At the first day, I went to big sessions in the main meeting room. The keynote, by Sannier, was a vigorous call to action to transform education to make it more social, more team-based, more relevant to 21st-century skills that people need. In many sections it was kind of ominous because he discussed the ways that technology is making many kinds of jobs irrelevant.
Later, I attended a session about the value of education and how we can leverage technology to help learners succeed. At this session, the speaker spoke a lot about how we can use technology to meet students' needs and how education, in general, has great benefits for people. He cited how UPS mitigated their high turnover rate by enabling employees to receive their degrees through giving them flexible work schedules. He also discussed many initiatives such as the curricular resource strategy, which has the goal of helping people have access to content.
There was a large debate about learner analytics at which they talked about current analytics are not optimal because they are centered (mostly) on data that people get from the LMS. And this data is limited to grades, numbers of clicks, and other things that are superficial measures of learning. The panelists all agreed that learning analytics is in an embryonic stage and that they hope that future technologies will enable better kinds of data.
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