HBCU Summit: The Future of Everything -The Educational Complex

Concurrent Session 7
Streamed Session HBCU MERLOT

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Brief Abstract

We will cover the impact and vastness of emergent technological approaches that shrink and bend our educational enterprise. The use of both hardware and software continues to transform how we deliver, discuss, and decipher applicable modes of teaching, learning, and training. We have entered into the half life of half lives while still making assessment and data informed decisions about the scalable impact of OER, XR, and modernity-maturity of communities.

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Keynote Speaker: Michael Torrence, Motlow State Community College

Michael Torrence, Ph.D. serves as the President of Motlow State Community College. The college has campuses in Smyrna, Tullahoma, McMinnville and Fayetteville, Tennessee. President Torrence has spent his career embracing the use of technological literacy as a platform to increase student engagement and success. He has served in roles in support of online, accelerated, and mode neutral learning, engaged with TNeCampus and as a Tennessee Board of Regents statewide team leader for the integration of Emerging Technology and Mobilization in the areas of Gaming, VR, AR, and MR into teaching and learning. He has trained faculty, students, executives, and community members and developed immersive curriculum focused on STEAMB (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art/Aviation, Mathematics, and Business) for all grade levels and utilized these platforms teaching undergraduate and graduate students in his own classes where VR and entrepreneurship have become a norm. Currently, through researching and developing a platform for OER through support of Hewlett-Packard and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he hope to utilize the findings to support workforce development and student success. He earned a doctor of philosophy degree, with a major in exceptional learning, at Tennessee Tech University, and master of arts and bachelor of arts degrees at South Dakota State University, both with a major in English. President Torrence, a veteran, served in the U.S. Air Force.

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