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Assessing the Impact of Technology-Rich Spaces on Student Learning
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Links of Interest

This compilation page will connect you to a number of relevant sources connected to the assessment of technology's impact on student learning. These include conferences, grants, journals and newsletters and organizations of interest.
Disclaimer: The following links of interest represent a broad spectrum of thinking about technology, student learning, and assessment. Most of the annotated descriptions associated with these links have been taken from the individual web sites and should not be seen as promoting one resource over another.

Conferences

EDUCAUSE List of Conferences, Events.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Conferences & Events.

The League for Innovation's Annual Conference on Information Technology (CIT) List of Conferences and Events. These explore the intelligent application of information technology in community and technical colleges.

The Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET), List of Conferences and Events. annual conference is the premier professional development event in the field of e-learning.  Attendees gain practical solutions, expand their professional networks, and have the opportunity to influence future WCET initiatives

UNC Teaching and Learning Technology (TLT) annual conference.

 


Association of American Colleges and Universities, AACU, April 20-22, 2006, "Learning and Technology: Implications for Liberal Education and the Disciplines" in Seattle, WA.

EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting , October 28-31, 2008, Orlando, Fl.

EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting , October 23–26, 2007, Seattle, WA.

EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting , October 9–12,2006, Dallas, TX.

EDUCAUSE Enterprise Information & Technology Conference, May 28-29, 2008, Chicago, Il.

EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, January 15–17, 2008, "Creating Reality Through Technology, Collaboration, and Best Practices" in Baltimore, Maryland.

EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, January 17–19, 2007, "Unifying the Digital Campus: Integrated Technologies Supporting Practical Solutions" in Baltimore, Maryland.

EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, January 10-12, 2006, "Staying Agile, Maintaining Balance: Solutions from a Sea of Technology" in Baltimore, Maryland.

EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference, June 2-4, 2008, "The Right Stuff " in Jacksonville, Fl.

EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference, June 11–13, 2007, "Navigating the Rapids of Campus Technology " in Atlanta, GA.

EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference, June 19–21, 2006, ""Balancing Today with Tomorrow through Innovation, Collaboration, and Integration" in Atlanta, GA.

EDUCAUSE South-West Regional Conference, February 24-26, 2009, "Balancing Acts: Making IT Work for Everyone" in San Antonio, Texas.

EDUCAUSE South-West Regional Conference, February 20-22, 2008, "Empowering Community Through Technology" in Houston, Texas.

EDUCAUSE South-West Regional Conference, February 21–23, 2007, "Leading, Understanding, and Building the Collaborative Community" in Austin, Texas.

EDUCAUSE South-West Regional Conference, February 22-24, 2006, "Building the IT Community of the Future" in Austin, Texas.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, January 20-22, 2009, Orlando, Fl.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, January 28-30, 2008, "Connecting and Reflecting:Preparing Learners for Life 2.0" in San Antonio, TX.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, January 22-24, 2007, "Creating a Successful Learning Culture " in Atlanta, GA.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, January 29-31, 2006, "Advancing Learning: Insights and Innovations" in San Diego, California.

Grants


The National Science Foundation (NSF)'s National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library program: awards three different grants ranging from $500,000 to $3,000,000. These are awarded for work leading to the establishment of a national digital library that will constitute an online network of learning environments and resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels

Journals (and newsletters)

Academic Exchange Quarterly. This is an independent peer-reviewed journal that offers articles on effective instruction and learning from around the world in multiple academic areas.

Australian Journal of Educational Technology. This is a refereed journal publishing research and review articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications, and related areas.

Campus Technology is a monthly magazine that replaced Syllabus in 2004. Campus Technology focuses exclusively on the use of high tech in higher education and provides a platform for advancing IT solutions at the college level.

Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning. IMEJ is a prototype for an interactive multimedia electronic journal edited and produced at Wake Forest University.

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks. The aim of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks is to describe original work in asynchronous learning networks (ALN), including experimental results. The mission is to provide practitioners in online education with knowledge about the very best research in online learning.

Journal of Interactive Media in Education. JIME is a freely available e-journal, published since 1996, targeted at researchers and practitioners interested in educational technology.

Journal of Technology Education is an online journal available through the Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech.

Student Affairs On-Line
. This is an on-line magazine related to technology and student affairs.

Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development is a peer-reviewed electronic journal published at least once a year by the LEID (Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development) Centre, Division of Teaching and Learning Services, Central Queensland University, Australia.

T.H.E. Journal (Technological Horizons in Education) contains articles from educators involved in integrating technology on their campuses and into their curricula.

The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Information technology section contains resources related to technology and higher education.

The Learning MarketSpace is an electronic newsletter published quarterly by the Center for Academic Transformation that highlights ongoing examples of redesigned learning environments using technology and examines issues related to their development and implementation.

The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education.

The Technology Source Archives. These archives contain articles from a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical whose purpose was to provide articles that would assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations.

Organizations of interest

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
ACRL, a division of the American Library Association, is a professional association of academic librarians and other interested individuals. It is dedicated to enhancing the ability of academic library and information professionals to serve the information needs of the higher education community and to improve learning, teaching, and research.

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
This is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. Its members include 200 institutions representing higher education, publishing, network and telecommunications, information technology, and libraries and library organizations.

EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)

EASI's mission is to serve as a resource by providing information and guidance in the area of access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities. EASI stays informed about developments and advancements within the adaptive computer technology field and spreads that information to colleges, universities, K-12 schools, libraries and into the workplace.

EDUCAUSE
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and other related associations and organizations.

Internet2
Led by more than 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and government, Internet2 develops and deploys advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet.

MERLOT
MERLOT is an open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. You can add to the collection, browse it, and organize it for your own use. Individual membership is free. Institutions and systems are encouraged to subscribe and thereby take part in the peer-review process. MERLOT sees this as the best way to involve faculty in productive use of, and contribution to, these materials.

National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD)
For 26 years, NISOD's worldwide consortium has been dedicated to the professional development of faculty, administrators, and staff, and to the continued improvement of teaching and learning, with the ultimate goal of student success. More than 600 community colleges around the world are NISOD members, including almost every large community college district, the majority of urban and technical colleges in the United States and Canada, and more than 200 small, rural colleges around the world. NISOD's annual conference is the largest to focus specifically on the celebration of teaching, learning, and leadership excellence.

POD
The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education provides support and services to those interested in faculty development through conferences, newsletters, publications, and consulting.

The Atlas Institute
The Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS) is an innovative, campus-wide institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder. ATLAS broadens the benefits of the information age by providing multidisciplinary curricular, research, and outreach programs that integrate information technology with a wide variety of disciplines and people, both inside and outside the university. ATLAS' vision is to provide "Information Technology (IT) for All."

The Campus Computing Project

Begun in 1990, The Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American higher education. The project's national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative data to help inform faculty, campus administrators, and others interested in the use of information technology in American colleges and universities. The US Campus Computing Project also provides the foundation for affiliated research projects in other nations, including Brazil, Canada, China, and Hong Kong.

The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning
The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning is a regional membership organization that supports and promotes outstanding college teaching and learning at public, private, and tribally-affiliated colleges and universities. The Collaboration offers programs and services that provide professional support and renewal for those who want to enhance student learning through involvement in an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary community of peers; identify trends and issues that affect teaching and learning and prepare faculty and staff to meet them; identify, disseminate, and foster effective approaches to teaching and learning, both in and outside the classroom, and to related areas of faculty and staff development; and engage members of the academic community in the collaborative, scholarly examination of their practice as teachers.

The League for Innovation in the Community College
Founded in 1968, The League is a nonprofit international organization dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement. This organization hosts conferences and institutes, develops Web resources, conducts research, produces publications, provides services, and leads projects and initiatives with member colleges, corporate partners, and other agencies in their continuing efforts to make a positive difference for students and communities.

The National Teaching and Learning Forum

The National Teaching and Learning Forum began publication in the fall of 1991 as a joint venture with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education. The Forum's pages cover the latest findings of cognitive psychology on attention span and their practical implications for teaching and the format is an on-line "conversation about teaching and learning" edited by James Rhem.

The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group
The TLT Group is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to motivate and enable institutions and individuals to improve teaching and learning with technology, while helping them cope with continual change.

WebAIM
Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM) is a non-profit organization within the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University. WebAIM's mission is to expand the potential of the Web for people with disabilities by providing the knowledge, technical skills, tools, organizational leadership strategies, and vision that empower organizations to make their own content accessible to people with disabilities.

Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications

WCET - the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, founded by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education in 1989, is a membership-supported organization open to providers and users of educational telecommunications. Members represent the higher education community, nonprofit organizations, schools, and corporations. WCET's members span the globe, but most are in the U.S. WCET conceptualizes new institutional frameworks and delivery systems, assesses the potential of new technologies and learning resources, explores the needs of tomorrow's learners, and proposes appropriate public policy directions.