This past weekend I traveled down to University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia (via NYC in a roundabout way) to attend HigherEdCamp Philly. My interest in attending was to see how others were using the Internet in their classrooms (I can’t imagine taking speech class with an assignment to record myself and post it on YouTube!).

I caught a session on Oscelot‘s push to promote Open Source tools in education, Flat World Knowledge‘s drive to provide textbooks online for free, and a pretty interesting study by MIT comparing the results between online classes and in-class presentations.

In being a good camper, I’m posting the slides from my presentation. It’s by no means all-inclusive, as I assembled it during breakfast.

Overall, I found this unconference to be rather refreshing, as attendees weren’t all tech-oriented (as they are at most BarCamps I attend), but were instead a mix of students, instructors, and administrators. Hopefully, the organizers will host another one next year.

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