Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.  His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership.  His funded research includes (1) a grant from the National Science Foundation to aid middle school students learning science via shared virtual environments and (2) a Star Schools grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help high school students with math and literacy skills using wireless mobile devices to create augmented reality simulations. He serves on Advisory Boards and Commissions for PBS TeacherLine, the Partnership for 21 st Century Skills, the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, and several federal educational labs and regional technology centers. Chris has recently completed a co-edited volume on Scaling Up Success: Lessons Learned from Technology-based Educational Innovation , published by Jossey-Bass in 2005. 

Neomillennial Learning Styles: Implications for Higher Education

Emerging digital media are shaping users' motivations, attributes, and social patterns into types of learning styles quite different than those based on sensory, personality, or intelligence factors. "Neomillennial" students seek learning situations that interweave face-to-face interactions with shared virtual experiences across distance and time (distributed-learning). This session will demonstrate examples of middle and high school distributed-learning experiences based on immersive game-like educational simulations and will discuss implications of students' neomillennial learning styles for higher education.