Jim Groom Keynotes JMU’s Teaching & Learning with Technology Conference

Image Credit: Grover Saunders made this Animated GIF during the presentation with Echograph (neat!) Jim Groom, director of the Division of teaching and Learning Technologies, delivered the keynote presentation at James Madison University’s 9th Annual Teaching and Learning with Technology conference (you can see video of the presentation here). This presentation focused more specifically on the questions of universities outsourcing their expertise, how to design for online education, and how to build community online. The theme of the presentation was the overstatement of the death of higher ed in the media currently and how we can start to shed some of the reactionary rhetoric and start returning teaching and learning innovation to the colleges and universities rather than corporations like Pearson. Slides from the presentation along with links are available below: … [Read more...]