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We are dedicated to empowering higher education leaders to deliver innovative learning to students at colleges and universities.

Backed by the trusted Tech & Learning brand and compelling editorial leadership, Tech & Learning University is the only digital resource providing critical edtech insights that will enhance the student experience.

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A growing community of higher education leaders.

As we cultivate this community, we continuously seek the insight and critique of our readers through the new Advisory Board. Our board members, sourced from our current reader base, aid in informing the topics that are important to the community to augment our authority in the industry.

Director of Learning Spaces, Indiana University Manages Classroom Technology Services, Learning Space Design, Collaboration Technologies, and Student Technology Computing

Professor of Educational Technology and Media, University of ReginaInternationally acclaimed speaker with 132.5k Twitter followers (@courosa)

Tech & Learning University includes an advisory board of higher education innovators that help shape the content and vision for this new resource. Our Advisors are higher education thought leaders from IT, AV, and Instruction who provide counsel on Tech & Learning University’s content, ensuring this resource offers the best edtech insights to help readers enhance the student experience and drive innovative learning.

With their insights, Tech & Learning University will become a hub where practitioners and decision makers share not just the best new tech, but how to ensure that tech is driving innovation.

Advisors include:

Rico D’Amore, Director of the Academic Services Technology at Benefictine University

Christopher Dechter, Principal Learning Space Engineer at Indiana University

Robb Mann, member of the Information Technology Services department at UNCW

Maddie Vining, Senior Audio Visual Technician at 1 Wimpole Street

Curtis Carver, Vice President for Information Technology and CIO at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Writes over 10,000 words per year for industry trade magazines. Having moved from positions in IT to work in the industry, he has a unique view of the topic of the integration the two areas.

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Our growing content library is dedicated to serving those who influence, purchase, and use technology in the higher education classroom.

We provide the insight to integrate tech into the institution and deliver innovative education to student.

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Tech & Learning University provides the actionable insights and information higher ed technology decision makers need to ensure their colleges and universities remain on the cutting edge, attract and retain students, and support instruction through the meaningful use of technology.

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