Learning Environments for a Web 2.0 World

Join us at the 2010 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, "Learning Environments for a Web 2.0 World," where we'll explore models for the future of learning that fuse emerging technologies and learner-centered strategies to yield new learning environments designed for student success.

Today's technologies have fundamentally altered the very lenses we use to examine the world around us. Smartphones, PDAs, and MP3 players have granted instant access to information irrespective of location, creating ubiquitous, mobile access to entertainment and information. The rise of social networks and virtual communities like Flickr, YouTube, and Ustream has transformed the web from a place to seek information into a gateway to share, build, and interact with content and communities. High-performance networks and collaborative tools like wikis and videoconferencing also allow us to reach across hallways and beyond oceans to share interests, work with colleagues, and seek advice from peers.

But how have these new tools and our emergent participatory culture changed the way we imagine learning environments on campus? Or, perhaps the more pertinent question is, How should our perspectives be changing? And how can we begin to move past an educational model that is tethered to time and place and move closer to learning that is immersive, mobile, collaborative, and social?

General Session Speakers

William G. Thomas, III
John and Catherine Angle
Professor in the Humanities,
Department of History
University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Laurence F. Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
The New Media Consortium

John G. Palfrey
Henry N. Ess III
Professor of Law and Vice Dean,
Library and Information Resources
Harvard Law School

Jeannette Wing
Assistant Director for CISE
National Science Foundation

Join us January 19–21 in Austin as we ponder these questions together and imagine new opportunities. Sessions will highlight:

• The ways that technology-enhanced environments can open up learning, thereby dissolving traditional boundaries of space and time
• The value of cross-campus collaboration in the creation of new learning environments
• Strategies to develop campus environments built on engagement, collaboration, authenticity, and co-creation
• Opportunities to leverage shared networks and Web 2.0 tools to construct truly global learning environments, where students interact and collaborate with peers across geographic boundaries
• New learning environments that elevate the importance of participation and social interaction as a way to empower both instructors and students

In the ELI tradition, the annual meeting promotes interactive, hands-on learning and networking through a variety of presentations, discussions, workshops, and learning activities. Sessions will fall into one of three interest areas: learners, learning principles and practices, learning technologies, and include learning circles, innovation showcases, Experience IT sessions, and lightning rounds.

Featured Speakers

• Patricia Aufderheide, Professor and Director, Center for Social Media, School of Communication, American University
• Curtis J. Bonk, Professor, Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University System
• Jon Mott, Asst. to the Academic VP - Academic Technology, Brigham Young University
• Robert Emery Smith, Director, Technology Services-Stanford Ctr for Innovations in Learning, Stanford University
• Michael Stephens, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University
• Janyth Ussery, Director of Web Education, Texas State Technical College West Texas
• Paul Wallace, Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology, Leadership & Educational Studies, Appalachian State University

Audience

• CIOs
• Academic administrators
• Academic technology directors
• Teaching and learning center directors
• Learning technologists
• Librarians
• Faculty

Important Dates

• Register Now
• Proposal notifications: November 13, 2009
• Hotel registration deadline: December 22, 2009

ELI meetings often reach capacity well before the event. Please register early to ensure your place at the annual meeting.

Attend as a Team

We encourage you to attend as a member of a team. Travel to and from the meeting, along with on-site discussions and interaction with other members, can build rapport, solidify plans, and enrich collaboration when the team returns to campus. In particular, attending the ELI Annual Meeting as a team can be valuable for:

• Focusing on an upcoming project
• Rewarding and motivating innovators
• Building cross-disciplinary collaboration through sharing the common meeting experience and reflecting on the implications for your institution

Participate as a Presenter

The Call for Proposals is now closed. Notification to proposal authors is expected to take place in November. Thank you for your patience.