T. Craig Montgomerie
Professor Emeritus
University of Alberta
Transformational
Applications: Distance Education and Beyond
The major objectives of this panel will be:
To discuss some of the (b)leading edge uses of broadband in education,
Educators and Industry representatives
Monday, January 17, 2005 0830 - 1000
The panelists have all had extensive experience with the use of broadband in education, particularly in working with students at a distance. These experiences include:
The panelists will present a number of examples of how broadband is currently being used in education. Each will then propose their vision of what an educational system that fully incorporates broadband, could look like in the relatively near future. The moderator will encourage a lively dialog between panelists and with the audience.
T. Craig Montgomerie, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta
Michael Davenport, Consultant, Davenport and Associates (Davenport Presentation)
Louis Fox, Vice Provost, Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies, University of Washington
Cathy King, Director of Member Services, Netera Alliance
Hae Okimoto, Director, Distributed Learning and User Services, University of Hawaii
Dr. Omar Ponce de Leon, Professor, Universidad de Morelos
G.A. Redding, Adjunct Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses
T. Craig Montgomerie,
Ph.D. (Panel Chair / Moderator)
Professor Emeritus,
Department of Educational
Psychology
3-105 Education North
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada, T6G 2G5
Telephone: (780) 492-3667 Ext. 227
Fax: (780) 492-3179
E-Mail craig.montgomerie@ualberta.ca
Craig
Montgomerie is a professor emeritus of Instructional Technology in the
Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta. He has been
involved in the application of computer technology to education since the early
1970s, having worked in the use of computers in instruction since the early
days of the IBM 1500 system. For the past five years, Craig has been the
principal investigator of the Rural Advanced Community of Learners project
(http://www.racol.ualberta.ca).
Craig's current
research/development interests include:
More information
can be found at http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/~CraigM
Mike Davenport (Panelist)
Davenport and Associates
#1502 11710 100th Ave.
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
T5K 2G3
Phone: (780) 721 8293
e-mail: mike@mport.ca
Mike is a practitioner and a
consultant. He has taught every grade from K-12 from band to Math. He has been
a successful teacher, principal and superintendent. He completed a Bachelor of
Education and the University of British Columbia and a Masters at the in
Educational Administration also from the University of British Columbia. He was
a commissioner of the Alberta Commission on Education (September, 2002 –
October, 2003), which made 95 recommendations for changes in learning in the
province of Alberta. Mike consults widely in the area of governance and the
future of education and is presently under contract to Bell Canada to encourage
the use of broadband computing in the province and Canada.
Louis
Fox (Panelist)
Vice Provost, Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies
Research Associate Professor, The Information School
The University of Washington
320 Mary Gates Hall
Box 352820
Seattle, WA 98195-2820
Phone:
+1 206 685-4745
e-mail: lfox@u.washington.edu
In his day job, Louis Fox is
Vice Provost for Partnerships and Learning Technologies at the University of
Washington, where he has been for the last twenty years and has held numerous academic
and administrative posts, all with obscure titles. The office he leads connects
the research and education expertise of the UW to a range of communities
– locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally; and develops and
diffuses new learning technologies.
Lacking hobbies, Fox also
leads a national Internet2 K20 Initiative, which brings together Internet2 members (180 research institutions)
with primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and
museums to get new technologies—advanced networking tools, content, and
applications—into the hands of innovators, across all educational sectors
in the United States, as quickly and as ÒconnectedlyÓ as possible, and to link
these innovators to similar communities around the globe.
At the request of Washington
Governor Gary Locke, Fox relinquished the last shreds of a normal life and
accepted a new role as founding CEO of the Washington Digital Learning
Commons, a distance learning
initiative to support students and teachers in Washington State.
Cathy King (Panelist)
Director of Member Services,
Netera Alliance
3-105 Education North
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G5
Phone: (780) 492-5016 ext
216
Fax: (780) 492-3179
e-mail: kingc@netera.ca
Cathy King is a graduate
from the University of Alberta and is completing her MBA from the University of
Liverpool. She is the Director of Member Services for the Netera Alliance (http://www.netera.ca), a non-profit consortium
of public and private sector member-partners focusing on Ònext generationÓ
Internet development in the Province of Alberta. Netera is funded by its member
institutions and corporations, the Alberta Science and Research Authority (ASRA)
as well as CANARIE, CanadaÕs broadband research network authority. CathyÕs
professional experience has given her the opportunity to lead and work with
researchers and educators at the University of Alberta and other post secondary
institutions in the areas of Distance Education, High Performance Computing,
Visualization, Video Streaming and Technology Based Collaboration. CathyÕs
current research interests include:
Hae Okimoto (Panelist)
Director, Distributed Learning and User Services,
University of Hawaii
2532 Correa Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
hae@hawaii.edu
Hae Okimoto is Director of
Distribute Learning and User Services, a division within Information Technology
Services. She has been the pioneer for the planning, development and
implementation of an effective distance learning program in the multi-campus
University of Hawaii System. In the last 16 years, she has been instumental in
initiating and growing the UH's technology based distance learning from 2
interactive television courses with 65 students to more than 550 courses,
reaching 6000+ students throughout the state of Hawaii. Her research interests
center around instructional development for effective teaching and learning;
and customer service (based around her roots in Student Service).
Dr. Omar Ponce de Leon (Panelist)
Professor
Universidad de Morelos
email: omar@buzon.uaem.mx
G.A.
Redding
Adjunct Staff Member
Institute for Defense Analyses
Mr. Redding has over 38
years experience in public affairs and broadcasting, both in and outside the
government of the United States. He is an adjunct staff member at the Institute
for Defense Analyses (IDA) and a core team member of the Advanced Distributed
Learning (ADL) Initiative. In those capacities he evaluates instructional
technologies – policies, products, services, devices, and networks
– as they apply to multiple education and training environments. G.A.
also applies what he evaluates and on behalf of the U.S. National Institutive
of Justice (NIJ) is currently responsible for organizing the training component
of – www.dna.gov
- incorporating ADL methods and technologies.
The ADL Initiative
encompasses content issues, economic models, technical architectures, and
research priorities including Pre-K - 12, technical schools, colleges and
universities, job skills training, professional development, and life-long
learning.
In 1985 he joined the
Secretary of DefenseÕs Audiovisual Policy Office, developing policy to manage
DoD audiovisual resources, including multimedia technologies; videodisc-based
training systems, CD-ROM applications, and teleconferencing networks.
He holds a Bachelors degree
in Mass Communications from the University of Denver, a Masters degree in
Business Administration from Indiana State University, and a Masters degree in
Broadcasting from Butler University.