NMC News
What's In the News?
Posted February 5th, 2007 by NMCHere you will find a wide array of regularly updated news on NMC projects, events, and initiatives. As we build this area out, we hope to include announcements and stories as well from our members.
The Story of the NMC: A Networked Improvement Community
Posted December 15th, 2008 by Alan Levine
This video includes the background images and recorded audio of an NMC presentation at the Program for the Future event, December 8, 2008, held to honor to innovation of Doug Engelbart on the 40th anniversary of the Mother of All Demos. Larry Johnson, Raqchel Smith, and Alan Levine were invited to share how the NMC is an example of what Engelbart described as a "networked improvement community" that he forecast as necessary to deal with complex problems.
The Program for the Future event was designed to further Engelbart's ideas of Collective Intelligence, which was featured on the four to five year horizon of the 2008 NMC Horizon Report-- see http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/collective-intelligence/
NMC Releases 2008 Summer Conference Proceedings
Posted December 11th, 2008 by NMCThe NMC announced today the release of the 2008 NMC Summer Conference Proceedings.
Attendees at the 2008 NMC Summer Conference, held in June at Princeton University, were asked to identify sessions of special merit that should be included in the 2008 NMC Summer Conference Proceedings, an invitation-only publication juried by the membership of the NMC.
NMC Publishes Results of 2008 Educators in Second Life Survey
Posted November 26th, 2008 by Alan LevineIn May of 2008, the NMC conducted its second annual survey of educators in Second Life, provided as a yearly snapshot of the demographics and activities of educators who are active in Second Life. A link to the survey was sent to by email to individuals within the NMC's Second Life communities and to the Second Life Educators Listserv (SLED). This year, 358 individuals responded to the survey, a 170% increase from the number who answered our 2007 survey.
Below are a few highlights of our comparison to the 2007 survey. You can find links below to more summary information and the final survey data tables.
Welcome New NMC Members Who Joined in October 2008!
Posted November 12th, 2008 by Nancy ReevesPlease take a moment and welcome the new NMC Members who joined in October 2008!
- Australian Flexible Learning Framework
- Australian Learning & Teaching Center
- Champlain College
- Dickinson College
- Henry Ford Community College
- Loyola Marymount University
- Middlebury College
- St. Cloud State University
- Washington College
Rock the Academy Symposium Opening Reception
Posted November 5th, 2008 by Alan LevineThe twelfth in the series of NMC Virtual Symposia, Rock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded Learning, opened last night at NMC Conference Center with a nicely attended reception.
This fourth of these online conference held completely in Second Life, Rock The Academy is intended to explore the ideas and activities that are changing/revolutionizing the shape of education today. With some meeting and greeting, NMC staff welcomed attendees from as far away as Hong Kong, Australia, and Austin ;-) and one NMC staff member stationed in Iceland.
NMC partners with Economist Magazine, Apple in global study of CIO perceptions
Posted October 27th, 2008 by Larry Johnson
Today the NMC announces the release of its newest white paper, produced in conjunction with the Economist Magazine and in collaboration with Apple, Inc. The paper, entitled "The Future of Higher Education: How Technology will Shape Learning " reports the results of a study of nearly 300 CIOs and technology leaders inside and outside of education.
Connect@NMC Online Seminar: Cloud Collaboration on Acrobat.com
Posted October 26th, 2008 by Alan LevineNov 19 2008 - Nov 19 2008
Join us for the first in our new online seminar series- a free event! Learn how rich media and connectivity are now pervasive in Acrobat and Acrobat.com and how both provide rich levels of collaboration through the web. Register now and meet us online at 11:00am PDT- check your local time http://timeanddate.com/s/ys3.
Welcome Susan Chun and Steve: NMC Conversation #9
Posted October 22nd, 2008 by NMC
Recently the NMC shared the news that we was awarded a a three-year $955,000 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) that provides another opportunity to partner with museums on an innovative software development project. For the grant, Steve in Action: Social Tagging Tools and Methods Applied, NMC will coordinate a project to further develop the Steve tagging application, a tool that simplifies the navigation of online museum collections by allowing viewers to tag an image with descriptive terms.
Two-Minute Survey Results on Mobile
Posted October 15th, 2008 by Larry Johnson
As you may have noticed, the NMC is deploying lots of new web tools to gather information of interest to its members. The newest of these, our Two Minute Surveys are literally designed to take no longer than that -- no more than three questions, with a focus on current topics in New Media.
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