Keynote Presentations
Thursday, August 6, 8:15 am
The scholarship of distance education: A story of which we can be proud!
Michael G. Moore
Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Michael presented keynote addresses at our early conferences in the mid-1980s and advocated for the development of a scholarship of distance education. Since then, he has worked with educators worldwide to develop the field of distance education. In this presentation, Michael will reflect on the evolution of the scholarship in distance education, citing landmark research projects, theorists, books and journals, conferences, and centers of study. Michael
Michael published the first statement of
theory about distance education in 1972 and
has achieved a number of “firsts” in this field.
He founded the American Journal of Distance
Education, established the first distance
education graduate program, started a national
research symposium and an international online
scholarly forum (DEOS), and established a
national leadership institute. He has served
on the editorial boards of distance education
journals and on program committees for the
International Council for Distance Education.
In honor of his many accomplishments and
leadership, Michael is a member of the
United States Distance Learning Association’s
Hall of Fame.
Michael has more than 100 published articles and monographs. His books include the Handbook of Distance Education and Distance Education: A Systems View with Greg Kearsley. In addition, he has presented worldwide and has participated in projects to introduce distance education to organizations in Latin America, Scandinavia, Asia, and Africa. He has consulted for UNESCO, other United Nations agencies, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.
He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow
at the University of Cambridge and Visiting
Professor at the Open University, United
Kingdom, where he previously taught for nine
years. He will return to Penn State this summer
and continue to teach online, with current
research interests in Web 2.0 technologies. For
more details, visit: www.ajde.com/editor.htm
Thursday, August 6, 4:15 pm
Remembering forward: Scenarios for the future of distance teaching and learning
Judith Boettcher
Founder/Consultant, DesigningforLearning.com
If we could remember forward, as the Queen did in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, we would know where we are headed and what will work in the future. Lacking this ability, what can we do?
The tools for future planning include our current and past accomplishments and successes, and the core values driving our passions for teaching and learning. Using these resources and considering the potential advances of brain and learning research and technology developments, Judith presents scenarios for the future of distance education. They are constructed around the framework of four key elements—learner, mentor, knowledge, and environment—within an overall administrative structure. She will explore how each of the elements will be the same and different in the future, and how we can strengthen the core values of the discipline.
Judith is a nationally-known author and
consultant in online and distance learning with
expertise in faculty development, learning
theory, and instructional design. Her career
began with computer-assisted instruction in the
1980s. She has supported faculty at Penn State
and Florida State as they created programs for
effective uses of instructional technologies and
launched new distance degrees. She served as
the Executive Director of the Corporation for
Research & Educational Networking from
1997-2003, writing, designing, and co-hosting
the very first Webinars, TechTalks.
Judith co-authored the Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web, 2nd edition and is an editor of the Encyclopedia of Distance Learning. Major projects include designing support services for faculty teaching in online environments and authoring a new faculty survival guide to be published this year. She has presented at hundreds of workshops and provides resources such as the Countdown Guide for Planning Degree Programs and a library of e-Coaching Tips via her Web site: www.designingforlearning.info
Friday, August 7, 10:15 am
In the age of real-time: The complex, social, and serendipitous learning offered via the Web
Teemu Arina
CEO, Dicole Ltd.
We live at a time
of great change,
increasing
complexity, mobility,
non-linearity, and,
therefore, great
opportunity: the
age of real-time.
In this age, collaboration and communication
can happen simultaneously. Interaction and
information become primary.
The spirit of this age is curiosity towards the impossible, which is the focus of the future learning manifesto that Teemu will share. Salient ideas—or technologically-empowered versions called temes—shape our reality through complex interlinked exchanges of meaning.Teemu perceives his network as his second brain where most of his learning occurs. Social technologies link people together like one nervous system that stretches around the world. In the process, the network unleashes human creativity at levels never before seen.
Teemu is a social technology specialist,
consultant, author, speaker, blogger, and
CEO of Dicole Ltd. in Finland. At the age of 17
he taught his first semester on digital media
culture and emerging technologies. He has
already spent one-third of his young life as
an entrepreneur, having worked in multiple
fields to understand the societal changes as an
alternative thinker, social media commentator,
social technology architect, and advisor to
various organizations.
He currently advises, implements, and leads successful networked-learning projects utilizing aspects of social technologies and open innovation. See his company Web site for more information: http://www.dicole.com or his blog: http://tarina.blogging.fi
