Symposium at ED-MEDIA 2007 (Vancouver) March 4, 2007
Posted by kieslinger in : Uncategorized , trackbackA special thanks to my college and friend Sebastian Fiedler for coordinating this successful application for a symposium at this year’s ED-MEDIA. Sebastian writes more about this event:
Our symposium titled Getting beyond centralized technologies in higher education was accepted for Ed-Media 2007. This is the abstract of our proposal:
Centralized learning management systems still characterize the predominant institutional approach to computational support for teaching and studying in higher education. This approach contrasts sharply with the growing dissemination of decentralized, loosely coupled, and networked tools and services that provide increasingly powerful means to augment a wide variety of activities and practices outside of institutional boundaries. Recently, notions of personal learning environments (PLEs) have been brought forward and discussed as a viable alternative to the centralized approach to technological support for teaching and studying that most educational institutions employ. This symposium brings together a diverse group of international researchers to explore the current demarcation lines, potentials, limitations, and possible developmental paths of centralized, institutional approaches to technology support for teaching and learning on one side, and of networked, loosely-coupled tools and services and their surrounding practices on the other side.
We really assembled a diverse, international group of contributors who will present the following papers in Vancouver in June:
Sebastian Fiedler – Centre for Social Innovation – Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Austria
Paper: If youth but know, if age but could: the power of timeworn concepts in technological support for teaching and learning
Robert Fitzgerald – Divisions of Communication and Education & Information
University of Canberra, Australia
Paper: Beyond the LMS: What’s the big idea?
Brian Lamb – Office of Learning Technology
The University of British Columbia, Canada
Paper: How will higher education mash it up?
Bryan Alexander – National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, USA
Paper: VLE and Web 2.0: the era of the Great Divide
Scott Wilson & Johnson, M., Griffiths, D., and Liber, O. – Centre for Educational Technology & Interoperability Standards
The University of Bolton, United Kingdom
Paper: Preparing for disruption: developing institutional capability for decentralized education technologies
Barbara Kieslinger – Centre for Social Innovation – Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Austria
Paper: Collaborating across national and institutional boundaries in higher education – the decentralized iCamp approach
George Siemens – LearningTechnologies Centre
University of Manitoba, Canada
Paper: Knowledge Deluge – Sense making and understanding in environments of abundanceI am very much looking forward to this event. [Sebastian Fiedler]
http://seblogging.cognitivearchitects.com/2007/02/22#a1832
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