ELI Leadership Roundtable

New this Year at the ELI Annual Meeting

Registration for this program is now closed. If you would like to be added to a waitlist please e-mail info@educause.edu.

In keeping with the innovative spirit of the ELI annual meeting, we’ve designed a new, multifaceted learning experience called the ELI Leadership Roundtable. The Roundtable will be threaded throughout the meeting program and will be centered on the theme of learning analytics. This new program will encourage collaboration, and foster learning from a cohort of peers, experienced leaders, and analytics experts through presentations, small group discussions, and one-to-one networking opportunities.

2012 Leadership Roundtable Goals:

• provide an immersive leadership experience on a single topic,
• enable participants to meet and network with peers and leaders also interested in the topic, and
• collect ideas and tools to provide support and leadership for their institution

You must pay an additional fee for the roundtable and be registered for the full conference to attend. The roundtable registration includes sessions on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during the conference and an invitation to the Monday night VIP reception.

Registration is limited to the first 20 participants.

Leadership Roundtable will focus on Learning Analytics

On many of our campuses, current strategic planning calls for renewed innovation in teaching and learning with corresponding accountability. Discovering how best to support learning, to augment student engagement, and to improve student retention is becoming increasingly important. As institutions are approached by a variety of individuals, consortiums, and companies promoting their analytics solutions, it is necessary to engage in dialogue about learning analytics and determine how it can address both the learning objectives for higher education and the need for better accountability. The ELI Leadership Roundtable on Learning Analytics is designed to bring together a cohort of participants from a range of higher education institutions to discuss the different facets of analytics, to determine what actionable intelligence can be developed, and to assist participants in becoming change agents.

What Is the Program?

In keeping with the innovative spirit of the ELI annual meeting, we’ve designed a new, deeper learning session threaded throughout the meeting program. The goals for this learning opportunity are:

• to provide an immersive leadership experience related to learning analytics,
• to enable participants to meet and network with peers and leaders also interested in learning analytics, and
• to collect ideas and tools to provide support and leadership for their institution on learning analytics.

Participants, both new and experienced colleagues, will benefit from peer interaction and the opportunity to network and engage with learning analytics leaders in the community during small group discussions and one-on-one networking.

Separate registration is required and includes all sessions listed below, an invitation to the VIP reception on Monday evening, and a hosted roundtable lunch session on Tuesday. To register for the Leadership Roundtable, you must also register for the ELI Annual Meeting in Austin, TX.

Program Agenda

Monday, February 13

10:30-12:00 p.m.
Opening Session: Participants will be provided goals for the Leadership Roundtable, an overview of analytics, and will begin to explore some of the broader leadership issues that inform campus change efforts.  Participants will also have a chance to explore the substance and hype that surround learning analytics and consider how these conversations may impact strategies for adoption and implementation on campus.

• Introductions and program overview
• Transformative leadership: a framework for being a change agent
• Leadership conversation: focusing the analytics discussion

7:30-9:00 p.m.
VIP Reception:Join us for informal networking and socializing with other roundtable attendees, annual meeting speakers, and EDUCAUSE staff at this invitation-only VIP reception.

Tuesday, February 14

11:30-1:30 p.m.
Second Session: After discussing the potential of analytics, participants will turn their focus toward how analytics might best be implemented at their institutions. Participants will have an opportunity to hear multiple institutional perspectives on current analytics projects and will also meet with several of the presenters over lunch to discuss potential strategies for exploring and possibly implementing analytics locally.

Wednesday, February 15

9:30-10:30 a.m.
Closing Session: During the closing session, Leadership Roundtable participants will have the opportunity to share their ideas and potential action steps for strategic implementation of learning analytics at their institutions. Participants will first have an opportunity to refine their plans within a small group setting and then will participate in a larger discussion of common elements shared in the plans, concluding with the development of next steps for continuing the dialogue locally.

Meet the ELI Leadership Roundtable Directors

John Campbell, Associate Vice President for Academic Technologies at Purdue University

Shelli Fowler, Executive Director of Graduate Development Programs & New Pedagogies in Learning Technologies, a division of the Office of Information Technology, and Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech.

Who Should Attend?

• CIO and Senior IT Leaders
• Academic administrators
• IT/LT Staff and Directors
• Faculty
• Teaching and learning center staff and directors

Roundtable Resources

A selected list of readings and resources will be shared to help you prepare for the roundtable and to serve as recommendations for your personal library.