The 2008 NMC Directors' Meeting was held in Austin, Texas on March 12 - 13, 2008. The meeting included an NMC Business Meeting and focused discussions on the 2008 Horizon Report and Global Outreach for NMC.
Download the visual record of the 2008 Directors' Meeting (5.3MB, PDF).
Business Meeting
In this segment of the meeting, NMC members discussed the recent Directors' annual survey; reviewed NMC Services, including Virtual Worlds and Pachyderm; discussed NMC Initiatives; discussed the future of NMC meetings; and received a preview of the coming year.
2008 Horizon Report
The 2008 Horizon Report, the fifth in the series, was released in January at the ELI Annual Meeting. This year's report included a discussion of the trends and concepts that have shaped the content of Horizon Reports over the years. In this conversation, we took a look at those conceptual threads, as well as continuing the discussion begun at ELI to inform the 2008 Call to Scholarship.
NMC Global Outreach
The NMC is looking for ways to expand the membership and the reach of its activities globally. The 2007 Horizon Report was released in Spanish and Catalan and distributed broadly through Spanish-speaking educational channels; the 2008 Report was translated and released in both languages. NMC staff and Board of Directors have been working closely with institutions in Australia, and an Australian version of the Horizon Report will be released in the fall of 2008. The NMC website will soon include an option to display content in Spanish. In this discussion, NMC staff invited the Directors to consider ways to enlarge the global community of the NMC, take the work of the NMC and its members to a wider audience, and collaborate with others around the world.
Reception at the NMC Headquarters with the NMC Board of Directors
The NMC Headquarters moved to a new office in November 2007. NMC Directors were invited to a reception at the new office with the NMC Board of Directors.
Tours at the University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin's Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment invited NMC Directors to tour campus IT facilities and check out innovative programs and projects being developed in various colleges ranging from 2D & 3D graphics, virtual worlds and simulations, audio/video, interactive media, and more. Tour date was Wednesday, March 12, 2008 between 10:00am-4:00pm. Tours were hosted by Coco Kishi <coco@uts.cc.utexas.edu>
The meeting agenda was as follows:
| Wednesday, March 12 | |
| 10:00 am - 4:00 pm | Tours at the University of Texas, Austin |
| 6:00 - 9:00 pm | Reception & Dinner |
| Thursday, March 13 |
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| 8:30 am - 4:00 pm | Business Meeting & Focused Discussions |
| 4:30 - 6:15 pm | Reception at the NMC Headquarters with the NMC Board of Directors |
The 2008 NMC Directors' Meeting has passed. Registration for this event is closed.