On Tuesday morning Dr. Aaron Doering (LTML Co-Director) will deliver the opening keynote address at the AACE ELearn 2012 Conference in Montreal, Canada. Aaron’s presentation begins at 8:30am and is titled “Engaging Millions of Voices and Minds through Online Learning: A Quick Look Back and a Huge Expedition Forward!” If you are attending ELearn, this [...]
If you want to come out and see some of the new research and development that LT and LTML has been working on, we have 10 presentations next week at AACE ELearn (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/) in Montreal beginning October 9. Please see the schedule below if you are attending ELearn and come check out what LTML has [...]
Dr. Charles Miller (Co-Director, LT Media Lab) will deliver the opening keynote address for the EduTech 2012 conference at the McNamara Alumni Center (University of Minnesota) on Monday October 8 at 8:20am. University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler will present the welcome address and will introduce Dr. Miller to kick off the conference. The EduTech [...]
Dr. Charles Miller (LTML Co-Director) was appointed to the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) E-Learn Executive Committee for a 3-year term for 2012, 2013, and 2014. AACE E-Learn is a leading international conference that serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of all [...]
Prof. Doering’s TEDxUMN talk from earlier this year has been published on the TEDx youtube channel. Watch it, enjoy it, then share it!
Keyboard College: How Technology is Revolutionizing Higher Education, the latest documentary program produced by American RadioWorks and airing on American Public Radio throughout the country, features LTML’s innovative approach to online learning by integrating social media. Stephen Smith, program editor and author, spent a great deal of time with members of the LT team investigating [...]
Charles Miller and the LT Media Lab met with Michael Billington (Interpretive Naturalist) and Gail Buhl (Education Manager) from the University of Minnesota Raptor Center to discuss collaborative opportunities on current Raptor Center projects and future partnership opportunities between LTML and the Raptor Center. They also brought in one of their raptor colleagues, Odis, a [...]
Joel Donna, Lecturer of Learning Technologies, was named a 2012 Bush Fellow. During his fellowship he will bring together education stakeholders in the region to share, refine and make available online the collective instructional wisdom of the science education community to support teachers and improve science learning for all students.
Charles Miller (LTML Co-Director) and Brad Hosack (LTML Lead Designer) launched Flipgrid yesterday at the 2012 CEHD Fall Assembly. Flipgrid is a simple and innovative tool in which students use webcams to respond to teacher generated questions in fully online, hybrid, or face-to-face classes. Flipgrid is in its beta release this Fall for all professors, [...]
Aaron Doering provided insight for an article on tech integration into education in the St. Paul Pioneer Press: “St. Paul schools Superintendent Valeria Silva has glimpsed the “future of education”: a reimagined school district where students can learn 24/7 and set their own pace in the classroom. …Aaron Doering, a professor of learning technologies at [...]
