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Further reflections on EDUCAUSE 2015

Last week was the major EDUCAUSE annual conference.  I already shared materials and thoughts from my various presentations and events.  Here I’d like to offer some more observations. And they aren’t in any particular order.  They are also personal reflections, since the even was HUGE, hosting around 7000 people, and I’m just one person. Etextbooks were fairly present.  Sessions discussed them in…

EDUCAUSE 2015: my sessions and some observations

Last week I participated in the EDUCAUSE annual conference in the midwestern American city of Indianapolis.  By “participated” I mean gave four and a half hours of presentations, helped with three hours of online presentations, and was interviewed once or twice.  Plus taking in more than a dozen sessions and holding who knows how many meetings and calls.  And made friends, while reconnecting with…

Americans using technology: smartphones and city kids versus old folks in the country

How do Americans use technology?  Pew gives us another excellent and useful report. Here are some highlights from my reading, as I snuck glimpses during and returning from the EDUCAUSE 2015 conference: The device mix: some are rising, while others have reached a plateau, and some decline.  Cellphone and smartphones are the stars, as ownership keeps on rising to something close to ubiquity.…

If You Build It: The Power of Design to Change the World

Presenter

Emily Pilloton, Founder and Executive Director, Project H Design

  Project H Design was created out of a sense of frustration.  Emily began as an architect and after 3 years, was “totally over it.”  She was designing doorknobs and lighting fixtures and found it extremely dull.  It was disconnected from what the things that made her fall in love with architecture in the first place:…

Progress on Using Adaptive Learning Technology for Student College Success

Presenters:

Yvonne M. Belanger, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Jo Jorgenson, Dean of Instruction & Community Development, Rio Salado College; ALMAP Grantee

Douglas Walcerz, VP Planning Research and Assessment, Essex County College; ALMAP Grantee

Louise Yarnall, Senior Researcher, SRI International; ALMAP Portfolio Evaluator

This is the last concurrent session of the…

How to Use the EDUCAUSE CDS to support Student Success

Presenters

Susan Grajek, Vice President, Data, Research, and Analytics, EDUCAUSE

Laurie Heacock, National Director of Data, Technology and Analytics, Achieving the Dream, Inc.

Louis Kompare, Director, Information Systems and Services, Lorain County Community College

Celeste M. Schwartz, VP for IT & IR, Montgomery County Community College

Susan kicked off this session by describing what the CDS…

Unifying Data Systems to Turn Insights into Student Success Interventions

Presenters:

Angela Baldasare, Asst.Provost, Institutional Research, The University of Arizona

Phil Ice, Vice President, Research & Development, American Public University System

Matthew Milliron, Senior Director, Solutions Engineering, Civitas Learning Inc.

Hypothesis

Unifying the data; connect disparate data systems, data and initiatives to gain insight into what’s working & what’s not & for…