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Featured SpeakersBuilding Consensus on a Campus Technology StrategyWednesday, October 31, 2001 Robert B. Kvavik, Associate Vice President for Planning, University of Minnesota Building a consensus on a campus technology strategy is like trying to put socks on an octopus. Kvavik elaborates on the conditions that produce division and cohesion in the information organization and postulates a set of necessary requisites for building a stable consensus among the key parties-faculty, the IT organization, and the administration. IT Leadership in the 21st Century: The Ultimate Oxymoron or the Ultimate Challenge?Tuesday, October 30, 2001 J. Gary Augustson, Vice Provost for Information Technology, The Pennsylvania State University As we edge into the 21st century, with turbulent change on all sides, serious questions have arisen about the type of leadership higher education needs to guide its IT agenda in the coming years. The speaker for this session will pull no punches in examining these questions from the perspective of more than 35 years in the industry, nearly 20 of them spent leading the IT activities of one of the nation's largest comprehensive research universities. Come listen to his thoughts and debate these important issues with him and your colleagues. IT Security in Higher EducationMonday, October 29, 2001 Michael A. McRobbie, President, Indiana University System Hacking for illegal or unauthorized purposes was once the preserve of those with a deep knowledge of operating systems and networks. However, with the proliferation of widely available tools that encapsulate much of this knowledge and that are easily upgraded, illegal and unauthorized hacking has now become possible for a much wider audience. Not surprisingly, then, there has been a major upsurge of IT security incidents in the relatively open higher education environment during the past few years. Universities are not defense agencies; however, the tidal wave of automated hacking makes it essential for higher education to move IT security from a neglected backwater to a top priority with the active engagement of a university's senior management and adequate resources. This presentation argues the case for this and describes some of Indiana University's activities in this area. Making Soup Without Liquid: Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues Affecting Technology Decisions in Higher EducationTuesday, October 30, 2001 Marjorie Hodges Shaw, Special Advisor to the CIO, University of Rochester John Oliver, a San Diego-based systems administrator, recently remarked that "any technical endeavor that ignores social aspects is doomed to failure. It's like making soup without liquid." This presentation will discuss the current legal, ethical, and social issues that should influence information technology decisions in institutions of higher education. Topics will include copyright, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and file sharing applications (MP3.com, NAPSTER, etc.); privacy and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act; the First Amendment, Academic Freedom and appropriate use; policy development strategies; model educational efforts designed to encourage ethical use of computers; and tips about how to make decisions about technology use in an uncertain legal atmosphere. Managing TransformationMonday, October 29, 2001 John C. Hitt, President, University of Central Florida Academic leadership and information technology publications are filled with articles on institutional transformation. Do institutional leaders actually set out to achieve transformation as a declared goal, or is transformation merely a byproduct of other processes? If transformation is to be a goal, how can institutional leadership give it substance and direction? Is transformation desirable? Is it controllable? How can IT leadership join with institutional leadership to align institutional transformation with the institution's goals and directions? Preparing for the Future: Predictions, Practice, and PragmatismMonday, October 29, 2001 Diana G. Oblinger, President and CEO, EDUCAUSE How do higher education institutions prepare themselves for an uncertain future? A host of emerging capabilities may alter our current practices. For example, how will learning communities, transformative assessment and e-portfolios impact the existing IT infrastructure and support system? What new policies, funding streams and faculty adoption strategies will be required? This session will begin by drawing a vision of the future, based on today's leading-edge practices and technology futures. The session will then focus on a pragmatic view of what institutions can do to ensure they are prepared for the future. The Institutional Web: A Lens to Living and LearningTuesday, October 30, 2001 Carl W. Jacobson, Vice President & CIO Information Technologies, University of Delaware The institutional Web has become a multifaceted lens that shapes our view of learning and living. This institutional lens resolves disparate information sources, effectively changes the way we facilitate learning, improves routine business, and uniquely identifies and brands the institution. Through this lens we project an official instance of the institution, while our customers focus on uniquely tailored, personal views of the institution. See how Web personalization, community, and mobility enable this vision while effective collaboration, cooperation, and interoperability provide the leverage needed to achieve this vision. The Next Killer App: And You Thought Administrative Computing Was Expensive!Tuesday, October 30, 2001 Carl F. Berger, Retired, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor We are at the convergence of technological, pedagogical, and administrative changes in higher education that could generate the "killer app" for students and teachers. With open knowledge initiatives, wireless, new operating systems, campus course-tools, and the sharing of interoperable learning objects, this "real processor" may change the way we do our daily work as much as a word processor has done for writing. What would such a real processor look like? How would it change the teaching and learning environment? In this session we will explore a prototype. The Road to Distance Learning May be Closer than You ThinkMonday, October 29, 2001 Polley McClure, Vice President Emeritus, Cornell University Distributed learning technologies are transforming the collective enterprise of higher education. New kinds of for-profit ventures are being created and almost every established institution is trying to understand how it will be impacted by these changes. This poses a special challenge for successful traditional residential institutions. At the same time, the scholarly talent and socially responsive values of these institutions could be turned to the invention of a new, more effective pedagogy; one that can support increased access through distance learning, but, as a first priority, can improve the effectiveness of the learning experience in the residential setting. The challenge for institutional leadership is how to evoke and focus our talent and values toward these outcomes. |
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