Open Content Licensing for Educators
Meet Wendy McElroy from Camosun College
This quick interview is part of a new Educational Technology Users Group series to showcase members of the community. This month we are featuring Wendy McElroy from Camosun College.
Tell us a bit about where you work and what you do.
I work at Camosun College, in the Distributed Education Department. My job title is Distributed Education Technical Support Analyst…….though one faculty calls me the Queen of D2L. That title is much more fun! I’m the Administer for our LMS, Desire2Learn, and provide technical support to our faculty and students. I also help support other online technologies here at the college.
How long been involved in teaching and Learning and ed technology?
I’ve been working in this role for over 10 years. I must say the job, and the technology, have evolved over that time.
What’s one thing you really love about the work you do?
I love problem solving, and providing great customer service. It makes me really happy when a student or faculty member contacts me with a problem or question, and I can help them out with what they need. I get to work with people every day, and the job always has something new.
2012 Horizon Report invites YOU to participate!
The 2012 Horizon Report, a joint undertaking of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC), is nearing completion. The NMC and ELI would like to invite you to participate in one of the final stages: gathering examples or demonstrations of the technologies to be featured in the report. The examples can be in almost any form: production or pilot programs, research projects, faculty undertakings, or evaluation/assessment projects. It can involve any of the six technologies listed below. The intent is to give readers a more concrete sense of how these technologies will play out in the context of teaching and learning in higher education.
The 2012 Horizon Report identifies six technologies:
TIME-TO-ADOPTION: ONE YEAR OR LESS
Mobile apps
Tablet computing
TIME-TO-ADOPTION: TWO TO THREE YEARS
Game-based learning
Learning analytics
TIME-TO-ADOPTION: FOUR TO FIVE YEARS
Gesture-based computing
Internet of things
A preview of the 2012 Report, as well as the trends and challenges presented in the report, is available at http://www.nmc.org/news/submit-projects-horizon-report-2012-higher-ed-edition
The time-to-adoption horizon indicates how long the advisory board feels it will be until a significant number of campuses are using each of these technologies broadly. Innovative faculty and campuses are already working in some of these areas, and this is where you come in.
If you know of sample projects, either at your campus or elsewhere, please use this form to tell us about them http://go.nmc.org/projects
Please insert a title, a URL, and a one- or two-sentence description and some additional information. You also will need to select which of the six technologies fits your example. The process takes about two minutes and is due by January 9.
A number of these projects will be mentioned in the printed report, which will be released at the 2012 ELI Annual Meeting in February. In addition, we will invite some of the project leaders to present at the Horizon Report “unveiling” sessions at the ELI Annual Meeting, in order to share their work directly with both face-to-face and online audiences.
Are you interested in sharing your work? Submit your project to the Horizon Report!
