Educause Learning Initiatives Annual Meeting: Advancing the Next Generation of Learning

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

Posted in General News

You’re invited to a local showing of the ELI (Educause Learning Initiatives) Annual Meeting next week, February 4-6.  We’ll be projecting a number of online and featured meetings in the Harari Institute conference room.  Bring your cup of coffee or your lunch and join colleagues for a series of lively topics!

The theme of the meeting this year, Advancing the Next Generation of Learning, involves the “orchestration of a broad range of innovations and campus resources.  It focuses on the rapid evolution of learning technology, charting its migration from the desktop to the cloud and highly mobile devices.” More information is available from EDUCAUSE.

Please sign up below for the topics you plan to attend and feel free to forward this notice to those you know who also would be interested.  Drop-ins are welcome, as long as there’s space.

Monday 2/4 Harari Institute Conference Room, 111 Cummington Street
11:00 – 1:30 Integrated Technology: Connecting People, Pedagogy, and Place Sign up page
2:30 – 2:45 Welcome and Online Conference Overview Sign up page
3:00 – 3:15 Student Success Does Not Arise by Chance Sign up page
4:20 – 4:40 Interview and Interactive Q&A Session with Speakers Kyle Bowen, Purdue University; Amy McQuigge, Empire State College SUNY; and Danielle Mirliss and Michael Soupios, Seton Hall University. No sign up
4:45 -5:30 Engaging Students in Community Based, Collaborative Research Using Geotagging and Free Cloud-Based Tools Sign up page
5:45 – 6:30 Leveraging Open Technologies and Cross-Disciplinary Pollination to Transform Introductory Courses Sign up page
Tuesday 2/5 Harari Institute Conference Room, 111 Cummington Street
11:15 – 12:00 Analysis of On-line Instructors’ Best Practices Sign up page
12:05 – 12:25 Find Your Pathway to E-Textbook Authoring No Sign up
12:30 – 1:15 If you Badge It, Will they Engage? Gamification Principles in Online Courses Sign up page
1:30 – 2:15 MOOCs on Campus: Experiences from the Front Lines Sign up page
2:20 – 3:25 Carrots and Sticks: Unique Approaches for Developing and Supporting Faculty in Online and Hybrid Instruction Sign up page
3:30 – 4:15 Coming Soon to a University Near You: E-Texts and E-Textbooks Sign up page
4:55 – 5:30 Analytics Readiness: Is your Institution Primed for Success? Sign up page
5:45 – 6:30 Debate Club: Where’s the Learning in Learning Analytics Sign up page
Wednesday 2/6 Harari Institute Conference Room, 111 Cummington Street
10:30 – 11:15 Next Generation Learning: What Is IT? And Will It Work? Sign up page
11:20 – 11:40 Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Badges but Were Afraid to Ask Sign up page
12:45 – 1:30 Are All Mobile Devices Equal When it Comes to Teaching and Learning? Sign up page