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Blank Easel: The Ohio Horizon
This session will begin with a quick participant survey regarding emerging technology trends and build discussion
around their use in enhancing teaching and learning in Ohio. What technologies are Ohio educators using now?
What intriguing possibilities are on near and far horizons? How do we assess the various options? What do you
think is worth pursuing? How is technology “churn” influencing debate and decisions? How might state leadership,
including the Ohio Learning Network and larger higher education institutions, foster further exploration and assist
decision-making processes to promote successful educational technologies in Ohio?
Some notes on session:
Emerging trends on Ohio campuses (audience generated list):
- Podcasting
- lecture capture and stream
- wiki – as support tool
- Smart Boards
- Course management systems
- Laptop lending
- Wireless
- Synchronous web conferencing (eg Elluminate, Wimba)
- Simbaby/Simman
- PDAs
- Second Life – virtual worlds
- Serious Games for learning
- Open courseware
- Blogs
- Streaming video
- Digital repositories
- EPortfolios
- Social software
- Chat tools
- IM
- Video conferencing
Others:
- Destination math software
- Google Jockey
- Rollyo – customized search engine
- RSS
- Starry Night – software that gives you the night sky at any time
- Skype
- WikiSeek
What steps would we use to evaluate and test a proposed technology?
Research: What is it? What is it good for? Peers? Sustainability? How difficult to implement? Vendor? K-12? Business?
IRB approval for user research – keep it anonymous
Check if technical support is available? Student Support? Faculty Support?
Secure approval for pilot
Advisory committee
Participants (faculty and students)
Project Proposal
Demo
Report
Create space to test new technology – indicates institutional support for innovation, allows for quick approval
Set evaluation rubric.
Pilot the project
Assess: Did it do what you wanted it to do? What else did it do? Unforeseen consequences?
Can it be improved? Is a re-test warranted?
In order to accomplish the above, you need people dedicated to testing and improving new technology that are not also involved in other things (they would become bogged down). Example is OLN’s emerging technology test bed.
Also see:
Penn State's Hot Teams method: http://podcasts.psu.edu/CICHotTeams
Educause's 7 Things You should Know About Series http://educause.edu/7thingsyoushouldknowaboutseries/7495
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