The 60 Year Degree: Learning without Boundaries

Paul Marca

Principal, Parallax Global Advisors

Paul Marca is principal at Parallax Global Advisors, LLC a firm which provides strategic consulting for those seeking to transform education through technology. He also currently serves the International Association for Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE) as a council member and first vice president. Paul advises universities, corporations, and governmental organizations on how to develop and extend education as a means to sustain organizational vitality and innovation. Previously, he spent 32 years in senior leadership roles at Stanford where he was instrumental in developing and implementing an international coursework portfolio. He also developed a number of innovative university-industry and university-university partnerships to extend Stanford’s educational reach with effective ‘go-to-market strategies.’ He has presented keynote speeches and workshops around the globe on connecting innovation, strategy, and education.

Dave Sherwood

Co-Founder and CEO, BibliU

First as an undergraduate in Western Australia, and then as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Dave Sherwood had a pressing question: why are textbooks so unintuitive? Co-founding BibliU six years ago, Dave and his team have since signed over 2,000 academic publishers and 140 universities across the globe with this simple message: when it comes to learning, there has to be a better, more affordable, and more accessible way of doing things.

Michelle Weise

Author and Senior Advisor, Imaginable Futures

Michelle Weise is the author of Long-Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet. She is a senior advisor at Imaginable Futures, a venture of The Omidyar Group. Her work over the last decade has concentrated on preparing working-age adults for the jobs of today and tomorrow. She was the chief innovation officer of Strada Education Network and founded Strada Institute for the Future of Work. Michelle was also the chief innovation officer at Southern New Hampshire University and designed and led Sandbox Collaborative, the innovation center of SNHU. With Clayton Christensen, she coauthored Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution (2014) while leading the higher education practice at Christensen’s Institute for Disruptive Innovation.

Dale P. Johnson

WCET Executive Council, Director of Digital Innovation, Arizona State University

dale.johnson@asu.edu

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As director of digital innovations for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University, Dale Johnson works with university leaders to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success. Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, Dale was honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice. He has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 20 conferences in the USA, Rwanda, Brazil, South Korea, Germany, Mexico, Russia, and Vietnam, and has led workshops on the subject at numerous universities.