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Author: RLLillis

Every year the University of North Carolina puts on a 3-day conference on teaching and learning. I am lucky enough to go to the conference every year. Below you'll find information about the conference and links to handouts and powerpoints.

Materials are available on topics targeting IT directors, faculty, instructional designers, staff support, university administrators. Topics include:

Wikis in education
Learning Management System evaluation
Faculty Development
Accessibility of online material
Course Redesign
Online Pedagogy
Teaching in Virtual Worlds
New Technologies
Web 2.0 applications in instruction and learning

Please take a look at the material linked below. It's full of material you might be able to use at your school or in talking to your faculty.

FULL SCHEDULE WITH RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

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PREVIOUS CONFERENCE MATERIAL

2008 CONFERENCE THEME

Mix It Up! Creative Combinations for Learning in North Carolina focuses on initiatives and resources available for higher education in North Carolina. The conference will explore the variety of innovative blends of people, places, research, technology, policy, and approaches for teaching and learning.

This year's conference highlights resources and initiatives across the state that integrate different technologies, people, perspectives, ideas, processes, and organizational missions in innovative ways to:

achieve educational outcomes
overcome curricular challenges
foster rewarding learning experiences
prepare learners for future roles
use resources efficiently and effectively

Thinking in a systematic way about creative uses of technology is crucial. Specific areas to consider include:

People: Cultivating connections, collaborations and partnerships to facilitate the generation of ideas that transform and enhance the learning process.

Places: Considering how the creative use of real and virtual spaces can be conceptualized, developed, implemented and evaluated.

Research: Contributing to the scholarship of teaching and learning by discovering and evaluating ways that creative combinations can improve outcomes.

Technology: Assessing the effect of innovative combinations of technologies as well as the value of incorporating emerging technologies into the mix.

Policy: Understanding the impact of current policies and the need for policy change to accommodate new combinations of technologies and approaches that may span institutions and disciplines.

Approaches: Combining the many elements that contribute to the learning experience and refining the results to successfully implement innovative strategies.