in profiles for different purposes. [...]
Themes and thoughts from the third day of the International Conference on Learning (number 17!) (by the way should say that any photos in the blog posts are random and not really related to the presentations): Notion of leadership and ‘modelling the way’ came up again both implicitly and explicitly in a number of presentations [...]
Two Contrasting Case Studies in the Context of First Year University Teaching Dr. Helen Huntly, School of Learning and Innovation Faculty of Arts, Business, Informatics and Education, C Q University, Bundaberg, Jenny Donovan, Australia Students facing new difficulties eg working part time which prevent engagement. New curriculum based on Chickering and Gamson (1987) also used [...]
