Thursday, June 18
11:00am - 12:15pm
"Higher Education Meets the S Curve"
Every campus has their early adopters- people who are investigating ways to use the newest technologies to improve their teaching. Beyond the early adopters, however, is faculty just now starting to experiment with technologies that have been around for several years. This gap is referred to as the S Curve, a model that illustrates the problems associated with moving from innovation to broad based implementation. This session will examine why this lag exists and how can institutions move toward a more consistent implementation pattern.
This panel - with leaders from Future Changes, Google, Microsoft and the University of Illinois Springfield - will forecast how emerging technologies will impact higher education in terms of efficacy and innovation. Addressing the lag time between early adopters and consistent campus implementations will be a primary focus, with discussion revolving around how to leverage relationships between corporate innovators and higher education. Issues revolving around economies of scale and establishing support frameworks necessary for faculty buy-in and institutional acceptance will be primary areas of interest for participants.
Julie Clow, Ph.D.
Learning Technologies Manager, Google
By virtue of her educational influences, Julie considers herself broadly involved in organizational behavior management with learning and development as the primary vehicle. Julie received her Ph.D. in Psychology (specialization in Behavior Analysis) from Auburn University. Julie then launched her career as an instructional design consultant, working with several medium- and large-sized companies to develop training programs. In 2000, she joined Carley Corporation, a custom training solutions provider in Orlando, FL. She led teams to develop turnkey learning solutions for government, military, and commercial organizations ranging from instructor-led curricula to eLearning and high-end simulations. She went on to become the Proposal Manager for new business development, as well as the Chief Learning Officer. Julie joined Google in 2006 to jumpstart the eLearning group within the Sales Training & Development team. In 2008, she joined the central Google University team to manage Learning Technologies, focusing on both infrastructure and delivery methods.
Stewart Mader
Stewart Mader is founder of Future Changes, a specialist consultancy that teaches people at Fortune 500 companies, universities, non-profits, and small businesses how to improve productivity using wikis.He has written two books: Wikipatterns and Using Wiki in Education, and created the widely-used Wikipatterns.com community for sharing business wiki adoption strategies. Stewart frequently gives keynotes and workshops that get people thinking about how to improve productivity, shorten the time it takes to get work done, and equip new employees with the information they need to quickly make an impact.
Adrian Wilson
Adrian Wilson has worked in the IT industry for over twenty years specializing in the field of software product development and deployment. He has also worked closely with educators for the last seven years. He has been at Microsoft Corporation for over twelve years. He is Director of Educational Outreach and is currently the Chair of the Microsoft Higher Ed Consortium, an industry partnership that collaborates on the current and future needs for Higher Education.
At Microsoft, Wilson has taken on various senior engineering, education technology and customer/partner facing roles. He was part of the original team which developed the .NET development environment. Prior to his tenure at Microsoft, Wilson held senior roles at Oracle Corp., ESPNet SportsZone (Starwave), and NYNEX (AGS), now Verizon Communications. In 2002, Wilson served on the Technical Board of the Schools Interoperability Framework. He is currently on the Board of Visitors for the University of Maryland, Eastern Shores. Wilson holds a BS degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Ray Schroeder - moderator
Ray Schroeder is Professor Emeritus of Communication, founding director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning (OTEL) and the Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service (COLRS) at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He initiated the online learning program at UIS and is dedicated to faculty development and pedagogical support of the online initiative. Schroeder has numerous national presentations and publications in the area of online learning and the application of technology to enhance the learning process. He has published the popular Online Learning Update and Educational Technology blogs for the past seven years. Schroeder is recipient of the 2002 Sloan-C award for the “Most Outstanding Achievement in ALN by an Individual,” University of Southern Maine “Visiting Scholar in Online Learning” 2006-2009, and founder of the New Century Learning Consortium.
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