Evidence to Practice: Fulfilling the Promise

A conference devoted to the purposeful, strategic and comprehensive approach
to blended teaching and learning

March 28-29, 2011

Oak Brook Hills Marriott Resort - Oak Brook, IL

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Post-Conference wrap-up and image galleries

Welcome!

Keynote Speaker

Now is the time to make your plans to attend the Sloan Consortium Blended Learning Conference and Workshop. The program is set and it is amazing. We have a diverse schedule and a unique conference structure. No additional cost for 15 interactive workshops; three dynamic tracks offering 51 information sessions, 13 posters, 12 vendor showcase sessions, 5 Great Idea presentations; relevant and informed speakers; multiple opportunities for networking and pragmatic take-aways for conference participants.

Please join us for "Evidence to Practice: Fulfilling the Promise." This conference will be worth your valuable time.

Mary P. Niemiec, Conference Chair

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Josh Jarrett

Josh Jarrett

Senior Program Officer,
Postsecondary Success

Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation

“Blended Future: Trends Reshaping Higher Education and the Role of Blended Learning"

This session will explore the role that blended learning can play in redefining successful education models in the face of the near inevitable trends reshaping the education system.

Josh Jarrett is a Senior Program Officer for Postsecondary Success in the U.S. Program. In this capacity, Josh has been helping to architect and launch the foundation’s new Postsecondary Success strategy. Within Postsecondary Success, he leads the learning innovations and technology portfolio. This portfolio invests in new teaching and learning solutions and new organizational models to increase low-income student success. Additionally, Josh coordinates the foundation’s limited-term efforts in the Gulf Coast region’s recovery following Hurricane Katrina.

Prior to the foundation, Josh served as an Engagement Manger in McKinsey & Company’s Nonprofit Practice, leading organizations on issues of strategy, operations and organization. In his five years with the company he led teams of fellow consultants and clients in detailed business analysis, developed recommendations and implementation plans, and advised senior executives on decision making. In particular, his work focused on charter school expansion, adolescent health services, and the effectiveness of foundation grantmaking. Prior to McKinsey & Company, Josh served as an entrepreneur, helping to launch a customer service software company.

Josh is a graduate of Dartmouth College and he holds a graduate degree in business from the Harvard Business School.

We invite you to a Poster Session and Welcome Reception from 4:00-5:30pm on Monday, March 28, in the Court E/F Foyer and exhibit hall. Join us for poster presentations, exhibits and refreshments. Each of you received 1 free drink ticket, and a cash bar will be offered as well.

Stop by the Sloan-C table to purchase copies of Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, authored by Tony Picciano and Chuck Dziuban, who will be there to sign your book.

Additionally, the special JALN issues on Blended Learning by Sloan-C are also available for purchase. Buy the just released special issue of JALN (15.1), "Lessons Learned as Institutions Transition to Blended Education", and get the prior special issue (13.1) on Blended Learning for free!

The book and the journals may be purchased at the special conference pricing anytime during the conference at the Registration Desk as well as at Sloan-C’s table during the reception.

This conference is brought to you by The Sloan Consortium