Event Title
Creating a Culture of Learning Innovation
Start Date
26-5-2016 1:15 PM
End Date
26-5-2016 2:15 PM
Session Type
Interactive Session
Description
“We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” When Albert Einstein said that, he had education in mind. And the problems in education are plentiful – retention, enrollment, cost, diversity, accountability, and on and on. But education problems do not simply impact schools, they impact living. By 2025, the Lumina Foundation and George Washington University report that the United States will have 23 million jobs which require at least an undergraduate degree with no qualified American to fill them. Racing toward 10 billion people on this planet will result in challenges of epic proportions. Never before in history have we needed more ideas.
This session will showcase various frameworks to both model and encourage learning innovation. From how to get students innovating to how to be innovative as an educator in a consistent, systematic way within a learning culture, the paradigm can be shifted. Participants will see examples of learning innovation, at scale, that can impact the problems we all face today and will face tomorrow.
Topic Designation
Teaching & Learning, Technology
Presenter Bio(s)
Dr. Jeff D Borden is the ‘Chief Innovation Officer’ at Saint Leo University. For two decades, Jeff has focused on trying to transform higher education. From 2002-2014, Jeff worked as a Vice President with eCollege which was acquired by Pearson Education, providing an academic vision and strategy that encompassed digital learning, neo-millennial instruction methods, authentic assessment, and beyond. As the Center for eLearning Director, Jeff pursued rigorous research opportunities as he led the ‘think tank’ of educational innovation. During that time Dr. Borden consulted with educators in every U.S. state, led transformative efforts in 34 countries, provided almost 100 keynote presentations to audiences of 100-10,000, and spoke with stakeholders from teachers to principals to college administrators to government officials. Prior to his private sector work, Jeff taught full time at the University of Northern Colorado, Front Range Community College, and was the Coordinator of Public Speaking at Metropolitan State College of Denver. At the same time, in twenty years, Dr. Borden has continued teaching Communication, Rhetoric, and Education classes at various levels – from technical schools to community colleges to state and private universities.
In Dr. Borden’s current role at Saint Leo (Associate VP of Learning Innovation and Academic Technology), he is creating a learning innovation incubator and promoting transformational and effective practices, at scale, that are research driven. These strategies tie back to Jeff’s platform of “Education 3.0” – the confluence of neuroscience, learning design, and education technology. Through this lens, Dr. Borden plans to use his extensive history consulting, teaching, and researching to provide a fertile bed of learning innovation. Jeff continues to blog for Wired.com’s Innovation site, is asked to speak at numerous conferences each year, and promotes research / publications in Education, Technology, and Communication.
Blog: http://innovation.saintleo.edu | Twitter: @bordenj | Website: http://jeffpresents.com | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/prospeaker | Click here to see the Short-Film around Education 3.0 and the future of learning - “School of Thought” - that Jeff wrote and produced.
Creating a Culture of Learning Innovation
“We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” When Albert Einstein said that, he had education in mind. And the problems in education are plentiful – retention, enrollment, cost, diversity, accountability, and on and on. But education problems do not simply impact schools, they impact living. By 2025, the Lumina Foundation and George Washington University report that the United States will have 23 million jobs which require at least an undergraduate degree with no qualified American to fill them. Racing toward 10 billion people on this planet will result in challenges of epic proportions. Never before in history have we needed more ideas.
This session will showcase various frameworks to both model and encourage learning innovation. From how to get students innovating to how to be innovative as an educator in a consistent, systematic way within a learning culture, the paradigm can be shifted. Participants will see examples of learning innovation, at scale, that can impact the problems we all face today and will face tomorrow.