Multilitteratus Incognitus

Here's the final word, at least from me, on sessions that I attended at CT2011 this past week The first was the Google talk. You know, for all the hype about the limited audience and such, the talk was really about where Google is going; no specifics, and no marketing talk either, so it was all a bunch of ether as far as I am concerned. Google doesn't confirm or deny that they are working on an LMS, and they want to digitize more of the world's knowledge. Cool! Next! An interesting session on the last day of CT2011 was  Learner Analytics via the Cloud: Sophisticated Statistics Made Eas y (by the same person who presented  Academic Progress Portal: Catching Students Before They Fail )  The idea was that different data provides around campus pooled their data into one central place (data including grades from the LMS) that instructors could run and statistics and see if there is correlation between class attendance and grades, between entrance exams and exit ...

Part ][ of my reportage back from Campus Technology 2011 - the sessions that I couldn't go to but seemed very interesting.  To say that there was a lot of stuff of interest at Campus Tech would be an understatement. The following are sessions that I would have liked to have gone to but didn't have the opportunity to attend because they conflicted with other sessions I wanted to go to. iPads: Applications and Uses in Education   User-Centered Learning Space Design    Online Research Tools for Educators: Collaborate without Jet Lag!   M-Learning on Speed Dial: How to Develop a Nimble Academic Mobile Learning Strategy for Your Campus   Pod Rooms: Faculty Friendly Classroom Technology   ePortfolios Integrating People Life and Learning   Community of Practice in Online Education - Collaborative Curriculum We All Have iPads...Now What?  Walking Ulysses: Collaborative and Mobile Mapping in the Humanities Getting it Right: An Innovative St...

This past week I spent a few days at the Campus Technology conference and Expo (incidentally it was also collocated with the AAEEBL ePortfolio conference) and it was quite illuminating! I wanted to spend some more time with ePortfolios, but I ended up spending most of my time in eLearning (and oddly enough Rubrics, but more on those on another post). Three sessions I went to  dealt with mLearning: Engaging Faculty: Observations from the ACU Mobile Learning Initiative (Scott Perkins & George Saltsman, Abilene Christian University) Using iPads to Produce and Publish in an Educational Reporting Class  (Wendy Chapman & Bill Cells, USC Annenberg School of Communication) Welcome to Class, please take out your cellphones (Mark Frydenberg, Bentley University) There were quite a few interesting things to take away from each session!  The ACU Mobile Learning Initiative (MLI) and the session with Mark Frydenberg had quite a few things in common. In the AC...