Another cool ePresence user, Ferrari, chooses our system for their worldwide training sessions. We are getting used to high profile events as more schools, corporations and high-level government officials start using this new media to address large audiences. This time, thanks to our Italian partner, KSoft, we have the privilege to provide the technology to such a distinguished company.
This lecture on the use of technology for the support of teaching and learning is part of an ongoing lecture series hosted by the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) at the University of Toronto. The 2009 KMDI Lecture Series aims to celebrate and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration in digital media innovation.
Webcasts of all talks in the lecture series are archived and available for viewing by visiting the KMDIat13 website. Podcasts of the talks are also available by searching the iTunes music store for keyword “KMDI” or by subscribing to the RSS Feed.
The KMDI Lecture Series continues Thursday, March 26, 4:10pm EDT (UTC-4), with lectures from Professors Nadia Caidi, Megan Boler, and Nicholas Burbules on the theme “Digital Media and the Politics of Truths and Forgetting“. To attend the live webcast, access the KMDI Presentation Portal on the day of the event, or attend in-person at UofT.
Professor Jim Slotta, Curriculum Teaching and Learning, OISE/UT
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Professor Jim Slotta presents a new line of research, funded by CRC and SSHRC, that explores a rich form of learning where students collaborate with peers within and between classrooms to establish a knowledge base that will be used in subsequent scripted inquiry activities. Extensions of this work to the topic of “smart classrooms” are also discussed.
Professor Clare Brett, Curriculum Teaching and Learning, OISE/UT
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Professor Clare Brett’s talk focuses on key issues in how new technologies are impacting upon how we teach, learn and collaborate, and uses an educational research project called GRAIL (Graduate Researcher Academic Identity on-Line) under development to illustrate some fundamental issues in adopting new technologies.
Professor Jim Hewitt, Curriculum Teaching and Learning, OISE/UT
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New information and communication technologies offer exciting new possibilities for higher education. Professor Jim Hewitt reviews research conducted on some of these technologies, and discuss problems, barriers and obstacles, both cultural and organizational, that limit the instructional potential of these new tools.