Academic Fest Track

Once a stand-alone event, AcademicFest has recently joined forces with GLS to create the fabulous Academic Fest track at the Games+Learning+Society Conference 6.0, 9, 10, 11 June 2010 at the UW-Madison's historic Memorial Union. Academic Fest begins with an exclusive session over breakfast on Wednesday 9th, then merges seamlessly with the GLS Conference proper, when it kicks off at noon that same day.

Academic Fest brings together educational technology specialists, inventors, and researchers from all over the globe. The goal is to provide a platform for presentation and discussion on formal and informal learning technologies. The conference itself will be a “mashup” of traditional conference sessions and less formal “unconference” sessions. While you will see the formal sessions listed here soon, the informal sessions will be determined by…YOU (and the other attendees at the conference). We will have open slots to discuss core technologies, SCORM, repositories, open source, or whatever is driving your decision-making… Conference topics include:

• The current state of SCORM and related technologies
• Use of mobile technologies in learning
• The impact of virtual K-12 schools
• Informal learning tools and changes in higher education
• Repositories, registries, and course management systems
• Future directions for content delivery models
• How to plan for Academic IT in a constantly changing delivery environment

Sponsored by ADL Advanced Distributed Learning