GoingOn to Present at EduComm 2011 Higher Education Conference

June 13, 2011 - PRLog -- Lake Buena Vista, FL -- Melissa Loble, vice president of client strategy for GoingOn Networks, Inc., has been selected to present at the “EduComm 2011, University Business Leadership Institute” conference being held at the Walt Disney World Resort Hilton, June 13 to 15.  Ms. Loble’s presentation is entitled, “Don’t Friend Me: Pragmatic Approaches to the Use of Social Web Technologies in Education” and will take place at 2:00 pm on Wednesday June 15.  This presentation will examine how pervasive the impacts of the social web have become.  Ms. Loble will outline what this means for institutions of higher learning and how social technologies can be leveraged to enhance the student experience.  The session will review the Community Commons Project at University of Pennsylvania to discuss deepening student engagement, faculty participation, and learning outcomes through learning communities.

The EduComm 2011 conference theme is “Shaping the Future of Higher Education,” and accordingly brings together thought-leaders, innovators, and industry expert speakers to present, discuss, and collaborate on the growing challenges and opportunities impacting higher education today.  As a key player in the drive to provide technology that addresses those challenges and opportunities, GoingOn Networks will be exhibiting at EduComm 2011 and will showcase their academic engagement platform in booth 315 of the conference exhibit hall.

GoingOn applies innovative social technologies to deepen student engagement by expanding the social and intellectual aspects of Academic Life.  It enables institutions of higher learning to build private, secure, institution-wide networks where students, faculty and other key participants can connect and collaborate with each other, share information and ‘build’ knowledge, in entirely new ways.  Its purpose is to help students to be more engaged in the “academic ecosystem,” more successful in the pursuit of their academic goals and more empowered to fully utilize the resources that institutions have to offer them.


About GoingOn:
GoingOn extends online modalities beyond the confines of “the course” to encompass the boarder aspects of Academic Life.  It allows institutions to build a private, institution-wide network where student, faculty and broader constituents can connect, collaborate and learn in entirely new ways. Its purpose is to help students become more engaged in the learning process and more successful in the pursuit of their academic goals.  Delivered as an on-demand solution leveraging open source foundations, the GoingOn platform continually integrates leading edge social web technologies to deliver the most effective innovations in the areas of community management, informal collaboration, intelligent information streaming and academic networking. For more information, please visit http://www.goingon.com.

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Press Contact:
GoingOn
Sharon Kawaguchi
+1.925.413.6413
sharonk@goingon.com

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GoingOn uses innovative social technologies to deepen student engagement by expanding social & intellectual aspects of Academic Life. We provide networks to institutions of higher learning so participants connect & build knowledge in entirely new ways.