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March 20, 2007 Scholarly Communications Conference
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Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies in the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program at Harvard University. Chris's fundamental interest is the expanded human capabilities for knowledge creation, sharing, and mastery that emerging technologies enable. His research spans emerging technologies for learning, infusing technology into large-scale educational improvement initiatives, policy formulation, and leadership in educational innovation. Chris’s expertise is why the planning committee felt he was an ideal speaker to address how emerging interactive media are shaping users' motivations, characteristics, and social patterns into types of learning styles quite different than those higher education has seen in the past. |
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Betsy Barefoot is a native of North Carolina. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from Duke University and Master's and Doctoral Degrees in Higher Education from the College of William and Mary. Currently, Dr. Barefoot serves as Co-Director for the Policy Center on the First Year of College, and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Brevard College in Brevard, North Carolina, where the Policy Center is located. The Center was founded in 1999 with a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts and continues with grants from The Atlantic Philanthropies and Lumina Foundation for Education. In her work at the Policy Center, Dr. Barefoot is directly involved in the development of instruments and strategies to assess the first college year. Prior to assuming this position, Dr. Barefoot served for 11 years as Co-Director for Research and Publications in the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina |
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 Streaming video of Carie Windham's keynote presentation |
When she is not Googling her own name or trying to finagle the film through a microfiche machine, Carie Windham is completing a master’s degree from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland where she studied Irish History as a Mitchell Scholar. In 2005, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from North Carolina State University after working as Chief of Staff in the university’s Student Government and as editor-in-chief of the university’s daily newspaper, Technician. As both a student and a student journalist, she took a keen eye to the traits and characteristics of her Net Generation peers, culminating in “The Student’s Perspective,” a chapter in the e-book, Educating the Net Generation, edited by Diana and James Oblinger, and “Mother Google and Father IM: Confessions of a Net Gen Learner” in the September 2005 Educause Review. When she finally gets off the Internet, she will pursue a career in academia. |
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