Webinars and other forms of presentations can be a great way to gain familiarity with a new topic or brush up on a skill that you haven’t used in a while. These presentations cover a variety of topics, from security to project management, and come from various sources around the web.
Discussion: Community Observations on the Next-Generation Digital Learning Environment
Having traversed much of the NGDLE territory over the course of the focus session, what are we to make of it? Is it realistic or a pipe dream? What’s been left out of the conversation? Which campuses and organizations are making headway? During this segment, members of the advisory team for the ELI 7 Things You Should Know publication will lead a discussion, assessing the implications of the NGDLE for faculty, learners, and institutions. By participating, attendees will have a chance to weigh in as well, with thoughts and questions and will become prepared to hold similar conversations at their campus.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Day 2 Activity: Leading and Supporting the NGDLE
For information on the focus session activities and digital badge requirements, download the Activity Workbook at http://www.educause.edu/eli/events/eli-online-focus-session/resources.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Discussion: Leading the Next-Generation Digital Learning Environment
Effective leadership is essential if an institution is to make progress toward realizing a next-generation digital learning environment. Key challenges for leadership include creating a vision that is shared across all key stakeholders and the coordination of programs and projects across the cohort of campus organizations that contribute to the support of teaching and learning on campus. In this session, three campus leaders-including a provost, CIO, and a learning technologies vice-provost-will share their ideas and discuss with participants the issues attendant to the intersection of leadership and the evolution of our learning environments. By participating, attendees will explore the opportunities and challenges of cohort leadership in the strategic areas of learning environments and will be able to engage in discussion with the presenters to enable a broader and richer exploration of the issues and opportunities in leading the NGDLE locally at their institution.
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SOURCE: Educause
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NGDLE Discussion: LMS and Learning Platform Vendors
The ECAR study of current LMS use, prepared in connection with the EDUCAUSE NGDLE research, finds that the LMS has a linchpin role in almost all campus learning environments today, with over 80% of faculty using an LMS. In light of that, what are the opportunities and challenges ahead for LMS vendors with respect to our future learning environments? How can they evolve in a context that is increasingly interoperable and places a priority on personalization and customization? What’s to be done about course privacy (the so-called walled-garden problem) and about accessibility and universal design? In this segment, we’ll have a chance to hear from three LMS vendor representatives and to engage with them in a discussion about the road ahead for the LMS. By participating, attendees will learn what some LMS providers see as the opportunities for the future of the LMS in our campus learning environments and understand how LMS providers view domains such as interoperability, personalization, and accessibility.
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SOURCE: Educause
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NGDLE Discussion: Component and Start-Up Vendors
Using Legos as a metaphor, the NGDLE white paper recommends a component-based or “building block” approach to developing learning environments. In this segment, we’ll engage with panelists whose companies make such components, to hear what they think of the NGDLE framework and the role of companies like theirs in future learning environments. What are the opportunities and challenges for vendors of learning components in a landscape like that of NGDLE? What alliances and partnerships might be possible that would benefit both companies and institutions? By participating, attendees will understand more fully the opportunities and challenges facing component vendors with respect to future learning environments and will explore new ways that companies and institutions will be able to work together.
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SOURCE: Educause
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NGDLE Discussion: Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning
The next-generation learning environment must be one that is inclusive and works for all learners and instructors. This means that we need to move beyond remediating course content to render it accessible. According to Ron Mace, founder of the Center for Universal Design, universal design aspires to create designs that are “usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.” What does it mean to work toward implementing universal design in our learning environments? What adjustments do we need to make to our design efforts to realize the goal of usability by all? Our expert facilitators for this segment will explore what this means and discuss other issues associated with accessibility and universal design within the framework of learning environments. By participating, attendees will understand how universal design for learning can contribute to a learning environment that works for everyone and learn how accessibility practices can evolve within the context of next-generation learning environments.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Day 1 Activity: Identifying and Advancing the NGDLE
For information on the focus session activities and digital badge requirements, download the Activity Workbook at http://www.educause.edu/eli/events/eli-online-focus-session/resources.
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SOURCE: Educause
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I Want My Data
Different institutions have different needs and capabilities when it comes to data and analytics. It’s not sufficient to talk about software systems and just say, “We need our data.” This session will present a framework for describing the different levels of refinement that exist when thinking about access to data.
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SOURCE: Educause
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NGDLE Discussion: Learning Analytics, Advising, and Learning Assessment
Learning analytics, integrated student advising, and the assessment of learning all share a reliance on learner data. With standards emerging that will help exchange and compile that data, it would seem that we are on the cusp of developing new and powerful ways to support learners and to increase overall student success. These three dimensions are then of fundamental importance for any new and innovative learning environment. In this segment, expert facilitators will cover developments in these three areas and their longer-term potential to contribute to the transformation of the learning environment. By participating, attendees will gain a better sense of the data and the data standards associated with these three areas as well as their future directions.
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SOURCE: Educause
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NGDLE Discussion: Interoperability and Customization
Interoperability is the digital linchpin for any new learning environment. Interoperability not only avoids costly, time-consuming integration programming but also provides a digital foundation for the key, user-facing functional domain of personalization and customization. But what does interoperability, when it works, really “look like”? What are ways it makes an impact on a campus and enables an institution’s learning agenda to move forward and transform? In this session, expert facilitators will explore the theme of interoperability, the standards that are of special relevance to learning, and ways in which it is having an impact on their campus. By participating, attendees will have a fuller understanding of standards and how they promote and enable interoperability and will gain a richer understanding of how interoperability can make a tangible difference in our learning environments.
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SOURCE: Educause
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