Unsure how blogs fit into your institutional strategy? Should you allow instant messaging in your classrooms? Is there any educational value to playing computer games? This session on emerging practices and learning technologies will explore new technologies on campus and the students driving these changes. Using learner-centered principles as a guide, we will evaluate emerging learning practices enabled by new technologies as well as alternative pedagogies. This Focus Session explored the opportunities and risks introduced by new technologies.
Questions that were addressed as part of the focus session include:
- What are the new emerging practices and technologies, and how do we find them?
- How do we accommodate emerging practices associated with new learning technologies within our institutions?
- How do we evaluate new practices and technologies with respect to deeper learning principles?
- What do our students think about these technologies? What do they think about the higher education interpretation of these technologies?
- How can you survey your own campus? How can you use this information to create a strategy that aligns with existing campus learning technology initiatives?
The work products resulting from the session include:
- A survey tool to help institutions understand student expectations
- A profile tool to assess student change using new practices and technologies
- A checklist for ensuring that a technology supports learner-centered principles
- A collection of best practices
- Guidelines to help institutions assess the impact of implementing a learning technology