Eugene, Oregon
May 13-15, 1998
Convened by Nancy Baker, Director of Libraries
Washington State University
Good morning. In this morning's program we examined what the government, with the assistance of the private sector, is doing to ensure the broadest possible access to and capabilities for network resources by education and government communities. This program builds on the earlier program by examining the realities of the new network in the delivery of instructional programming.
Our first panelist is William Durden, President of Sylvan Academy, of the Sylvan Learning Systems, and Vice-President of Academic Affairs for the Caliber Learning Network, a joint distance learning venture of Sylvan and MCI. He has served as the Executive Director of the Institute for Academic Advancement of Youth, a division of John Hopkins University, and also as Senior Education Consultant to the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Durden received his bachelor's degree from Dickinson College and his master's and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins.
Our next speaker, Mark Resmer, is a leader in Educom's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) and the Instructional Management System (IMS) project, and is the Associate Vice-President for Information Technology at Sonoma State University. He has also served as Director of Academic Computing at Vassar College. Mark has been active in developing strategies for instructional applications of information technology for nearly 20 years and created some of the earliest tools for Internet navigation. He has degrees from Vassar College and Trinity, London.
Our third panelist today is my colleague, Muriel Oaks, Vice-President for Extended University Services at Washington State University, where she is responsible for the off-campus programs, including the extended degree program offered entirely by distance education. Dr. Oaks is the former Director of the Washington Higher Education Telecommunications Systems, a two-way video interactive system for sharing courses and video conferences among ten sites in the state of Washington. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Idaho and master's and Ph.D. from Washington State University. I might add that I'm especially pleased she is here today because she is one of the people in the extended degree programs who had the library at the table at the very beginning.
Finally, I would like to welcome Betsy Wilson, Associate Director of Libraries for Public Services at the University of Washington. Prior to this appointment she served as the Assistant Director of Libraries for Undergraduate Instructional Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, Betsy is working on establishing a national information literacy institute dedicated to assisting individuals in institutions in integrating literacy throughout their educational programs. Betsy co-administers the University of Washington's UWired program, a campus collaboration committed to helping educators and students incorporate applications of information technology and information literacy education. She has a B.A. from Northwestern and her master's in library science from the University of Illinois.
Please welcome our speakers.