Dr. Larry Johnson is an American

United States

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  futurist, author, and educator. Since 2001, Dr. Johnson has served as Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium

New Media Consortium

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 an international consortium of hundreds of universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies.

Contributions

The NMC’s annual "Horizon Report", is the most visible component of the Horizon Project, which Johnson founded and has led since its inception in 2002. The report has since become one of the leading tools used by senior executives in universities and museums to set priorities for technology planning in more than 75 countries. Since 2005, Johnson has collaborated with Rachel S. Smith in the writing of this report. In 2006, Alan Levine joined the production team, and Keene Haywood joined in 2010. In 2011, Samantha Adams succeeded Smith as the project's lead researcher and writer. In 2011, Horizon Report downloads surpassed the 500,000 mark and worldwide readership approached a million people. The NMC’s landmark nine-years-and-counting study of emerging technology continued with the release of the "2011 Horizon Report" in January 2011. A brand new museum edition was released in October 2010 to the museum community, along with reports for K-12 education and for Australia - New Zealand. The Horizon Project expanded to Latin America in that year, when for the first time, a Horizon research cycle was conducted completely in Spanish. The 2010 Horizon Report: Edicion Iberoamericana was released in July 2010.

Johnson has organized summits and large-scale projects around topics such as Visual literacy, learning objects, educational gaming, the future of scholarship, and the 3D web.
In April 2008, Johnson presented testimony to the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet

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 on the nature and state of virtual worlds.

In 2009, Johnson helped the NMC and the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation formalize their longstanding collaboration in support of the visual arts in Texas with the launch of the Edward and Betty Marcus Institute for Digital Education in the Arts (MIDEA), and served as its founding director. An outgrowth of the earlier Digital Education Project for Texas Art Museums, MIDEA built on that four-year systemic effort to increase the capacity of museums across Texas and beyond to use new media to tell compelling stories about art and their collections. The project provides a hub for Texas museum professionals to learn about and discuss all forms of digital media, as well as ongoing training and support for digital arts education. (The project continues its unique work with Texas art museums that has become known as the Texas Testbed.) The learnings from this project inform the national and international efforts of many museums and museum-based organizations all over the world.

An author of several books, numerous chapters, dozens of articles, and principal investigator for several important national and international studies, he has been recognized for his research by the American Association of Community Colleges and the American Association of University Administrators.

Background

In 2006, Johnson marked 25 years of service in higher education, most recently as CEO of the New Media Consortium, and previously as president and CEO of Fox Valley Technical College

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, a community college serving more than 20,000 FTE in Appleton, Wisconsin. His experiential base includes service at both very large and very small institutions and positions at every level and across all the major areas of college and university work.

Between 1993 and 1996, he served as vice president for the Innovation in the Community College, working at the national level to take the story of community colleges to governmental, foundation, and corporate leaders across the country. As director of the League's Information Technology Initiative, he coordinated what was at the time the world’s largest higher education technology conference, the international Conferene of Information Technology.

He serves on a number of boards, including the Adobe Systems

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Higher Education Advisory Board, the Advanced Defense Learning Initiative National Advisory Board, the virtual International Spaceflight Museum, and the Academic Commons Board of Directors.

Education

• Harvard Institute for Educational Management, 1998, Harvard University. Postdoctoral study of leadership issues in higher education.
• Executive Leadership Institute, 1995, The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with the League for Innovation in the Community College. Postdoctoral study of leadership issues in community colleges.
• Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Administration, 1993, Community College Leadership Program The University of Texas at Austin Dissertation: “Relationship of Performance in Developmental Mathematics to Academic Success in College-Level Algebra.”
• Master of Business Administration in Finance, 1988, Southwest Texas State University Thesis: “The Evolution of Asset Pricing Theory.”
• Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, with a minor in Computer Science, 1975, The University of Texas at Austin

Recognitions

• Distinguished Graduate, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000
• American Association of Community Colleges Sloan Research Award, 1997
• American Association of University Administrators Goodman-Malamuth Research Award, 1994

Selected keynote addresses

• The 2011 Horizon Report: Museum Edition. ATHENA Project Closing Conference, Rome, April 28, 2011
• The Horizon Project Navigator. 2011 HP Catalyst Worldwide Summit, New Delhi, India, March 10, 2011
• Generations. National Association of College Stores, Houston, February 25, 2011
• 2011 Horizon Report. EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Conference. Washington, DC. February 14, 2011.
• Generations. Education World Forum, Ministerial Exchange Keynote With Martin Bean, Pro Vice Chancellor, Open University, London, January 11, 2010
• Generations. Educa Online Berlin. Berlin, Germany. December 3, 2010
• Through the Lens, Darkly. Museum Computer Network. Austin, Texas. October 28, 2010
• Seven Channels of Change. SingTel i.luminate. Singapore. September 21, 2010
• The Horizon Report: Iberoamerican Edition. Virtual Educa. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. June 24, 2010
• Siete Canales de Cambio. Virtual Educa. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. June 24, 2010
• Seven Ways Technology is Unfolding, Everywhere We Look. 13th Annual Conference on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Austin, Texas. June 16, 2010
• The Horizon Project Metatrends. Open University of Japan Faculty Convocation. Tokyo. May 24, 2010
• Seven Things Impacting Technology: Horizon Metatrends 2010. University of Texas Leadership Forum. UT Austin. May 19, 2010
• Education Futures (Keynote Panel). Collab Tech Summit Case Western University. Cleveland, Ohio. May 6, 2010
• Seven Channels of Change. 11th Annual CiTE conference. Denver, Colorado. April 12, 2010
• Seven Ways Technology is Unfolding, Everywhere We Loo. Educational Technology Showcase. Baylor University. April 7, 2010
• Into the Rabbit Hole. GameTech. Orlando. March 31, 2010
• Seven Channels of Change for Museums. Webwise - the IMLS Annual conference. Denver Colorado. March 4, 2010
• Seven Ways Technology is Unfolding, Everywhere We Look. 2010 HP Innovations in Education Worldwide Summit. San Jose, California. February 23, 2010
• Seven Channels of Change. American Council on Education. Washington, DC. February 4, 2010
• The 2010 Horizon Report. EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Conference. Austin, Texas. January 19, 2010
• Seven Ways Technology is Unfolding, Everywhere We Look. Learning and Technology World Forum. London. January 12, 2010
• Seven Ways Technology is Unfolding, Everywhere We Look. Victorian Instructional Technology Teachers Association. Melbourne, Australia. November 23, 2009
• Future Scenarios. World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). Doha Qatar. November 18, 2009
• El Informe Horizon. Faculty Convocation at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain. October 16, 2009
• Seven Ways Technology is Changing Everything. National Broadband Network Symposium. Brisbane Australia. September 25, 2009
• Seven Things Impacting Technology: Horizon Metatrends 2009. St Edward's University Leadership Forum. Austin, Texas. Aug 31, 2009
• Educational Leaders Forum: Seven Channels of Change. UNESCO World Congress on Higher Education. Paris, France. July 9, 2009
• Seven Channels of Change. University of Texas Leadership Forum. Austin, Texas. May 19, 2009
• Horizon Metatrends 2009. Collab Tech Case Western University. Cleveland, Ohio. May 7, 2009
• Seven Channels of Change. USC Teaching with Technology Conference. University of Southern California. May 5, 2009
• The Horizon Metatrends. Keynote address to the annual ACM Special interest Group on University and College Computing Services. Portland, Oregon. October 19, 2008.
• From 30,000 Feet: The Horizon Project at Five Years. Vision 2020: Digital Ubiquity & University Transformation. Cincinnati OH, August 6, 2008
• Down the Rabbit Hole: The NMC's Journey into Virtual Worlds. Alliance for Information Science and Technology Innovation (AISTI) Annual Mini-Conference. Santa Fe, NM, May 12–14, 2008
• Horizon Project Metatrends. 2008 Eduserve Foundation Symposium; London, UK, May 8–9, 2008.
• Thru the Looking Glass: Why virtual worlds matter, where they are heading, and why we are all here. Federal Virtual Worlds Expo. Washington, DC, April 23–24, 2008.
• Social Networking, the “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication. 2008 Teaching in Community Colleges Conference; April 15, 2008 .
• Why Virtual Worlds? Association for Managers of Innovation Virtual Conference, hosted by the University of the Pacific; April 15, 2008 via Second Life.
• Creativity Matters. Address to the faculty of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts; New Orleans, LA, April 16–18, 2008

Selected publications

• Laurence F. Johnson, Holly Witchey (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition, Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, pages 37–40, January 2011
• Johnson, Laurence F. (2010). Siete Canales de Cambio: Cómo el desarrollo de la tecnología está cambiando, allí donde miremos. Santo Domingo: Virtual Educa.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Smith, Rachel S., Levine, Alan, and Haywood, K. (2010) The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Smith, Rachel S., Levine, Alan, and Haywood, K. (2010) The 2010 Horizon Report: Australian-New Zealand Edition. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Smith, Rachel S., Levine, Alan, and Haywood, K. The 2010 Horizon Report: K12 Edition. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Witchey, H., Smith, Rachel S., Levine, Alan, and Haywood, K. The 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
• García, I. Peña-López, I; Johnson, L., Smith, R., Levine, A., & Haywood, K. (2010). Informe Horizon: Edición Iberoamericana 2010. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F. (2009) Closing Comments: 2010 Symposium for the Future. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F.; Smith, Rachel S.; Smythe, J. Troy; Varon, Rachel K. (2009). Challenge-Based Learning: An Approach for Our Time. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F. (2009) Seven Channels of Change. Berlin: Educa Online.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Smith, Rachel S., and Levine, Alan. (2009) The 2009 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Smith, Rachel S., and Levine, Alan. (2009) The 2009 Horizon Report: Australian-New Zealand Edition. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Smith, Rachel S., and Levine, Alan. (2009) The 2009 Horizon Report: Economic Development Edition. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Smith, Rachel S., and Levine, Alan. (2009) The 2009 Horizon Report: K12 Edition. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Smith, Rachel S., and Levine, Alan. (2009) Communique_ from the Open EdTech Summit 2009 -- A Call to Action. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F. (2009) Closing Comments: 2009 Symposium for the Future. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Smith, Rachel S., and Levine, Alan. Horizon Report: 2008 Australia-New Zealand Edition. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2008.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Smith, Rachel S., and Levine, Alan. (2009) Horizon Project Metatrends: Seven Long-Term Influences on Educational Technology. Chapter in Guofang Wan & Dianne Gut (Eds.). Bringing Schools into the 21st Century. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer Publishing.
• Johnson, Larry, Samis, P, Smith, R., Varon, R., and Witchey, H. (2008) Into the Breach: How Creative Philanthropy Can Reverse the Eroding Landscape of Arts Education. An NMC White Paper: The New Media Consortium, Austin, Texas. September, 2008.
• Johnson, Larry (2008) Multimedia for Peanuts: The Pachyderm Project at Five. First Monday, 13:8. August 2008.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium. House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Washington, DC, 2008.
• Johnson, Laurence F. and Levine, Alan H. (2008) Virtual Worlds: Inherently Immersive, Highly Social Learning Spaces, Theory Into Practice, 47:2, 161 – 170.
• Johnson, Laurence F., Smith, Rachel S., and Levine, Alan. The Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
• Johnson, Larry. Why Creativity Matters. An NMC Whitepaper. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2007.
• Johnson, Laurence F. Foreword. In Learning Objects for Instruction: Design and Evaluation by Pamela T. Northrup. Hershey, Pennsylvania: Information Science Publishing, 2007.
• Johnson, Laurence F. and Smith, Rachel S. 2007 Horizon Report: A Call to Scholarship. An NMC Whitepaper. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2007.
• Samis, Peter, Johnson, Laurence F., and Smith, Rachel S. Pachyderm: From Multimedia to Visual Stories. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, Fall 2007 Vol. 19(1), 3-25.
• Smith, Rachel S. and Johnson, Laurence F. Social Networking, The “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication. An NMC Whitepaper. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2007.
• Johnson, Larry. The Sea Change Before Us. EDUCAUSE Review. Boulder: EDUCAUSE, March/April 2006.
• Johnson, Laurence F and Smith, Rachel S. A Global Imperative: The Report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2005.
• Johnson, Laurence F. and Samis, Peter S. Taking Teaching by the Tusks: Introducing Pachyderm 2.0. Toronto, Ontario: Archives and Museum Informatics, 2005.
• Johnson, Laurence F. Elusive Vision: Challenges Impeding the Learning Object Economy. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2003.
• Johnson, Laurence F. “Into the Breach: A National Study of Computers and the At-Risk.” Chapter in Milliron, M.D. and Miles, C.L., Editors. Taking a Big Picture Look @ Technology, Learning, & the Community College. Mission Viejo, California: League for Innovation in the Community College, 2000.
• Roueche, John E., Johnson, Laurence F., and Roueche, Suanne D. Embracing the Tiger: The Institutional Effectiveness Debate in the Community College. Washington, D.C.: Community College Press, 1997.
• Johnson, Larry. “Computers and At Risk Students: A National Study of Successful Strategies for Developmental Students.” Lead Chapter in Core Issues in Community Colleges. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Community Colleges, 1997.
• Roueche, John E., Johnson, Laurence F., and Roueche, Suanne D. “Writing the Tale of the Institutional Effectiveness Tiger.” Southern Association of Community, Junior, and Technical Colleges Occasional Paper. Vol. 15, No. 1, September 1997.
• Roueche, John E., Johnson, Laurence F., and Roueche, Suanne D. “Embracing the Tiger: The Institutional Effectiveness Challenge.” Leadership Abstracts. Vol. 10, no. 8, August, 1997.
• Roueche, John E., Johnson, Laurence F., and Roueche, Suanne D. “Embracing the Institutional Effectiveness Tiger.” Community College Journal. Vol. 67, No. 5, April/May 1997.
• Johnson, Larry, Lever-Duffy, Judy, and Lemke, Randall, Editors. Learning Without Limits: Distance Learning in the Community College. Mission Viejo, California: League for Innovation in the Community College, 1996.
• Johnson, Laurence F., “Relationship of Performance in Developmental Mathematics to Academic Success in College-Level Algebra.” Community College Journal of Research and Practice. Vol. 20, No. 4, June, 1996.
• Johnson, Larry, Editor. Common Ground: Exemplary Community College and Corporate Partnerships. Mission Viejo, California: League for Innovation in the Community College, 1996.
• Johnson, Larry and LaBello, Sharon, Editors. The 21st Century Community College: Technology and the New Learning Paradigm. Tallahassee, Florida: International Business Machines Corporation, 1996.
• Johnson, Larry, “Regarding Technology.” Leadership Abstracts. Vol. 8, no. 11, November, 1995.
• Johnson, Larry, “Regarding the Perfectly Technological Chair” Academic Leadership. Journal of the National Chair Academy. Vol. 3, no. 1, October, 1995.
• Johnson, Larry, “Does all this Technology make a Difference?” Innovation Abstracts. September, 1994.
• Roueche, John and Larry Johnson. “A New View of the Mission of Higher Education,” Leadership Abstracts, Vol. 7, No. 1, January, 1994.
• Johnson, Laurence F., “Relationship of Performance in Developmental Mathematics to Academic Success in College-Level Algebra.” Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993.
• Dubose, Terry, James Cunyus, and Laurence Johnson, “Embryonic Heart Rate and Age,” Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Vol. 6, May/June 1990.