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Cyberlearning Research Summit
The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a one-day conference in Washington DC exploring computing and networking in both formal and informal education. You can tune into the Webcast (and archive) at: http://cyberlearning.sri.com/webcast/
The conference page describes the summit.
NSF has the potential to lead a new wave of STEM initiatives through its CyberLearning: Transforming Education program and its cross-cutting initiatives in cyberinfrastructure. To continue to lead in an increasingly crowded space of contributors from other agencies, corporations, and interest groups, however, the community NSF funding fosters will need to realize the "transformative potential" called for. Realizing this transformative potential requires vision, strategy, engagement, talent, and commitment to moving forward.
The Cyberlearning Research Summit is a high-profile gathering in Washington DC, featuring top quality research-based speakers who will share visions for the future of learning with emerging technologies. In the style of the TED conferences, speakers will:
- Discuss big ideas on at the intersection of emerging technology and research on learning;
- Articulate the "transformative potential" of a direction or approach;
- Communicate a sense of the broad research on this topic;
- Engage, inspire, and stimulate thinking in this new program area.
Building on those visions, participants will gather as birds-of-a-feather to crystallize a sense of the unique opportunities that should be the focus of the research community now. We seek a community sense of how to couple the learning sciences with related fields of innovation to leverage new technology affordances for the deepest learning outcomes. Through the contributions of diverse participants, the summit seeks to exemplify the "transformative potential" of cutting edge research and development to dramatically advance learning - and is expected to be influential in identifying promising directions for advanced R&D efforts.
on Jan 18, 2012Recent Papers
Greenfield, D. (2010). Old Theories and New Technologies: Employing geocaching to create authentic, meaningful and relevant learning experience. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Education. Retrieved from http://www.hiceducation.org/EDU2011.pdf
Greenfield, D., Blue, D., Schoepe, T. (2010) Leadership Styles of Educational Non-Profit Institutions. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Education. Retrieved from http://www.hiceducation.org/EDU2011.pdf
Greenfield, D. (2000). Contextual Links and Non-Linear Narrative. Museums and the Web. Paper retrieved from http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2000/papers/greenfield/greenfield.html
on Jan 16, 2012 What Will You Build with Open Exhibits?
It has been a little over a year since the Open Exhibits website launched an we began posting software modules and templates. Over the new year holiday, the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) and community member Lance Castillo posted a new exhibit called, My Gallery Interactive.
This exhibit has a great user interface and takes advantage of many of the multitouch features built into Open Exhibits. We shot a short video showing the exhibit in action. Like all open exhibits software, it is free to download, use, and modify.
Last summer, Danny Leen posted the Z-out exhibit. We used this opportunity to also shoot and post a video showing that exhibit in action too.
In fact, now all of our exhibits, templates, and modules have short videos showing how they function. If you've built software using Open Exhibits (we know you're out there!) please share your work with the Open Exhibits community. If you need help posting software, please don't hesitate to contact us.
on Jan 13, 2012 100 Years Exhibition at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
(Cross-posted from Ideum blog)
Early next month, 100 Years of State & Federal Policy: The Impact on Pueblo Nations exhibition opens at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The exhibit is tied to the state of New Mexico's Centennial which happens this year. We've been working with the Cultural Center to develop two interactive exhibits for the exhibition.We're designing the software and hardware, the Cultural Center has been been developing media including a series of videos for the exhibit.
The Document Table is a multitouch table exhibit that allows visitors to learn more about the important events that have impacted the Pueblo Nations over the last 100 years. Along with exploring the documents, visitors can view them on a large, 55" secondary screen adjacent to the table. (The multitouch table is an MT55 Platform with custom color.)
The Interactive Timeline is a dual monitor exhibit that uses a custom-built, touch-enabled ultra-wide display to present the timeline. (The ultra-wide display has a 16:4.5 aspect ratio, 1920 x 508 pixels.) As visitors make selections a large 42" display presents video, photos, and descriptive text. Both exhibits are using software components from Open Exhibits. These two interactive exhibits will help communicate the overall message of the exhibition:
This exhibition and its public programming will reflect upon the human experience behind enacted policies and laws on Pueblo communities by other governments. It will add to a well-documented history of Pueblo resilience since the time of Emergence. Interviews with Pueblo members will provide visitors with historical and personal reflections to help them understand and appreciate these historic challenges, often imposed through policy and laws, all intended to purposefully remove Pueblo people away from their core values.
The opening is on February 4, 2012 at 1:00 PM. There are a number of events associated with the exhibition planned through the rest of the year. You can learn more on the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center website: www.indianpueblo.org/100years
on Jan 13, 2012 Reflecting on the first year - Year One Evaluation Report
Jim, the Principal Investigator for the Open Exhibits project, asked me to share a copy of our evaluation report for the project's first year. The past year's data collection efforts provided the evaluation team with a wealth of survey and interview data to use in our preliminary analysis of emerging participation patterns and helped to identify potential improvements to the site/project. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback by completing the in-take and mid-year surveys, and special thanks to our interviewees!
There will be more opportunities to provide feedback in the coming year and we are looking forward to opportunties to speak to, and gather data from, an even wider range of Open Exhibits participants. I also want to encourage people to continue using this site to post resources/info, questions, and examples of the things you create. While we were conducting our most recent round of interviews, we heard about some exciting projects and I suspect those were only the tip of the iceberg! The evaluation team isn't the only group interested in learning more about what's going on - your peers are also very interested and eager to learn more. This site is not only a great place to show off examples of what you've done, but also a great place to seek out help and suggestions from a global community of your colleagues.
The year one evaluation report is available for download here
We welcome comments and also feedback about the report, especially if you have had experiences that didn't fit with the patterns and trends that emerged during our research.
Best wishes,
Jennifer
On behalf of the Open Exhibits evaluation team at Rockman Et Al
on Dec 5, 2011 
