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What Members Say About ELI

In the following short videos, ELI members discuss what they, their colleagues, and their campuses value most about ELI membership.

Events Calendar (with Proceedings Access)

Please see the ELI Events Calendar for links to the Web sites of past, present, and future events. The proceedings of past activities are available through their event Web sites. You will find the proceedings link in the menu to the left of the event home page except for events prior to 2005. For those events, look for proceedings links on the event home pages themselves.

ELI Annual Meeting

Each year in late January, the ELI community comes together to explore, network, and grow. A combination of plenary presentations, interactive sessions, and workshops—plus plenty of time to visit with colleagues—ensures that the ELI Annual Meeting brings lasting value to participants. ELI also encourages institutions to maximize the value they receive from the conference by sending institutional teams. Team participation facilitates shared learning and enhances the potential for collaborative initiatives back on campus based on ideas gained at the meeting.

As a membership benefit, representatives from ELI institutions enjoy members-only registration rates for the annual meeting —$400 before the early registration deadline and $430 after it. These rates represent a significant discount from the non-member rates of $845 before the early registration deadline and $875 after it.

We limit the size of the meeting to ensure a high-quality experience for all participants, and it usually fills quickly. Don't forget to register early to ensure your participation.

Focus Sessions

ELI conducts in-depth workshops on two topics each year. Focus sessions help participants develop a deeper understanding of a topic and gain practical knowledge that can be applied on campus. As with the annual meeting, institutions are encouraged to facilitate this process through team participation.

Representatives from ELI member institutions have access to discounted, members-only registration rates for ELI focus sessions—$375 before the early registration deadline and $400 after it. Non-member focus session rates are $500 before the early registration deadline and $525 after it.

We limit the size of these events to ensure a high-quality experience for all who participate. This means that the focus sessions often fill quickly, so register early.

Upcoming focus sessions include:

You may also want to view the proceedings from our recent focus sessions:

ELI Web Seminars

ELI hosts Web Seminars, which are Webconferencing events that focus on topics of interest to the ELI community. Participants can join ELI Web Seminars live and ask questions of the presenters or chat with other participants. They can also access archived seminars to view at their convenience. Only ELI members are able to participate in the live Web Seminars; access to the seminar archive is also restricted to members for 6 months from the seminar date, after which time ELI will make the archive publicly available.

ELI Web Seminars offer another venue for professional development. Even if you are a regular annual meeting or focus session attendee, ELI Web Seminars allow you to expand on the learning that takes place at our face-to-face events. In 2008, ELI is hosting the following Web Seminars:

2008
January 14 Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0 – Gardner Campbell, Professor of English, University of Mary Washington
February 19 Powerful But Not a Panacea: Virtual Worlds as a Tool for Situational Learning – Aaron Delwiche, Assistant Professor of Communication, Trinity University, and Co-Founder, Elastic Collision
March 3 Many Students Loosely Joined: Social Software to Support Distance Education Learners – Terry Anderson, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education, Athabasca University
April 14 Augmented Reality: New Strategies in Location-Based Mobile Learning Games and Simulations – Judy Perry, Research Associate, Teacher Education Program, MIT
May 5 Metacognition and Monitoring: Understanding and Improving Students' Skills for Learning – Marsha Lovett, Associate Research Professor, Department of Psychology and Associate Director, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University
June 9 Assessing the Impact of Technology on Learning – Karen Swan, Research Professor, Research Center for Educational Technology, Kent State University
July 21 Community-Generated Media – David Vogt, Executive Director of the Mobile MUSE Network and Director of Digital Learning Projects, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia; CEO, CrowdTrust Technologies Inc.
September 15 Active Learning Revisited – Malcolm Brown, Director of Academic Computing, Dartmouth College
October 6 Picture-Perfect Generation: Visually Simulated or Visually Literate? – Susan Metros, Deputy CIO and Associate Vice Provost for Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Southern California
November (Date TBD) Guidelines for Implementing Authentic Tasks in Web-Based Learning Environments – Tom Reeves, Professor of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology, University of Georgia

Seminar Archive

The ELI Web Seminars series began in the fall of 2005. Archives of past seminars, which include integrated audio and visuals, are accessible via the seminar archive. Please note that archived seminars are available only to ELI members for 6 months from the event date, after which they become publicly available.

The following table lists the archived 2007 Web seminars.

2007
January 16 What Students Have to Say – Carie Windham, Former Undergraduate, North Carolina State University, and Current Graduate Student, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
February 20 Mobile Matters: Why Learning Professionals Need to Care – Ellen D. Wagner, Senior Director of Worldwide eLearning Solutions, Adobe Systems, Inc.
March 12 Planning the Informal Learning Landscape – Shirley Dugdale, Director, Learning Environments, DEGW North America LLC, and Phillip D. Long, Associate Director, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, MIT
April 23 Forecasting Trends in Student Life and Student Technologies – John Cook, Principal, The Sextant Group, and Paul Knell, Senior Principal, WTW Architects
May 7 A Net Gen Student Perspective: Technology in Higher Education – Student Panel, University of Central Florida
June 4 From Learning Objects to Learning Impact: An Update on the IMS Global Learning Consortium – Rob Abel, Chief Executive Officer, IMS Global Learning Consortium
July 16 Information Literacy Redux: Whose Job Is It – Cerise Oberman, Dean of Library and Information Services, SUNY College at Plattsburgh
September 17 Emerging Worlds: Transformative Technologies for Teaching and Learning – Bryan Alexander, Director of Research, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)
October 8 Academic Analytics: A New Tool for a New Era – John Campbell, Associate Vice President of Teaching and Learning Technologies, Purdue University
November 6 Supporting Student Learning: The Open Learning Initiative and ASSISTments – Candace Thille, Director of the Open Learning Initiative, Carnegie Mellon University, and Neil Heffernan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Podcasting

ELI has been in the forefront of podcasting, beginning with podcasts from our 2005 Annual Meeting. Whenever possible, ELI podcasts reports, participant interviews, and entire sessions to expand member access to its events. You can access podcasts from specific ELI events via the ELI Resources page.

ELI NEWS

ELI NEWS, a bimonthly e-mail newsletter, summarizes and links to news and information on ELI activities and other topics of interest to ELI members.

ELI primary and participating representatives receive ELI NEWS as part of their membership. Anyone interested in advancing learning through IT innovation is invited to subscribe.


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