EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

Please plan to join us for the ELI Annual Meeting on February 3-5, 2014, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana or online where we will explore the theme of Connected Learning: Opening Pathways, Enabling Collaborations.

Connected learning is an evolutionary phase in higher education. Today’s highly networked ecosystem of technologies and personal relationships enables all participants to access and construct the pathways needed to accomplish learning goals. This requires both knowledge acquisition and an understanding of how to use connections to find answers, seek out mentors and experts, investigate processes, experiment with possibilities, and create solutions. Join us for an exploration of approaches, an exchange of insights, and a generation of ideas that enable us, as a teaching and learning community, to see opportunities in this new context.  

Some specific questions we will collaboratively explore include:

• What is the extent to which online learning contributes to all areas of higher education?
• What systems, innovations, and institutional models might we support in the future?
• How can developments in mobile and cloud technology be exploited to best support connected learning?
• What rubrics and research methods do we need to evaluate our efforts in this new environment?

ELI encourages institutions to maximize the value they receive from the conference by sending institutional teams, which facilitates shared learning and enhances the potential for collaborative initiatives back on campus.