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- Susan E. Metros, Professor of Visual Design Technology, Deputy Chief Information Officer and Executive Director for eLearning at The Ohio State University.
- Robert B. Kvavik, Professor of Political Science and Associate Vice President at the University of Minnesota
- Stephen Downes, Moncton, New Brunswick, Institute for Information Technology's e-Learning Research Group
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Susan E. Metros, Professor of Visual Design Technology, Deputy Chief Information Officer and Executive Director for eLearning at The Ohio State University.
"Seeing " Read :" Visual Fluency in the Age of the Big Picture"
Higher Education prepares learners to be stewards of knowledge. Central to this mission is a set of core values that underscore what it means to be a literate human being in today's society. However, these values often do not take into account the needs of the new breed of visually oriented learners. As they face the growing glut of written, auditory and visually depicted information, they require new literacies to prepare for academic success, professional advancement and, ultimately, global citizenship. This presentation will explore how higher education can transcend its traditional IT service model to provide a broad spectrum of innovative resources and strategies that support the visual fluencies associated with learning, discovery, outreach and transaction.
Susan E. Metros is a Professor of Visual Design Technology, Deputy Chief Information Officer and Executive Director for eLearning at The Ohio State University. As Deputy CIO, she leads the academic community in appropriately using educational technologies, both on campus and at a distance. In her role as educator and designer, she teaches within the Department of Design and has served as principal designer on several international award winning multimedia and Web-based projects. She is also active on numerous international and national boards, committees and task forces and has published and presented widely on visual literacy, creative leadership and the role of technology in transforming education to be sharable, engaging, interactive and learner-centered.
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Robert B. Kvavik, Professor of Political Science and Associate Vice President at the University of Minnesota
ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology, 2005
What are the information technology uses and skills of undergraduate students, how does their use of these technologies contribute to their undergraduate experience, and how does IT add to their learning? Answers to these questions are provided by 18,039 students at 63 higher education institutions in their responses to surveys for the 2005 ECAR study. Comparisons are also made between ECAR 2004 and 2005 study results.
Robert B. Kvavik earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University (1971). He is currently Professor of Political Science and Associate Vice President at the University of Minnesota. He directed the University of Minnesota's implementation of PeopleSoft Student and Human Resources modules. He has published extensively in his academic discipline and increasingly on the impact and organization of information technologies on institutional services. Kvavik is a nationally known speaker on e-business and IT-enabled services in higher education. Kvavik was appointed Senior Fellow of ECAR in January 2002. He has been a principal author of ECAR?s ERP, IT security, IT leadership, business process performance, and student use of technology studies.
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Stephen Downes, Moncton, New Brunswick,
Institute for Information Technology's e-Learning Research Group
"Distributed Learning"
Online learning as students experience it today is based on access to content and services offered by a sole provider, typically a student's college and university. As communications technology takes hold, however, students will be in a position where they can build an educational portfolio based on offerings from numerous providers, sometimes even within the same course or program. Learning resources, for example, may have multiple simultaneous authors and be offered dynamically, rather than prepackaged and stored in a repository. Online groups and collaborations may consist of partnerships between students in different institutions and even in different countries. This talk will take a look at the nature of learning in such an environment: what our learning resources will look like and how they will be authored, how our leaning management systems will be designed, and what students will be expecting to see in their personal learning environment.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Stephen Downes lived and worked across Canada before joining the National Research Council as a senior researcher in November, 2001. Currently based in Moncton, New Brunswick, at the Institute for Information Technology's e-Learning Research Group, Stephen has become a leading voice in the areas of learning objects and metadata as well as the emerging fields of weblogs in education and content syndication.
Stephen is perhaps best known for his daily research newsletter, OLDaily (short for Online Learning Daily), which reaches thousands of readers across Canada and around the world. His work also includes the development of educational content syndication systems such as Edu_RSS and DLORN along and the design of a digital rights management system for learning resources. Stephen is also frequently to be found the road giving seminars and lectures on the field of online learning, including the notable Buntine Oration delivered in Perth, Australia, in October, 2004.
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