Adel Barimani, CIO
Vice President
Information Services
Anderson Hall Room 23
West Chester, PA 19383
610-436-2828
Fax: 610-436-3240
RECAP@wcupa.edu


Please Join Us for the RECAP Dinner…
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
6pm – 8pm
Brandywine Room, Days Hotel
(Brandywine Buffet Menu)


Featuring Dinner Guest Speaker

John St. Clair

John St. Clair

Senior Manager, Advisory and Consulting Services

Desire2Learn, Incorporated

 

Biography

John St. Clair’s background includes experience teaching mathematics and education at the public school, college, and graduate level. He was Executive Director of Training and Faculty Development at the nationally recognized Tennessee Board of Regents Online Campus Collaborative, several online degree programs offered by a consortium of 47 institutions. While at TBR, St. Clair was part of the team responding to a successful system-wide SACS substantive change process and has served as the lead QEP investigator for a SACS reaccreditation team. Following the Hurricane Katrina disaster, St. Clair coordinated faculty training and course development allowing Southern University at New Orleans to offer many of its courses to students dispersed throughout the southeast United States.  He has served as the Director of Distance Education at the University of Mary Washington and is now the Senior Manager of Advisory and Consulting Services at Desire2Learn, Incorporated.

 

 

Dinner Reception Presentation Topic: Change and the LMS: Zombie or Giving Tree

The LMS has evolved from a simple document delivery system to a fully interactive environment with integrated e-Portfolio, Learning Object Repository, and sophisticated learning analytics engine. The maturation process has been predicated by technological innovations as well as greater attention to teaching and learning. Some would say the LMS and other educational technologies have even positively impacted educational practice. This talk will focus on how teaching and the LMS have matured together as seen through the eyes of online teacher and LMS system administrator with the occasional nod to children's literature.