University 2.0: Open source as a cornerstone

I will be presenting at a pre-conference workshop at the MoodleMoot 09 Conference, which is being jointly offered with the Sloan-C Symposium in San Francisco on June 17-19. My presentation is from 1pm-4pm on Wednesday June 18th. Here are some details about the workshop.

TITLE:
University 2.0: Open source as a cornerstone

PRESENTERS:
Bob Rubinyi, Director, Distributed Education, University of Minnesota
Terence Armentano, Assistant Director, Center for Online and Blended Learning, Bowling Green State University
Marc Oehlman, Interim Director, Center for Academic Technology, CSU Monterey Bay
Andrew Roderick, Technology Development Manager, Academic Technology, San Francisco State University

DESCRIPTION:
As budgets decrease, the use of open source software for enterprise-level applications has increased within higher education. This session will examine current open-source development and integration projects at four different campuses and strategies each campus has implemented related to teaching and learning, technology management, and organizational administration.

It's an honor to be on the panel, and I am excited to share what we have done at BGSU as well as learn what others are doing at their respective universities. This topic hits the tip of the iceberg with regard to what can be done with open source at the university. This will be an exciting conference!

Related TerenOnline blog posts:
Web 2.0 and Higher Ed
University 2.o
BGSU Goes Web 2.0

LLT 2009 Conference

I just got back from presenting at the LLT Conference in Columbus, Ohio. It was a rich learning experience and great place to meet colleagues from around the state interested in technology and education.  A  colleague of mine from Rhodes State, Michael Edwards, has a well written review on his blog about my presentation as well as a very neat short video he put together of the Monday sessions featuring Carolyn Kraut, Dr. Bruce Edwards, and myself. 


LLT09 Highlights from Michael Edwards on Vimeo.

University 2.0: How BGSU Leveraged Open Source Technology to Create a Web 2.0 Learning

I will be presenting at the 2009 LTT Conference in Columbus, Ohio on Monday at 11:15am. Here are the details about my presentation

Title:  University 2.0: How BGSU Leveraged Open Source Technology to Create a Web 2.0 Learning Landscape

My presentation is about how COBL, the Center for Online and Blended Learning, leveraged open source technologies to create a web 2.0 learning landscape at BGSU. At the core of the learning landscape is a web 2.0 personal publishing platform that supports the community's social, professional, and learning activities. The system enables BGSU faculty, staff, and students to create interactive websites, eportfolios, blogs, podcasts, and more. If you will be attending my presentation, we will be discussing the following:

• How is web 2.0 revolutionizing the learning environment?
• What makes a good publishing platform to build a web 2.0 learning landscape?
• How do portfolios, podcasts, blogs, and interactive web sites add value to the learning environment?
• What kind of support is needed to maintain an open source publishing platform?
• What kind of situations (academic, legal, social) might arise when enabling everyone at the university to have a voice and publish that voice?
• What kind of policies should be in place to ensure the protection of the university and it's faculty, staff, and students?
• Whose responsibility is it to monitor the content on the system? Why?
• How can universities leverage the interactive nature of the publishing platform to improve the university?