ELI Townhall meeting

This morning I attended the ELI Townhall meeting to get an introduction to ELI and its new initiatives and to hear what the ELI community is currently concerned with. My first townhall meeting not quite what I’d expected from my years of watching the Gilmore Girls as there was no inappropriate contributions from eccentric Miss Patti types :)

The latest ELI initiative - Seeking evidence of impact – is important in times where we need to demonstrate the impact of technology and our practice on student learning. Around this there is the launch of an Educause group and a case study template to help develop resources on the impact of emerging technologies. This could be useful for the vignettes series. Asking for reports from the community

http://www.educause.edu/ELI/SEI

The Townhall was asked for its input for ELI Fall session: Analytics or open content. The group was split. I voted for analytics which is analysis of data at course or institutional levels that impacts on student learning. The ETC group had a great session with Mike last week on reporting in Moodle and Google Analytics. We need to look not just for evaluation, but also on using this data early to make a intervention in student learning – e.g. student not logging on, students not reading pre-lecture material. Students not undertaking formative quizzes or summative assignments.

Educause’s 7 things fact sheets used to focus on technology, but now are branching into pedagogical practice. http://www.educause.edu/ELI7Things.

A new ELI forum is being launched. Go to https://tinyrul.com/eliforum to sign up.


The Townhall participants are looking for information on the following:

* Reviews of VLEs - there is a showcase session on this tomorrow
* Assistive technology
* Evidence of impact of teleconferencing.

Next townhall meeting on May 16: 1pm ET. Next Annual meeting in Austin Texas Feb 13-15.

Olivia