2010: a Learning Systems Odyssey

September 2, 2010 - 8:30am | by Chinkley
Presenter(s)
Brendan Guenther (Director, Michigan State University, US)
Ann Hill-Duin (Associate Vice President for Information Technology and Deputy CIO, University of Minnesota, US)
Fedro S. Zazueta (Professor and Senior Director of the Office of Academic Technology, University of Florida, US)
Session Information
November 5, 2010 - 9:40am
Session Type: 
Featured Session
Location: 
Grand Sierra A
Session Duration: 
80
Concurrent Session: 
7
Virtual Session
Abstract

Join several institutions for a panel discussion focused on changing views on what educators need from enterprise online learning infrastructure, and what such architecture should resemble. Can we make sense of a chaotic personal learning environment, monolithic learning management systems, faculty selected web 2.0/cloud-based environments, and social networks?

Lead Presenter
Ann Hill Duin is a Professor and Associate Vice President in the Office of Information Technology at the University of Minnesota where a transition from WebVista to Moodle is underway. She has served in multiple administrative and strategic planning roles, currently providing strategic alignment and oversight for academic computing, administrative applications, network and telecommunications, and operations/infrastructure/architecture. Her most recent publications and webinars focus on the importance of fostering shared leadership to meet the challenges and opportunities in our green, global, and Google world.

Fedro S. Zazueta is currently a Professor and Senior Director of the Office of Academic Technology at the University of Florida, and currently leads the conversion from WebCT to Sakai.  He is President of the International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR) and past-editor-in-chief of the Journal Agricultural Engineering International.  He has published over 500 technical articles related to the use of IT in agriculture and education.  He has led IT strategic planning efforts at the University of Florida, USDA/CREES and other organizations and consulted nationallly and internationally on strategic and operational IT related issues.