Students, Technology, and Learning: Strategies for Success—Proceedings

Conference Agenda

• Students, Technology, and Learning, 2008 Agenda
• 2008 Meeting Participant Wiki

Student Parlor Sessions

• A Day in the Life (of a Net Gen Student)
  Students: Ginan Jobarah and Matthew Schultz, University of Central Florida
  Students share how technologies and online sharing of information resources have become an integral part of their academic and social development. This will be conveyed through a demonstration of the tools used in students' daily lives.
• Social Networking
  Students: Sheila Suarez; Anthony Reyes and Amanda Holm, University of Central Florida
  "Social Networking" has transformed from simple profile networks to a whole new way of interaction. Students will present how their daily lives are affected by the new generation of "Web 2.0" social networking applications.
• The Net Gen as Creators of Content
  Students: Kris Wise and Tom Carroll, University of Central Florida
  In the information age, content creation tools are readily available to students. As new technological opportunities arise, students find themselves motivated to generate information such as podcasts, documents and videos, etc. It is only with these tools that students are able to achieve new levels of content creation.
• Open Content
  Students: Jared Lang; Austin Flores and Tony Box, University of Central Florida
  This is an idea about the unlocking of course content to not only make it available to nonstudents but to also make course materials more accessible via the methods student's use outside of school. Students will show prominent examples of open content and explore the methods they use to find information and how current course structure impedes their access to information.

Presentations

• The Next Generation Learner
  Diana G. Oblinger, EDUCAUSE
  Oblinger's presentation reviews the major characteristics of today's learners and the key trends arising from their use of technology, such as their movement beyond using online resources to creating and collaboratively organizing them. She goes on to consider the institutional implications of such developments for teaching, learning, student development, and learning space design.
• The Next Generation of Courses
  Carie Page, ELI, EDUCAUSE
  Page's presentations demonstrates how learner-centered principles of collaboration, active feedback, real-world experiences, and engagement can be combined with technology-rich environments to form the basis of next generation courses.
• Information Fluency
  Charles Dziuban and Martha Marinara, UCF Information Fluency Initiative, University of Central Florida
  Dziuban and Marinara's presentation reviews the principles and conceptual framework behind UCF's Information Fluency Initiative, which seeks to enhance the development of information fluency by UCF students.
• Learning Outcomes and e-Portfolios
  Sharon Hamilton, Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis
  Hamilton details the process by which IUPIU developed and adopted principles of undergraduate learning and are mapping those principles across program curricula to create the foundation for their e-portfolio system.
• The Next Generation of Learning Spaces
  Julie K. Little, ELI, EDUCAUSE
  From lecture halls to virtual spaces, Little highlights how learning principles supported by principles of design establish the foundation for effective learning spaces. Designing for group work, collaboration, and active learning, using flexible, mobile furnishings to allow users to reconfigure formal and informal learning spaces to meet their needs. And, the use of virtual spaces to meet administrative and academic needs gives rise to an emerging set of design practices.
• Assessing Student Success
  Charles Dziuban and Patsy Moskal, Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness (RITE), University of Central Florida
  In this presentation, Dzuiban and Moskal discuss research findings on patterns of student success in relation to different modes of teaching and learning with technology, focusing on differences by generation and learner characteristics.