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Education and Technology
 
August-2012 Event of SIPA

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Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.

The major shift in learning from print based to digital technology has provided new frontiers to innovators and social entrepreneurs to explore new and improved teaching methods that will ultimately facilitate reversal of the country’s educational downward spiral back to a position of stature and leadership again.

Panel Discussion

• Internet and mobile devices such as the laptop, Ipad, Iphone, etc.
• Promoting access by ensuring a device for every learner irrespective of location
• Latest trends in learning and teaching including Wikipedia and Khan Academy.

Panel Moderator:
Camille Smith : President, Work In Progress Coaching
Panelist:
Dr. Preetha Ram Cofounder and Chief Academic Officer, Open Study, Assoc. Dean Emory
Avinash Patil Worldwide Program Manager for PPS Attach Services, HP
Dr. Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google
Claire Schneeberger Founder & CEO, Monarch Media
Location:
Oak Room, Building 48, Cupertino HP Cupertino Campus (click here for map)
19483 Pruneridge Ave
Cupertino, CA

Date:
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

Agenda:
6:00pm - 6:45pm Dinner and Networking
6:45pm - 8:00pm Panel Discussion
8:00pm - 8:15pm Audience Q&A
8.15pm - 8:30pm Thanks and Networking

Online:
Member $0.00 - Non-Member $15.00 (Membership is 50$ yearly includes 10 Free Monthly events)
Onsite:
Member $0.00 - Non-Member $20.00

Bios

Camille Smith

 Camille Smith combines her business experience in hi-tech start-ups and Fortune 1000 companies with her exceptional skills as a communicator to help executives and their teams succeed in a world of rapid change.

By learning how to build relationships of trust, transparency and accountability, her clients produce essential business results and generate and fulfill new possibilities for the future.

She is a founding member of the Global Women's Leadership Network at Santa Clara University and served three years as an executive coach for The Global Institute for Leadership Development founded by Warren Bennis. For more, please visit www.wipcoaching.com.

 Dr. Preetha Ram

 Dr. Preetha Ram is a social entrepreneur, CoFounder and Chief Academic Officer of OpenStudy and Associate Dean at Emory University. She holds degrees from Yale (PhD), Emory (MBA) and I.I.T Delhi. She is an innovative award-winning educator, with many years of leadership experience in the higher education industry. Her published research encompasses online environments for problem based learning and collaborative learning. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and the Gates and Hewlett foundations.

 OpenStudy.com is a disruptive innovation in education and empowering the self-learners of the world to learn more, learn better, learn with their peers. The crowd sourced platforms offers a social learning network that enables learners globally to connect, get help, and learn from one another. With the mantra, “Take Ten to Teach Ten” OpenStudy’s disruption is to democratize education, allowing everyone to reach and teach thousands and connecting a learner in need with someone who can help at their point of need.

 Avinash Patil

Avinash Patil is seasoned management professional with 20+ years of experience working in various roles in people, project and program management. Currently he works for HP, managing worldwide Programs for PPS (Printing and Personal Systems) Services unit. He has diverse experience, having worked in Enterprise Software, Enterprise Services and Consumer business. He specializes in managing globally across countries, continents and cultures. He has successfully led some of the most complex and globally distributed programs/functions for HP.

He has worked in leading worldwide initiatives in tablet software and Apps for Imaging and Printing Group of HP. He managed Global APPS PMO (program office) focused on Europe, APJ and AMERICAS for HP’s Consumer printing business worldwide.

Avinash has huge interest in different aspects of education and how technology can be used in education. He has taught undergraduate courses in engineering in India. Last few years he worked closely with HPs learning and development organization on identifying, planning and developing strategy for employee training for Mission Critical Computing Business in HP on ongoing basis. He was part of initial pilots to increase usage of technology in employee training.

Last year Avinash led HP’s ‘Imaging and Printing group’s Education initiative across HP. This was about identifying and capitalizing on emerging opportunities in education. The focus was on how we can use cutting edge technology in education to make money. As a part of this initiative he worked closely with many leading commercial organizations in education field and also evaluated cutting edge technologies developed by different companies that are relevant to education.

He has developed deep insights into how technology could be used in education, current state of technology and emerging opportunities for usage of technology in the education field. His focus is on k-12 education.

Dr. Peter Norvig