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EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007. Summary: School of Athens or Mr. Ford's Factory: IT & the Future of Higher Education

Created by Lida L. Larsen (EDUCAUSE) on April 03, 2007

Summary:

Opening General Session

2007 Midwest Regional Conference
Monday, March 12, 2007

Chicago, Illinois

Title:

School of Athens or Mr. Ford's Factory: IT and the Future of Higher Education

Speaker:

Richard N. Katz, Vice President, EDUCAUSE

Abstract:

For a millennium, universities have worked to preserve a highly personal and labor-intensive apprenticeship technique while opening their doors to ever more learners. IT is used to supplement this millennium-old tradition, but what if IT could be used in more daring ways? What might education look like in 2020?

Notes:

Opening his talk, Richard Katz mused that his remarks might appropriately "comfort the afflicted, and affict the comfortable," and then spoke on social, historical, and philosophical aspects that should inform our work in higher education.