Presentations

CRET Seminar, Tokyo, January 2010

The introduction to this session responded to these questions: (1) What do we mean by technology-enhanced active learning strategies? (2) Why are they important for improving instructional effectiveness? and (3) What are the barriers to faculty members adopting technology-enhanced active learning strategies? At this point, the audience was formed into four or five-person small groups, and, after introductions, selected a group chair and a recorder/reporter. These groups focused on this question: What strategies do you recommend that the University employ to encourage faculty members to use technology-enhanced active learning strategies?

Education 2008

What will the educational landscape look like in 2018? How will educational organizations be structured? How will they define their markets? How will teachers teach? What will be the role of information technology? What are the forces driving these changes? What do they mean for the education of our people, young and old? How can educators help them thrive in this new world? How can we assist our colleagues to accommodate and thrive? Professor Morrison address these questions in his keynote presentation.

Part I—Higher Education in Transition

Higher education is in a major transition period that will fundamentally change the way colleges and universities will conduct their business in the coming decades. Although the change in social institutions is seldom rapid, the combined forces of demography, globalization, economic restructuring, and information technology are forcing colleges to reconceptualize their markets, organizational structures, and pedagogical practices. This presentation focused on the impact of these forces on American and Malaysian higher education.

Part II—Higher Education in Transition

Higher education is in a major transition period that will fundamentally change the way colleges and universities will conduct their business in the coming decades. Although the change in social institutions is seldom rapid, the combined forces of demography, globalization, economic restructuring, and information technology are forcing colleges to reconceptualize their markets, organizational structures, and pedagogical practices. This presentation focused on the impact of these forces on American and Malaysian higher education.

Part III—Higher Education in Transition

Higher education is in a major transition period that will fundamentally change the way colleges and universities will conduct their business in the coming decades. Although the change in social institutions is seldom rapid, the combined forces of demography, globalization, economic restructuring, and information technology are forcing colleges to reconceptualize their markets, organizational structures, and pedagogical practices. This presentation focused on the impact of these forces on American and Malaysian higher education.

Part I: Faculty Resistance to Technology-Enhanced Active Learning: What Can E-Leaders Do?

In this presentation Professor Morrison argued that technology-enhanced active learning strategies are more effective in developing needed competencies in students and then, in keeping with the spirit of active learning, engaged the audience in exploring responses to these questions: (1) why do faculty members resist adopting these strategies and (2) what approaches can e-leaders take to broaden the instructional repertoires of faculty members to include active-learning instructional strategies.

Part II: Faculty Resistance to Technology-Enhanced Active Learning: What Can E-Leaders Do?

In this presentation Professor Morrison argued that technology-enhanced active learning strategies are more effective in developing needed competencies in students and then, in keeping with the spirit of active learning, engaged the audience in exploring responses to these questions: (1) why do faculty members resist adopting these strategies and (2) what approaches can e-leaders take to broaden the instructional repertoires of faculty members to include active-learning instructional strategies.

Strategic Foresight in Higher Education Workshop, Kuala Lumpur

This is a video snapshot of a two-day IBN workshop for educational leaders conducted by James Morrison (morrison@unc.edu) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 22-23, 2011.

Part I: What Lies Ahead for American Community Colleges?

The purpose of this workshop is to identify critical events that will impact the future of community colleges and draw out some of the major implications of these potential events for America’s community colleges. This video is derived from a workshop at the American Association of Community Colleges' Presidents Academy Summer Institute by James Morrison and held at The Inn on Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC, July 11, 2011. It is presented here with the permission of the American Association of Community Colleges.

Part II: What Lies Ahead for American Community Colleges?

The purpose of this workshop is to identify critical events that will impact the future of community colleges and draw out some of the major implications of these potential events for America’s community colleges. This video is derived from a workshop at the American Association of Community Colleges' Presidents Academy Summer Institute by James Morrison and held at The Inn on Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC, July 11, 2011. It is presented here with the permission of the American Association of Community Colleges.

Part III: What Lies Ahead for American Community Colleges?

The purpose of this workshop is to identify critical events that will impact the future of community colleges and draw out some of the major implications of these potential events for America’s community colleges. This video is derived from a workshop at the American Association of Community Colleges' Presidents Academy Summer Institute by James Morrison and held at The Inn on Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC, July 11, 2011. It is presented here with the permission of the American Association of Community Colleges.

Part IV: What Lies Ahead for American Community Colleges, Flip Chart Notes

The purpose of this workshop is to identify critical events that will impact the future of community colleges and draw out some of the major implications of these potential events for America’s community colleges. This video is derived from a workshop at the American Association of Community Colleges' Presidents Academy Summer Institute by James Morrison and held at The Inn on Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC, July 11, 2011. It is presented here with the permission of the American Association of Community Colleges.

Part I: The Future of Higher Education (2011)

On November 18, 2011, Richard Schechter, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Houston Community College, interviewed James Morrison (morrison@unc.edu), Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership, UNC-Chapel hill on the future of higher education. The video was produced by the HCCTV studio and is republished here with permission.

Part II: The Future of Higher Education (2011)

On November 18, 2011, Richard Schechter, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Houston Community College, interviewed James Morrison (morrison@unc.edu), Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership, UNC-Chapel hill on the future of higher education. The video was produced by the HCCTV studio and is republished here with permission.

Part I: Challenges Faced by Community College Leaders in Planning for the Future

We live in an age of future shock. Globalization, economic restructuring, advances in information technology, shifting demographics, the need for more (and differently) educated workers, including reskilling displaced workers, and increasing competition for traditional and emerging education providers means that community college leaders are faced with a future that will be different from the present. This interactive session focused on the results of an environmental scan that indicates how these forces might play out.

Part II: Challenges Faced by Community College Leaders in Planning for the Future

We live in an age of future shock. Globalization, economic restructuring, advances in information technology, shifting demographics, the need for more (and differently) educated workers, including reskilling displaced workers, and increasing competition for traditional and emerging education providers means that community college leaders are faced with a future that will be different from the present. This interactive session focused on the results of an environmental scan that indicates how these forces might play out.

Part III: Challenges Faced by Community College Leaders in Planning for the Future

We live in an age of future shock. Globalization, economic restructuring, advances in information technology, shifting demographics, the need for more (and differently) educated workers, including reskilling displaced workers, and increasing competition for traditional and emerging education providers means that community college leaders are faced with a future that will be different from the present. This interactive session focused on the results of an environmental scan that indicates how these forces might play out.

Part IV: Challenges Faced by Community College Leaders in Planning for the Future

We live in an age of future shock. Globalization, economic restructuring, advances in information technology, shifting demographics, the need for more (and differently) educated workers, including reskilling displaced workers, and increasing competition for traditional and emerging education providers means that community college leaders are faced with a future that will be different from the present. This interactive session focused on the results of an environmental scan that indicates how these forces might play out.

Part I: Exploring Future of Hawkeye Community College

This video is Part I of a presentation/workshop by James Morrison (morrison@unc.edu) at Hawkeye Community College (HCC), Waterloo, Iowa as part of Hawkeye's Employee Development Day, March 2, 2012. The video footage was provided by HCC and is presented here courtesy of the college. It is 31 minutes long.

Part II: Exploring Future of Hawkeye Community College

This video is Part II of a presentation/workshop by James Morrison (morrison@unc.edu) at Hawkeye Community College (HCC), Waterloo, Iowa as part of Hawkeye's Employee Development Day, March 2, 2012. The video footage was provided by HCC and is presented here courtesy of the college. It is 17 minutes long.

Emerging Disruptive Educational Innovations

This edited video was made during The World Future Society’s Education Summit, a day-long event held just prior to the annual conference July 2012 in Toronto (http://tinyurl.com/cwxkp97). The day began with three relatively short presentations designed to stimulate discussion on the future of education. At the conclusion of the day, each presenter was asked to provide concluding thoughts. This video includes only my presentation and concluding remarks.

Part I: Disruptive Innovations in Higher Education: Implications for 21st Century Campus

This 33-minute video, Part I, contains the session introduction and presentation of such disruptive innovations as MOOCs, competency-based programs/degrees, flipped classrooms, mobile learning, and BYODs. Part II is a 17-minute video depicting the work product of conference participants who sketch out the implications of these disruptions for campus planning

Part II: Disruptive Innovations in Higher Education: Implications for 21st Century Campus

This 17-minute video depicts the workshop instructions and workshop product produced in the plenary session of the SCUP 2013 Southern Regional Conference in Atlanta October 20-22, 2013 titled Through the Looking Glass: Visions and Planning for the Future of Higher Education. Some 300 conference participants responded to the implications of such disruptions as MOOCs, competency-based programs/degrees, flipped classrooms, and BYODs.

Part III: Disruptive Innovations in Higher Education: Implications for 21st Century Campus

This 10-minute video contains the concluding remarks from Wendy Newsletter and James Morrison in the plenary session of the SCUP 2013 Southern Regional Conference in Atlanta October 20-22, 2013 titled "Through the Looking Glass: Visions and Planning for the Future of Higher Education."

Part I: Anticipating the Future of the Global Business Environment: Implications for Business Entrepreneurs

This video contains the introduction to a workshop conducted by James Morrison at the 2d International Conference on Entrepreneurship at Tehran, Iran, February 22-23, 2014. Part II contains the report backs for the small group workshop exercises in the workshop. Note: This video is published courtesy of the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, The University of Tehran. Many thanks to Mohsen Ahmadi, Director of Media, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, the University of Tehran, and to videographers Taher Ajourlou and Mehran Ajourlou for their fine work.

Part II: Anticipating the Future of the Global Business Environment: Implications for Business Entrepreneurs

This video contains the introduction to a workshop conducted by James Morrison at the 2d International Conference on Entrepreneurship at Tehran, Iran, February 22-23, 2014. Part II contains the report backs for the small group workshop exercises in the workshop. Note: This video is published courtesy of the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, The University of Tehran. Many thanks to Mohsen Ahmadi, Director of Media, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, the University of Tehran, and to videographers Taher Ajourlou and Mehran Ajourlou for their fine work.

Anticipatory Management: Tools and Techniques for Effective Decision Making in a Turbulent World

This 25 minute video consists of a presentation made at the December 2015 International Conference on Management and Humanities in the Emirate of Dubai. The focus in this session was to describe those anticipatory management tools and techniques that managers need to know in order to effectively guide their organizations now and in the future.

Part I: Anticipating The Future of Science and Technology

This video is the introduction to the plenary session at the International Conference on Science and Engineering conference held in the Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 1, 2015. The session focused on identifying potential paradigm shifts that will affect the future of international science and technology and the corresponding implications of these shifts for the science and engineering professions.

Part II: Anticipating The Future of Science and Technology

This video constitutes the small group report-backs in response to Part 1, the introduction to the session titled "Anticipating the Future of Science and Technology " at the International Conference on Science and Engineering held in the Emirate of Dubai on December 1, 2015

Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication

Publication in professional journals is critical to a successful academic career. Getting published, however, requires more than simply knowing your field or writing up a study. Understanding the process of publication from the editor's point of view, and making sure that your article meets the editor's basic expectations, enhances your chances of getting "Accept" or "Revise and Resubmit" letters, rather than rejection notes.

2008 Interview: Where are we going with educational technology

This interview with James Morrison was conducted at the Institute of Higher Education, the University of Georgia, on April 19, 2008.