Come experience two days with experts who spend every day on the cutting edge of education. Discover how society is changing as we move from the Industrial Age to the Internet Age. Learn about the implications for repositioning education and your institution for success in the new century.

Then take home our exclusive 21 action recommendations for strategic planning for educational leaders and participate in the adventure to transform education and make it relevant for work and life in the 21st century.

Why You Should Attend
In the next ten years, our society will transition from the Industrial Age of the last century to the Internet Age of the 21st century. Education will necessarily have to be transformed to meet the new requirements for society, your local economy, your students, and the quality of life in your community. The need for discussion and dialogue about strategic planning has never been greater. There is now a widely recognized confusion about the direction of education in this century. This seminar provides a clear comprehensive road map for moving forward.

Who Should Attend
The seminar is designed for education leaders, including university deans and administrators, faculty developers, superintendents of schools, community and technical college decision makers, and other education leaders. Anyone involved or interested in education will benefit from the seminar.

End Results
With new information not available anywhere else, you will go home with an entirely new and positive perspective on your institution and its future, as well as 21 specific action recommendations to position your institution for greater success.

Outcomes
As a result of attending this planning seminar, you will have a strategic knowledge advantage in making business and pedagogical decisions determining your educational institution's future.

Benefits
• Autographed hard cover copy of the presenters' new book The Pedagogy of the 21st Century.
• Copy of Nine Shift:Work, life and education in the 21st century.
• Opportunity to refresh your thinking and energies by engaging in a dialogue with other senior decision makers in education.

Take home
Exclusive 21 Action Recommendations for strategic planning specifically for education leaders over the next 3-5 years.

Unique
Just three of the reasons this premiere seminar is distinctive:
1. Research and evidence not available anywhere else.
2. Engaging presenters and futurists whose predictions are already coming true.
3. Unique perspective and recommendations you will not get from any other source.
 
 
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Your Presenters
Your presenters are two of the leading futurists in education today. They are the most frequently quoted experts in lifelong learning by the nation's media, having appeared on the BBC, NPR, CBS radio, NBC TV and interviewed by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Associated Press and many more. Coates and Draves are co-authors of Nine Shift: Work, life and education in the 21st Century. The BBC calls Nine Shift "Fascinating." Their new book is The Pedagogy of the 21st Century..
Julie Coates is author of the pioneering book, Generational Learning Styles, and one of the foremost authorities on gender and learning. She has been interviewed by The New York Times and other national media, and given presentations at Harvard and in Russia, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and Mexico.
Vice President for Information Services at LERN, she also teaches in the graduate program in Adult and Higher Education for the University of South Dakota.
William A. Draves is an author, consultant, futurist and President of the Learning Resources Network. He does consulting for college and university decision makers, conducts faculty development seminars, and has taught more than 6,000 faculty about teaching online.
He recently keynoted the national conference of the Association Test Publishers. Educator Phil Housel of Kerrville, Texas, says, "I'd trample my grandma to hear Draves speak."
 
 

 
 

About the Learning Resources Network (LERN)
The Learning Resources Network is a nonprofit national education association serving more than 1,000 colleges, universities, schools and educational associations every year with information, consulting, faculty
development, and research.

Our books include Generational Learning Styles, How to Teach Adults, Advanced Teaching Online, Energizing the Learning Environment, and others. Our teacher and faculty development include the Certified Online Instructor (COI) designation for faculty, the Certified Faculty Developer (CFD), Online courses for K-12 teachers with graduate credit, and a graduate program jointly offered with the University of South Dakota. Find out more at lern.org.

On Site Consulting and Presentations
Bring our one-day version to your location. Call Tammy at 800-678-5376 or email her at info@lern.org

  
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