Challenging IT Leaders to Mashup, Twitter, Tag, and Poke: New IT Strategies for a Digital Society. Susan Metros, Deputy CIO, University of Southern California
2008 Midwest Regional Conference Opening General Session
Notes:
This session has been recorded and is available for podcast at http://connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/podcastchallengingitleade/46499.
Metros slides are available in pdf at http://www.educause.edu/upload/presentations/MWRC08/GS01/Metros%20EDUCAUSE%20Midwest.pdf
An outstanding and energetic speaker, Susan Metros offered a thought-provoking discussion of what it means to transform the things we do in support of new learners and general education as well as our faculty’s teaching and research.
Her initial premise was that General Education is not on people’s radar screens and she asked the following questions:
- Who are out students?
- What does it take to be literate?
- What we can do about it?
She put these is the context of:
