The Key to Competitiveness: Understanding the Next Generation Learner

Conference Proceedings

Conference Agenda and Participant List

• The Key to Competitiveness: Understanding the Next Generation Learner
  [PDF 155 KB]

Presentations

• Educating the Net Gen, Diana Oblinger, Vice President, EDUCAUSE
  [PPT 4,653 KB]

  Oblinger's presentation highlights the key characteristics of the "Net Generation," which encompasses the current population of traditional age students. In general, these students experience technology as an integral part of their lives, which has significant implications for their needs, preferences, and expectations for the use of technology by colleges and universities.

• Institutional Alignment: A Key to Success, Joel Hartman, Vice Provost for Information Technologies and Resources, University of Central Florida [PPT 20,459 KB]

  In this presentation, Hartman discusses the importance of aligning an institution's information technology plans, resources, and operations with its overall mission and strategic objectives, particularly in relation to meeting the technology needs and expectations of next generation learners.

• Do the Data Support Our Assumptions?, Charles Dziuban and Patsy Moksal, Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness (RITE), University of Central Florida [PPT 184 KB]

  Dzuiban and Moksal's presentation explores UCF's research findings on the experiences, perceptions, and preferences of next generation learners with teaching, learning, and technology.

• Learning Environment Design, Janette Blackburn, Senior Associate, Shepfley Bullfinch Richardson and Abbott [PPT 31,852 KB]

  Blackburn's presentation provides numerous examples of learning spaces—both formal and informal—to highlight the questions and themes an institution should explore in designing spaces to support and enhance learning.

Conference Resources

• Conference Worksheets:
  • Implications of the Net Generation [DOC 33 KB]
  • Team Reflection [DOC 34 KB]
  • Institutional Planning [DOC 37 KB]