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Are Your Campus Mobile Initiatives Effective?

Higher education institutions are increasingly exploring mobile environments and tools to engage students and enhance learning. Using your own local mobile learning initiatives or pilots, we’ll review and apply strategies and methodologies to help evaluate their effectiveness and outcomes and measure their impact on teaching and learning. As we review these approaches and measurement frameworks, participants will consider their challenges and opportunities in these areas and what research might be useful to advance their mobility work. The short course will also include three examples of how institutions have measured their mobile initiatives and have used results to advance their future work in this area.

Learning Objectives

During this online ELI Short Course, participants will

  • Explore frameworks to identify the various areas where a mobile learning initiative may support learning and engagement;
  • Draft a plan for evaluating their mobile learning initiative;
  • Develop a baseline understanding with common evaluation instruments, such as surveys, focus groups, interviews, and observations and the steps involved in using them to evaluate mobile learning; and
  • Prepare to carry out an evaluation of their mobile learning initiative.

Short Course Facilitators

George SaltsmanGeorge Saltsman

George Saltsman is the Executive Director of the Task Force for Innovation in Learning and Educational Technology at Abilene Christian University and Instructor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. As the leader of ACU’s Connected Mobile learning initiative, George works closely with faculty and administrators who are deploying and researching mobile learning within education. George is an Apple Distinguished Educator, mobile learning policy advisor to UNESCO, and winner of multiple awards, including Campus Technology Innovator of the Year and The New Media Consortium’s Center of Excellence award. As a researcher, George has overseen over 40 empirical investigations into mobile learning and worked with partners that include Cambridge University Press and Bell Labs France. George is co-author of An Administrators Guide to Online Education and multiple other works focused on the integration on technology in education.

 

Veronica DiazVeronica Diaz

Veronica Diaz has been the associate director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative since 2009 conceptualizing and developing resources that support its nearly 300 member institutions in integrating teaching, learning, and technology on campus. She provides leadership to various ELI programs: Seeking Evidence of Impact, the 7 Things You Should Know About series, and management for EDUCAUSE teaching and learning activities. Prior to her position at ELI, Veronica supported and led learning technologies and faculty development initiatives at the Maricopa Community College Center for Learning and Instruction serving its 10-college system. While at Maricopa, she served as co-principal investigator for Maricopa’s Technological Literacy National Science Foundation grant, as co-chair to the Instructional Technology Leadership Council responsible for directing the Maricopa Community Colleges’ learning technology strategic plan, and managed the district-wide Teaching and Learning with Technology Grants Program supporting research and development in the areas of emerging technologies, assessment of online learning, and blended learning.


Institutional Mobility Project Presenters

  • Andrea Lisa Nixon, Director of Curricular and Research Support, Carleton College
  • Anastasia Morrone, Dean, Information Technology; Associate Vice President, Learning Technologies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
  • Jon Crutchfield, Program Manager for mobileND and Academic Technologies Consultant


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proceedings info

This event is closed. Proceedings are available to attendees immediately after the event and open to the public 90 days after the event. To attend other ELI events, please visit the ELI Events Calendar.

Tuning In

On February 14, all registered participants will receive an e-mail message with your username and password. If you register after February 14, you will receive a personal e-mail.

On the day of the event, you will:

  • Go to the Adobe Connect website
  • Select Enter with your login and password
  • Type in your username and password from the registration email

Listen to the session through your computer speakers. If you have any audio difficulties, please visit our Audio Troubleshooting page. If you continue to have audio issues, please send a message to EDUCAUSE Help in the Chat and Ask Questions pod during the session.


Course Format

Presentations will be offered live inside a virtual learning space that's designed to promote interaction between the presenters and participants while exploring the content. Participants will have ample opportunity to pose questions to the facilitators and presenters, review real-life institutional examples, and learn about current practices.


Technical Information

Presentations for the online seminar will be offered in real time inside an Adobe Connect virtual learning space. where participants can answer polls, submit questions, and communicate with colleagues using the chat feature. Learn More >


Contact Information

For registration and other questions about this event, please contact EDUCAUSE Member Services:

For questions regarding technology requirements or if you experience any technical issues, please use e-mail onlineconf@educause.edu.
 

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