Companion Concurrent Sessions

A Showcase of Successful Partnership Investment Portfolios

Monday, January 28, 2002
Monday 1:00 p.m. - Sunday 1:50 p.m. SESS01

Linda L. Baer, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic & Student Affairs, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Bruce N. Chaloux, Director, Electronic Campus, Southern Regional Education Board

Ann Hill Duin, Associate Vice President & Deputy CIO, University of Minnesota

Susan Kannel, Executive Director, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning-(NACTEL)

David A. King, Department Head, Oregon State University

This is a companion concurrent session to the featured session offered this morning from 10:45 am to 11:45 am.

This session features a panel discussion by those who have developed successful partnership investment portfolios. Based on partnership case studies, panel members address the development of successful partnership investment portfolios from a large campus perspective, a multi-state perspective, and a public-private industry and higher education perspective. The session includes a discussion of how to articulate, measure and evaluate the return on investment from a variety of types of partnerships. This promises to be a highly interactive session!

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Learner Centered by Practice: Applying What We Know About Learning and Cognition in Designing for the Online Environment

Monday, January 28, 2002
3:10 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. SESS13

Stephen Downes, Senior Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada

Lynette Gillis, President, Learning Designs OnLine

Helen Knibb, NLII 2001 Fellow, Fleming College

M. David Merrill, Professor, Utah State University

This is a companion concurrent session to the featured session, "Learner-Centered by Practice: Applying What We Know About Learning and Cognition in Designing for the On-Line Environment," scheduled for 10:45 - 11:45 AM on Monday, 1/28.

Panelists will continue the discussion from the featured session on learning, cognition and design for the online environment. As well as providing an opportunity for dialogue with audience participants, they will explore further issues in transforming ideas into practice using case studies, examples and models from higher education and the corporate sector.

MERLOT/IMS/OKI

Monday, January 28, 2002
Monday 2:00 p.m. - Sunday 2:50 p.m. SESS07

Edward Cooper, Professor, MBA, Regis University

Jeffrey W. Merriman, Senior Strategist, Academic Computing Enterprise, OKI Project, MIT

Edward C.T. Walker, Executive Vice President, CS4ed

This follow-up Concurrent Session will address three specific areas of learning technology and systems. 1. Infrastructure - architecture and systems, 2. Interoperability - components, enterprise data exchange, integrated functionality, 3. Learning object repositories - creating collecting, certifying, and using content. Audience participation will be required.

On the Wings of Change, E-Portfolios Take Off

Tuesday, January 29, 2002
11:40 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. SESS24

Helen C. Barrett, Research Director

Helen L. Chen, Research Scientist, Stanford University

Toru Iiyoshi, Senior Scholar/Director, Knowledge Media Lab, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

John C. Ittelson, Professor, Director, California State University, Monterey Bay

Gary Langer, Associate Vice Chancellor - Academic Innovations, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

This is a companion concurrent session to the featured session offered this morning from 9:15 am to 10:15 am.

This session will focus on the expanding role of E-portfolios in higher education, models for learning management systems and folio thinking. Each presenters will offer a thumbnail sketch about how their institution is approaching the issues, highlighting institutional learnings thus far. We will explore the pedagogical implications that E-portfolios have for student learning and teaching. We will also discuss how developing E-portfolio skills may impact the student's life-long learning and career aspirations.

The Promise and Pitfalls of Learning Objects: Current Status of Digital Resource Collections

Tuesday, January 29, 2002
11:40 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. SESS25

Kathleen Bennett, Web Instructional Technologist, The University of Tennessee

Veronica Diaz, Instructional Technology Manager, Maricopa Community College District

Elizabeth G. Harrison, Faculty, East Asian Studies, The University of Arizona

Maria Marzinsky, Applications Systems Analyst, Sr., The University of Arizona

David McArthur, Senior Consultant, SunGard Collegis Inc.

Amy Scott Metcalfe, Research Assistant, The University of Arizona

Susan E. Metros, Deputy CIO & Associate Vice Provost, University of Southern California

This is a companion concurrent session to the featured session offered this morning from 10:40 am to 11:30 am.

Learning objects gleaned from digital repositories promise a new and intelligent way of creating learning environments within and outside the boundaries of the traditional course. Digital repositories of high quality learning objects offer educators great value in terms of saving time and money in course development, increasing the reusability of content, enhancing students' learning environment, and engaging faculty in a dynamic community of practice. The central goal of the session is to familiarize participants with the key issues involved in developing digital repositories so that they serve the goals of higher education. To accomplish this, the session will familiarize participants with learning object terminology and standards initiatives. Presenters will demonstrate several digital repositories, describe projects underway, and identify the challenges and research questions involved in this evolving field, including issues that arise when using learning objects distributed across many repositories.

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