Web Pedagogy Seminar:
Managing and Delivering On-line Instructional Content
Generously Supported by the Brooks/Cole Publishing Company
| Purpose: | Facilitate work on next-generation instructional systems based on open standards and new technology. |
| Who: | This seminar is for developers of course management systems, researchers studying pedagogic hypermedia, developers of component technology with on-line pedagogic applications, publishers, and developers of database-backed web technology. |
| Goals: | • Learn about the current state of metadata
standards. • Learn about the current state of large scale initiatives to develop instructional management systems and promote distributed learning. • Learn about each other's work and exchange ideas. • Form coalitions to combine core competencies for the purpose of developing or improving next-generation instructional management systems and instructional technology. |
| SCHEDULE: |
Seminar takes place on Sunday, November 8, 1998: |
| 8:00 | Sign-in and Continental Breakfast. |
| 8:15 | Welcoming remarks and continued breakfast. |
| 8:30 | Introductions by all participants. |
| 9:15 | "From the trenches of academia": short presentations of the issues faced by practitioners and educators by Badrul Khan, Laurie Nelson, and Tom Reeves |
| 10:00 | Panel-format open discussion of the issues. |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:15 | "Instructional management software past, present,
and future": Keynote by Murray Goldberg |
| 12:00 | Group lunch and panel-format open discussion of instructional management software by sponsoring and other vendors. |
| 1:00 | "Putting it all together with Standards": Keynotes by Erik Duval, Mark Resmer & Tom Wason |
| 2:45 | Panel-format discussion of standards by previous speakers. |
| 3:30 | Coffee break. |
| 3:45 | "Challenges for the present and future: a call for cooperation" by Robby Robson and David Wiley |
| 4:00 | Break-out into interest groups. Opportunity to discuss work with other participants. |
| 5:00 | Wrap-up. |
| KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
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| Mark Resmer | IMS Project Director and Associate Vice President for Information Technology at Sonoma State University, USA |
| Erik Duval | Architect of Hypermedia Object Management Environment, Coordinator of the ARIADNE Knowledge Pool System, and Professor of Computer Science at K.U. Leuven, Belgium |
| Murray Goldberg | Creator of WebCT and Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada |
| FEATURED SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS |
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| John Dietz | Educational Product Manager, Asymetrix Learning Systems, Inc. |
| Robert Roberts | Technology Coordinator, Proficiency-based Admission Standards System (PASS) Office of the Chancellor, Oregon University System |
| Laurie Nelson | Digital Learning Environments Research Group, Brigham Young University. |
| Tom Reeves | University of Georgia. Past president, Association for
the Development of Computer-based Instructional Systems. Editor, Journal of Interactive Learning Research. |
| Tom Wason | Director of Research and Evaluation Institute for Academic Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| MODERATORS |
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| Rory McGreal | Executive Director, TeleEducation NB, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Robby Robson (Organizer) |
Office of Academic Affairs & Department of Mathematics Oregon State University |
| David Wiley (Organizer) |
Founder of OpenContent, Brigham Young University |
The registration fee for this
day-long seminar is $150
($125 if received before September 22).
Please see http://www.aace.org/conf/webnet/regform.htm
Registration for WebNet 98 is NOT required
in order to register only for the Web Pedagogy Seminar