Speakers: Lynda Weinman

Session

Education in the Internet Age

We live in a game-changing age that's both disruptive and democratic, and requires that we challenge our past assumptions and play by new rules. It's clear to us industry insiders life as usual has forever been altered, but our formal educational systems trail behind and aren't keeping pace. What are the challenges to education in this age – where is the correct balance between real and virtual? Lynda Weinman, founder of lynda.com (one of the largest online education subscription sites in the world) discusses her views on this and related topics such as assessment, mentorship, authenticity, advertising, subscriber support, information, inspiration, and much more. Defining the role between the computer and the teacher, what is left best to technology and left best to live human interaction, is going define the future of education.

Bio

Lynda Weinman is best known as the author of numerous web design books, the co-founder of lynda.com and the co-founder of the Flashforward Conference & Film Festival (which was acquired by BAX in 2008). The lynda.com Online Training Library® was one of the first online video subscription services in the world; founded in 2002, which like public broadcasting, is a subscriber-supported platform that contains no advertising. She's been an early adopter of software and computer technologies since the early 1980's and wrote the very first book on web design in 1995. Weinman has taught motion graphics, computer imaging, interactive media, and animation at Art Center College of Design, UCLA Extension, San Francisco State College Multimedia Studies and American Film Institute, written numerous books, and spoken at numerous events.