Realigning Your Organization to Learning in the Information Age
An International Collaborative Workshop
Sponsored by On the Horizon and the University of North Carolina School
of Education
July 27-30, 1996
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh Scotland
Society is witnessing a fundamental transformation to the Information
Age. This international workshop, led by Donald Norris and James
Morrison, is an opportunity to apply the principles described in
Transforming Higher Education: A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century
(Dolence and Norris, 1995) to your learning enterprise. This is a
hands-on workshop using practical examples and cases studies of
transformation in academic programs, facilities, and the academic
culture. Workshop format includes a combination of collaboration,
workshop activity, and consultation.
The preliminary agenda, which focuses on frameworks for introducing
transformation to your campus, includes the following topics:
* Creating new academic cultures on campus
* Identifying/empowering faculty to be agents of transformation
* Involving faculty in the creation of a shared learning vision for the
Information Age
* Redirecting existing process to achieve transformation--strategic
planning, facilities planning and management, program review, assessment
and accreditation, development and fund raising
* Redirecting Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), Total Quality
Management (TQM), and reengineering programs to transformation
* Establishing new paradigms for financing Information Age infrastructure
* Creating new "units" of learning
* Training faculty on the tools of Information Age learning (and getting
them to use them)
* Changing the production function of learning
* Creating investment pools in the face of resource shortages
* Building the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure for transformation.
Specific topics will be determined by participants in our discussion on
Transformation List, a list open only to workshop participants, prior to
the workshop. The final agenda will be posted to the list a week before
the workshop and distributed at workshop registration in Edinburgh.
For more information about the workshop, including the time frame, and
for registration information, browse the conference section of Horizon
Home Page or contact the On the Horizon editorial office (address below)
for a workshop brochure and registration form.
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James L. Morrison Morrison@unc.edu
Editor, On the Horizon 919 962-2517 (office)
Professor of Educational Leadership 919 962-1533 (fax)
CB 3500 Peabody Hall UNC-CH Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Horizon Home Page http://sunsite.unc.edu/horizon