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How Change Management Can Support Academic Transformation

Malcom Brown
Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

Veronica Diaz
Director, Online Programs, EDUCAUSE
Associate Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

Description
Higher education is changing rapidly. Student demographics and needs are different and more complex. Information Technology is in a constant state of iteration both improving and confusing the options for supporting students best; and employers and communities struggle to anticipate and create jobs for the workforce of the future.
In this session, we will talk about how colleges and universities can create and lead effective transformations. We will explore how to plan proactively for and support transformation efforts at every level of the institution using change management principles.

Joining Drs. Diaz and Brown are the following panel members:

Bernard Bull, Chief Innovation Officer, Assistant Vice President of Academics, Concordia University-Wisconsin, USA.

Kyle Johnson, Dean for Information Technology & Services and Director of Emerging Learning Technology, Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Kelvin Bentley, Vice President for Academic Affairs, TCC Connect Campus

About The Presenters


Malcom Brown Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

Malcom Brown
Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

Dr. Malcolm Brown has been Director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative since 2009 and has initiated major ELI undertakings such as its Seeking Evidence of Impact program and the Learning Space Rating System. Prior to assuming the ELI directorship, he was the Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth College, overseeing a team active in instructional technology, research computing, classroom technology, and pedagogical innovation. During his tenure at Dartmouth, he worked actively with the ELI, contributing chapters to the EDUCAUSE eBooks, helping to plan focus sessions, and serving on the ELI Advisory Board. He has been a member of the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies committee and was the editor for the New Horizons column for the EDUCAUSE Review. Brown has served as a faculty member of the EDUCAUSE Learning Technology Leadership program. He has been on the Advisory board for the Horizon Report since its inception in 2004 and served as Chair of Board of the New Media Consortium.

Veronica Diaz Director, Online Programs, EDUCAUSE Associate Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

Veronica Diaz
Director, Online Programs, EDUCAUSE
Associate Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

Since 2014, Dr. Veronica Diaz has served as the Director for EDUCAUSE online programs advancing the Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development division’s overall strategic priorities and member needs with excellence in online learning experiences. Dr. Diaz has also been the associate director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative since 2009 conceptualizing and developing resources that support its 300+ member institutions in integrating teaching, learning, and technology on campus. She provides leadership to various ELI programs: Seeking Evidence of Impact, the 7 Things You Should Know About series and management for EDUCAUSE teaching and learning leadership development programs, such as Leading Academic Transformation and the Next Generation Learning Challenges. Active in the field of online and blended learning and instructional innovation, Diaz serves on various national teaching and learning advisory boards, presents seminars nationally, and has authored articles on faculty use of instructional technology, blended learning delivery models, intellectual property policies for distributed learning environments, privacy, and emerging technologies.

Tracing Informal Learning Across Space and Time

Hannah Gerber
Associate Professor of Literacy
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas, USA

Description
Increasingly people are turning to online resources, communities, and spaces to engage in informal learning activities. These informal learning activities take place in a vast array of settings and situations — from afterschool environments that rely upon the guidance of a caring adults/mentors, to informal learning communities that take place in and across virtual spaces such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, where reliance upon others in the community is central to the meaning making that occurs in and across these spaces. As we change to learn, and learn to change, it is vital that we consider what is occurring in these spaces.

This keynote opens with an examination what is happening within informal learning spaces, particularly within commercial and education gaming spaces, such as eSports communities, from League of Legends to prosocial educational mobile gaming. This talk then explores how social media metadata can be harnessed to understand meaning making, literacy learning, and literacy development within these and across spaces. By examining social media analytics as a new space for furthering the discussion on learning analytics in informal spaces, we can better understand traces of learning. Finally, this talk concludes with a discussion on the ethics of data collection in these spaces, considering how to use social media metadata — through modes and levels of concealment — that divulges sensitive user information in order to take ethical responsibility in one’s research in these spaces.

About The Presenter

Dr. Hannah R. Gerber, Associate Professor of Literacy at Sam Houston State University

Dr. Hannah R. Gerber
Associate Professor of Literacy
Sam Houston State University

Dr. Hannah R. Gerber is an Associate Professor of Literacy at Sam Houston State University. Her research is concerned with the confluences of learning that surround videogame spaces with adolescents. Her recent research can be found in Tech Trends, English Journal, EdTech, and Educational Media International. She is the co-author and co-editor of multiple books, including Conducting Qualitative Research of Learning in Online Space (SAGE); Videogames, Libraries, and the Feedback Loop: Learning Beyond the Stacks (VOYA); Bridging Literacies with Videogames (Sense); and Education and the Arab Spring: Resistance, Reform, & Democracy. She may be reached at hrg004@shsu.edu or on Twitter @hannahgerber

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