Learning Management Systems Campus Presentations

Learning Management Systems Campus Presentations

The Center for Academic Technology Support will complete our series of presentations on learning management systems this Friday, December 3rd with Clay Fenlason who will be presenting on Sakai.  Clay Fenlason is the Director of Education Technology with Georgia Technology Institute and also serves as the Product Manager for the Sakai Foundation.

Sakai Presentation:
When:  Friday, December 3, 2010 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Where:  College of Information Technology Bldg. - Room 1005

We hope you will join us as your feedback is very important during our evaluation period of various learning management systems.

Clay Fenlason first became captivated by the role of technology in both communities and education while working as a volunteer in educational development in rural South Africa.  There amidst schools without libraries and communities historically walled off from the world he discovered the power of the Web for leapfrogging a generation of infrastructure and lack of informational resources.

Upon returning to the States in 1999 he moved to Boston to enter a master’s program in philosophy at Boston University, and he parlated his experience doing computer modeling in gamma ray astronomy (he holds an M.S. in Astrophysics from I.S.U.) to acquire a job in the IT department - initially just for the tuition remission while he pursued his own studies.  But a professional philosophical interest was once again eclipsed by a fascination with the computer as both a social tool and a medium for learning collaboration.  Late in 2003 he became the Associate Director for Academic Computing for Boston University’s School of Management, and then spearheaded BU’s entry into the Sakai partnership in early 2004.  Since then he has been a vocal and active member of the community at a number of levels, and was named one of the inaugural Sakai fellows in May of 2006.  In late 2006, Clay joined Georgia Tech as Director of Educational Technology.  Throughout, his keenest interest has been in the nature and health of the organization and the community source model for higher education.