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Listening to What We're Seeing:
Generational Styles and Learning Characteristics—

Archived Webcast November 17, 2005 1½ hours Purchase this CD Cost SCUP Members $49.00 Non-members $49.00

Program Overview

One student walks across campus listening to an iPod; another is engrossed in text messaging on her cell phone. During class, they're Googling, IMing, and playing games—often at the same time. More likely to use the library as a gathering place than a resource, this is the Net Generation. They co-exist with older students who are juggling work, childcare, and eldercare.

Although we see them daily, do we understand our learners? What do the experiences, attitudes, and expectations of today's (and tomorrow's students) mean for educational institutions? No matter the size of your institution, there are commonalities in student expectations in this new digital age. This presentation will help you listen to what we are seeing—and respond.

Learning Discussion Points

• Age and learning preferences
• Information technology tools and how they advance learning
• Learner expectations and ways we connect and engage through instructional strategies, student activities, and the physical environment
• Considerations as you plan for the next generation—do you have the alignment to succeed?

Who Should Participate?

This webcast will assist those campus leaders responsible for shaping student instructional strategies and the learning, social, technological, and physical environments of learners. It is encouraged for administration, faculty, admissions, student services, information technology, campus planners, architects, and others interested in the impact of student learning styles. We encourage campus teams to watch the program together as a catalyst for discussion.

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Presenter

Diana G. Oblinger is vice president for EDUCAUSE, responsible for the association's teaching and learning activities and the direction of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The current membership comprises nearly 1,900 colleges, universities, and education organizations, including 180 corporations. She also serves as an adjunct professor of Adult and Community College Education at North Carolina State University.

From 2000–2002, Oblinger was a consultant and senior fellow for the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research. She also has served as the vice president for Information Resources and the chief information officer for the 16-campus University of North Carolina system, where she was responsible for strategic planning and policy development for information technology as well as for collaborative programs in teaching and learning with technology, student services and IT procurement.

Oblinger has held positions as the executive director of Higher Education for Microsoft and various management positions within IBM. She was the IBM director of the Institute for Academic Technology, a joint effort with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining IBM, Oblinger was on the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia and at Michigan State University. At the University of Missouri, she served as an academic dean and was recognized for her work in student recruitment, retention, faculty development and student computing.

Known for her leadership in teaching and learning with technology as well as distributed learning, she serves on a variety of boards, including the National Science Foundation's Directorate of Education and Human Resources, the National Academies Forum on Information Technology and Research Universities, and the University of Texas TeleCampus. She chairs the National Visiting Committee for the National Science Digital Library project for National Science Foundation. Oblinger has testified before the US Senate Committee on Employment, Safety and Training and the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Technology.

She is a frequent keynote speaker as well as the co-author of the book, What Business Wants from Higher Education, which received the 1999 Frandson Award for best literature in continuing education. She is co-editor of five other books, The Learning Revolution, The Future Compatible Campus, Renewing Administration, E is for Everything, Best Practices in Student Services, and Educating the Net Generation. She is the author or co-author of dozens of monographs and articles on higher education and technology.

Oblinger has received outstanding teaching and research awards and was named Young Alumnus of the Year by Iowa State University. She holds three degrees from Iowa State University: a BS in botany, an MS in plant breeding and a PhD in plant breeding and cytogenetics. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi.

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