Diana Oblinger
The Net Generation as Harbingers of Change: Implications for Higher Education
October 8th, 4:15 pm
Hamilton College, Clinton New York
Science Center-Kennedy Auditorium (G027) Campus Map
The Net Generation seems inseparable from technology, text messaging, Googling, IMing, and playing games while listening to iPods. Although technology may be what we notice first, there are much deeper changes underneath, such as the emergence of a participatory culture, where amateurs can be experts, and material is repurposed, remixed, rated and shared instantly, worldwide. Information technology has catalyzed the creation of new forms of communication, self-expression, collaboration, learning and scholarship—all reshaping the educational landscape. This session goes behind the technology to the deeper changes that challenge our colleges and universities.
Diana Oblinger, president and CEO of EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology, is also an Adjunct Professor of Adult and Higher Education at North Carolina State University. Oblinger serves on a variety of boards including the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure and chairs the National Visiting Committee for NSF's National Science Digital Library project. A frequent keynote speaker and prolific author, Oblinger is also the co-author the award winning book What Business Wants from Higher Education.
Sponsored by HILLgroup, Media Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and Africana Studies, and supported by an award from the NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund.
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