You're invited to a keynote address with Ken Steele, President of Eduvation. This presentation is part of the Teaching and Learning Community retreat happening on April 30, but will be open to the university community.

Presentation Abstract: Canada's universities are experiencing accelerating pressures to rethink teaching and learning models, provide more services and supports to students, and leverage technology to reach new and non-traditional students while subject to intensifying government demands for budgetary restraint, accessible tuition, and improved and measurable outcomes. New technologies are poised to disrupt the traditional operations of our universities, opening up lectures and textbooks, unbundling degrees and credentials, transforming the physical campus and the lives of those who live and work there — and technology is not the only driver of change.  Ken will deliver a fast-paced, thought-provoking presentation on the latest trends affecting the role of faculty, the model of undergraduate teaching and learning, and institutional accountability to its funders and the public. His insights have proven valuable to a broad range of audiences, from faculty and instructors, boards and senior administration, to information technology staff, concerned parents, and Canada’s most powerful corporate CEOs.

 

Biography:  Ken Steele has a wide-ranging perspective on higher education as a former academic, entrepreneur, consultant and de facto journalist. He spent a decade studying and teaching English Literature, specifically Shakespearean drama, at Western and the University of Toronto. His next decade was spent in the ad agency world, where Ken won regional, national and international awards for marketing strategy, graphic design, public service, and outstanding business achievement. For the past decade, a company Ken co-founded, Academica Group, has conducted the largest PSE consumer studies in the world. More than 22,000 subscribers have come to rely on Ken as editor of Canada’s leading higher ed news daily, the Academica Top Ten. He has consulted extensively with a hundred colleges and universities across the country, and delivers hundreds of keynotes on emerging trends every year. Ken also curates a new online resource, the Eduvation IdeaBank, which shares “bright ideas” reshaping the higher education landscape.