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• Ed Cooper, CEO, MERLOT
• Paul R. Hagner, Senior Advisor for Technology Planning and Assessment, University of Hartford
• Sidney A. McPhee, President, Middle Tennessee State University

ED COOPER, Ph.D. MERLOT Tracing the Intersection of Learning and Technology to the Edge of Chaos Tuesday, April 9 KUC Theatre 8:15-9:30 a.m.

Our institutions have made dramatic investments in technology over the past two decades. But we've invested far less in mating what we know of learning to the use of technology. In the present and the future we are faced with critical questions. One question asks what we really know of the "trajectory of technology" and thus how we make appropriate future investments in technology. Another question looks at what we have discovered about learning—especially mediated learning and how we bring this knowledge to intersect with the "trajectory of technology."

As we push to adopt new devices, delivery systems and content we also push ourselves into chaos. Understanding and tracking the intersection of technology and learning could better position our institutions to stay at the productive "edge of chaos" and improve faculty and learner outcomes.

Ed Cooper is the CEO for MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) a consortium of institutional and system partners who sponsor and help develop an open online resource of learning objects and tools designed for faculty, instructional designers and students in higher education.

Prior to his position with MERLOT, Dr. Cooper of was dean of graduate programs at Regis University. While serving as dean, the program grew from 1200 students to more than 5000 graduate students. More than half of the students participate in online classes. He has served as a business faculty member and administrator at three universities prior to Regis and as a staff member at the National Center for Higher Education Management System (NCHEMS). Dr. Cooper was also a founder and vice president of a technology corporation and the president of a marketing services corporation.

He serves on the steering committee for the Western Cooperative for Educational Technology (WCET) of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), as an editor for the journal, Review of Marketing Education, and is a past president of the Higher Education Association of the Rockies (HEAR) and the Colorado Association of Planners and Institutional Researchers (CAPIR). He is the author of two books and numerous articles. He received his doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

PAUL R. HAGNER, Ph.D. UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD Faculty Engagement and Support in the New Learning Environments Monday, April 8 Garden Plaza Hotel 7 p.m.

There is general agreement that the new learning environments will have a profound effect on the academy. Faculty find themselves caught between the comfort and stability of the traditional forms of teaching and learning and the uncertainty and risk associated with new forms of learning delivery. Increased pressures and demand from both the administration and the technologically enhanced generation of students will make opting out an impossibility.

The talk will explore this problem and discuss the role faculty motivations play in transformation. It will also stress that the institution must give serious consideration to how to provide support for this transformation if it is to succeed.

Dr. Hagner is currently serving as a senior advisor for technology planning and assessment at the University of Hartford. Previously he spent eighteen years on the faculty at Washington State University, where he served as chair of the political science department and received WSU's William F. Mullen Award for Teaching Excellence. He has also spent five years on the faculty at The University of Memphis, where he was departmental chair.

In 2000, he served as a Fellow for EDUCAUSE's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, focusing on the area of technological transformation of higher education institutions. Hagner is the co-editor of Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning published by Jossey-Bass.

SIDNEY A. McPHEE, Ph.D. MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY The Challenges of Integrating Technology in the Core Academic Mission Monday, April 8 KUC Theatre 8:15 a.m.

This presentation will outline some of the challenges colleges and universities are encountering in keeping pace with emerging technologies in higher education. University administrators, faculty, and staff face daunting challenges in meeting the growing needs of students who are entering campuses with great expectations of technology in the teaching and learning process.

Particular emphasis will be placed on the importance of campus leadership, understanding campus faculty culture, planning for faculty support and development, sharing of resources, and encouraging interdisciplinary partnerships.

Dr. McPhee will conclude the presentation with his own thoughts about the need to think “outside the box” to advance technology on university campuses.

Dr. McPhee currently serves as the 10th President of Middle Tennessee State University.