Educating the Net Generation

Information technology continues to change the way we work, live, and learn. As we strive to create effective learning environments, we need to understand how learners are changing too. The learning styles, attitudes, and approaches of today's high school students differ from those of 18-to-22-year-old college students as well adult learners. What are those differences, and what are the implications for higher education? Find out at this seminar.

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(Note:The agenda and proceedings are the same for both seminars.)

Intended audience

The intended audience for this session includes those involved in planning, designing, and/or supporting teaching and learning with technology. The session will also be of interest to faculty, instructional technology staff, librarians, academic affairs personnel and others interested in advancing learner success.

Presenter

Diana Oblinger
EDUCAUSE

Dr. Diana G. Oblinger is Vice President for EDUCAUSE, responsible for the association's teaching and learning activities and the direction of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Adult and Community College Education at North Carolina State University.

From 2000 to 2002, Oblinger was a consultant and Senior Fellow for the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research. She also has served as the Vice President for Information Resources and the Chief Information Officer for the 16-campus University of North Carolina system, and has held positions as the Executive Director of Higher Education for Microsoft and various management positions within IBM. She serves on a variety of boards including NSF's Directorate of Education and Human Resources, the National Academies Forum on Information Technology and Research Universities and the University of Texas TeleCampus. She chairs the National Visiting Committee for the National Science Digital Library project for National Science Foundation. Dr. Oblinger has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Employment, Safety and Training and the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Technology.

A frequent keynote speaker, she is co-author of the award-winning What Business Wants from Higher Education, and co-editor of five other books, The Learning Revolution, The Future Compatible Campus, Renewing Administration, E is for Everything, and Best Practices in Student Services. She has written dozens of monographs and articles on higher education and technology.

Dr. Oblinger holds three degrees from Iowa State University: a B.S. in Botany, an M.S. in Plant Breeding and a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Cytogenetics. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi.

Copresenter, Thursday, August 18 - Tempe, Arizona

Paul Hagner
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

Paul R. Hagner is currently serving as a senior advisor for technology planning and assessment at the University of Hartford. Previously he spent eighteen years on the faculty at Washington State University, where he served as chair of the political science department and received WSU's William F. Mullen Award for Teaching Excellence, and five years on the faculty at The University of Memphis, where he was also departmental chair. In 2000, he served as a Fellow for EDUCAUSE's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, focusing on the area of technological transformation of higher education faculty. In 2002, he was named a Frye Fellow. Hagner is the co-editor of a 2001 Jossey-Bass volume on faculty engagement and support. He was a member of the Program Committee for the 2004 EDUCAUSE national conference. Recently, her served on the Planning Committee for the NLII.

Copresenter, Monday, September 19 - Toronto, Ontario

Cyprien Lomas
The University of British Columbia

Cyprien Lomas divides his time between the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiave (ELI). At UBC he is the Director of the Learning Centre in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems. In the Learning Centre, Cyprien oversees the integration of IT, Instructional Support and Teaching and Learning for the faculty. Ongoing Learning Centre initiatives include Problem Based Learning, the support of WebCT in lectures and Distance Education. New projects include piloting ePortfolios in core courses in AgroEcology and the incorporation of emerging technologies into educational and administrative practices. Cyprien is also the Scholar in Residence for the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). His work for the ELI includes investigation of the fit of emerging technologies and emerging practices into institutional strategies.

Related Resources

• Diana Oblinger and James Oblinger, Eds. Educating the Net Generation. EDUCAUSE 2005.
• Jason Frand, "The Information-Age Mindset: Changes in Students and Implications for Higher Education,"[PDF 349KB] EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 35, no. 5 (September/October 2000), pp. 15–24.
• Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennials Rising (New York: Vintage Books, 2000).