Convergence of Digital Learning Conference, April 15-16, 2002

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Featured Speakers and Guests

photo of Donald Norris Dr. Donald M. Norris
President, Strategic Initiatives, Inc.
The Global Perspective on Digital Learning.
Transforming the e-Knowledge Industry (Adobe Acrobat)
Dr. Norris is a widely recognized futurist in the field of e-learning. His publications, including Transforming Higher Education, Unleashing the Power of Perpetual Learning, and E-Business in Education have influenced business and education leaders for nearly a decade. He consults with dozens of colleges and universities on strategic planning, visioning and transformation into the
"knowledge age," and is a respected workshop facilitator and keynote speaker.

photo of Ed Klonoski Dr. Ed Klonoski
Executive Director, Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium
When Vision and Reality Don't Match
Dr. Klonoski is Executive Director of the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium, a collaborative effort by 42 Connecticut institutions of higher learning to deliver high quality, web-based education. In 2000-2001, the Consortium offered 527 distance delivered courses to 8,735 students in support of 23 on-line degree programs. CTDLC is one of 15 Demonstration Program sites designated by the US Department of Education.

Dr. Klonoski has 15 years experience teaching Composition & Rhetoric in a networked classroom and 5 years teaching faculty to create interactive multimedia. He is a consultant to the Plains Academy Co-op Partnership.

photo of Jon Wefald Dr. Jon Wefald
President, Kansas State University
Dr. Wefald was selected as President of Kansas State University in July of 1986, following more than a decade of successful leadership roles in Minnesota, including the Presidency of Southwest State University, and Chancellor of the Minnesota State University System. His achievements at K-State have been well documented, starting with his dramatic and reversal of declining enrollments by attracting the state's best and brightest high school graduates. Since that time, K-State's track record in Rhodes, Truman, Marshall and Goldwater scholarships ranks the institution among the elite in the nation.

His turnaround skills extend to intercollegiate sports, beginning with the hiring of Bill Snyder to resuscitate the moribund football program, and continues with this year's "Miracle on the Plains," the Wildcat's nationally ranked women's basketball team, consisting predominantly of rural Kansas freshmen and sophomores. His personal encouragement of higher education partnerships such as those involving our cosponsors helped make this conference a reality.

photo of Kim Wilcox Dr. Kim Wilcox
Chief Executive Officer, Kansas Board of Regents
He was named to that capacity in July of 1999, following nearly a year as the Board's interim director of academic affairs. Prior to joining the Board, he was professor and chair of the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing at the University of Kansas.

During his tenure as CEO, the Kansas Board of Regents has initiated sweeping changes in the governance and funding of higher education in the State. Most notable is the reconstitution of the Board itself, to include coordination of the nineteen community colleges and eleven vocational-technical colleges in Kansas, in addition to the six Regents institutions and Washburn University, the only municipal university in the Nation. Other significant changes include tuition ownership and block grants for operating expenses at the research institutions in Kansas, and leadership in the creation of the KAN-ED Information Highway for schools, libraries and hospitals in Kansas.

Dr. Sally M. Johnstone
Founding Director, Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET)
Distributed Learning and Higher Education Polices presented March 26, 2002, (PowerPoint file)

The organizational focus is on state and institutional issues resulting from the integration of technology into the teaching and learning processes. WCET also consults with higher education institutions; holds professional development institutes for practitioners; publishes timely reports, and generally supports its members in the planning for and implementation of distributed learning. Dr. Johnstone's expertise includes, the effects of the integration of technology on higher education institutions and system organizations; quality assurance issues; project development and evaluation; and international issues.

Johnstone serves on the Board of the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE) and the Advisory Panel for the Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education. She writes a monthly column for Syllabus magazine on distance learning and serves as a Consulting Editor for Change magazine.