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Reception

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Dinner

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Breakfast

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Welcome and Introduction

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• Richard N. Katz, Vice President, EDUCAUSE

Closing the Global IT Capacity Gap

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• Ernest J. Wilson, III, Dean, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California

Abstract

IT success hinges increasingly on our capacity to create and sustain a senior leadership cadre (e-leaders) able to mobilize the most appropriate IT resources to advance organizational purposes. They must be able to integrate multiple factors into a single strategy. A number of key factors have combined to create a growing gap between the need for e-leaders and their current supply. Closing this gap requires fixing both coordination between senior organizational executives and their chief IT officers, and coordination between information and communication technology experts in government and those in private firms, universities, and nonprofits. This session will suggest essential individual competencies and organizational capacities required for success.

Welcome to My World

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• Robert Albrecht, ECAR Senior Fellow, EDUCAUSE
• Joanne M. Kossuth, Vice President for Operations and CIO, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
• Elizabeth D. Liddy, Dean, iSchool, Syracuse University
• Blair Lord, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs, Eastern Illinois University
• Kathie Sigler, President, Higher Education & Technology Consultants

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If improving the coordination between campus IT executives and the institution's general managers is key, this session will examine what CIOs expect from these general managers and what campus leaders expect from their CIOs. Where do our expectations match and where might there be gaps? This conversation will examine issues of leadership and organizational capacity from several institutional vantage points.

Refreshment Break

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The Gap between Hype and Reality

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• Anne Thomas Manes, VP & Research Director, Burton Group

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IT is a victim of fashion. Every year some new idea grabs our attention. Since 2003, we've seen SaaS, SOA, RIA, Web 2.0., and Enterprise 2.0 (so 2007!). In 2008, it's cloud computing. While all of these ideas are exciting, how much of the excitement is just hype? What's required to achieve the benefits promised by the latest technology fad? This session will examine the ups and downs of technology "fashion" and what's needed to benefit from the latest trend.

Lunch

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The Talent Gap

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• Richard N. Katz, Vice President, EDUCAUSE

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In the next decade, much of the developed world will witness the retirement of much of its current leadership. The generation that follows the path of the baby boomers is a small one by comparison. At the same time, it has become clear that talent—and in particular the capacity to develop intellectual capital—is the key to the wealth of modern nations. These forces conspire to suggest what some refer to as "looming wars for talent." Colleges and universities at one level are among the greatest aggregators of talent. How will higher education fare in the increasingly competitive climate for academic talent? How might scarcities affect both the primary mission of the institution and our capacity to deliver the needed IT services and infrastructure?

Closing the E-Research Gap

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• Richard E. Luce, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, Emory University

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The rise of new research methods and practices in e-science and e-research yield very different information support challenges and opportunities for libraries, IT professionals, and information scientists. Beyond substantive requirements for supporting data science and data repositories, new forms of collaboration require different types of infrastructure support. Traditional roles played by the library—that of organization, access, and preservation—must be augmented by new capabilities in automatically describing, annotating, and manipulating a wide spectrum of collaborative, data-intensive information resources. This session will provide an overview of some of the emerging e-research requirements and will outline the corresponding organizational, staffing, and infrastructure requirements for libraries and academic IT organizations.

Refreshment Break

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Hello, Central? Put Me Through to 2011!

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• Mark C. Sheehan, ECAR Fellow, EDUCAUSE

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In the next eight weeks, ECAR will wrap up its study of messaging and communications. Principal investigator Mark Sheehan has found a number of cross-connects, loops, and splices among the data and invites you to help him track down future trends in this interactive research review session.

Here, You Drive! How to Engage with ECAR

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• Toby D. Sitko, ECAR Fellow, EDUCAUSE

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There are many ways to get involved with the work of ECAR. Each year, many of you author research bulletins or host ECAR case study teams. We'll explore how you and your colleagues can get more engaged with ECAR's current and future programs and services. Ideas you bring to this discussion will make us all stronger!

Send in the Clouds

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• Philip J. Goldstein, ECAR Fellow, EDUCAUSE

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This session will discuss how cloud computing will impact IT organizations and explore the following questions: Is cloud computing hype or a real force for change? What is its real promise? How should IT organizations take best advantage of the opportunity?

What Do You Need to Know about Data Management in Higher Education?

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• Ronald Yanosky, ECAR Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, EDUCAUSE

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ECAR is developing a new study on data management practices and policies. Come help principal investigator Ron Yanosky identify the aspects of this complex topic that would be most valuable for ECAR to explore. Win fame and glory (or at least, thanks and acknowledgment) if we use your survey questions!

ECAR Office Hours

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Meet in informal sessions with ECAR research bulletin authors and others on topics of interest, including green IT, project management, collaboration, cyberinfrastructure, and IT support for medical education.

Andrew J. Clark, Nurturing Project Management in Higher Education IT
Bruce A. Metz, IT Engagement in the Future of Medical Education
Judith A. Pirani, Happy Families, Good Fences, and Winning IT Collaborations
Donald Z. Spicer, Climate Change, Campus Commitments, and IT

Breakfast

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Welcome Day 2

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• Richard N. Katz, Vice President, EDUCAUSE

The Technology and Scholarship Gap

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• Paul N. Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

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Information technology ought to be an unambiguous boon to scholarship and teaching. It makes it easier than ever to find and to use prior work, to obtain comments and criticism (constructive and otherwise), and to provide high-quality copies of original material to broad audiences, including students. And yet there is widespread concern that traditional scholarly methods are put at risk by easy searches online. I want to persuade everyone that the stakes are very high. Scholarly method is more important than ever when some answer to almost any question is quickly available online. And if we are able to combine old values and methods with the best of new technologies, we can transform teaching, learning, and the academy generally for the better. Both the best and the worst of times look to be available. What will it take to choose the best?

The Evolution of the Mobile Campus: The Mobility Gap

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• Paul E. Fisher, Jr., Director, Teaching, Learning & Technology Center, Seton Hall University
• Stephen G. Landry, Chief Information Officer, Seton Hall University

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In 1996 Seton Hall University made a commitment to become a mobile campus by providing a laptop computer to each member of the learning community. In the past decade the notion of what it means to be a mobile campus has evolved as the focus shifted from laptops to networks to mobile services. This session will explore the evolution of mobile computing and how the university is leveraging the new generation of highly mobile devices to enhance student learning and community building.

Refreshment Break

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A Digital Tumble Bumble (Generation Gap): How Today’s Children Manage in an Environment of Constant Connection

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• Lisa Guernsey, Education and Technology Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education

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It has been lamented and lauded at the same time, but few dispute that today's children are growing up in an environment very different from 10 or 15 years ago. Electronic media is all around them, images can be captured and distributed within seconds, and connections to people and information are instantaneous. Educators crave a deeper understanding of how this environment will change—and is already changing—the way young people think, play, and learn. This talk will not offer definitive answers. But it will deliver slices of new research that offer insights while bypassing the marketing hype.

Close and Adjourn

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• Richard N. Katz, Vice President, EDUCAUSE