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The Digital Backpack: Next Generation Digital Learning Environments
7:30am - 9:00am Coffee & Registration
9:00am - 9:30am Introduction/Welcome
Creativity Warm-Up
9:30am - 10:15am Unpacking the NGDLE: What’s in the Box?
Speaker: Malcolm Brown, Ph.D., Director, Educause Learning Initiative
The next-generation digital learning environment (NGDLE) concept proposes that our learning environments should be architected in a way that permits a far greater degree of customization that is available today. Rather than overeliance on the learning management system, the NGDLE instead calls for a confederation of learning applications, tools, and resources, all linked together by means of open standards.
Activity: Exploring the Box
10:15am - 10:30am Break
10:30am - 11:15am Designing the LearningOS
Speaker: Michael Goudzwaard, Instructional Designer, Dartmouth College
Many learning management systems are overbuilt, encumbering learning with too many features and options that require too much time to learn, customize, and perhaps disable. The LearningOS will be a thin next-gen system that gathers information about learning through data that is enhanced by external tools to create a diverse ecosystem for learning.
Activity: Providing Links Between Open Standards
11:15am - 12:00pm Preparing Your institution For the NGDLE
Speaker: Kim Morse Round, Ph.D., Director of Instructional Technology, Saint Anselm College
Saint Anselm College piloted a NGDLE, exploring the implementation best practices. This session will highlight the technical, financial, staffing, student and policy implications institutions might consider, while preparing for the next wave of learning environments. Attendees will be encouraged to unpack their potential institutional challenges and brainstorm strategies to gain organizational support.
Activity: What’s in Your Institutional Box?
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Design Thinking Exercise (Team–based)
Build Your Own NGDLE!
2:00pm - 2:30pm Teams Pair Up and Pitch Their Designs
2:30pm - 2:45pm Postcard to Your Future Self
2:45pm - 3:00pm Wrap Up Discussion