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Higher Education Executive Symposia for Academic Leadership
April 4-5, Washington DC




April 4, 2013 - Welcome Events - Optional
April 5, 2013 – Executive Symposium Full Agenda - ALL events at the Hotel Monaco, downtown DC
Arrival & Registration at the Hotel Monaco, downtown DC
700 F. St. NW Washington, DC 20004

Keynote Industry Speaker and Q&A - Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed.

Keynote Industry Speaker and Q&A - Richard Culatta, Acting Director, Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education

Welcome Networking Happy Hour


Welcome Dinner - Carmine's - 425 7th St. NW, Washington DC 20004




7:30am - 8:30am
8:30am - 9:00am




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10:30am-10:45am

10:45am-11:15am

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12:30pm-1:30pm





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2:45pm-3:15pm





Continental Breakfast & Networking with Colleagues
Welcome, Topics Overview, & Attendee Introductions
Katie Blot, President of Blackboard Education Services
Sig Behrens, President of Global Sales
Gene Murray, Blackboard Vice President of Accounts

Session #1 - Part 1: Group Work: Distributing Operational Data to Drive Decisions
In table-top teams, attendees will be asked to unearth, discuss, and settle on two "best practices" each that represent how your institutions have handled the complicated issue of distributing and using operational data to drive decisions on your campus.  What steps has your institution taken?  What key challenges are you hoping to solve?  What results have you seen from your data/analytics projects thus far?  What decisions has that data been useful in driving?  What warnings of caution would you note for others that follow your lead? Document "best practices" and share with the group.

Session #1 - Part 2: Closing the Gap: Distributing Operational Data to Drive Decisions
Today, we operate in an environment where there are competing pressures to improve student achievement, reduce spending and improve service delivery to students. To meet today's challenges, university leaders must be able to assess the value and efficacy of investments – which means data gathering and analytics distribution to ensure better investment alignment against institutional objectives. 

In this session, Martha Venn, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Middle Georgia State College, will share her insights on how data-sharing at her institution has helped achieve key institution goals. She will share her institutional case-study with you and discuss how this access to distributed data helped foster candid, fact-based dialogue across departments in order to assist with decision making.

Recharge Break

CEO Address - Jay Bhatt, CEO, Blackboard

Session #2- Meeting the Needs of the Social-Mobile-Connected Learner
Today’s student actively embraces mobile technologies and social networking consumer products that connect them to their lives and their service providers in unprecedented means.  The impact of this “race to consumerization” is causing higher education institutions to have to rethink every touch point with prospective, current and former students – creating a budget, resourcing and measurement reverberations around the senior leadership cabinet.
                                                                                                                                 
In this session, a panel of industry subject matter experts and academic leaders, both, will present their mini-cases and research results and will answer questions and present best practices in the industry.

Lunch & Topic Tables (MOOCS & Open Education)
Several of the lunch tables will be led by a Blackboard executive prepared to lead table-based discussion on MOOCs and open education resources.  Other tables will be available to attendees who prefer casual networking time over lunch.

                                                      
Session #3: Expanding High Quality Online Programs at Low Cost
Higher ed institutions are embracing online learning at levels never before seen in order to be responsive to access/student demand pressures, and also budgetary considerations – but many are struggling still with measuring student outcomes.  Lowering the cost of education delivery while maintaining quality standards is paramount - especially if we are to meet the Obama administration's goal of 8 million more graduates by 2020. This session will specifically focus on offering attendees best practices and pointers in creating and expanding online programs both with proven quality, as well as with the scale needed to keep per credit hour costs low.

In this session, a President/Provost will share their online program initiatives and offer their best practices on approach to building courses, engaging faculty, measuring quality and future direction/next steps.

Wrap Up & Adjourn





3:30pm - 4:00pm


4:00pm - 5:00pm

5:00pm-6:00pm


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7:00pm - 9:00pm