Dr. Ogilvie will discuss the dramatic opportunities, and changes, unleashed in education by the advent of the information technology era. Power in the knowledge-business is shifting to the consumer. The existing order is threatened and is responding slowly. Each university will need to have a well-defined business plan strategy in place in order to compete.
Acadia University is the most “wired” university in the country, and through its internationally recognized Acadia Advantage Program (inducted into the Smithsonian Institute’s Permanent Collection in Washington DC in 1999), faculty and students are leading the world in the use of information technology to enhance the real and live classroom experience.
Kelvin Ogilvie, considered one of Canada’s leading experts on biotechnology, developer of the first “gene machine” and inventor of the drug “ganciclovir”, is a member of the national e-Business Roundtable, a member of the Order of Canada, and the 1992 recipient of the Manning Principle Award as Canada’s outstanding contributor to innovation.
