Disaster Planning: Maintaining Academic Programs During a Pandemic

Session Details

Thursday, October 25, 2007
8:10 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Ballroom 6B

Session Type: Featured Speaker

Speaker(s)

Catherine L. Kelley, Assistant Provost, Educational Technology, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Jonathan Mathews, Assistant Professor, The Pennsylvania State University
Daniel TH Tan, Director, Centre for Educational Development, Nanyang Technological University
Session moderator: Peter Siegel, Vice Provost & CIO, University of California, Davis
Session convener: Norma B. Holland, EDUCAUSE Fellow, EDUCAUSE

Abstract

Many campuses are exploring how information technologies might play a critical role, when disaster strikes, in ensuring the continuity of their most essential business, educating students. This panel will explore how Web-based services can be used to minimize the impact on instruction of a significant shutdown of the physical campus. Not all disasters have the same uniform impact; this panel will emphasize how to plan the process, from course preparation to delivery, for pandemics like Avian Flu.

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More Information

For more information, see:

http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DisasterPlanningMain/45356