Faculty, librarians, staff, and students are finding new ways of blending information and communication technologies to enhance learning. Across the state, teaching and learning communities are working on initiatives and projects that capitalize on connections built as campuses explore innovative ways to improve education.
Mix It Up! Creative Combinations for Learning in North Carolina focuses on initiatives and resources available for higher education in North Carolina. The conference will explore the variety of innovative blends of people, places, research, technology, policy, and approaches for teaching and learning.
This year's conference highlights resources and initiatives across the state that integrate different technologies, people, perspectives, ideas, processes, and organizational missions in innovative ways to:
- achieve educational outcomes
- overcome curricular challenges
- foster rewarding learning experiences
- prepare learners for future roles
- use resources efficiently and effectively
Thinking in a systematic way about creative uses of technology is crucial. Specific areas to consider include:
People: Cultivating connections, collaborations and partnerships to facilitate the generation of ideas that transform and enhance the learning process.
Places: Considering how the creative use of real and virtual spaces can be conceptualized, developed, implemented and evaluated.
Research: Contributing to the scholarship of teaching and learning by discovering and evaluating ways that creative combinations can improve outcomes.
Technology: Assessing the effect of innovative combinations of technologies as well as the value of incorporating emerging technologies into the mix.
Policy: Understanding the impact of current policies and the need for policy change to accommodate new combinations of technologies and approaches that may span institutions and disciplines.
Approaches: Combining the many elements that contribute to the learning experience and refining the results to successfully implement innovative strategies.
We actively solicit proposals that showcase TLT findings and work in progress from faculty, librarians, staff, administrators, and students who would like to share their knowledge and expertise with colleagues. Proposals about collaborative work, including projects that involve educational, non-profit, commercial, or government organizations, are encouraged, as are submissions on other TLT-related topics. Session types include panel discussions, roundtable discussions, hands-on workshops, formal presentations, and demonstrations. Session lengths range from 30 to 90 minutes.
