Learning Impact 2022 Program Topic Themes

Digital Teaching Strategies and Curriculum Innovation: Improving Opportunities, Access, and Success

Topic areas of emphasis:

• Defining digital curriculum/instruction innovation in a post-COVID world
• Showcasing digital learning that works and scales
• Building successful community-focused solutions, best practices, and strategic resources that enable digital transformation to support the modern learning experience
• Achieving curriculum equity with digital learning: coverage, flexible delivery, discovery, and more
• Innovated digital strategies and support models to emulate going forward to support new types of learning environments (hybrid, immersive, etc)
• Digital approaches that improve pedagogy
• Adding library resources to enhance the curriculum
• Achieving student-centered or personalized learning

The State of Digital Learning Platforms and Apps: Now and What’s Next

Topic areas of emphasis:

• What are the mission-critical platforms in education going forward?
• The top learning platform, mobile, portal, tools, app launcher, and environment trends
• What does more hybrid learning mean for learning platforms?
• Leveraging video and collaboration platforms
• Detailing the rise of the LMS in K-12: What is the focus and what does the evolution from here look like?
• How to compare app launchers and integration platforms?
• What does the next-generation learning environment in HED look like now?
• Learning analytics and app dashboard products: How do they fit?
• How do learning platforms from curriculum providers fit with an LMS or app launcher?

Integrated Assessments: Measuring Student Achievement, Learning Outcomes, and Competencies

Topic areas of emphasis:

• Assessment innovation in a post-COVID world
• Innovative assessment and curriculum products to close learning gaps
• How will digital curriculum products improve assessment?
• What is the value of an integrative assessment approach?
• Accessing and leveraging actionable data from curriculum and assessment products
• Assessment data dashboards: What is the current state and what improvements are ahead?
• How can integration among assessment and curriculum products improve instruction and learning?
• What is statewide assessment evolving toward?
• Making the connection between knowledge and achievements to satisfy learning outcomes

Successful Strategies for Skills-Based Digital Credentials

Topic areas of emphasis:

• Educating the whole student for career and life success in K-12 or HED with learning and employment based on open standards
• Recognizing curricular, co-curricular, and skills-based achievements in HED through digital credentials
• Regional collaborations for prior learning assessment, credit recognition, and employment
• Incorporating verifiable digital credentials and skills frameworks in workforce/corporate learning and hiring
• Digital credentials enabling student progress and college readiness assessment
• Digital credentials to promote student success and flexible pathways
• Designing the next generation transcript and resume
• Partnering with industry to upskill and reskill learners

Learning Data and Analytics: What Works and How to Accelerate Progress from Here

Topic areas of emphasis:

• Data analytics products to identify and close learning gaps
• Using data and analytics to provide key insights for removing barriers to success
• Today and tomorrow’s edtech data architecture in higher education
• Today and tomorrow’s edtech data architecture in K-12
• Problems solved with data or learning analytics
• Problems to be solved with data or learning analytics
• What data from what system, combined how, results in actionable information for faculty, students, or administrators?
• How might we define a “data ready” app in edtech?

Collaborating to Converge the Interoperable Ecosystem

Topic areas of emphasis:

• What does Standards First mean from the institutional perspective? 
• How suppliers exemplify a Standards First approach to integration
• Supporting a seamless learner experience in alignment with modern consumer expectations
• How to measure the impact of an open-standards edtech ecosystem
• Taking stock of how open standards have enabled successful product ecosystems in edtech
• Institutional challenges in managing the digital edtech ecosystem

Making the Most Out of Your 1EdTech Skills

Topic areas of emphasis:

• Privacy and security specification activities
• Ideas to improve app vetting to include rubrics for accessibility, equity, and inclusion
• Product certification and compatibility certification to ensure consistent implementation of open standards
• Specification and extension overviews and future plans
• Best practices for implementing open standards