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MERLOT: Still Blazing the Trail and Meeting New Challenges in the Digital Age
MERLOT – Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
8th International Conference
August 7 – 10, 2008
Minneapolis Hilton
Hosted by Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'"
--Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper, U.S. Navy
The MERLOT International Conference (MIC) provides numerous opportunities to share, learn, and participate in conversations about teaching and learning with technology from experts and MERLOT users from around the world.
Trailblazers do more than keep people on the right path. They help people see where to begin and provide direction. How can educators and users of instructional technology around the world prepare for a future filled with technology that provides content at a faster-and-faster pace? How can instructional technology be used to enhance teaching and learning? Who will organize all this change? This year’s Conference Committee expects that we will all do this together.
MIC08 offers a full day of pre-conference workshops followed by two-and-one-half days of colleague to colleague presentations. The Conference also includes Corporate Sponsor presentation and exhibits, presentations from MERLOT Award winners, and opportunities to gather over food and beverage. The Pre-conference sessions begin on Thursday morning, August 7. The full conference agenda begins with a Welcome Reception Thursday evening and ends at noon on Sunday, August 10.
The Conference Committee invites proposals on the tracks listed below. Proposal deadline is February 15, 2008.
“Blazing the Trail” Conference Tracks
The MIC08 Conference invites proposals based on the tracks below. The Committee encourages proposals from diverse constituents (faculty, students, administrators, librarians, etc) in a variety of disciplines based on the Tracks below.
Track 1 - Adopting, Adapting, and Authoring Digital Learning Resources
Track 2 - Committed and Connected International Communities of Learning through Technology
Track 3 - Researching New Learning Paradigms and New Teaching Models
Track 4 - New Paths: Expanding Teaching and Learning Opportunities with Web 2.0 Track 5 - Reinventing Libraries in the Digital Age
Track 6 - Engaging and Emerging Faculty Development Processes
Track 7 - Community of Practice: Harvesting the Promise of Technology in Education
For 2008, the MERLOT Conference Committee has selected to highlight Education as the featured Community of Practice. Teacher education, Libraries, and Faculty Development comprise this featured Community of Practice. Committee members hope that many faculty members will share this highlighted track with students involved in Pre-K through 16 classrooms and will propose joint sessions, panels, posters, and under/graduate research related to the conference theme.
Pre Conference Workshops
MERLOT provides a full pre-conference day of invited workshops and an educational service day for the host community. These interactive, hands-on workshops enhance professional development and provide value for your travel dollar. The conference committee is seeking ideas from the community on workshop topics and leaders. Please email pre-conference workshop suggestions to Deborah Proctor, Conference Chair deborah.proctor@so.mnscu.edu. Full and half-day workshops will be announced on the MERLOT conference website during the Spring 2008.
Audience
Where can faculty, instructional designers, authors of digital content, administrators, librarians, technology leaders and enthusiasts from all over the world meet and learn from each other in 2008? At the MIC08! Design your proposal for participants from the following groups:
| Campus administrators |
Faculty members |
| Instructional designers |
Technical support staff |
| Librarians |
Faculty developers |
| Members of professional organizations |
Authors of instructional materials |
| MERLOT users |
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Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is the proud host of the eighth MERLOT International Conference. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System was created through the merger of three existing higher education systems – the state university system, the community college system and the technical college system. The 32 institutions of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System comprise the sixth-largest system of two-and-four-year colleges and universities in the country, based on student enrollment. For more information on MNSCU visit the website http://www.mnscu.edu/
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