Elluminati Conference

Panel Discussion: Creative Uses of Elluminate Live!

Dr. Kelvin Bentley, Director of Distance Learning, Northampton Community College
Michel Lapointe, Systems Manager, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Stephen Rowe, Lecturer, School of Commerce and Management, Southern Cross University

Learn how Elluminate Live! is being implemented in innovative and creative ways at a variety of higher education institutions, including California State University Northridge, Northampton Community College, Southern Cross University, and University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine. Panelists will share how they use the live eLearning and web collaboration environment to meet the specific needs of their organizations, including on-campus tutoring services and distance learning for over 100 students at 3 campuses.

A Global Perspective of Online Learning

Susan Patrick

What does the future of learning look like? How do we define a world-class education for today’s students? Susan Patrick provides a national and global perspective on the future trends in education, expectations for students, and what strategies schools need to have in place. Globalization requires students to be academically prepared for a vastly different workplace to achieve success in a knowledge-based economy. eLearning is providing a revolution across the globe for the best teachers to reach the most remote students. Online learning offers a solution for expanding opportunities, global collaboration, and 21st century skills. So all schools can deliver on the promise that every student should have access to the best education available, regardless of their neighborhood or geography. Learn about the latest research and what works for K-12 online learning.

e-Learning Learning Done Right: Challenges and Opportunities

Stephen Laster, CIO of Harvard Business School

The past decade has been a time of rapid evolution and experimentation in the field of e-learning. Our definition of “state-of-the-art” has evolved from CBT and CD-ROM delivery focused on the solitary learner, to virtual and community based e-learning delivered in a blend of emerging technologies and pedagogies. What have we learned from this experience, and what does this say for the future? E-Learning Done Right is a well-choreographed experience that challenges many of our long held assumptions. Come listen, discuss, and chart out the next evolution of e-learning.

How to Provide Web Conferencing for the Largest Higher Education System in the World

Blaine Morrow, Director, CCC Confer and 3C Media Solutions

How do you provide a common web portal and support system to 2.5 million students, more than 50,000 faculty and staff, and 109 campuses? This session describes how CCC Confer serves the world’s largest higher education system – California Community Colleges – through a common, automated interface and a highly efficient human support organization. Much has been learned in the five years of CCC Confer’s existence. Topics include funding and cost models for statewide conferencing projects, organizational issues, staffing, administration, marketing and training, inter-segmental ventures, vendor selection and relations, support for teaching and administrative concerns, and suggestions for similar endeavors in other large educational organizations.

Synchronous Learning Systems - Accessibility Challenges

Saroj Primlani, Coordinator of University IT Accessibility, Information Technology Division, North Carolina State University

Synchronous Learning Systems have created a new instruction delivery space that combines the pedagogies of the real-time traditional classroom with the advantages of online web-enabled communication, collaboration, and presentation technologies, providing opportunities to integrate and address different teaching and learning styles.

For students with a disability, this learning space combines all the audiovisual demands of a face-to-face classroom with the added accessibility challenges of different IT resources, communication, and delivery systems. To facilitate participation of students with disabilities in this new learning space, the technology must meet the need to address and accommodate their functional limitations.

This presentation provides a general overview of the accessibility challenges of the online synchronous learning space, a discussion of accessibility features included in Elluminate Live! that address some of these needs, and some general instruction guidelines and strategies that can be used to accommodate students with disabilities in this environment.

Elluminate Community Partner Program Overview

Gary Dietz, Solutions Marketing Manager, Elluminate

During this session, Gary describes the Elluminate Community Partner Program and discusses project highlights with a few executive directors from some of the CPP organizations. At the conclusion of this session you will receive contact and link information and project summaries for each of the Community Partners to enable you to leverage the content, services, and community these organizations provide.

Elluminate as Enterprise-Wide Infrastructure

Ben Rogers, Digital Media Engineer, Duke University

How can Duke University reach learners and academics on a worldwide level? In this presentation, Ben discusses enterprise-wide web conferencing, the challenges faced, the advantages provided by an Elluminate solution, and the future of web conferencing as an enterprise service.

Elluminate K12 Panel Discussion

Val Brooks, Deputy Director, Stockton City Learning Center
Raven McElman, Training & Development Specialist, Florida Virtual School
Mike Skurek, Associate Principal, Wisconsin Virtual Academy

Hear from panelists from Florida Virtual School, Stockton City Learning Centre, and Wisconsin Virtual Academy how they are using Elluminate Live! in their k12 environments in a wide variety of applications. These include global studies, language, art, math, history, and science courses, as well as student-teacher conferences, virtual office hours, student clubs, student events and competitions, parent meetings, and so much more.

Elluminate – Now and in the Future

Valerie Schreiner, Director of Product Management, Elluminate

Join this discussion to understand Elluminate’s current product focus and future roadmap. This session also allows you to share your feedback with Elluminate.