Thanks to Al Essa, CIO at MIT Sloan, for pointing me to the EDUCAUSE 2004 Annual Conference in October 19–22 in Denver, Colorado. Al is also Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for .LRN, the open source learning and knowledge management platform started at MIT. The conference seems important for people in education interested in the application of emerging technologies. It would also be useful for those in corporate learning. Among other things, it has the best laid out online conference program I have seen and the site is worth visiting just to see how they did it.
Al mentioned that he is attending the session, Seminar 02P - Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, TrackBack, and Related Technologies, that looks at blog and blog related technologies. It is run by Brain Lamb, author of the wiki paper I review in another post today, and Alan Levine. Brian Lamb is a Project Coordinator with the Office of Learning Technology at The University of British Columbia and Alan Levine is an Instructional Technologist in the Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction, located at the district office for the Maricopa Community Colleges in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona.
I look forward to getting Al take on the session. Here are just a few other sessions that seem inviting, content taken from the program.
Post-Literacy: The Past and Future of Ideas - Just as literacy has displaced oral cultures, this presentation will speculate about the nature and characteristics of a "post-literate" capability that would displace literacy. Post-literacy will be imagined in terms of the development of new tools as well as the evolution of humans and human capabilities.
Collaboration to Create Collaborative Learning Environments - With in-person traffic decreasing, and virtual traffic on the rise, libraries must adapt as students and faculty look for facilities to support new kinds of learning activities. This session will focus on one university's progress toward creating a welcoming environment dedicated to collaboration and readily accessible resources
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