DET/CHE 2013 Keynote Speakers

Milton Chen

Tuesday, December 3rd from 5:00-6:00 p.m.

About Milton Chen

Dr. Milton Chen is senior fellow and executive director, emeritus at The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), a non-profit operating foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area that utilizes its multimedia website, Edutopia.org, to communicate a new vision for 21st Century schools. He served as executive director of GLEF for 12 years. Edutopia.org is known as a destination Web site for educators interested in educational innovation and haswon numerous honors, including a Webby People's Voice Award for best education website. Edutopia.org's traffic averages about 700,000 unique visits per month.

Prior to joining GLEF, Dr. Chen served for 10 years as the founding director of the KQED Center for Education (PBS) in San Francisco. He has also been a director of research at Sesame Workshop in New York, helping develop Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and 3-2-1 Contact. Dr. Chen has been an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Fulbright New Century Scholar.

Dr. Chen serves as chairman of the Panasonic Foundation in New Jersey, which supports superintendent leadership and equity work in districts, and the Games and Learning Publishing Council at Sesame Workshop, a Gates Foundation-supported activity. He is a member of advisory board for the National Park Service, advancing their work in environmental and history education.

Dr. Chen's career has been honored by the Elmo Award from Sesame Workshop, the Fred Rogers Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the  Congressional Black Caucus, the Association of Educational Service Agencies,and two science centers in the Bay Area, The Exploratorium and the Lawrence Hall of Science. His 2010 book, Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools, was named as one of the 10 best education books of the year by the American School Board Journal. 

Perhaps most importantly, on his 50^th birthday, Dr. Chen was named a Jedi Master by George Lucas! 

Gardner Campbell

Wednesday, December 4th from 9:00-10:00 a.m.

About Gardner Campell

W. Gardner Campbell is Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success at Virginia Commonwealth University. Before coming to VCU, Gardner was Senior Director for Networked Innovation in the Division of Technology-Enhanced Learning & Online Strategies (TLOS) at Virginia Tech, where he also served as an Associate Professor of English in the Department of English. Prior to his appointment at Virginia Tech, Gardner was founding Director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning at Baylor University, as well as Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Learning in the Honors College. Before coming to Baylor, he was Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, where from 2003-2006 he also served as Assistant Vice-President for Teaching and Learning Technologies. He has been involved in teaching and learning technologies for nearly two decades, including work at the University of San Diego and the University of Richmond, where in the fall of 2006 he was Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Gardner received his B.A. in English from Wake Forest University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Frye Leadership Institute (2005), was chair of the Electronic Campus of Virginia from 2006 to 2008, and has served on program committees for both EDUCAUSE and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. From 2009-2012, Gardner was on the Board of Directors of the New Media Consortium (Vice-Chair, 2010-2011, Chair 2011-2012). A member of the ELI Advisory Board from 2007-2011, Gardner currently serves on the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and the Journal of Information Fluency.

Gardner is a life member of the Milton Society of America (Executive Committee, 2004-2007). He was secretary of the Literature/Film Association in 2006, and for six years served as a contributing editor for Literature/Film Quarterly. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences on Renaissance literature, film, and teaching and learning technologies. Recent presentations include keynote or plenary presentations at the AMICAL conference at John Cabot University in Rome, Open Education 2012, Union College, Northhampton Community College, Boston College, the Campus Technology 2012 Executive Summit, E-Learn 2012, SUNY-Buffalo, Youngstown State University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY-Stony Brook Health Sciences, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Tulane University, CU-Boulder, the University of Oregon, the University of South Carolina, the University of Wyoming, the Skelleftea campus of Umea University (Sweden), E-Learn 2010 (AACE), the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, the Biology Leadership Conference, the University of Delaware, the University of Maryland, James Madison University, SUNY-Oswego, and the SUNY Conference on Instructional Technologies, a webinar on teaching and learning with Web 2.0 for the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, and faculty/staff development workshops at the University of Central Florida, the University of British Columbia and SUNY-Cortland. Recent publications include articles on Milton’s poetry and prose (Duquesne University Press, MLA Press), Orson Welles (Literature/Film Quarterly), separate essays on personal cyberinfrastructures, faculty development, and podcasting (EDUCAUSE Review), and information technologies in higher education (Change). You can read Gardner’s blog, “Gardner Writes,” athttp://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1.