Workshop Agenda:

10:30 a.m.	Keynote on “Mobile Learning for the 21st Century” by Dr. Paul Hagner
11:45 a.m.	Lunch Buffet
12:15 p.m.	Overview of the Texas Collaborative for Teaching Excellence Resources by Hope Cotner, Vice President, Center for Occupational Research and Development
1:00 p.m.	Informal Session with Dr. Paul Hagner (Question/Answer Session)
2:00 p.m.	Closing/Evaluations

Keynote Description:
Dr. Paul Hagner will review how students, administrators, technological change and the marketplace are challenging faculty approaches to teaching and learning. This presentation addresses different faculty motivational characteristics and how these characteristics influence responses to these challenges. Further consideration will be given to how faculty, academic support personnel and administrators can utilize approaches such as interactive learning, e-portfolios and the re-design of learning spaces to enhance student learning.

Keynote Speaker Biographical Information:
Paul R. Hagner is the former Associate Program Director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (formally known as the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative.) Before joining ELI, he served as a senior advisor for technology planning and assessment at the University of Hartford. He received his PhD in Political Science (with a minor in Journalism) from Indiana University. He spent eighteen years on the faculty at Washington State University, where he served as chair of the Political Science department and received WSU's William F. Mullen Award for Teaching Excellence. He spent five years on the faculty at The University of Memphis, where he was also named departmental chair. In 2000, he was chosen to be a Fellow for the NLII, focusing on the area of faculty engagement and support. Hagner is the co-author of a textbook on political behavior and co-editor of a Jossey-Bass volume on the technological transformation in teaching and learning in higher education. He has written numerous articles on various aspects of the American political system, public opinion, and how higher education institutions must deal with the social and technological changes confronting them. He also has been a frequent guest on affiliate radio and television broadcasts serving as a political commentator. He is currently finishing a monograph on how to engage and support faculty in the use of new educational technologies and has returned as faculty in Hartford, Connecticut.