Laurence F. Johnson

Dr. Larry Johnson (born December 17, 1950 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American futurist, author, and educator. Since 2001, Dr. Johnson has served as Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium an international consortium of hundreds of universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies.[1]

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Contributions

The NMC’s annual "Horizon Report",[2] 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"[3] in January 2011. A brand new museum edition was released in October 2010[4] to the museum community, along with reports for K-12 education[5] and for Australia - New Zealand[6]. 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[7] was released in July 2010.

Johnson has organized summits and large-scale projects around topics such as Visual literacy,[8] learning objects,[9] educational gaming,[10] the future of scholarship,[11] and the 3D web.[12] In April 2008, Johnson presented testimony to the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet on the nature and state of virtual worlds.[13][14]

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[15] and the American Association of University Administrators.[16]

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, 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,[17] 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.[18]

He serves on a number of boards, including the Adobe Systems Higher Education Advisory Board, the Advanced Defense Learning Initiative National Advisory Board,[19] the virtual International Spaceflight Museum,[20] and the Academic Commons Board of Directors.[21]

Education

Recognitions

Selected keynote addresses

Selected publications

References

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  13. ^ Energycommerce.house.gov, written testimony.
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  17. ^ League for Innovation in the Community College League.org
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