I’m attending Educause 2008 in Orlando this week and I’m excited at the prospect of attending some really great sessions and meeting some new people. I present on Friday morning, but until then I hope to catch as many sessions as I can.
My first “track” session this morning is the “Top Teaching and Learning Challenges for 2009″ presented by Julie Little and Carie Page from ELI. I presented at ELI in Minneapolis in September and will be a panelist at ELI in January 2009 in Orlando as well. Here are notes/key points from this session:
Today this session is launching a new community project, talking about the big issues, and asking for input and involvement.
The conversation about the challenges began around the community (expertise, peer-to-peer collaboration). They plan to form discussions, videos, podcasts around this topic in the coming months.
In the next 2-3 years, what big challenges face teaching and learning with IT?
What big issues are dominating your campus conversations and debates?
One of the top challenges is “Engaged Learning” – students actively involved in their learning, recognizing the social and interactive nature.
Traditional learning/delivery retention is typically around 35-40%. Engaged learning increases retention to between 55-75%. Engaged learning has been around for a long time – it’s not new – just high-tech now. Students can now perform authentic tasks, explore, solve problems and engage in a variety of activities, and can form virtual cooperative learning relationships.
21st century literacies: (among students and faculty)
Three Kinds: Information, Digital, and Visual.
Three Levels: Stimulated, Literate, Fluent
Three Learning Strategies: Stand-alone instruction, Component of general education courses, Woven within the instructor’s academic plan
Introducing New and Emerging Technologies to Faculty:
There is a large technology gap between students and faculty – (finally get faculty using email just as students begin to prefer texting). Students can help us lead in this area – students WANT technology used in their courses. By supporting a few faculty, we can reach hundreds of students.
Challenges:
http://www.educause.edu/eli/challenges
2 responses so far ↓
Mark Pearson // November 10, 2008 at 9:39 pm |
You might be interested to take a look at a presentation I did just last week at the AECT conference also in Orlando. It was entitled :
New horizons in Social Networking:
Educational social spaces for Digital Natives
and is accessible at http://www.earlham.edu/markp/LSW/
Cheers
Mark
micala // November 15, 2008 at 10:33 pm |
Thanks Mark. I took a look at it. I think there’s a discussion to be had about the idea of using free tools like Facebook, Ning, etc compared to using a private social networking application for your students. I’m someone that honestly has no time or inclination to go to ‘one more’ place to socialize and network and so I generally think the tools like Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc are good places because the students are already there and already active in those communities, but I’m sure there’s value in doing it the other way as well.