Posts Tagged ‘Bryan Alexander’

20
Jul
2021

Maya Georgieva Emory Craig XR

categories: AR, educational technology, gamification, gaming, information technology, instructional technology, VR

The state of XR in higher education

Two experts reveal the state of the art

July 22, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (CDT)

What is happening with virtual and augmented reality in higher education?

This week the Forum will explore that question with two authors of a new report, iLRN‘s State of XR 2021.  Maya Georgieva and Emory Craig, founders and principals of Digital Bodies, are world experts in Extended Reality.  They have also been brilliant and in-demand Forum guests in 2020, 2019, and 2018.

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31
May
2021

The iLRN SOXR 2021 Outlook Report

categories: AR, Digital literacy, technology literacy, VR

 

State of XR & Immersive Learning 2021 Outlook Report
p. 12 about VR and AR
p. 15 about social VR platforms
p. 39 CAVE like environment for Nursing students

p. 43 The FUTURE Time Traveller is a project developed and co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme and coordinated by Bulgaria’s Business Foundation for Education in partnership with seven national organizations.

p. 46 obstacles – disabilities

p. 48 California State University Northridge, which has developed an MA in Instructional Design with a focus on XR and immersive games and simulations

 

13
Apr
2021

library cuts

categories: academic library

https://middleburycampus.com/54712/news/million-dollar-library-budget-cut-hinders-resource-access-burdens-librarians/

The Middlebury College Libraries had its non-personnel budget cut by nearly a third for the 2021 fiscal year, resulting in reduced or delayed access to databases, journals and books, as well as an increasing reliance on interlibrary loan (ILL).

Other services were transitioned to a token system. In contrast to the previous unlimited access model, the college now pays for a finite supply of tokens that are used to purchase access to sources individually.

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30
Mar
2021

Academically Adrift

categories: academic library, collaboration and creativity, EDAD
This week we’re diving into measuring student growth in the company of a leading scholar.  On Thursday, April 1st, from 2-3 pm EDT, we’ll be joined by professor and dean Richard Arum, co-author of Academically Adrift (2011) and project lead for the Next Generation Undergraduate Success Measurement Project.
Richard Arum is dean of the School of Education and professor of education and (by courtesy) sociology, criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine.  He recently served as senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2013-2015; and director of the Education Research Program at the Social Science Research Council from 2006-2013, where he oversaw the development of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, a research consortium designed to conduct ongoing evaluation of the New York City public schools.
He is author of Judging School Discipline: A Crisis of Moral Authority (Harvard University Press, 2013); coauthor of Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011); as well as coeditor of Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessment for the 21st Century (Jossey Bass, 2016), Improving Learning Environments: School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspectives (Stanford University Press, 2012), and Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study (Stanford University Press, 2007).  He received a Masters of Education in Teaching and Curriculum from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

To RSVP ahead of time, or to jump straight in at 2 pm ET this Thursday, click here:

https://shindig.com/login/event/arum

To find more information about the Future Trends Forum, including notes and recordings of all previous sessions, click here: http://forum.futureofeducation.us/.

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more on Future Trends by Bryan Alexander in this IMS blog
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25
Jan
2021

The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College

categories: academic library, announcement, teaching

To RSVP ahead of time, or to jump straight in at 2 pm ET this Thursday, click here:
https://shindig.com/login/event/volkbenedix

the topic of liberal education, in the company of two great advocates.  On Thursday, January 28h, from 2-3 pm ET, we’ll be joined by professors Beth Benedix and Steven Volk, authors of the new book The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention (publisher; our bookstore).

Beth Benedix teaches literature and religious studies at DePauw University. There she founded and directs The Castle, a nonprofit organization that partners with local public schools to build a culture of arts-integrated project-based learning, and TransformEdu, a consulting business that works with college educators to develop holistic, intentional and collaborative practices to energize the classroom. ​

Beth has published: Reluctant Theologians:  Kafka, Celan, Jabes; Subverting Scriptures:  Critical Reflections on the Uses of the Bible; Ghost Writer (A Story About Telling a Holocaust Story). She is working on a documentary film project about public education with film-makers Joel Fendelman and James Chase Sanchez.

She completed her B.A, M.A and Ph.D at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Steve Volk is Professor of History Emeritus at Oberlin College where he taught Latin American History and Museum Studies between 1986-2016. He founded the Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence (CTIE), Oberlin’s teaching and learning center, in 2007 and served as its director until retiring in July 2018. He was named Outstanding U.S. Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Center for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in 2011. In 2012, he was named a Great Lake College Association Teagle Peadagogy Fellow. In 2003 he received the Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award from the American Historical Association, and was recognized for his teaching leadership by the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education. In 2001 he was commended by the Government of Chile for “his contributions in helping to restore democracy” in that country.

He blogs at https://steven-volk.blog/.

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=future+trends

19
Nov
2020

Teaching, Learning, and Student Success 2020 and 2021

categories: learning, teaching

Webinar | Teaching, Learning, and Student Success: 2020 in Retrospect and 2021 in Prospect

https://events.educause.edu/webinar/2020/teaching-learning-and-student-success-2020-in-retrospect-and-2021-in-prospect

Outcomes

  • Discuss key shifts in higher education teaching, learning, and student success in 2020
  • Consider the prospects for these domains in 2021
  • Explore the implications of these developments and prospects

Speakers:
https://members.educause.edu/bryan-alexander                https://members.educause.edu/kimberly-arnold                    https://members.educause.edu/phillip-ventimiglia                      https://members.educause.edu/alexa-wesley

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