Learning Impact 2021 Program Topic Themes
Digital Teaching Strategies and Curriculum Innovation: What Have We Learned from COVID?
Topic areas of emphasis:
- What is your focus post-COVID?
- Defining digital curriculum/instruction innovation in a post-COVID world
- Showcasing digital learning that works and scales
- Achieving curriculum equity with digital learning: Coverage, flexible delivery, discovery, and more
- From HyFlex to what’s next: HED delivery and support models to emulate going forward
- Digital approaches that improve pedagogy
- Adding library resources to enhance the curriculum
- Achieving student-centered or personalized learning
The State of Digital Learning Platforms and Apps: Now and What’s Next
Topic areas of emphasis:
- What are the mission-critical platforms in a post-COVID world?
- The top learning platform, mobile, portal, tools, app launcher, and environment trends
- What does more hybrid learning mean for learning platforms?
- Leveraging video and collaboration platforms
- Detailing the rise of the LMS in K-12: What is the focus and what does the evolution from here look like?
- How to compare app launchers and integration platforms?
- What does the next-generation learning environment in HED look like now?
- Learning analytics and app dashboard products: How do they fit?
- How do learning platforms from curriculum providers fit with an LMS or app launcher?
Reinventing High Stakes, Formative, and Authentic Assessment
Topic areas of emphasis:
- Assessment innovation in a post-COVID world
- Innovative assessment and curriculum products to close learning gaps
- Will high-stakes assessment make a comeback? When and where?
- How will digital curriculum products approve assessment?
- Actionable data from curriculum and assessment products
- Assessment data dashboards: What is the current state and what improvements are ahead?
- How can integration among assessment and curriculum products improve instruction and learning?
- What is statewide assessment evolving toward?
Key Strategies for Joining the Digital Credentials Movement
Topic areas of emphasis:
- Educating the whole student for career and life success in K-12 or HED with learning and employment based on open standards
- Recognizing curricular, co-curricular, and skills-based achievements in HED through digital credentials
- Regional collaborations for prior learning assessment, credit recognition, and employment
- Incorporating verifiable digital credentials and skills frameworks in workforce/corporate learning and hiring
- Digital credentials enabling student progress and college readiness assessment
- Digital credentials promoting student success and flexible pathways
- Designing the next generation transcript and resume
Learning Data and Analytics: What Works and How to Accelerate Progress from Here
Topic areas of emphasis:
- Data analytics products to identify and close learning gaps
- Today and tomorrow’s edtech data architecture in higher education
- Today and tomorrow’s edtech data architecture in K-12
- Problems solved with data or learning analytics
- Problems to be solved with data or learning analytics
- What data from what system, combined how, results in actionable information for faculty, students, or administrators?
- How might we define a “data ready” app in edtech?
Getting a Jump on Student Data Privacy: TrustEd Apps in K-12 and Higher Ed
Topic areas of emphasis:
- Institutional data privacy strategies
- Supplier and institutional cooperation on data privacy
- Cooperation on app vetting
- Where is the best place for teachers and parents to see data privacy information?
- Ideas to improve app vetting to include rubrics for accessibility, equity, and inclusion
- What is the right level of security vetting?
- What are workable processes for the influx of new apps and tools?
Collaborating to Converge the Interoperable Ecosystem
Topic areas of emphasis:
- What does Standards First mean from the institutional perspective?
- How suppliers exemplify a Standards First approach to integration
- How to measure the impact of an open-standards edtech ecosystem
- Taking stock of how open standards have enabled successful product ecosystems in edtech
- Institutional challenges in managing the digital edtech ecosystem
