Campus Technology

Keynote by: Chris Dede, Ed.D., Futurist, Researcher, & Timothy E. Wirth Professor, Learning Technologies, Graduate School of Education, Harvard

General Session Panel, Moderator: Lucinda Lea, Vice President, Information Technology & CIO, Middle Tennessee State University

General Session Panel

Chris Dede, Ed.D., Futurist, Researcher, & Timothy E. Wirth Professor, Learning Technologies, Graduate School of Education, Harvard

Get Ready for a Sea-Change in Education: Immersive Learning Technologies Across Cyberspace

Chris Dede, Ed.D., Futurist, Researcher, & Timothy E. Wirth Professor, Learning Technologies, Graduate School of Education, Harvard

In this fascinating, fast-moving keynote address, Harvard teaching and learning scholar Chris Dede will take conference attendees on an unforgettable journey into the future of learning in the 21st century. In this New World of learning, a tech-culture is seeking problem-solving challenges that interweave faceto- face interactions with shared virtual experiences across distance and time. Immersive, game-like educational simulations such as multi-user virtual environments or augmented realities place students in the center of learning situations “experienced" with others across cyberspace. Is this new virtual world of education inevitable? Will it dramatically alter our strategies for teaching and motivating students? Does your campus need to adapt now, before the educational tsunami? Join Dede as he traces the surge of this sea-change in learning, from middle- and high-school, through college, and beyond.

In Case of Disaster, Break Glass: Reacting to Extreme Change

Change sometimes happens fast and furious…and often it’s the wrong kind of change. Despite the best efforts at preparedness, a natural or man-made disaster can leave an otherwise smooth-running organization scrambling for even the most basic operational needs. Campus Technology board member Lucinda Lea moderates a discussion with two CIOs who have personal and unique perspectives on hurricane Katrina—LSU’s Brian Voss, whose institution responded almost instantaneously to help its neighbors, and John Lawson, who saw Tulane through the crisis.

Visions for Technology in Higher Education

This conference has offered a forum for discussions of change in technology for higher education—both the planned changes that cross-functional campus teams work towards and the unwanted ones that we must react to with our security and emergency preparedness strategies. For our closing session, we’ll tap our community’s visionaries, strategists, and thought leaders—including you, our conference teams, for an open discussion of visions for technology change. What are the key technology advancements we can promote that will have the most impact for higher education? What are the enabling technologies that support them? And what are the funding realities along with the “technologies to watch" for the next 5-10 years? Don’t mis this lively discussion of our collective vision.