Keynote Speaker for Rock Eagle 2008
Richard N. Katz, EDUCAUSE
EDU@2020 : Information Technology in the Future of Higher Education
Information technology (IT) has profoundly changed the way we work, communicate, bank, and shop. IT has revolutionized science, is reshaping scholarship overall, and is now changing the way we teach and learn. While IT has really changed the manner in which research is often conducted, it's roles in reshaping instruction and administration have been more incremental. Indeed, higher education's business enterprise and learning enterprise would be recognized to a great extent by a visitor from 14th century Oxford. But have we reached the tipping point? Have technologies now become accessible enough, available enough, cheap enough, and friendly enough to invite a deep rethinking of higher education? How might the emergence of rich information resources, deep scholastic tools, rich collaborative environments, and a flat world change higher education?
Richard N. Katz has been vice president of EDUCAUSE since 1996 and in 2001, he founded the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR). Before joining EDUCAUSE, Katz held a variety of management and executive positions spanning 14 years at the University of California (UC). At UC, Katz was awarded the Gurevich Prize, the Olsten Award, and was the 2nd recipient of that University?s Award for Innovative Management and Leadership. Katz is the author, co-author or editor of six books, three research studies, and more than 50 articles and monographs on a variety of management and technology topics. His book Dancing with the Devil was deemed one of the 10 most important education-related books of 1999 by Lingua Franca. He received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh , and his MBA from UCLA.