The 11th Sloan-C Asynchronous Learning Network conference is in Orlando, FL this year. The attendees are a good mix of Faculty, Admins, Instructional Technologists and Vendors and there is a strong focus on Distance Learning.

I am doing a three hour workshop on Emerging Practices and Learning Technologies (in higher education). It is a topic that I have been immersed in over the last year or so and I have managed to find a very good support network in both the ELI and the Horizon Project Virtual Community of Practice.

A three hour workshop seems like a long one, but the topic could easily fill three days. This usually means that very important topics get reduced to a corner of a slide and the discussion is curtailed just as it gets interesting.

My key themes for the presentation are:

• self expression (including blogging & podcasting)
• organizing and finding information (including tagging)
• "always on" connection to the institution (enabling mobile learning)