Read Achieving Learning Impact 2007: Trends in Learning, Technology, and Standards Report
Learning Impact 2007 is IMS Global Learning Consortium's annual conference that brings together the world’s leading creators, vendors, users, and buyers of learning technology to participate in program tracks focused on the latest innovations in learning systems, digital learning content, the learning enterprise, and open technologies. Presenters answer a key challenge question designed to inform the attendees on the state of innovation and best practices.
The Summit on Global Learning Industry Challenges is a gathering of industry leaders to introduce and debate ideas on issues impacting the growth of learning worldwide. This is a unique and highly direct conversation for the purpose of illuminating the key business challenges facing the learning industry. The Summit is facilitated by a focused set of highly interactive panel sessions with audience participation.
The Learning Impact Awards are designed to recognize the most impactful use of technology worldwide in support of learning. This unique program evaluates established, new, and research efforts in context at an implementing learning institution. Twenty-five finalists have been selected to showcase at the event and a panel of global experts has been asked to perform the final rankings at the conference. Don’t miss it!
Learning Impact and Summit Sponsors
Platinum
 .jpg)
Gold
Silver
 
Bronze
 
  
Keynote Addresses
Bernard Luskin, Ed.D.,Executive Vice President,Fielding Graduate University, Director, Media Psychology Program
Dr. Bernard Luskin has had distinguished careers in commerce, education, entertainment and psychology. University Business Magazine selected him as one who has had exceptional careers in both education and corporate life. He is a licensed psychotherapist, with Degrees in Business and a UCLA Doctorate in Education, Psychology and Technology. Bernie Luskin has been president and CEO of divisions of major Fortune 50 and 500 companies, including Philips Interactive Media, PolyGram New Media, Philips Education and Reference Publishing and Jones International, including Mind Extension University, Knowledge TV, and Jones Education Networks. He has authored bestseller economics, technology and education books, television series and CDs. He is credited in working with Paramount, for putting the first 50 movies on CD in MPEG format, leading to DVD. He served on the Accrediting Commission for Collegiate Schools of Business, and led the standards team that developed specifications for CDi and CDRom, in addition to working on standards features of MPEG full motion video and recordable CD. While president of Philips Interactive Media, he spearheaded breakthroughs in many areas in CD. This included the first Sesame Street CD, Grolier's and Compton's Encyclopedias, Golf, Art, Children's and reference CDs, including games, and the first interactive movie on CD, entitled Voyer, starring Robert Culp.  Luskin is presently Executive Vice President, Professor and Director of the Media Psychology Program at the Fielding Graduate University, www.Fielding.edu., and is now leading the way by launching the first Ph.D program applying psychology to media. Luskin is also Chairman and CEO of Luskin International, chairman of the advisory board of iMedia-International, inc., which owns Hollywood Previews, placing CD Movie discs in newspapers, and he is on the boards of directors of the Media Psychology Division and Society of Consulting Psychologists of the American Psychological Association. As a former college and university president, he is founding president of Coastline Community College, including KOCE, TV in Orange County California, Orange Coast College and founding chancellor of Jones International University, the first fully accredited, fully web based university. He is credited with putting the first computer in a community college. Luskin has received two Emmys, in addition to distinguished leadership and alumni awards from the UCLA Doctoral Alumni Association, California State University at Los Angeles, The University of Florida, and he received lifetime achievement awards from the Irish Government and the European Union for contributions to education and digital media.
Lawrence K. Grossman, Co-Chair of Digital Promise Project, with Newton N. Minow, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Sponsored by the Carnegie, Century, Knight and MacArthur Foundations, and Opens Society Institute, and endorsed by major national education, library, museum and cultural organizations, the Digital Promise Project seeks to establish a nationwide research and development trust fund to transform lifelong learning, education, and training for the 21st century.
Mr. Grossman was president of NBC News (1984-88) and PBS (1976-84). He held the Frank Stanton First Amendment Chair at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard (1989-90), was senior fellow and visiting scholar at Columbia University (1990-92) and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Miami (1983). Mr. Grossman was President and CEO of Lawrence K. Grossman, Inc. (1966-76), an advertising company serving public affairs and media clients, and vice president of advertising and promotion at NBC (1962-66). He began his media career at LOOK magazine (1953-56) and CBS Television (1956-62).
He has written and lectured extensively on media affairs, most recently as columnist for the Columbia Journalism Review, focusing on broadcast news and the public interest. He is the author of a number of books: The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age, Viking/Penguin (1995); co-author of A Digital Gift to the Nation, Fulfilling the Promise of the Digital and Internet Age, co-editor of Life in an Older America, and Somehow it Works, A Candid Portrait of the 1964 Presidential Election. He serves on the boards of the Federation of American Scientists; Connecticut Public Broadcasting; International Longevity Center, USA; Columbia College Board of Visitors, on the Americans for Libraries Council, the Westport CT Public Library Council, and the International Council for Global Health Progress (Paris); was for many years a judge of the DuPont-Columbia Journalism Awards, and is currently a judge for the Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism at the University of Oregon. Mr. Grossman received his BA with honors from Columbia and attended Harvard Law School.
Agenda
* indicates events for IMS Contributing Members Only
| Monday, 16 April |
| 8:00 - 12:00 | IMS Board of Directors Meeting* |
| 9:00 - 12:00 | IMS Technical Advisory Board Meeting* |
| 11:00 | Registration Open |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Learning Impact 2007 Kick Off - Welcome and Overview
PDF of Presentation
Rob Abel, CEO IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. |
| 13:30 -14:30 | Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Bernard Luskin, Executive Vice President,Fielding Graduate University, Director, Media Psychology Program
Columns and Articles
Who is the CIO of Tomorrow
Telehealth, Telecare, Telemedicine: New Professions
Media Psychology: A Field Whose Time Has Come
I Don't Recall is an Unacceptable Response
Building Your Consulting Practice in 12 Steps
Tell the Truth and Tell it Fast
Where should Disaster Managers Be Trained
|
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Break |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Learning Impact Awards: Overview and Finalists:
Rob Abel, CEO IMS/GLC
PDF of Presentation
|
| 15:30 -18:00 | Learning Impact Finalists Showcase
Expert Reviewers:
Dr. Toru Iiyoshi, Senior Scholar, Director of the Knowledge Media Laboratory (KML), The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
Dr. Bernard Luskin, Ed.D.,Executive Vice President,Fielding Graduate University, Director, Media Psychology Program
Charles F. Leonhardt, Principal Technologist, Georgetown University
John Norman, Director of the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies and 'Head of e-Learning', University of Cambridge and Sakai Board Chair
Tsuneo Yamada, Professor and President's Advisor, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan (NIME)
Ms. Sarah Porter, Head of Development, Joint Information Systems Committee, United Kingdom (JISC)
|
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Welcome Reception |
| Tuesday, 17 April |
| 8:30- 9:30 | Keynote: Lawrence K. Grossman, Co-Chair of Digital Promise, former president of NBC News and PBS |
| 9:30- 12:00 | Program Tracks |
| What's Next for Learning Systems
Challenge Question: What have been the primary impacts of instructional
management systems to date and what new innovations will become mainstream
in the next two years?
Program Track Leader:
Joel Greenberg,Open University's Director of Strategic Development, Learning and Teaching Solutions
Presentations by:
HorizonWimba
Ucompass.com, Inc.
Giunti Labs
Tegrity
Open University
Blackboard
Sakai
Moodle
Angel Learning
|
| What's Next for Digital Learning Content
Challenge Question: What will predominate the future of educational content and why:
recorded lectures, supplementary cartridges, web sites, web searches, or
adaptive learning support systems, or something else?
Program Track Leaders:
Daniel Rinn, Director of New Technology Initiatives,Thomson Higher Education
Tom Grega, Director of Technology, Product Management, Thomson Higher Education
To view presentations from the What's Next for Digital Learning Content Track visit (requires IMS GLC Community Access): What's Next for Digital Learning Content
|
| The Academic Enterprise: Assessment, Analytics and
Student/Institutional Performance
Challenge Question: What are the most important metrics by which to measure quality and success of courses or programs? What will be the role of formative and summative assessments and analytical tools?
Program Track Leader:
Neil Allison, Director Product Marketing, Blackboard
To view presentations from the The Academic Enterprise: Assessment, Analytics and
Student/Institutional Performance Track visit (requires IMS GLC Community Access): Academic Enterprise
|
| Progress in Open Source, Open Content, and Open Services
Challenge Question: What are the successes of open initiatives in education
so far and what is coming next? What business models are working and why? What is the practical role that Service Oriented Architectures will play, if any?
Program Track Leader:
Stuart Sim,CTO and Chief Architect,
Moodlerooms
To view presentations from the Progress in Open Source, Open Content, and Open Services Track visit (requires IMS GLC Community Access): Open Source, Open Content, and Open Services |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch/ Sponsor Briefing |
| 13:00 - 17:00 | Program Tracks Continue
|
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Technical Exchange/ Learning Impact Finalists and Reception |
| Wednesday, 18 April |
| 9:00 | Summit on Global Learning Industry Challenges
|
| 9:00 - 10:10 |
What are the Successes of Open Initiatives in Education So Far and What is Coming Next? What Business Models are Working and Why?
Panelists:
Ted Dodds, CIO, University of British Columbia
Joel Greenberg,Open University's Director of Strategic Development, Learning and Teaching Solutions
John Norman,Director of the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies and 'Head of e-Learning', University of Cambridge and Sakai Board Chair
Joel Thierstein, J.D., Ph.D.,Associate Provost, Rice University, Executive Director,Connexions
|
| 10:15 - 11:25 |
Exploring best practices in government support for ICT
Panelists
Mr. Lawrence K. Grossman, Lawrence K. Grossman, Co-Chair of Digital Promise, former president of NBC News and PBS
Sarah Porter, Head of Development, Joint Information Systems Committee, United Kingdom (JISC)
Jonathan Shennan,Manager, Enterprise Architecture, New Zealand Ministry of Education
Mr. Tae-Myung Han, Executive Director of Educational Information Center, KERIS
|
| 11:45 - 12:45 | Lunch and Sponsor Briefing |
| 13:00- 14:10 | Performance vs. Prestige: Does the Work of the Spellings Commission Signal a New Era of Access, Affordability, and Accountability? Why or Why Not?
Dr. Paula E. Peinovich, President, Walden University
Dr. Bernard Luskin, Executive Vice President,Fielding Graduate University, Director, Media Psychology Program, Founding President of Coastline Community College, including KOCE, TV in Orange County California, Orange Coast College and Founding Chancellor of Jones International University
Dr. Arthur J. Lendo, President and Professor of Management, Peirce College, Philadelphia, PA
|
| 14:15 - 15:25 | Will Technology Enable Higher Education to Solve the Access-Affordability-Quality Tradeoff?
Panelists:
Dr. Nicholas H. Allen, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, University of Maryland University College
Daniel J. Devine, CEO, Compass Knowledge Group
Dr. Paul Clark, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching), The Open University
Kendrick McLish, Vice President, Product and Marketing, eCollege
|
| 15:45 - 16:55 | The Evolving Business Model(s) of Learning Content: Does Free or Ad-Supported Equate to Better? Why or Why Not?
Panelists:
Ray Henderson, Chief Products Officer, Angel Learning
Sebastian Vos, Vice President of eEducation, Elsevier
Jim Behnke, Pearson Higher Education's Chief Publishing Officer
Dr. Mark R. Nelson, Digital Content Strategist, National Association of College Stores
|
| 17:00- 17:15 | Learning Impact Award Winners
|
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Reception
|
| Thursday, 19 April |
| 8:00 -9:00 | IMS Annual Meeting * |
| 9:00- 14:00 | Making Learning Standards Mainstream: Integrating Learning Content, Services, and Web Sites
Online learning is now used routinely by a wide variety of institutions across educational sectors. No longer the preserve of pioneers happy to work under the hood, such mainstream adoption inevitably comes with greater community expectations of ease of use and operational efficiency.
The IMS Global Learning Community has produced a suite of technical specifications which address various aspects of systems interoperability in learning provision. Key amongst these specifications are Common Cartridge, Content Packaging, Tools Interoperability, Learning Design and General Web Services. It has also defined a method and provides tools for profiling these specifications to the specific requirements of discrete communities.
So, armed with the IMS toolbox, how close are we to being able to address the increasingly demanding interoperability requirements being voiced by the community? For example:
- Platform-independent content
- Shared curriculum model
- Exchangeable lesson plans
- Reusable assessments
- Platform migration of courses
- Shareable competency sets (e.g. for vocational training and continuous professional development)
This workshop will re-examine and capture current pressing requirements from the community and then explore the degree to which each requirement could be addressed by harnessing existing technology. The output of the workshop should be a roadmap for how each requirement can be addressed, making explicit any additional development needed for realizing a solution.
Agenda (draft)
9:00 Welcome –David O’Connor, Pearson Education
9:10 Surveying today’s challenges in the learning landscape – Joel Greenberg, The Open University
- Lesson plans, learning objectives, competencies and learner tracking (specs - Learning Design, Competency Definitions) Chair: Charles Severance
- Enterprise application integration (specs - Web Services, Enterprise) Chair: Colin Smythe
- Web application integration (specs – Tools Interoperability, Web Services) Chair: Mike Farnesi
- Tools for structuring content and assessments (specs – Common Cartridge, Question & Test Interoperability) Chair: Bruno van Haetsdaele
- Searching and finding educational resources (spec - Federated Architecture) Chair: Chris Moffatt
- Integration of rich content (specs – Common Cartridge, eBooks, SCORM) Chair: Ross Mackenzie
10:00 Scoping the problem. Breakout groups to explore requirements for each topic and define a representative use case.
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Plan of action. Breakout groups, each defining a plan for producing a working implementation.
12:30 Lunch (demonstrations available during lunch)
CC – OU, Pearson. TI – Sakai, OU
13:30 Plenary – Joel Greenberg, The Open University.
Each group chair to summarize scope and action plan.
14:40 Closing remarks – Rob Abel, IMS Global Learning Consortium
15:00 Close
|
Sponsorship
For information about sponsoring Learning Impact 2007, please contact Lisa Mattson.
|
