The 2011 NMC Summer Conference includes four themes:
Threads in these themes include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Emerging uses of mobile devices and applications in any context
- Highly innovative, successful applications of learning analytics or visual data analysis
- Uses of augmented reality, geolocation, and gesture-based computing
- Discipline-specific applications for emerging technologies
- Challenges and trends in educational technology
- Projects that employ the Horizon Report or Navigator in any capacity
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- Challenge-based learning
- Game-based learning
- Digital storytelling as a learning strategy
- Immersive learning environments
- Open content resources and strategies
- New media research and scholarship
- Challenges and trends in new media and learning
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- Fostering/Supporting/budgeting for innovation
- Supporting new media scholarship
- Collaboration as a strategy
- Learning space design, in all senses of the words
- Use, creation, and management of open content
- Experiment and experience; gallery as lab, lab as gallery
- Challenges and trends related to managing an educational enterprise
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- Designing for mobile devices in any context
- Social networking — designing, monitoring, maximizing social tools
- Experience design
- Creating augmented reality
- Creating the next generation of electronic books
- Optimizing digital workflows
- Strategies for staying current with new media tools