Symposium Track Groups

Even if you don't plan to attend the event, we encourage you to click on any of these track related groups to discuss these topics online:

Sloan-C VIRTUAL Symposium

Sloan-C's Virtual Symposium

Welcome to the Virtual Symposium! The Virtual Symposium is one part of the overall Online Symposium that started in January, 2008.

Session Access Information

Here you will find:

  • information for each symposium event
  • how to access symposium events
  • lively discussions, and
  • general announcements.

In the virtual symposium, you will have access to these resources:

Virtual Portion of the Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning

General Discussion Group

In this group, we will openly discuss the development of the Sloan-C International Symposium, allowing you to provide your input into what this symposium should address.

A general discussion for for topics related to the symposium

Support Services and Emerging Technologies for Online Learning

How are emerging technologies being applied in online student and faculty support systems and models? What type of infrastructures are needed to support online learning?

Focuses on issues related to the technological infrastructure needed to support the ever-changing online learning environment

Online Learning Communities

How have new social networking applications transformed the online educational environment?

Explores how new applications (blogs, wikis, virtual environments, etc.) are online education.

Inventive Uses of Media and Tools in Online Learning

A wide range of media and tools are being designed and deployed in online education with varying degrees of success.

The focus of this group is to determine which emerging technologies make sense for use in everyday instruction

Pedagogy and New Online Learning Environments

How are teaching and learning transformed through availability of new technologies? How is instructional design being changed to utilize emerging technologies?

This group focuses on how teaching and learning is impacted due to the availability of new technologies.

Assessment Advances Using Emerging Technologies

How are new technologies and applications helping us to understand and improve assessment of online education?

In this group we specifically wish to examine how emerging technologies impact assessment.