The mix of millennials, gen-x’ers, and
baby boomers teaching and learning together make the provision of modern
education a complex process. In addition, blended learning, mobile
devices, gaming, social networking, high-impact presentation
technologies, and analytics are bringing new twists and quick turns to
our on-ground and online learning environments. What else is ahead? How
much more can we take? How do we retain the human touch? How do we build
out these learning environments and make them sustainable? Come join the
conversation about how this new generation of learning is taking shape.
Dr. Mark David Milliron is an award-winning
leader, author, speaker, and consultant best known for exploring leadership
development, future trends, learning strategies, and the human side of
technology change. Mark works with universities, community colleges, K-12
schools, corporations, associations, and government agencies across the
country and around the world. He serves as Board Chair for the
Institute for the Study of Knowledge
Management in Education and as a Trustee for
Western Governors University. He is also
the founder and CEO of the private consulting and service group,
Catalyze Learning International (CLI).
In addition, he serves on numerous corporate, nonprofit, and education
boards and advisory groups; guest lectures for educational institutions
nationally and internationally; and authors and moderates the
Catalytic
Conversations Blog.
Mark brings to this work broad experience,
having previously served as an Endowed Fellow, Senior Lecturer, and Director
of the National Institute of Staff and
Organizational Development in the College of Education at The University
of Texas at Austin; Vice President for Education and Medical Practice with
SAS, the world's largest private software
company; President and CEO of the international education association the
League for Innovation; and as Vice
President for Academic and Student Services at Mayland Community College
(NC).
While teaching at Arizona State, Mark received
the International Communication Association’s Teaching Excellence Award.
More recently, the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education
honored Mark as a Distinguished Graduate for his service to the education
field. In 2005, PBS named Mark the recipient of its annual O'Banion Prize
for transformational work in support of teaching and learning. And in 2007,
the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) presented Mark with
its National Leadership Award for his outstanding accomplishments,
contributions, and leadership.
Regardless of all of these activities and
accomplishments, he will quickly tell you that the most important job and
the greatest blessing in his life is serving as Julia’s husband, and as
father to Alexandra, Richard and Marcus.
