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Kyle Bowen,  Director of Informatics, Purdue UniversityEvery student makes the choice for how and where learning will take place. Increasingly, students are turning to mobile devices for accessing their learning content. To enable faculty to build mobile-ready content from a variety of different media, Purdue developed Jetpack, a mobile learning application that offers an alternative to texts, course packs, and class handouts.

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Keith Bailey, Assistant Dean, Online Learning & Director, e-Learning Institute, The Pennsylvania State UniversityCole W. Camplese, Sr. Director, Teaching & Learning w/Technology, The Pennsylvania State UniversitySusan E. Metros, Associate Vice Provost, Associate CIO, and Professor, University of Southern CaliforniaThis session will compare and contrast two very different models for building and delivering online learning programs. Penn State maintains a highly decentralized e-learning ecosystem where academic colleges partner with the Penn State World Campus to design, develop, and deliver program-level courses. USC decided to outsource the development, marketing, and delivery of the majority of its fully online, Internet-delivered degrees to select vendor partners.

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Speaker: Peter Smith, Senior Vice President, Academic Strategies and Development, Kaplan University Corporate Office

Information technology is having a profound impact on our ability to support improved persistence, attainment, and completion for adult learners. Improved metrics, reduced time to and cost of degrees, and better assessments are permanent changes in the education landscape. IT also has changed the meaning of completion from a fixed objective in time to a repeating cycle with multiple "end points" in the learner's life. I will analyze this new meaning of completion and its implications for workplace education, accreditation, financial aid, and the academic calendar as well as the higher education economic model.

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