- IT Strategic Planning: A Vision- and Mission-Oriented Approach to Enhancing Teaching and Learning with New Technologies (source: Educause Connect)
La Salle University's School of Arts and Sciences has created a strategic plan for the development and implementation of information technology in teaching, learning and research. This presentation will highlight the development of the mission, goals, selected action items, subcommittee structures for discovery, implementation, training and evaluation, and lessons learned.

- What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies (source: Educause Connect)
This 73 minute podcast features the 4th Annual Robert C. Heterick Jr. Lecture, given by Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. The lecture is entitled, "What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies".
Emblematic of the new participatory cultures and the emerging practices of collective intelligence, Wikipedia has drawn fire from academic institutions and traditional gatekeepers. Using segments from a forthcoming documentary about the Wikipedia movement produced by MIT's Project NML, this session will discuss how educators might use Wikipedia to introduce students to the ways that new forms of cultural production and knowledge sharing are reshaping the research process.

- Exponential Change in Traditional Organizations: McMaster University Libraries (source: Educause Connect)
In this 49 minute podcast, we feature a session by Jeffrey G. Trzeciak, University Librarian at McMaster University, entitled, "Exponential Change in Traditional Organizations: McMaster University Libraries". This speech was recorded at the ELI 2008 Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
McMaster University Libraries, one of Canada’s most innovative university libraries, is bringing together librarians, faculty, information technologists, and students in new and exciting ways. By focusing on emerging technologies, student success, and collaboration, the library is transforming from a "book warehouse" to the center for teaching and learning.

- Connectivism (source: Educause Connect)
In this 58 minute podcast, we feature a session by George Siemens, Associate Director for the Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba, entitled, "Connectivism". This speech was recorded at the ELI 2008 Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
The waves of technological and social change have eroded the effectiveness of traditional views regarding what, how, and why to educate. To effectively educate learners, fundamental assertions need to be rethought: the design of schools and curriculum, the nature of knowledge in a connected world, the relationship between educator and learner, the means and methods of authenticating information and knowledge, and, perhaps most significantly, what it means “to know” in complex, rapidly developing, and chaotic environments. This session will present connectivism as a theory of learning that can bridge the rift between traditional and new educational approaches to prepare learners for the tomorrow they will inherit.

- ELI Annual Video: Teaching Metacognition (source: Educause Connect)
Video and slides. The speech is by Marsha C. Lovett, Associate Research Professor & Associate Director for Carnegie Mellon University.
As educators, we teach students “content” but also want to help them develop as learners. Metacognition—the process of thinking about one’s own thinking processes and strategies—is essential to both goals, and yet instructors often feel they lack time or expertise to teach metacognitive skills. This session will discuss recent research on teaching metacognition, including a Carnegie Mellon program where metacognitive instruction is integrated into first-year science courses.