Technology and demographics are both leading to dramatic changes in higher education.
On Wednesday, November 16, at 1 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed will present an audio conference on how these forces are pressuring colleges to change. Roger McHaney, author of The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials Are Revolutionizing Higher Education, will review the specific changes in technology that have the greatest impact on college education today, as well as the impact for colleges of enrolling students who are more tech-savvy than ever before.
Among the topics he will cover:
• What today’s students know well (and what they don’t) with regard to technology
• The technologies most important to students.
• How to tell the difference between today’s fad and a significant shift in student behavior and expectations.
• The impact of social media.
• The challenges and potential of teaching in the new environment.
• The way institutions can examine whether their educational and extracurricular programming is appropriately designed for this new era.
The program will feature a 30-minute presentation and a 30-minute question-and-answer period. The entire program will last one hour.
The program is ideal for:
• Academic affairs
• Student affairs
• Academic computing
• Admissions
• Deans and department chairs
• Faculty members
This audio conference, "Students and the 'Digital Shoreline'," costs $199 for a single telephone line; listen yourself or with a group around a conference table. (Institutions wishing to have multiple people participate from separate locations will need to purchase additional lines.) Register early -- through Monday, October 31 -- and the cost is only $149. Upon registering, you'll be e-mailed a receipt and information about how to dial in. The day before the conference, we'll send you a PowerPoint that you can use to follow along with the presentation. This is an audio-only conference; you will not need to be connected to the Internet to participate.
No comments:
Post a Comment