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9:30am
Designing a Successful Distance Education Program
What creates a successful and rewarding interactive elearning or distance education program? By exploring case studies, this panel examines several distinct approaches in answering this question based on the specific needs and demands of the students involved. Educators and students from non-profit institutions as diverse as an art and design college, a seminary, and other established universities discuss their experiences and success in designing distance and distributive learning programs based on their student learning objectives.
Speakers
Dir of Multimedia Strategy & Dev | Savannah College of Art and...
Sr Lecturer on Computer Science Assoc Dean for Information Tech...
M3, Theological Education Media Consultant | Episcopal Divinity...
Professor | Savannah College of Art & Design | Michael Jackson...
External Rel Dir | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Steve...
Type Interactive,
Panel
Hashtag #sxsw #distanted
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP9010
11:00am
Supersizing the Classroom: 3000 Students & Beyond
A standard, supposedly self-evident fact: small class size is pedagogically superior for all student learning. Poppycock! This presentation will outline our successful strategies for expanding the conventional college classroom to 3000 students...and beyond. Combining a dynamic speaker with innovative technologies, social networking tools, and non-conventional sources of knowledge can produce an environment which fosters student engagement, content retention, deep comprehension, and lifelong curiosity...even in ultra-large classes. Integrating video podcasts, graphic novels, film, Facebook, Twitter, Poll Everywhere, and Ustream into course structure can increase choices and flexibility in student-centered activities/assignments, and facilitate increased teacher-student and student-to-student interaction. This course model challenges conventional class-size wisdom, conquers the confines of physical classrooms, and defies the old-school, teacher-centered pedagogy of centuries past.
Speakers
Sr Instructor | Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech
Type Interactive,
Dual
Hashtag #sxsw #the3000
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP10043
12:30pm
Building Community Engagement Around Open Content
Meet the team that undertook the initiative of opening up one of Harvard College’s most popular undergraduate course, “Justice” with Michael Sandel (justiceharvard.org/). Find out how their focus on social integration increased engagement and online discussion on the Justice site and other social platforms, empowering the audience to join open conversations creating a global intellectual resource. Hear how the team shifted focus to topic rather than brand to allow for the creation of user-generated content without negatively affecting the Harvard’s brand. The team will share the social and digital approach used to build engagement, including their ongoing strategy to leverage user generated content to keep the course and the topics relevant. Lessons include:-Making the case to loosen brand control for the sake of engagement-Maintaining brand strength when opening content-Combining online learning with social media-Managing and engaging in conversations on multiple platforms
Speakers
Dir, Online Programs, Harvard Alumni Assoc | Harvard Univers...
CEO | The Pulse Network
Type Interactive,
Dual
Hashtag #sxsw #EngageComm
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP11291
3:30pm
Build a Massive Peer Learning Community Online
Peer 2 Peer University is a volunteer-supported open learning community. Together with Mozilla we started the "School of Webcraft" - a place where web developers learn hackers' habits, build up portfolios, and receive badges for their accomplishments. We are currently developing similar programmes for social innovators, in-service teachers, and data scientists. The goal of P2PU is to enable anyone to learn just about anything - by connecting individuals with each other and with existing educational content on the web. We are fans of the idea of the university, but the traditional education system has become too expensive, too focused on one-size-fits-all solutions, and is growing out of touch with the needs of many learners, employers and society. It is time for a bit of disruptive innovation. P2PU started as a crazy idea a little over 2 years ago, and has grown into a registered non-profit organization with staff in three countries, users in over 100 countries, and partnerships with industry leaders and some of the leading traditional universities of the world. In this session, we would like to share our experiences and discuss what the open future of education will look like.
Speakers
Exec Dir | P2PU
Type Interactive,
Solo
Hashtag #sxsw #P2PU
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100118
5:00pm
9:30am
The New Black? How Digital Ed Is Everything
…Back to school? Not necessarily appealing right? The experimental, embedded, and reflexive departments of education and training within creative industries are reinventing education. This panel gathers some visionaries to discuss the positioning of education in the modern workplace. Many traditional business functions such as PR, sales, marketing, philanthropy, recruitment, and business development are now “education initiatives.” There is a need for a 21c model of professional adult education in the workplace. We’ll discuss what the possibilities are given new cooperative models, technological tools, talent gaps, and knowledge sharing in the increasingly competitive fields of global business. We will also share thoughts on pioneering schools including ones internal and/or external to the organization, institution, start-up, and platform-specific models.
Speakers
Dir of Digital Dev | Goodby Silverstein & Partners | Originally...
Global Agency Mktg Mgr | Facebook | Giselle Schmitz grew up in...
CCO | 72andSunny
SVP, Dir Digital Innovation | Digital Works Institute/MDC Partners...
Lori Kent is a visual artist, education researcher, and sometimes...
Founder | General Assembly
Prof of Culture & Media | The New School | Trebor Scholz is an...
Type Interactive,
Panel
Hashtag #sxsw #nwblk
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP10038
11:00am
A New Culture of Learning: Gaming, Tech, Design
Gaming, mentorship, increasing connection, and design thinking converge in a world of constant change -- and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic. By exploring play, innovation, and the cultivation of the imagination as cornerstones of learning, we can create a vision that is achievable, scalable and one that grows along with the technology that fosters it and the people who engage with it.
Speakers
Chairman & CEO | Minerva University
Sr Research Fellow, Education | Innosight Institute | Heather...
Pres | XEODesign Inc | Nicole Lazzaro is a world-renowned game...
Co-Founder & Partner | Essential | Scott Stropkay Co-Founder...
Type Interactive,
Panel
Hashtag #sxsw #NewLearn
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP9607
3:30pm
The UnCollege: Learning Outside University
Since 1980, the cost of college has risen more than 350% and the average student has more than $25,000 in debt. It used to be that each year of college correlated to an significant increase in lifetime earnings, but 44.4% of college graduates under the age of twenty-five are unemployed or working jobs that don’t require their degree. College teaches us conformity rather than innovation, rather than learning, and theory rather than application. Imagine if the millions of kids sitting in class started their own companies, their own causes, their own initiatives. Imagine if we approached learning in small groups like the French Salons, gathering to discuss, challenge, and support each other in changing the world. This may sound crazy, but I’m an unschooler. While my peers went to school, I started businesses, helped build a library, worked on political campaigns, lived in France, found mentors, and worked at a start-up. College isn't the only path to success.
Speakers
Chief Educational Deviant | UnCollege
Type Interactive,
Solo
Hashtag #sxsw #uncollege
Theme Health and Education
Level Beginner
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP10061
5:00pm
#NoFailWhale: Tweet More, Drop Out Less
Join Rey for an engaging, lively, beat-box-a-licious discussion about how the college classroom can be transformed into an engaging, collaborative learning community with the help of Twitter. Last year at SxSWi, Rey presented research to show that using Twitter can help increase student engagement and improve grades. This year, he’s back with fresh and compelling data to show that Twitter can not only be used to engage students, but improve understanding of course content and reduce the college dropout rate after the first year. Rey will summarize analyses of qualitative data describing how students interact on Twitter and what this means for the learning process; he’ll also provide quantitative data to explain how Twitter use affects acquisition of course content, engagement and persistence. In addition to presenting these results, Rey will discuss specific applications of Twitter technology higher education professionals can utilize to maximize educational good.
Speakers
Professor, Academic Dev &Counseling | Lock Haven University...
Professor, Academic Dev &Counseling | Lock Haven University...
Type Interactive,
Solo
Hashtag #sxsw #NoFWhale
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP8927
9:30am
Three Innovative Approaches to Mobile Learning
Ready to throw out the heavy textbooks and jump into the world of mobile learning? Yes, but how do you do it? Are you on the mobile learning train but feel the content and teachers aren't quite there yet? This panel will explore three different ways mobile learning is being incorporated today in the elementary school environment. Katherine Burdick from Learning A-Z argues that it is better to take the safe approach and blend traditional book learning, online, and mobile apps. Tom Wolf from eSpark Learning takes a bit bolder step and states that all after school programs should adopt mobile technology only. Finally, Matt Federoff from Vail School District has had teachers throw the textbook out the window as Vail has gone totally wireless making everyone operate off of laptops and iPads to the point that even the school buses are wireless. Angela Maeirs, author of Classroom Habitudes, serves as referee.
Speakers
Three Innovative Approaches to Mobile Learning | Angela Maiers...
VP of Dev | Learning A-Z | Katherine Burdick has worked in the...
Chief Information Officer | Vail School District | Matt Federoff...
Dev Lead | Espark Learning | Tom has spent a lifetime working...
Type Interactive,
Panel
Hashtag #sxsw #mobilearn
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP9768
11:00am
Play Time?: Kids and Game-Based Learning
There is a lot of talk at the government, industry, and producer level about the promise of games in education, but has anyone really proven true educational outcomes from informal gaming? In this presentation, Sara and Drew will share some of the most effective gameplay mechanics for teaching kids, discuss how challenges and rewards influence outcomes, showcase video of kids engaged in gameplay, present some of the latest theories for skill-scaffolding within games, and share outcome data from real educational gaming evaluations. Using specific examples, we will show how learning and well-designed games share important traits (like fun, frustration, failure and flow) that get kids engaged and motivated.
Speakers
Dir | CMU | Drew Davidson is a professor, producer and player...
VP, PBS KIDS Digital | PBS | As Vice President of PBS KIDS Digital...
Type Interactive,
Dual
Hashtag #sxsw #PlayTime
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP11722
12:30pm
Designing Creative Online Communities for Kids
In this presentation I will tell the story of the Scratch Online Community, a website where kids from around the world learn to program, share, and remix their own video games and animations. Today, the community has more than one million members, and two million projects. I will describe the design decisions, experiments, successes, and failures, that went into building and supporting this online community, and present a framework for the design of systems that support social creativity. I will end by connecting this framework to the social components of Kodu, a new programming language for kids. *The Scratch Online Community is a project I created as part of my work at the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Kodu is developed by FUSE Labs at Microsoft Research.
Speakers
Postdoctoral Fellow | Microsoft Research it Media Lab | Post-doctoral...
Type Interactive,
Solo
Hashtag #sxsw #scratch
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP11624
3:30pm
5:00pm
Digital and Social Learning: Transforming Education
Digital and social learning has changed dynamics in the classroom and new opportunities for engagement and collaboration arise daily. Keeping up with change and innovation requires continuous hands-on experimentation. Yet, Higher ed accreditation, tenure (teacher unions), and the academic journal publication system are not equipped for innovation. A lack of understanding and training and no incentive to change the status quo make the cultural shift needed a daunting task. More than a few individuals and schools are moving forward while others are so entrenched in the current system that they are fortifying positions against Social Media. How can we shift the culture of education to harness digital & social learning to embrace change & innovation and transform education.
Speakers
Social Media Professor | Newhouse School Syracuse University...
Type Interactive,
Solo
Hashtag #sxsw #Newhouse
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100030
9:30am
Gaming Tools Kids Want to Use
Limited choices exist when kids seek to author, not just play, their own video games. If video games are on track to topple film as the last big media mammoth, how can we build a video game workforce that we need? Instead of reinforcing the divide between artists and programmers, can we get more kids interested in learning the complex work that game development involves, and foster a really great game development community? What kids like to use for game development may surprise you. Come hear what they like, why the like it, and how new tools need to be built to meet the demands of future game developers. Join a conversation about authorship, identity, creativity, and the tools kids really use for developing serious and social games. Gain insight on elements of game tools that kids would use--if they existed!
Speakers
Computer Science Professor | University of Colorado | Alexander...
Associate Professor, School of Media Arts | Columbia College...
Exec Dir | Girlstart
Executive Producer | Zynga Inc | Virginia McArthur is an Executive...
Dir, Global Community Affairs | Advanced Micro Devices | Ward...
Type Interactive,
Panel
Hashtag #sxsw #GameTools
Theme Health and Education
Level Beginner
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP10541
11:00am
12:30pm
How Technology Is Killing (or Saving) the Lecture
PowerPoint is boring. Today, professors are letting students pass virtual notes in class on Twitter. They're trying "clickers" that turn classrooms into game shows. They're videotaping classes to let students watch lecture reruns to cram for the test, or to share the knowledge with the world on YouTube. They're monitoring how many minutes students spend reading online textbooks to see who needs help.This session will explore some surprising ways tech is changing classroom dynamics and leading to the end of the lecture as we know it. While enthusiasts see the high-tech changes as a needed upgrade to a model that is hundreds of years old, others see dangers ahead. Is all that gear a distraction? Is academic freedom threatened when Web tools and video make public the once-sacred space of the classroom?Participants are asked to watch a 5-minute video (chronicle.com/lecturefail) before attending the talk, which will serve as a starting for an interactive presentation and discussion.
Speakers
Technology Editor | Chronicle of Higher Education | Jeffrey R...
Type Interactive,
Solo
Hashtag #sxsw #LecFail
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP8987
3:30pm
Old School to New School: Games & Mobile Learning
Education is stuck in the past. Yet, after decades of incubation, technology is revolutionizing teaching, learning, and assessment. Around the world, people are increasingly using mobile devices to connect with each other and the Internet. This transition is laying the foundation for exponential growth in mobile learning. Simultaneously, games are being adopted as tools for teaching and assessment of higher-order thinking. This panel consists of experts from industry, higher education, and K-12. They will discuss and answer questions about technology’s potential to solve today’s most pressing education issues. Dr. Paul Resta is a professor at UT Austin. Dr. Michael Mayrath was a Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow and is CEO of GYLO (GetYa Learn On) – an educational software company specializing in mobile learning & game-based assessment. Dr. Priya Nihalani was a UT University Fellow and is GYLO’s Chief Scientist. David Conover teaches game design at Connally High School, Pflugerville ISD.
Speakers
Digital Interactive Media Instructor | Pflugerville ISD
CEO | GYLO (GetYa Learn On, LLC) | Dr. Mayrath is an expert in...
Managing Dir | Knod.net - Global Learning Network | Dr. Michael...
Director | Learning Technology Center-UT Austin
Chief Scientist | Gylo (Getya Learn On LLC) | I co-founded GYLO...
Type Interactive,
Panel
Hashtag #sxsw #games4edu
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100103
5:00pm
How Social Media Drives a Student’s Success
School budget cuts, high unemployment (over 20% for youth), and a global economy – No wonder parents are concerned about their child’s success and 70% of teens say they want more guidance. What can you do? In this exciting and engaging panel, kicked-off with an opening by America’s best-known Administrator – Iqbal Theba who plays “Prinicipal Figgins” in the hit TV show, Glee – and led by Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal columnist Jennifer Openshaw (Oprah, CNN), you'll learn how technology and social media can drive your child’s success and where it can’t.
Speakers
Professor | Teacher's College Columbia University | Gary Natriello...
Chief Strategy & Mktg Officer | Milken Institute | Jared Carney...
Founder & CEO | SuperFutures | Jennifer Openshaw, CEO of SuperFutures...
Type Interactive,
Panel
Hashtag #sxsw #Edu2pt0
Theme Health and Education
Level Intermediate
Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100246