Jack Rice is a career educator and academic leader; he currently serves as the Executive Director of the Maple League of Universities and is the Director of the Centre for Online Learning, Graduate & Professional Studies at St. Francis Xavier University.

Previously, Jack was a Dean at Elizabethtown College and a Director in the School of Education at Loyola University Maryland. Prior to his work in Higher Education, he enjoyed a career as a K-12 teacher and administrator in Canada and Australia.

Presentation title:  Learning in the Age of Hybridity

Presentation Summary:

The presentation will discuss technology’s role in enabling a hybrid future. How technology moves us towards our accessibility promises and helps put the power in the hands of the learner. However, the structures we have built to support education are no longer compatible with our purpose and the evolving future, so we need new structures. The question becomes, what are they? How will we build them? And what stands in our way?