Educating the Net Generation - Educause

Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Vicki Suter and Jean Kreis for conducting focus
sessions with students and for sharing their observations.
About the Authors
Diana Oblinger is vice president for the EDUCAUSE teaching and learning
initiatives and directs the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII).
Previously, Oblinger served as the vice president for information resources
and the chief information officer for the 16-campus University of North
Carolina system and as a senior fellow for the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied
Research (ECAR). She was the executive director of higher education for
Microsoft Corporation and led the Institute for Academic Technology for IBM.
Oblinger was on the faculty at Michigan State University and the University
of Missouri–Columbia, where she also she served as an academic dean. She
is a graduate of Iowa State University.
James L. Oblinger is the chancellor of North Carolina State University,
a research-extensive land-grant institution with 30,000 students and approximately
2,200 full- and part-time faculty. Previously, he served as
provost and executive vice chancellor, dean and executive director for
agricultural programs of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and
associate dean and director of academic programs at NC State. Oblinger
is also a professor of food science and has held positions at the University
of Missouri–Columbia and the University of Florida. Oblinger received his
bachelor’s degree in bacteriology from DePauw University, his master’s
in food technology from Iowa State University, and his doctorate in food
technology from Iowa State University.
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