Friday, September 5, 2008, 11:30AM to 12:15PM [Add to My Calendar]

Location: Ballroom (2nd Floor)

Speakers: Henry Hon (Vyew), Michael Rouan (Stanford University)

Content: Join Henry Hon, CEO of Vyew, and Dr. Michael Rouan, Stanford University director of operations and Stanford Online, for a glimpse into the future of e-learning and corporate training using Web 2.0 collaboration platforms.

Web 2.0 is changing education and corporate training applications by allowing instructors and students to collaborate online together in real time or separately over time. Rather than one-to-many methodologies such as lectures, textbooks and video-on-demand, Web 2.0 collaboration provides a rich environment for instructors and students to interact on assignments and tests.

We shall discuss Web 2.0 collaborative learning and assessment strategies and in-class activities that significantly increase students’ group interactions, stimulate students’ interest in learning and lead students to achieve their goals in educational and corporate training applications. For example, teachers and corporate trainers can provide students with opportunities to actively participate in the collaborative learning processes by setting up hypotheses for inquiries, conducting their own research, and collecting and organizing digital artifacts to explain phenomena. Instructors can then collaboratively evaluate the work with students.

An example that Michael Rouan will cite is the Stanford University School of Engineering, which is posting complete online courses that include all lecture videos, reading materials, quizzes, solutions and discussion forums that can be freely copied and used by any educational institution. The collaborative learning environment developed at Stanford illustrates the possibilities of integrating multi-modal content with social interaction such as discussion forums, annotation and conferencing for a new approach to education, training and distance learning.

Attendees will see how Web 2.0 collaboration is creating the future of e-learning and will take away ideas for implementing Web 2.0-based learning systems and methodologies at their organizations.

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