Opening Keynote | Closing Keynote
Opening Keynote: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 1:30pm
“The Way We’ll Be”
John Zogby
President and CEO
Zogby International
www.zogby.com
Internationally renowned pollster John Zogby will discuss themes from his lastest book “The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream” as well as information about an online education poll his firm conducted. His remarks and Q&A period will be followed by a book signing during the break.
Zogby International, founded in 1984, is a worldwide research and marketing firm based in Utica, New York, with offices in Washington D.C. and Miami and conducts business in more than 70 countries. Zogby currently writes a weekly column for Forbes.com and a monthly column for Politics magazine. He has been published on the opinion pages of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday and the Boston Globe. John Zogby is also a founding contributor to The Huffington Post.
Closing Keynote: Friday, May 28, 2010 at 11:30am
The Brain-based Synaptic Learning: New Frontiers in the Distance Learning
Nishikant Sonwalkar (Sc.D., MIT)
Director of Research
United States Distance Learning Association
www.usdla.org
The digital revolution with the development of World Wide Web and Mobile systems has given rise to ubiquitous access of information to both the digital immigrant and digital native population. However, the information overload has caused confusion on how best to utilize digital revolution for the benefit of learning in general and distance learning in particular. On the other side of the equation, noninvasive techniques for the study of neurophysiology of brain, such as, PET, fMRI, and CT-scans have provided a wealth of information on the activities of neurons that lead to the formation of learning networks in the human brain. The combination of digital technology with the new frameworks of brain-based synaptic learning and brain-machine interface are the new frontiers for enabling high performance, efficient, effective and engaging distance education.
Dr. Sonwalkar, an authority in the field of brain-based learning will provide an overview theory of synaptic learning and propose a pedagogical framework to assimilate the new meaningful distance learning paradigm.