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Biographical
Information
Diana
G. Oblinger, Ph.D.
Oblinger
is a Professor of the Practice at the Kenan-Flagler
Business School at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her work is focused on designing creative
learning approaches for the Executive MBA program
and providing leadership for Kenan-Flagler’s
Center for Innovation in Learning.
Dr.
Oblinger is also a Senior Fellow for the EDUCAUSE
Center for Applied Research.
The Center focuses on issues related to
information technology such as identifying
new models, processes and frameworks that will
foster institutional survival and prosperity.
EDUCAUSE is an international, nonprofit
association whose mission is to help shape and
enable transformational change in higher education
through the introduction, use, and management of
information resources and technologies in
teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and
institutional management.
Previously,
Dr. Oblinger served as the Vice President for
Information Resources and the Chief Information
Officer for the 16-campus University of North
Carolina system. Oblinger was responsible for
strategic planning and policy development for
information technology as well as for
collaborative programs in teaching and learning
with technology, student services and IT
procurement. UNC is the nation’s second largest
university system.
Over
a 10 year period, Oblinger held a variety of
management positions within IBM including academic
programs and strategy executive, academic
consulting, and was the IBM Director of the
Institute for Academic Technology. She is well
known for her expertise in distributed learning
and institutional transformation.
Dr.
Oblinger was on the faculty at the University of
Missouri-Columbia and at Michigan State
University. At the University of Missouri, she
served as an academic dean and was recognized for
her work in student recruitment, retention,
faculty development and student computing.
Known
for her leadership in teaching and learning with
technology and distributed learning, she serves on
boards such as EDUCAUSE’s National Learning
Infrastructure Initiative and is on the Editorial
Board of Open Learning. She is a member of the
Board of Visitors for the Air University, the
educational arm of the Air Force. Dr. Oblinger has
testified before the U.S. House of Representatives
Subcommittee on Technology.
A
frequent keynote speaker, Dr. Oblinger is the
co-author of What
Business Wants from Higher Education, which
received the 1999 Frandson Award for best
literature in continuing education.
She is co-editor of four books, The
Learning Revolution, The
Future Compatible Campus, Renewing
Administration and E
is for Everything as well as the author or
co-author of more than two dozen monographs and
articles on higher education and technology
topics.
Dr.
Oblinger has received outstanding teaching and
research awards and was named Young Alumnus of the
Year by Iowa State University. She holds three
degrees from Iowa State University: a B.S. in
Botany, an M.S. in Plant Breeding and a Ph.D. in
Plant Breeding and Cytogenetics. She is a member
of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi.
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