Tune In January 27: Widgets and Sharable Learning Content

Educators have been searching for ways to modularize and share educational content since the inception of online learning. However, for reasons both cultural and technological, the academic community has been slow to accept past attempts to support learning through the use of reusable, stand-alone, digital assets. With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, widgets—along with a new generation of web-based and mobile content aggregators—provide the key to successfully packaging and delivering web-based educational content.

In this free January 27 EDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar, Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content, presenter Mark C. Marino, assistant professor (teaching) of Writing Program, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, will share how the production of portable course content in widgets has opened his writing course, and Susan E. Metros, associate vice provost and deputy CIO, professor of visual design and clinical education, University of Southern California, will discuss ways to work with information technology leaders and university administration to deploy and promote widgets as an innovative and supportable learning technology.

Those unable to attend may wish to visit the archives after the event or browse related EDUCAUSE resources on Learning Objects, Open Content, Web 2.0, and Widgets.