Sloan-C Now - January 2011
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Dear Educator: Please take a moment to review this month's Sloan-C NOW, a digest of events, information and notices of importance you won't want to miss.
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Emerging Technologies for Online Learning (ET4OL) International Symposium - CFP Deadline extended through Feb. 21 4th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium Call for Presentations for ET4OL has been extended through Feb 21, 2011. We encourage you to submit a presentation and join us at this exciting event! The planning committee recognizes that you have many conference choices. Emerging technologies has the potential to improve education and we want to share all those ideas with you. We think you will find ET4OL the best conference you can attend on new and innovative technological advances especially in the area of teaching and learning tools. This community values new ideas and encourages rich dialogue about them. The symposium, focusing on the technologies, networking and systems that drive online learning effectiveness, will accept presentations that offer attendees "real solutions." Symposium tracks highlight and demonstrate research, application and effective practices and noteworthy technological tools in the following areas:
Please note that the new deadline falls on a federal holiday – Presidents Day. Keynote Speaker Announced We are pleased to announce Bryan Alexander, Senior Fellow, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, as keynote speaker for the 2011 Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium. Bryan researches, writes, and speaks about emerging trends in the integration of inquiry, pedagogy, and technology and their potential application to liberal arts contexts. His current research interests include emerging pedagogical forms enabled by mobile technologies, learning processes and outcomes associated with immersive environments (as in gaming, augmented reality, and virtual worlds), the digital humanities, and futurist methodologies. Other interests include digital writing, information literacy, social media, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Plan to join us in San Jose to hear from Bryan and other exciting presenters! Registration will open in February. |
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The 8th Annual Blended Learning Conference & Workshop 8th Annual Blended Learning Conference and Workshop
Sign-up for updates on the Blended Learning Conference and Workshop. You will be notified when the full program is posted and receive periodic updates on conference news. |
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2011 Sloan-C Webinars Sloan-C has added webinars to its resources for educators. Webinars typically last anywhere from a half hour to an hour and a half. Most are free to Individual Members. Institutional members and non members pay a separate fee. New webinars will be added soon. Check the webinar site frequently. FREE Sponsored Webinars FREE - Seeing and Hearing Online Students in an Asynchronous Environment - Increase Involvement and Authentic Assessments using Student Generated Video - February 8th, 2011 2:00 - 3:30 ET This webinar sponsored by YouseeU, will focus on the key activities of student presentations in online courses, asynchronous video discussions, and oral exams conducted at a distance. After wrestling with the use of video in asynchronous online courses for over 12 years, Dr. Jeff Lewis designed and developed an academic system to solve the problems faced in his online courses. The system has proven effectiveness and has matured into a full-featured academic platform in use at leading institutions. FREE - Empowering STEM Faculty for Learner-Centered Environments - February 9th, 2011 2:00 - 3:30 ET This webinar is presented through the generosity of Hewlett Packard’s Catalyst Initiative. STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) education succeeds when the education is learner-centered. At Empire State College, we have an extensive array of STEM courses at all levels, primarily in math and science, which incorporate activities based on the principles of learner-centered education. In this webinar, we will share strategies for empowering STEM faculty to embrace this environment. Click here for a printable PDF with more details. FREE - MERLOT an Introduction - February 23rd, 2011 2:00 - 3:30 ET MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. Increasing Feedback & Decreasing Workload - January 26th, 2011 2:00 - 3:30 In this webinar, we’ll discuss the practical concerns of how to provide effective feedback. We’ll demonstrate some technologies you can use to deliver feedback, and we will also discuss how to do this while keeping in mind student privacy concerns. Online Learning – How is it changing the K12 Educational Landscape? - February 17th, 2011 2:00 - 3:30 ET How is online learning changing the K12 educational landscape? Julie Young, President and CEO of Florida Virtual School will explain the positive impact that online learning is making in K12 public school. Young will profile programs that serve as encouraging models for wider reform, while highlighting the unique challenges and benefits in K12 vs. post-secondary learning. Instructional Audio & Video: Strategies, Tips, and Considerations - March 15th, 2011 2:00 - 3:30 ET In this webinar, you will learn about easy-to-use technologies to create the audio and video, instructional design strategies for making the audio and video educationally effective, and copyright and accessibility issues just to name a few. For more information or to register, please go to the webinar page. View recordings of previous webinars. |
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Sloan-C Fellows Class of 2011 Call for Nominations is now open Recognition as a Sloan-C Fellow is one of unusual professional distinction and is conferred by the Sloan-C Board of Directors upon individual members of the Sloan Consortium who have:
Complete details are available on the Sloan-C website at: http://sloanconsortium.org/2011_sloan-c_fellows. |
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International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2011 - June 26 - 29 Join your colleagues at the world’s premier ed tech event—ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia, June 26-29! Experience hands-on the way technology and the latest digital innovations are transforming learning and teaching, and meet face to face with educators worldwide who share your passion! ISTE’s Annual Conference & Exposition, formerly the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), offers something for everyone: teachers, teacher educators, curriculum specialists, technology coordinators, and administrators. Choose from more than 600 immersive, interactive sessions and 125 workshops; network at informal lounges and cafés; and browse the newest innovations from more than 500 top ed tech vendors from around the globe. Register and reserve your housing today! Don’t miss out on this once-a-year opportunity for professional learning, networking, and ed tech shopping—all in one exciting place! Visit www.isteconference.org for more information. |
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2011 Sloan-C Membership - More Benefits, Same Price Please consider joining the Sloan-C community in 2011. The Sloan Consortium is a self sustaining nonprofit and need support from you to keep on offering great resources, workshops, and events in the field of online learning. We continue to institute many new member benefits and options based on input from our members and friends in the community. Membership is rolling (no longer based on a calendar year) and new workshops, free webinars, and practitioner documents are added throughout the year. Membership includes full web access to effective practices, the JALN, discounted/free webinars, practitioner docs, discounts on workshops, conferences and much more. Click here for more details. |
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ALT-C 2011 - Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate In 2011, education systems throughout the world are attempting to do more, better, and often with less. As the political, economic, social, agency and technological landscapes change, it is tempting for people in the learning technology community simply to "go on with vigour, hoping for the best". But this would be to miss a major opportunity. The 2011 Association for Learning Technology conference, to be held in Leeds, UK, on September 6 - 8, 2011 will provide a valuable and practical forum for practitioners, researchers, managers and policy-makers from education and industry to explore, reflect, influence and learn. The full call for proposals for is now live at http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html. The call closes on February 21, 2011. |
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2011 Sloan-C Workshop Deadline Reminders Copyright Compliance for Online Educators Online educators need to understand personal liability for copyright infringement when using materials to supplement an online course. Copyright owners have sued and will continue to sue individuals. You also need to know how your original works can be protected. Publishers and the academic community have established a set of educational fair use guidelines to provide standards and protection for educators. Accommodating Students with Disabilities: Leveraging the Online Learning Environment Traditional institutions of higher education that have made significant commitments to newly-constituted online programs need to understand how existing disability services unit can absorb the need for serving online students with disabilities. They need to know the legal mandates that obligate them to provide support to online students with disabilities and to understand how to fulfill the obligation to serve this often ignored population. Moving Your Course Content Online Preparing instructional content and resources for use in the online classroom is challenging. However, once you learn a few strategies, you’ll be prepared to convert many types of content. This workshop will help you develop the knowledge and skills necessary to convert your course content for use in an online environment. You’ll learn about appropriate and accessible online formats as well as different technologies that will help you present your content efficiently and effectively. Open Educational Resources: Use, Reuse, Share Open Educational Resources (OER) have been defined as "digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research" (UNESCO). Join in this exploration of how to find high quality content and materials for use in teaching and learning. Hear from leaders of OER organizations and faculty who have found effective and creative ways to incorporate these resources in a variety of settings - online, blended, and traditional courses. The workshop sessions and topics will provide introduction to OER issues including where to find them, quality assurance, licensing, and use. Workshop leaders and presenters will share perspectives on how OER repositories, referatories, and consortia have been organized to help teachers and learners find, adapt, and incorporate OER into their experiences. Additionally, the workshop will explore the issues of using OER to help lower student costs, through providing alternatives to traditional textbooks.
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