| Learning Impact 2007 Featured keynote addresses will be presented by Dr. Bernard Luskin and Lawrence K. Grossman.
Bernard Luskin, Ed.D., Executive Vice President, Fielding Graduate University, Director, Media Psychology Program Dr. Bernard Luskin has had distinguished careers in commerce, education, entertainment and psychology. University Business Magazine selected him as one who has had exceptional careers in both education and corporate life. He is a licensed psychotherapist, with Degrees in Business and a UCLA Doctorate in Education, Psychology and Technology. Bernie Luskin has been president and CEO of divisions of major Fortune 50 and 500 companies, including Philips Interactive Media, PolyGram New Media, Philips Education and Reference Publishing and Jones International, including Mind Extension University, Knowledge TV, and Jones Education Networks. He has authored bestseller economics, technology and education books, television series and CDs. He is credited in working with Paramount, for putting the first 50 movies on CD in MPEG format, leading to DVD. He served on the Accrediting Commission for Collegiate Schools of Business, and led the standards team that developed specifications for CDi and CDRom, in addition to working on standards features of MPEG full motion video and recordable CD. While president of Philips Interactive Media, he spearheaded breakthroughs in many areas in CD. This included the first Sesame Street CD, Grolier's and Compton's Encyclopedias, Golf, Art, Children's and reference CDs, including games, and the first interactive movie on CD, entitled Voyer, starring Robert Culp. Luskin is presently Executive Vice President, Professor and Director of the Media Psychology Program at the Fielding Graduate University, www.Fielding.edu., and is now leading the way by launching the first Ph.D program applying psychology to media. Luskin is also Chairman and CEO of Luskin International, chairman of the advisory board of iMedia-International, inc., which owns Hollywood Previews, placing CD Movie discs in newspapers, and he is on the boards of directors of the Media Psychology Division and Society of Consulting Psychologists of the American Psychological Association. As a former college and university president, he is founding president of Coastline Community College, including KOCE, TV in Orange County California, Orange Coast College and founding chancellor of Jones International University, the first fully accredited, fully web based university. He is credited with putting the first computer in a community college. Luskin has received two Emmys, in addition to distinguished leadership and alumni awards from the UCLA Doctoral Alumni Association, California State University at Los Angeles, The University of Florida, and he received lifetime achievement awards from the Irish Government and the European Union for contributions to education and digital media. Lawrence K. Grossman, Co-Chair of Digital Promise Project, with Newton N. Minow, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Sponsored by the Carnegie, Century, Knight and MacArthur Foundations, and Opens Society Institute, and endorsed by major national education, library, museum and cultural organizations, the Digital Promise Project seeks to establish a nationwide research and development trust fund to transform lifelong learning, education, and training for the 21st century. Mr. Grossman was president of NBC News (1984-88) and PBC (1976-84). He held the Frank Stanton First Amendment Chair at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard (1989-90), was senior fellow and visiting scholar at Columbia University (1990-92) and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Miami (1983). Mr. Grossman was President and CEO of Lawrence K. Grossman, Inc. (1966-76), an advertising company serving public affairs and media clients, and vice president of advertising and promotion at NBC (1962-66). He began his media career at LOOK magazine (1953-56) and CBS Television (1956-62). He has written and lectured extensively on media affairs, most recently as columnist for the Columbia Journalism Review, focusing on broadcast news and the public interest. He is the author of a number of books: The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age, Viking/Penguin (1995); co-author of A Digital Gift to the Nation, Fulfilling the Promise of the Digital and Internet Age, co-editor of Life in an Older America, and Somehow it Works, A Candid Portrait of the 1964 Presidential Election. He serves on the boards of the Federation of American Scientists; Connecticut Public Broadcasting; International Longevity Center, USA; Columbia College Board of Visitors, on the Americans for Libraries Council, the Westport CT Public Library Council, and the International Council for Global Health Progress (Paris); was for many years a judge of the DuPont-Columbia Journalism Awards, and is currently a judge for the Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism at the University of Oregon. Mr. Grossman received his BA with honors from Columbia and attended Harvard Law School. Event Sponsors Microsoft, McGraw-Hill Education, Thomson, Desire2Learn, Ucompass.com, Inc., Jenzabar, HorizonWimba, and eCollege About IMS Global Learning Consortium
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