LDSC08 Overview

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Contents 1 Goal 2 Audience 3 Vision 4 Process 5 Outcomes 6 Registration Fee

Goal

To bring together instructional designers, faculty, librarians, and learning technologists across Penn State to discuss learning design, education technology, and issues related to implementation, innovation, course design, content development, student outcomes, and community engagement.

Audience

Instructional Designers, Education Technology staff, Librarians, and Faculty from all Penn State campuses. We will have capacity for about 75 people (including those running the event). At a minimum, we would like to have:

• One person from each campus location
• One to two people from each of the University Park eLearning Groups:
  • Dutton e-Education Institute
  • Arts and Architecture eLearning Institute
  • Liberal Arts Outreach and Online Education Unit
  • Smeal College RIIT Group
  • Penn State World Campus
  • Schreyer Institute
  • College of Ag Sciences eLearning Team
  • College of Health and Human Development

The technology-related sessions will be led by people who are more advanced in the use of those technologies. The policy/pedagogical issues may be led by faculty/staff who have expertise in those areas.

Vision

The participants will discuss pedagogical issues related to the impact of new technologies on teaching and learning:

• Student Publishing and Communication (e.g. portfolios, blogs)
• Faculty Publishing and Communication (e.g. new approaches to content development, collaboration, publishing, research)
• Issues of intellectual property and digital media (TEACH Act, Fair Use, Open vs. Closed content)
• Using existing tools to augment, enrich, and share PSU courses (Lightning Talks about SCOLA, Clickers, Open Content, Adobe Connect, Turnitin, iTunesU, etc... Have this lead into lunch with people sitting with the expert that they want to talk to the most)
• Integrating new tools into current courses (ANGEL as the HUB, New Adobe Connect features, educational uses of blogs, etc...)

Discussion groups will self-select around pedagogical, development, or institutional issues. They will explore questions such as:

• What technologies can be used?
• How do the methodologies add value or resolve problems?
• What activities will the students do?
• What will the faculty need to do to make it happen?
• What are the support issues?
• What are the policy implications?
• What is missing?

TLT Staff will broaden their exposure to the people in the Learning Design community that they don't typically work with. By doing this, they should have a better understanding of unique issues, challenges, perspectives, and solutions from other colleges and campuses.

Process

1. On both days, attendees will hear short presentations about institutional and pedagogical issues. For example, community engagement, communicating in the open, streamlining course content development, etc... Each presentation will be followed by an extended Q&A session
2. During day one, attendees will hear about 10 technologies during a Lightning Talk session and then have experts available throughout the afternoon to help them learn more about that technology, from both a how-to and pedagogical viewpoint.
3. Attendees will form discussion groups over lunch and in the morning of Day 2, based on design challenges, "vexations", pilot projects, and institutional issues that they are concerned about. Ideas from these groups will be captured in the wiki.
4. In the afternoon of Day 2, six people will give a 10-minute presentation about their topic, followed by 10 minutes of discussion

Outcomes

Each team captain should post the results of their project as a blog post, online presentation, podcast, etc... as well as a short writeup in the Learning Design Community Hub.

Registration Fee

None. This is a free event.