February 22, 2011 Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
Alumni Theatre, Clocktower Building
The future of higher education is hotly contested: What do new forms and technologies, from the podcast to the iPad, mean for classrooms, textbooks and student learning? How will universities survive in a world where content is free and teaching increasingly commodified? This one-day conference provided a forum for discussing these questions and more...
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
| | TONY BATES is President and CEO of Tony Bates Associates Ltd, a private company specializing in consultancy and training in the planning and management of e-learning and distance education. The company was started in 2003, and since then has served over 30 clients in 18 countries. In recent years Dr. Bates has been Chair of the International Experts Panel for the Open University of Portugal, and also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on Technology and Education. He is the author of eleven books, including his latest, ‘Technology, e-Learning and Distance Education‘, published in 2005 by Routledge. |
| | MICHAEL A. PETERS is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). He has written over thirty-five books and three hundred articles and chapters, including: Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education and the Culture of Self (Peter Lang, 2007); and Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of the University (Sense, 2007). He has acted as an advisor to government on distributed knowledge systems and digital scholarship in Scotland, NZ, South Africa and the EU |
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
| | PANEL: THE DIGITAL FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
David Porter is Executive Director of BCcampus, and a long-time advocate for the benefits of adapting new technology to deliver educational opportunities.
Dr. Edward Hamilton is Chair of the Communications Department at Capilano University in North Vancouver; his research explores the history of sociotechnical systems from a perspective bridging Foucauldian genealogy and critical theory of technology.
Cameron Beddome is Chief Recruitment Officer for Open Learning at Thompson Rivers University. Cameron holds an MBA from Simon Fraser University. |
| | PANEL: THE GREAT NET GEN DEBATE
Mark Bullen is the Dean of the Learning & Teaching Centre at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Burnaby, Canada. Mark is currently leading the international research project, Digital Learners in Higher Education" with partners from the University of Regina, Open University of Catalonia, and the Justice Institute.
Norm Friesen is Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Friesen is author of Re-Thinking E-Learning Research: Foundations, Methods and Practices (2009), and also of The Place of the Classroom and the Space of the Screen: Relational Pedagogy and Internet Technology (2011). |
Conference coordinator: Dr. Norm Friesen, Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices @ TRU