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Meetings Stub Page [mx-stub]

Speaker for the Day: Bryan Alexander, Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC

7:30am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee

9:00am - 9:15am Introductions
-participants: institutions and interests

9:15am - 10:15am Education and Contextual Trends
-developments within education: policy, enrollment, curriculum, alternative certification
-college contexts: demographics, macroeconomics, academic libraries

10:15am - 10:30am Break

10:30am - 11:45am Technological Trends
-automation; device ecosystem; VR/AR/MR; 3d printing; social media; quantum computing

11:45am - 12:00pm Summing up Discussion and Emergent Audience Ideas
-automation; device ecosystem; VR/AR/MR; 3d printing; social media; quantum computing

12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm Educational Technology Trends
-commercial technologies applied to education
-LMS to Next Generation Digital Learning Environment
-the open revolution (OER, scholarship, open source software)

2:00pm - 2:15pm Break

2:15pm - 3:15pm Scenarios for Future Colleges and Universities
-peak higher education; Health Care Nation; the new residential campus
-four futures of automation

3:15pm - 3:30pm Summing up Discussion and Emergent Audience Ideas
-reflection on sessions so far
-participant ideas developed

3:30pm - 4:00m Bringing it Home: Implications for Institutions and Strategies
-implications for institutions and strategies
-building on participant discussion

4:00pm End

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