DET/CHE 2011 Guest Speakers

Richard N. Katz

Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Age of Digital Disruption

Tuesday, November 29th at 5:00-6:00 p.m.

Academics and instructional technologists operate in portentous times. We must balance two arguments. First, we may rightly argue that IT has truly revolutionized the mission of higher education. The place in our knowledge-driven era for scholars and scholarship is secure. Second, we may also rightly argue that those forces that are disrupting the current form of the newspaper, music, television, and publishing industries will soon be unleashed in higher education. Traditional colleges and universities have been rocked by for-profit educators -- whose share of the U.S. higher education market rose to 9 percent in 2009. We will be further challenged by globalization and by vouchers, home schooling, charter schooling, and by other educational alternatives introduced by "Edupunks and Edupreneurs".

We must begin to discuss openly the possibility that IT and the "consumerization of everything" may represent both the greatest opportunity for scholars and scholarship in human history and the greatest threat to the scholarly enterprise in the thousand-year history of the Western university. We have entered the a torrential phase of the Digital Age, when consumer expectations and technological innovations not only make new possibilities evident and desirable but also put old capabilities and investments at a competitive disadvantage.

About Richard N. Katz

Richard N. Katz founded Richard N. Katz and Associates (RNKA) in October 2010. In the U.S., his clients span community colleges, comprehensive universities, Ivy League research universities and others. Outside the U.S., Richard and his team are working with globally ranked universities in Australia, Canada, China, and Singapore. He has delivered keynote addresses on every continent except Antarctica. He works with several prominent corporations and in June 2011, was named executive vice president of strategic services for Nuventive, LLC. He has served on more than 25 advisory or governing boards in his 30-year service to higher education.

Katz was vice president of EDUCAUSE from 1996 until July 2010 and in 2001, he founded theEDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR). Before joining EDUCAUSE, Katz held a variety of management and executive positions spanning 14 years at the University of California (UC). Katz led that University's development and implementation of strategic management initiatives and became the second recipient of that University's Award for Innovative Management and Leadership.

He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books, four major research studies, and more than 70 articles and monographs on a variety of management and technology topics. His book Dancing with the Devil was deemed one of the 10 most important education-related books of 1999 by Lingua Franca. He received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and his MBA from UCLA.

Steve Hargadon

Learning 2.0

Wednesday, November 30th at 9:00-10:00 a.m.

Significant changes are taking place in our societies and cultures, largely driven by the participative and collaborative technologies of the Web. These technologies have the potential to dramatically (and quickly) shift public expectations of the role of educational institutions in teaching and learning, and we are about to have the largest discussion about education we've had in decades, maybe longer. We can predict several changes to education that are likely to come from these shifts, and as we examine the core opportunities and challenges that these changes pose to our current educational systems, we'll discuss the important new role each of us can play in reshaping our educational institutions.

About Steve Hargadon

Steve Hargadon is the Social Learning Consultant for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly known as Elluminate) and the founder of the Web 2.0 Labs. He created the Classroom 2.0 social network, is host of the Future of Education interview series, and co-chairs the annual Global Education and Library 2.0 worldwide conferences. He pioneered the use of social networking in education, particularly for professional development. He blogs, speaks, and consults on educational technology; he runs the Open Source Pavilion and speaker series for the ISTE, CUE, and other edtech shows; and is the organizer of the annual EduBloggerCon, OpenSourceCon, and the "unplugged" and "bloggers' cafe" areas at both ISTE and CUE.

Hargadon is also the Emerging Technologies Chair for ISTE, the author of "Educational Networking: The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education," the recipient of the 2010 Technology in Learning Leadership Award (CUE), and a blogger at www.SteveHargadon.com. He has consulted for PBS, Intel, Ning, Microsoft, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, CoSN, MERLOT, the U.S. State Department, and others on educational technology and specifically on social networking. His wife and he have four children.