| Webinar Date: October 16th, 2014 Time: 2PM ET/11AM PT Presenters:
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About Dr. Darcy HardyDr. Darcy W. Hardy is Associate Vice President for Enterprise Consulting at Blackboard Inc. In this role, she leads a team of experts who work with institutions as they design, develop and grow their educational programs, and provides expertise in driving transformation and managing institutional change. Prior to this, Dr. Hardy spent over 25 years in public higher education, most recently as Assistant Vice Provost for Technology Education Initiatives at the University of Texas at San Antonio. During her tenure with UTSA, she completed a two-year Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) appointment at the US Department of Labor, where her work focused on the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program. She also completed a one-year IPA appointment with the Office of Adult and Vocational Education (OVAE) at the US Department of Education, where she provided expertise in the area of online higher education and the opportunity it provides to low-skilled and other adult workers. From 1997 to 2010, Dr. Hardy served as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at The University of Texas System and Executive Director of the UT TeleCampus. The award-winning UT TeleCampus partnered with all 15 UT universities and health institutions to offer over 30 fully online programs, seeing approximately 20,000 enrollments annually. |
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| Harnessing Multimedia and the Power to Engage |
| Join us for a free webinar on driving student success in the digital age |
| The student journey is constantly changing. Beyond working to complete graduation requirements, students are searching for ways to fulfill their passions and career goals - which will likely change before they complete their degrees. Institutions are simultaneously striving to give their learners the tools they need to succeed in the classroom and in their careers. Join Hall Davidson, Emmy Award-winning instructor and Senior Director of Global Learning Initiatives for Discovery Education, and Dr. Darcy Hardy, award-winning distance education professional formerly with the University of Texas System and the US Departments of Labor and Education, to learn how the successful integration of multimedia can help your institution meet and even exceed these goals. This informative webinar will teach you how to:
Students are looking for ways to use their digital fluency to catapult them into the careers they want. The job market is hungry for tech-savvy workers. Learn how your faculty can give students the power to be successful. |
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About Hall DavidsonHall Davidson has worked from think tanks in Turkey to classrooms in Tennessee. He has collaborated with thought leaders including teachers, superintendents, and departments of education. A former K-12 bilingual math teacher and college faculty member, he left the classroom to became part of an Emmy-winning team, creating math and technology integration programs. For forty years, he has been an educational innovator in important waves of change, first in broadcasting, then computers, and now digital learning. His talks blend humor, deep insight, and data from both education and industry and illustrate the big picture with nuts and bolts examples. He has worked with transformational industry groups, education ministries, and with thousands of students through guidance of the nation’s oldest student media festival. Across four decades of work with education, he identifies right now as the most transformative and important time for teaching and learning. He is a frequent contributor to national education publications, co-authored TechWorks, an internationally distributed classroom technology kit, and co-founded Kitzu.org, a resource of free online kits to encourage project-based learning with media. He was elected to the board of Computer-Using Educators where he served for six years. |
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