Keynote Presentation

Keynote Address 

Wednesday, November 3
4:30pm
Caribbean I-V (General Session Room)

 Peter Smith

Peter Smith
Peter P. Smith, Ed.D.

Join Peter for a Book Signing Event!

Book Cover

Immediately following Peter’s keynote address, please join us in the Exhibit Hall (Grand Sierra D & E) for the Welcome Reception. Peter will be at the Colloquy booth (701 & 901) signing his book, “Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent: A New Ecology of Learning.” Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Colleges for the 21st Century: the New Ecology of Learning

Emerging information technology and Web 2.0 have permanently changed the possibilities and potential of higher education. With the decline of content as the critical determinant of quality, there are three over-arching quality indicators that support “merit for the many”: personalization, customization, and mobility.

Dr. Peter Smith will address these quality indicators in his keynote address. In the talent-friendly College for the 21st Century (C21C), he argues, services will be organized around the needs of the learner, not the habits of the institution. Sharing common characteristics, C21Cs will tap into a new ecology of learning that supports personalized and customized learning around the world. Their purposes will include recognizing, creating and then validating merit in each learner and making it portable.