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15074p

Refereed Paper with Presentation and Interactive Activity (45 minutes)

Cynthia Calongne, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, calongne@pcisys.net
 * Past, Present and Future: Emerging Media's Role in Online Learning **

Celebrating 20 years of online learning, this session examines how the field of emerging media has strengthened online education. During an exploration of the past and present evolution of emerging technology, the session gives a salute to the TCC, Learning Times and the New Media Consortium before gazing into the future to propose how we may use mobile virtual reality in the classroom by 2020.

//Interactivity // I'll ask the audience to reflect on the future and to offer their insights for the future of online education. *smiles* If in person, will have everyone do a physical interactivity and maybe a human barometer study. *grins* If online, will ask for their ideas, set up a slide for collecting them, and perhaps propose a time capsule that we examine in 5-10 years to see how well our projections worked, or attendees can self-select to offer contributions to a Google Slideshow that we publish as a time capsule. *chuckles* Love those participatory sessions...

All Audiences education Online Learning mobile VirtualWorlds MobileVR