Domain 5

Developing and Implementing a Community College Technology Plan: An Annual Process

Wednesday, October 11, 2000
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ETRK08

Ron Brey, Associate VP, Instructional Resources and Technology, Austin Community College District

William E. Carter, Vice Chancellor, Information Technology, Houston Community College

Richard L. Smith, Associate VP, Instructional Resources & Technology, Austin Community College District

Over the past decade, Austin Community College initiated technology initiatives to prepare the college for the 21st century; e.g. a 285-mile fiber optic network. For the FY 2001 school year, the upgrading of existing technologies and new initiatives are included in a comprehensive planning process that includes an Instructional Comprehensive Plan, a College-Wide Technology Plan and appropriate funding. The presentations will discuss the planning, funding and implementation processes and the areas needing refinement.

Digital Subscriber Line Services

Wednesday, October 11, 2000
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. ED00056

Mary L. Pretz-Lawson, Head, Planning and Project Mgmt Office, Carnegie Mellon University

Carlos L. Zertuche, Communication Systems Analyst, Stanford University

Carnegie Mellon and Stanford have independently participated in several Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) trials since 1996. In 1998-1999 both institutions rolled out respective production DSL services. Stanford partnered initially with Covad, and Carnegie Mellon with Bell Atlantic. Both universities retained responsibility for Internet Service Provider functions. Today each has 350-400 subscribers representing all campus sectors. This session will review Stanford and Carnegie Mellon's DSL configurations while focusing on the technical, operational, and support challenges.

Postconference Resource

Digital Video: From the Desktop to Antarctica

Friday, October 13, 2000
9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. ED00067

David N. Hutto, Dean for Technology & Development, Blue Ridge Community College

Mississippi State University has established a digital video production system to support the development of CD-ROMs, interactive distance learning programming, and digital video for instruction and visualization. This presentation will compare the technologies used and present real-world examples of effective applications.

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Digital Video: The Killer App for Internet2?

Thursday, October 12, 2000
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ED00061

Ted Hanss, Director, Enabling Technologies, Medical School, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Digital video use across Internet2 networks has dramatically increased in the past year. Is video the killer app we've been awaiting? This session will help you understand the range of options and learn how to manage it all, including videoconferencing, multicast, searching/indexing, on-demand servers, quality-of-service, and resolutions up to HDTV.

Early Adopters Report: The Complex Schools

Wednesday, October 11, 2000
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ED00062

William R. Aikman, Executive Director, Information Technology Central Services, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Kenneth J. Klingenstein, Director, Internet2 Middleware and Security, Internet2

David Lassner, Vice President for IT & Chief Information Officer, University of Hawaii

Lesley Tolman, Director, University IT Infrastructure, Tufts University

Jinx P. Walton, Director, Computing Services & Systems Development, University of Pittsburgh

Early Adopters is an NSF-sponsored Internet2 effort by eleven universities to deploy enterprisewide core middleware (identifiers, authentication, directories, and security). This panel, composed of IT architects and project leaders from larger, more complex campuses, will compare approaches to date, identifying political and technical decisions and their effectiveness.

Early Adopters Report: The Coordinated Schools

Wednesday, October 11, 2000
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ED00054

Louise Finn, CIO/Assistant VP Technology Services, Loyola University Maryland

Renee Woodten Frost, Director, Technology Transfer and Outreach, Internet2

James I. Penrod, Professor Emeritus, Leadership, The University of Memphis

John J. Suess, Vice President of Information Technology/CIO, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Ann West, Sr. Program Manager, Internet2/InCommon, Michigan Technological University

Early Adopters is an NSF-sponsored Internet2 effort by eleven universities to deploy enterprisewide core middleware. This panel, composed of IT architects and project leaders from smaller, more coordinated campuses, will compare approaches to date, identifying political and technical decisions and their effectiveness.

Federal and State PKI Bridge Evolution: Cutting Across Stovepipes

Thursday, October 12, 2000
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. ED00057

Robert F. German, Jr., Vice President for Information Technology, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Richard Guida, Director, Information Security, Johnson & Johnson

Shirley C. Payne, Assistant VP for Information Security, Policy, and Records, University of Virginia

Representatives from the US Federal and Commonwealth of Virginia PKI Bridge Projects will discuss the challenges of designing technical architectures, policies, and organizational structures for public key infrastructures that meet interoperability needs of multiple entities. The outcomes of both projects and valuable lessons learned will be shared.

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Five Minutes of Fame: Collaboration Is Key

Thursday, October 12, 2000
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ETRK15

Janice Bakal, Associate Director, Learning Technologies and Digital Media, University of Calgary

Sandra Helms Bury, Executive Director, Computing Services, Bradley University

Nancy Frishberg, Executive Director, The New Media Consortium (NMC)

Barbara Gersh, Program Director, The New Media Consortium (NMC)

Cable Green, eLearning Director, Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges

Alicia K. Russell, Director, Educational Technology Center, Northeastern University

Sonny Stowe, Assistant Director for E-Learning, Rochester Institute of Technology

Five Minutes of Fame (SM) is an event--an opportunity for you to glimpse projects that illustrate collaboration in using or developing new media applications in innovative instructional settings. In a rapid paced, informative and entertaining session made up of successive five-minute presentations, we'll highlight these collaborations within the New Media Centers consortium and between members and their larger communities. You'll learn about designing and implementing curricula, professional development, campus-wide projects and systemic infusion of new media techniques and technologies from more than a half dozen institutions.

Getting the FACTS in Florida

Friday, October 13, 2000
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. ED00066

Linda Thanasides, Director, Center for Advising/Academic Support, University of South Florida

Florida has implemented the statewide student information system called Florida Academic Counseling and Tracking for Students (FACTS), a Web-based system that allows real-time communication between institutions. This session will describe the challenges of organizing and developing FACTS and the benefits being recognized by the participants.

Postconference Resource

High Quality Internet Video Conferencing is Here Now!

Thursday, October 12, 2000
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ED00053

Robert S. Dixon, Chief Research Engineer, Office of the CIO, The Ohio State University

Mairead Martin, Senior Director, Digital Library Technologies, Information Technology Services, The Pennsylvania State University

High-quality, full-screen, full-motion Internet video conferencing is now a reality and in daily use by universities throughout the world. This presentation will discuss starter systems and include live video conferences with people actually using this technology now for distant instruction and collaboration.

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How Evolving Technologies Will Impact Higher Education

Friday, October 13, 2000
9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. ED00108

Marcia Deddens, Academic Director for Outreach and Services, University of Cincinnati

Richard M. Kogut, Associate Vice Chancellor and CIO, University of California, Merced

Mark Luker, Telecommunications Policy Specialist-NTIA, United States Department of Commerce

Laura Joyce Moriarty, Business Analyst, Emory University

Jan Thomson, Deputy Director Faculty Programs, Stanford University

The new EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee is charged with identifying and keeping abreast of evolving technologies and their impact on higher education institutions, and collectively sharing information about evolving technology products, services, and trends to the EDUCAUSE staff and membership. Members of this committee, who are generally responsible for tracking new technologies for their campuses, have studied the most important technology trends for this year and the next and will present their results for discussion with the audience.

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Java Pays: Delivering a Mission-Critical Enterprise Time Collection System that Works

Wednesday, October 11, 2000
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ED00051

Thomas Dimock, Distributed Systems Architect, Cornell University

This session will explain how Cornell created in-house software used by over 9,000 employees for entering hours worked, collecting time for the university's entire hourly payroll. Discussion will include the planning and development, PeopleSoft integration, training, and maintenance aspects that made Cornell's system an unremitting success since going live in 1998.

Media-Rich Learning through Universal Computing and Wireless Thin Client

Wednesday, October 11, 2000
10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. ED00050

Mark Cain, Interim Chief Technology Officer, University of Puget Sound

The College of Mount St. Joseph has implemented universal computing using "wireless thin client," a merger of three technologies: large CE devices, wireless networking, and Terminal Server/MetaFrame. This approach is powerful, low-maintenance, and inexpensive. The presentation will describe the project and the "media-rich learning environment" wireless thin client makes possible.

Postconference Resource

Moving Faculty to Web-Based Assessment: It's a Question of Perception

Friday, October 13, 2000
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. ETRK26

Rich Edwards, Professor Learning Services, Kirkwood Community College

Educational institutions are increasingly challenged to directly assess academic achievement to assure students are learning what faculty intend to teach and to identify ways to improve instruction. Learn how one community college infused Web-based assessment across a variety of disciplnes to address this critical issue.

Now That We've Wired Everything, You Want to Connect Where? A Wireless Pilot Story

Thursday, October 12, 2000
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. ED00064

James Bauchkey, Director, Systems & Communications Support, Seton Hall University

Michael Fluharty, Director, Higher Education, Systems & Svcs, Symbol Technologies, Inc.

Phillip D. Long, Prof. of Innovation & Visiting Research Scientist, MIT

After having spent decades wiring our campuses to provide high-speed, fiber-based network connectivity, the development of wireless LAN technologies has emerged to challenge our thinking. Where, if anywhere, is wireless networking a viable alternative to traditional wired connections? For what purposes does wireless make sense? This session will report on a small pilot project looking at the use of wireless networking in three contexts: so-called "wet labs," the library, and public spaces. For whom is wireless an answer?

Public Key Infrastructure

Wednesday, October 11, 2000
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ETRK05

Ira H. Fuchs, VP for Research in Information Technology, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Michael R. Gettes, Senior Consulting Technical Architect, MIT

Clair W. Goldsmith, Senior Advisor for Information Technology, University of Texas System

Kenneth J. Klingenstein, Director, Internet2 Middleware and Security, Internet2

Net@EDU's PKI working group has made progress in the last year in understanding the state of the art, the outstanding problems, and who is doing what in PKI within higher education as well as in industry and government. This session will provide an update on the group's activities and PKI in higher education to date, including the progress of the Higher Education PKI technical and policy action groups and version 0.9 of the eduperson LDAP object class.

Reaping the Benefits from a Campus ATM Converged Network

Wednesday, October 11, 2000
10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. ED00049

Rick Fritz, Director, Communications and Networks (Retired), Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Geoffrey T. Spencer, Business Development Consultant

Communications architectures have traditionally required separate infrastructures for voice, data, and video, but emerging technologies are allowing for the fusion of these applications. Exploring new technologies for its learning environment, Millersville University of Pennsylvania recently upgraded its campus network to an ATM backbone, allowing the institution to deploy campuswide voice and video applications over ATM and thereby yielding numerous economies of scale. This session will present the advantages and implementation considerations of leveraging an ATM network on campus through Millersville's example.

Technology Abuse Incident Tracking at Indiana University

Thursday, October 12, 2000
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ED00060

Mark S. Bruhn, AVP, Indiana University System

Intrusions, probes, denial of service attacks, mail relay, and other offenses against technology environments from external sources are increasing. Local user bases are growing, and the technical sophistication of students is increasing-with a corresponding increase in internal misuse of technical resources. This session will discuss Indiana University's local automated tracking system and procedures designed to make responding to these events more manageable.

Virtual Rounds: H.323 Videoconferencing in Veterinary Medical Education

Thursday, October 12, 2000
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. ED00063

Mairead Martin, Senior Director, Digital Library Technologies, Information Technology Services, The Pennsylvania State University

Michael Sims, Professor, Veterinary Medicine, The University of Tennessee

Virtual Rounds is a H.323 videoconferencing application being developed by the colleges of veterinary medicine at the University of Tennessee and Auburn University, enabling the sharing of live animal clinical cases. This presentation will describe the technical solutions, lessons learned, and outcomes to date.

Voice over IP: How Is It Playing in Higher Education?

Friday, October 13, 2000
9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. ED00109

Joanne R. Hugi, Associate VP, Information Services (retired), University of Oregon

E. Michael Staman, Peyton Anderson Professor for IT, Macon State College

Using Internet technology to handle traditional voice traffic provides opportunities to reduce costs, integrate networks and expand communications services. Or does it? EDUCAUSE's Net@EDU VoIP group, with a little help from the National Science Foundation, has been exploring the economic, technical, operations and policy issues associated with this still emerging technology. The VoIP group recently assembled a group of experts to assess the current state-of-the-art, ask hard questions and suggest strategies for higher education. This session will be the first look at their findings and recommendations.

Wireless Andrew: An Update on Lessons Learned

Thursday, October 12, 2000
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. ED00058

Charles R. Bartel, Director of Global IT Services, Carnegie Mellon University

"Wireless Andrew," the high-speed wireless infrastructure at Carnegie Mellon University, is the largest installation of its type anywhere. Started as a research network in 1994 to support Carnegie Mellon's wireless research initiative, Wireless Andrew has been dramatically expanded this year, installed in many of the academic and administrative buildings on campus. Presenters will discuss the challenges and opportunities faced in turning the vision of continuous connectivity into a reality.

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Wireless Laptops for the Library and the Portable Classroom

Wednesday, October 11, 2000
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. ED00055

Eugene A. Engeldinger, Vice President for Academic Information Services, Carthage College

Michael G. Love, Head of Media Services, Carthage College

Angela Myatt Quick, Head of Library Public Services, Carthage College

Carol Sabbar, Director, Computer Services, Carthage College

This presentation provides the rationale for, plus the strengths and weakness of, adopting wireless technology to provide access to network resources anywhere on campus. We will discuss our library project where wireless laptops can be checked out by individuals to access network resources and our Portable Wireless Electronic Classroom (PWEC), which makes any classroom a computer classroom.

Wireless Technology in the Library: The RIT Experience

Thursday, October 12, 2000
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ED00059

Patricia Albanese, CIO and Executive Director of LITS, Mount Holyoke College

Michael Robertson, Software Specialist, Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester Institute of Technology's Wallace Library was the first to introduce wireless technology to the RIT campus, offering a new way to deliver information. Circulation of wireless laptops in the library, equipment chosen, circulation procedures, usage of laptops, and benefits to patrons will be described.