ELI Annual Meeting 2017: Transforming the Academy: Building Communities of Practice

February 13–15, 2017

Houston, Texas

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is a community of higher education institutions and organizations committed to advancing learning through information technology innovation. The ELI Annual Meeting provides an opportunity for those interested in learning, learning principles and practices, and learning technologies to explore, network, and share. Find more information about the ELI mission and philosophy here.

Transforming the Academy: Building Communities of Practice

Support of the teaching and learning mission is a collaborative enterprise involving multiple campus organizations. Today our success depends on working with a cohort of colleagues to discover the best instructional and learning practices and to leverage the technology needed to enable them. These new practices also have interinstitutional dimensions, as creative partnerships and consortia play an increasingly important role in defining our educational landscape. Join your colleagues to engage in discussions around the key teaching and learning issues and contribute the discoveries you are making at your campus. Together we’ll explore these and other questions:

  • What new kinds of leadership are required for this new teaching and learning landscape?
  • How do we re-architect our learning environments to meet the needs of students and educators?
  • How can we best harness our learning data to inform our practice?
  • What emerging technologies are best suited to enable progress toward increased student success?
  • How can we best engage our faculty and instructors, enabling them to innovate and discover more successful practices?

2017 Annual Meeting Tracks

The 2016 ELI Key Issues, as voted on by over 900 community members, served as the basis for the thematic 2017 Annual Meeting tracks. We have blended the 20 key issues to form the set of thematic tracks listed below. Since they represent the areas of keenest interest across the teaching and learning community, proposals that address one or more of these tracks will receive highest priority:

  • Current and future learning environments and spaces
  • Analytics: capturing and using learning data
  • Leading academic transformation
  • What works: evidence of impact and learning science
  • Faculty development and engagement
  • Accessibility and universal design for learning
  • Emerging learning technology and practices
  • Online, blended, and hybrid learning models
  • Other

Learning Objectives and Participant Engagement Strategies

The ELI proposal reviewers will closely examine and rate each proposed session’s learning objectives, which should clearly describe what participants will know or be able to do as a result of participating in the session. A successful proposal must also include the specific and creative ways in which the presenter(s) will engage with participants through active learning strategies. The ELI encourages innovative and participatory session design, the creative use of technology, and active engagement by all participants.

Session Types

All ELI annual meeting sessions will be conducted face-to-face in the meeting venue. Please take a moment to view this 4-minute video on how to write an effective proposal.

Preconference Seminars

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Presentation Sessions

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Poster Sessions

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Selection Criteria

All submitted proposals are reviewed and evaluated by the ELI Annual Meeting Program Committee and invited readers against the following criteria:

  • Relevance of the ideas, innovations, and methods to other institutions
  • Clarity and appropriateness of the learning objectives for the session
  • Effectiveness and appropriateness of proposed active learning and audience engagement strategies
  • Faculty members, full-time instructors, or students as co-presenters
  • Quality, clarity, and economy of the written proposal
  • Evidence of supporting research or assessment
  • Team involvement, from one or more institutions

Corporate Participation

Researchers with corporate affiliation are welcome to submit proposals, either on their own or in collaboration with campus partners. These proposals must demonstrate clearly that the presentation will report on objective, product-independent research. The presentation’s subject must be of wide and general interest to the teaching and learning community, independent of any local vendor relationships and marketing interests. The proposal must make it clear that the session demonstrates thought leadership, addressing key challenges and themes universal to innovation in teaching and learning, without reference to specific products or services.

Annual Meeting Fees: Students and Presenters

ELI will provide complimentary registration for up to two full-time undergraduate or graduate student presenters per session. ELI strives to draw the best possible presentations for the annual meeting, regardless of source. To support this goal, presenters selected from non–ELI member institutions register at the member rate for the annual meeting.

 

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