Technology and Generational Learners: From Baby Boomers to Next Generations, to Millennials, to Generation Zs, to Guess What Is Coming!

Abstract

On a beautiful May morning in 1979, I walked across the steps of Wilson Hall at James Madison University to receive my first college degree. I heard my father’s cheering voice bouncing off the surrounding buildings when my name was read. I shook the president’s hand, waved at my family, then smiled, waved again, and thanked my professors in the Department of Library Science and Educational Media. After I walked past them, the head of the department turned to the rest of the faculty and said, “There goes the most unorthodox Library Science major in the history of our program.”

Selected Publications

• 2015 BbWorld—Washington, DC: Comparing Blackboard Learn 9.1 to Blackboard Ultra—Developing the Chart

• 2014 BbWorld—Las Vegas, Nevada: A Mission Not Impossible: Teaching How to Teach Online with Blackboard

• 2013 BbWorld—Las Vegas, Nevada: Begin at the Beginning

• 2012 Blackboard Cohort Program for CE/Vista customers: Transition from CE/Vista to Learn 9.1

• 2011 Bb World—Las Vegas, Nevada:

  • A Comparison of Tools and Functions from CE/Vista 8 to Learn 9.1

  • Faculty Training for Learn 9.1

  • Success Course Design in Learn 9.1

  • Rubric Development—Panel Discussion

• 2011 Blackboard Cohort Program for CE/Vista customers: Transition from CE/Vista to Learn 9.1

• 2011 Wimba Platinum Circle—online: Successful Use of Wimba at Marshall University

• 2010 Blackboard Cohort Program for CE/Vista customers: Transition from CE/Vista to Learn 9.1

• 2010 Lilly North Conference—Traverse City, Michigan: Online Learning

• 2010 BbWorld—Orlando, Florida

  • The Life in Higher Ed

  • A Comparison of Tools and Functions from CE/Vista 8 to Learn 9.1

  • Faculty Training for Learn 9.1