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Neomillennial Learning Styles: Implications for Higher Education

Emerging digital media are shaping users' motivations, attributes, and social patterns into types of learning styles quite different than those based on sensory, personality, or intelligence factors. "Neomillennial" students seek learning situations that interweave face-to-face interactions with shared virtual experiences across distance and time (distributed-learning). This session will demonstrate examples of middle and high school distributed-learning experiences based on immersive game-like educational simulations and will discuss implications of students' neomillennial learning styles for higher education.

Click here to download Chris Dede's presentation slides (Adobe PDF)

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Directed Open Source: The Best of the Cathedral and the Bazaar?

What are the limitations of the traditional open source model and how might they be overcome? What are some of the most exciting open source projects of potential interest to institutions of higher education? What can be done to increase the likelihood that colleges and universities will embrace these new developments? These and other ponderables and imponderables will be addressed by the speaker.

What’s Hot and What’s Not: Current Issues in IT

Each year EDUCAUSE conducts a survey of member institutions to identify the top issues being faced by IT organization within higher educational institutions. Member organizations are asked to respond with their views on the tough questions we must face to be viewed as strategically positioned for success, to be positioned to meet increased demands (for both staffing and leadership), and to be prepared for issues of growing importance. We will explore what the data shows, comparisons and trends in recent years, and implications for the alignment of resources.

Click here to download Leslie Maltz's presentation slides (Microsoft PPT)

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How to Create a Virtual Community that Values Academic Integrity

McCabe & Bonner will present the results of several major studies of academic integrity among high school and college students and discuss how the introduction of new technologies has impacted student dishonesty. In particular, they will highlight what students and faculty suggest are some of the major issues related to technology and cheating. They will also discuss institutional and classroom strategies that enhance virtual community and academic integrity.

Revisiting Our Assumptions

Some of what we have come to believe about teaching, learning, and technology may be more conventional wisdom than fact. Recent studies are yielding new insights about today's Net Generation students and the extent to which technology has influenced the ways they learn, socialize, and communicate. How can we use this information to create more effective, engaging, meaningful learning environments that are in tune with Net Gen expectations? And, how will we know if we are succeeding?

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