Research Topic: Creating a Market for Innovation in Teaching and Learning

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This is a short talk I gave to describe my research areas for the University of Michigan School of Information visiting days for prospective students. I talked about my interested in software for teaching and learning and standard for that software as well as approaches to teaching first technoloyg courses

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Research Topic: Creating a Market for Innovation in Teaching and

LearningDr. Charles Severance | csev@umich.edu

Clinical Associate ProfessorUniversity of Michigan School of Information

www.dr-chuck.com / @drchuck

Other Research: Teaching Technology

• SI502 - Network Computing

• SI539 - Design of Complex Web Sites

• How to Teach Technology using Technology

• Open Educational Resources

• Teaching Technology in High School

1995

20111997

2004

2008

Sakai is an open source LMS started

in 2004 by University of

Michigan, Stanford, Indiana University,

and MIT.

CambridgeOxford

YaleStanford

Johns HopkinsBerkeley

Australia National UniversityUniversity of VirginiaNagoya University

University of MichiganDuke

University of CapetownGeorgia Tech

And Many More...

Case Study: Amanda Severance

• Senior in Special Education

• Technology in the Classroom Curse

• Eleven different accounts

• Setup required technical support

2:35

LEARNINGTOOL ORCONTENT

Case Study: LMS Plugins

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Case Study: LMS Committer/TeacherMay 2007

May 2007 Case Study: LMS Committer/Teacher

August 2007

Improving Teaching and Learning

• Students and Teachers literally do not care at all if their learning software is open source

• They are limited by the software that is installed and upgraded by their local IT staff

• IT organizations almost always fear innovation

Standards

Commercial

Open Source

LMS

Publishers

www.imsglobal.org

CommonCartridge

ToolsInteroperability

2008

LTI

Joseph Berkovitz <info@noteflight.com>

www.noteflight.com

App Store for Learning Applications

Thank You

Dr. Charles SeveranceUniversity of Michigan School of Information

www.dr-chuck.com

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