Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium Expert Plenary Panel. Approximately 400 in attendance.  Panelist were great, great, and sales-marketey.  Q&A pertion was really good. Main points include:

• Julie Clow, Ph.D. Learning Technologies Manager, Google
  • Critical to focus on the learner -Don't focus on the technology at the expense of the learner
  • Launch and iterate
  • Change the World
• Stewart Mader
  • Infrastructure improvements in technologies
    • Analogy of email is to cars as wiki is to light rail (right tool for the job)
  • Collaboration through wikis
    • Too often, courses are designed in isolation and taught in isolation, causing instructors to reinvent the wheel and preventing students from working together
  • Wikis as used in organizations - much more than just Wikipedia
    • Documenation 19%
    • Knowledge base 19%
    • Project management 17%
    • Tacit knowledge 17%
    • Meeting management 14%
    • Encyclopedia 12%
  • Futurechanges.org
• Adrian Wilson, Microsoft
  • 21st century student outcomes & support systems
    • life and career skills
    • learning and innovation skills
    • information, media, and technology skills
    • core subjects and 21st century themes
    • standards and assessment
    • ...more...
  • careerforward.org
  • "Buy our stuff" material ensued...
• Q&A
  • What wikis do you use?
    • Confluence
    • Team Player
    • ...more...
  • What is Google Wave?
    • email mixed with Twitter mixed with wikis
  • What can a wiki do that an LMS cannot?
    • LMS is more broadcast-to-student-/one-way-oriented medium
    • Wikis are good at contributing and collaborating
  • What is the Microsoft Higher Ed Council and who is on it?
    • Worked for about a year, then took a 6 month break
    • Anyone can join