The Educause 2014 Annual Conference will take place in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, September 30 – October 2. Take a look at the Agenda and Program for both f2f and virtual sessions. Conference themes include: Accessibility Analytics Applications Cloud sourcing Communication Consumerization of IT Crowdsourcing Data curation E-learning/connected learning Emerging technologies … Continue reading
I’ve been reading multiple threads on my POD listserv about how to define lifelong learning and shifting from an instruction to a learning paradigm. Alan Bender from Indiana University, Bloomington offered a great resource – Randy Tagg’s book, The Learning Paradigm College. Bender lists Tagg’s “Five Characteristics of a Learning Paradigm College” from the book: … Continue reading
The 6th annual SoTL Commons Conference (Scholarship of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education) will be held March 27-29, 2013 in Savannah, Georgia. The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (CTLS) will host the 6th annual SoTL Commons conference in Savannah, Georgia. The conference brings together people engaging in SoTL and anyone wanting to improve … Continue reading
The Blended Learning Toolkit is free, open resource for educational institutions interested in developing or expanding blended learning initiatives and exists under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. It was designed by the University of Central Florida (UCF) and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) with funding from the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). Check out the UCF’s Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository, Evaluation … Continue reading
Call for Proposals 32ND ANNUAL SOCIETY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Centre Mont-Royal Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 19 – 22, 2012 http://www.mcgill.ca/stlhe2012sapes The STLHE invites proposals for presentations at its 32nd Annual International Conference: “Learning without boundaries? Apprentissage sans limites?” The theme of this conference is learning without boundaries. Questions to explore … Continue reading
UCD’s Institutional Research’s Fall 2010 edition of NOIR is out. You can read it (and past issues) here: http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/departments/InstitutionalResearch/AboutUs/Pages/NewsletterArchive.aspx. The OIRPA is the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Analysis. Their mission is to discover, interpret, and provide educational, administrative, institutional, and related information to enhance knowledge-based decision making among institutional leadership, academic departments, administrative units, and student … Continue reading