The Apple Digital Campus Exchange (ADCE) is an online community - a meeting place and resource centre open to all faculty, academic leaders and other education professionals in higher education institutions. It provides a forum to share knowledge, best practices, and ideas about new ways of teaching and learning. Membership is free and not restricted to Apple users; see http://www.apple.com/education/hed/adc/exchange.html
Some of the current ADCE discussion topics and events are briefly outlined as follows.
Webcasts
The Power of "E": Electronic Portfolios and Digital Media
When do portfolios become ePortfolios? Does this transformation occur when portfolio materials are simply put online or when the portfolio becomes a true Web product?
In this presentation, Cara Lane (Catalyst Research and Development at the University of Washington) argues the latter. Emphasizing that ePortfolios are products of the Web allows new opportunities for learning and teaching. Clara shares students' perspectives on ePortfolios, gathered in a series of interviews conducted as part of a University of Washington research study. An archive of the webcast is available on the ADCE site and the conversation continues about the issues raised through subsequent academic community forum discussion and posted resources.
Upcoming: Harvard Symposium on Technology in Undergraduate Education
On June 15-16, The Symposium on Technology in Undergraduate Science Education will focus on the use of technology in introductory science courses as a tool for addressing heterogeneous student backgrounds; see http://www.lifescience.fas.harvard.edu/tech/
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Podcasting
Podcasts can deliver educational content for listening or viewing 'anytime, anywhere', freeing learning from constraints of the physical classroom. A podcast is audio or video content that is automatically delivered over a network via subscription. Podcasts can then be regularly distributed over the Internet and accessed later with a computer or iPod.
Subscribing and Listening to Podcasts:
- iTunes software is available free for both PC and Mac and makes for an easy subscription and listening experience. Get iTunes from http://www.apple.com/au/itunes/download/
- Alternatively, at Griffith you can make a request for iTunes to be installed on your university computer at https://mail01.domino.gu.edu.au/apps/ins/sqairs.nsf
- For examples of podcasts across a range of disciplines, go to http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/podcasting/ Click on 'Education podcasts on iTunes'.
iTunes U
In 2005 Stanford on iTunes was launched to deliver podcasts via the iTunes Store and provides students, alumni and the general public with a versatile way of staying connected to the university. Now known as iTunes U, this initiative has spread more widely across US schools and universities - including the Stanford and UC-Berkeley iTunes sites, podcasting programs at University of Missouri School of Journalism and University of Michigan School of Dentistry and iPod projects at Duke and Georgia College and State University.
ADCE iTunes U discussion describes what campuses are planning for podcasting and provides a forum for academics to share understanding about these developments. iTunes U will be coming to Australia in the near future and one example of Griffith iTunes podcasting is available at http://www29.griffith.edu.au/imersd/stream/podcasts