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Track 6A GEM of a Resource: The Gateway to Educational MaterialsMonday, October 29, 2001 Nancy Virgil Morgan, GEM Coordinator, Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) Project Software developed by GEM allows users to create metadata records that describe and point to the education resources. These records are then collected together at a central location, forming The Gateway. By searching or browsing this catalog of metadata records, educators can find resources more efficiently and with precision. Electronic Learning Portfolio: Advising Tool of the FutureTuesday, October 30, 2001 Kari Branjord, Director, Enterprise Application and Web Development, University of Minnesota Paul Treuer, Associate Professor, Director Knowledge Management Center, University of Minnesota Duluth The University of Minnesota's Electronic Learning Portfolio is an online interactive information management tool designed to give students, staff, and faculty easy, full, and direct influence over the creation, distribution, and use of educational records and documents. This workshop will highlight a three-dimensional profiling tool, its place within the ongoing Enterprise System Initiative, and its application to the advisement process. Evolving Technologies: Focus on Content Access and DeliveryTuesday, October 30, 2001 Mark Luker, Telecommunications Policy Specialist-NTIA, United States Department of Commerce Jan Thomson, Deputy Director Faculty Programs, Stanford University The Evolving Technologies Committee will provide a summary review of developing technologies that will greatly enhance access to digital content for faculty and students, changing the environment for teaching and learning in the process. Technologies discussed will include Portal, PKI, PDA's, ASP's, XML, Wireless, Unified Messaging and WebPad. Background papers on each of these topics will be available at the committee's Web site. Higher Education's Role in Expanding the Circle of Prosperity to Minority CommunitiesWednesday, October 31, 2001 Tom Davis, Consultant Mark Trebian, Director Online Information Services, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College An opportunity exists to expand the circle of prosperity, using Information Technology resources, to minority communities. Higher Education has a crucial role to play in expanding the circle. This presentation describes the Circle of Prosperity process used by the nation's tribal colleges and universities to define how to end the digital divide in Indian country, then reveals results from that process. Then it shows how partnerships between mainstream and minority institutions, built through organizations like EDUCAUSE and the National Computation Science Alliance, can help efforts to expand the circle of prosperity. Information Literacy is Important, but Can I Get College Credit for It?Monday, October 29, 2001 Joan Campbell, Research & Instructional Services Librarian, Wellesley College Pattie Orr, VP for IT/Dean of University Libraries, Baylor University Professors realize students often lack information and computer literacy competencies, but academic councils are hesitant to approve eLiteracy courses for credit. Join us for a lively discussion about the successful collaboration between our IT and library staff in addressing the many challenges and positive outcomes in teaching Computer Science 100. Inter-Institution PKI: Bridging the GapTuesday, October 30, 2001 Peter S. Alterman, Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Technology Strategy, U.S. General Services Administration Michael R. Gettes, Senior Consulting Technical Architect, MIT Clair W. Goldsmith, Senior Advisor for Information Technology, University of Texas System Keith D. Hazelton, Senior IT Architect, University of Wisconsin-Madison David L. Wasley, Retired, University of California Office of the President Bridge CA's allow PKI systems at a variety of organizations to interoperate. In the last several months, two important bridges have been tested: A Federal Bridge, which links PKI systems of several government agencies, and a Higher Education Bridge (HEBCA), which currently links three educational institutions. This session will discuss both of these bridges, and will describe a pilot project in which researchers and administrators from the three HEBCA schools submitted digitally-signed grant applications to the NIH. Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative, or Fat Pipes are Not EnoughTuesday, October 30, 2001 George H. Brett, II, Senior Manager - Knowledge and Information Mgt, Internet2 Cheryl Fremon, Chief Operations Officer, Internet2 This presentation will describe the overall vision and various activities of the Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative. Activities within the initiative are to establish a performance measurement infrastructure across Internet2 campuses and labs, perform analysis of the end-to-end path, and eventually lead to a normal operational mode where network operations, applications, and the end user can easily determine network capabilities and restrictions. Of particular importance is the role of the campus, which provides one "end" of the network, the computing resources, the applications, and the user at the other "end" of the end-to-end path. Knowledge Management Technologies for Research, Retrieval, and Decision Making in 21st Century OrganizationsTuesday, October 30, 2001 Reynolds Ferrante, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University Sondra K. Patrick, Professor and Program Director, Graduate School of Education and Human Dvlpt, The George Washington University This highly interactive session will present a transforming approach to knowledge and information management through a decision support system prototype known as the Knowledge Management Center Online. Using Microsoft's Digital Dashboard and a variety of searching and data mining software applications, the session features a demonstration of the Knowledge Management Center through case study decision-making problems from business, industry, government, and education. Learn While you Serve: Lessons from the e-ArmyU Virtual UniversityTuesday, October 30, 2001 Susan Johnson, Online Ed Advisor to the Asst Sec of the Army for Manpower & Reserve Affairs, United States Army Jillinda J. Kidwell, IBM Corporation Utilizing online, integrated learning technology, the U.S. Army has dramatically improved soldier access to higher education. The panel will outline the processes and technology required to integrate an entire network of higher education institutions into a single virtual university. Lessons will be shared to help other institutions enhance their own online learning initiatives. Looking Around the Corner: Moore's Law and the Conundrum of Human LearningWednesday, October 31, 2001 Charles Kerns, Education Technology Manager, Stanford University Phillip D. Long, Prof. of Innovation & Visiting Research Scientist, MIT Newton Smith, Associate CIO, Retired, Western Carolina University Howard Strauss, Academic Outreach, Princeton University Moore's Law has held for the last decade with chip density doubling every 18 months. Human beings have been learning, slowly, in fits and starts, over the course of thousands of years. Yet in the past few years, knowledge had doubled faster than Moore's Law. A panel of intrepid prognosticators will draw from their experiences to suggest what might be forthcoming in the next two years, with particular attention given to the return on IT investments, wireless, increasing connectivity, and technologies that leverage education. Technology Security and Abuse Incident Response at Indiana UniversityTuesday, October 30, 2001 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 response procedures and automated tracking system designed to make responding to these events more manageable. Tracking Integrated Communications Services in Higher EducationWednesday, October 31, 2001 James A. Jokl, Director of Communications & Systems, University of Virginia E. Michael Staman, Peyton Anderson Professor for IT, Macon State College The theory is that using Internet technology to converge voice, data and video traffic provides opportunities to reduce costs, integrate networks, and expand communications services. The Net@EDU Integrated Communications Strategies (ICS) Working Group (WG)has been exploring the economic, technical, operations, and policy issues associated with this still-emerging technology. This session will be used to report on a survey on the status of ICS, and on other WG activities directed toward developing information about the evolution of integrated communications services within higher education. Ubiquitous Distance LearningWednesday, October 31, 2001 Peter Falley, Provost, Fairleigh Dickinson University Michael B. Sperling, Provost & Dean of Faculty, Manhattanville College Neal M. Sturm, VP and Chief Information Officer, Fairleigh Dickinson University Fairleigh Dickinson University now requires that every incoming student take one distance learning course per year of study. This first-in-the-country requirement, and new model of distance learning for higher education, poses numerous opportunities and challenges: curricular, technical, political, financial. Practical strategies for campus implementation will be offered. Ubiquitous Laptop Computing: Lessons Learned by Early AdoptersMonday, October 29, 2001 Kenneth S. Blackney, Associate Vice President, Information Resources & Technology, Drexel University Jennifer Bolt, Director, Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology, Acadia University David G. Brown, Provost Emeritus, Wake Forest University Larry W. Bryant, Director, Academic Computing, United States Air Force Academy Stephen G. Landry, Chief Information Officer, Seton Hall University John L. Oberlin, Associate Vice Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill William Peterson, Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota-Crookston Seven universities will share their successes and failures via "lessons learned." Topics will include networking, classroom design, funding, staffing, vendor relations, course design, co-curricular activities, student training, and faculty development. Each speaker will cover three positive and three negative pragmatic lessons learned. Question periods are interspersed. Institutions are Acadia, Drexel, Seton Hall, SUNY-Morrisville, U.S. Air Force Academy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest University. Using the Access Grid for Distributed Video-Enabled EventsMonday, October 29, 2001 Ted Hanss, Director, Enabling Technologies, Medical School, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor From brown-bag talks to full-scale conferences, networked digital video changes how we interact both formally and informally. This talk will introduce the Access Grid, an emerging technology increasingly showing up on campuses. Initiated by Argonne National Laboratory, the Access Grid provides a persistent, multicamera video environment for large-scale distributed collaboration. Virtual Orientation: Personalized Communities with Market AppealWednesday, October 31, 2001 Marcus Robinson, The Pennsylvania State University Brian A. Young, VP for Information Technology & CIO, Creighton University Historically, colleges and universities initiated their relationship with incoming students through the 19th-century portal: the U.S mail. Virtual Orientation initiates that relationship through the 21st-century portal: the World Wide Web. Six months prior to campus arrival, students begin an educational and social journey through personalized, technology-enhanced learning environments. Web Accessibility: What Is It and How Do We Get It?Monday, October 29, 2001 Michelle Frisque, Head, Information Systems, Northwestern University Donna Hamilton, Assistant Vice President, University Relations, University of Cincinnati Jerry Hensley, Sr. Information Technology Analyst, Wright State University Just as we have made our buildings accessible to those with disabilities, we must also make our Web sites accessible. This presentation defines Web accessibility, provides an introduction to assistive technology used to access the Web, gives an overview of the laws pertaining to Web accessibility, and shares WSU's experience in developing and implementing a Web accessibility program. In addition, we will review the top accessibility challenges and provide solutions to meet those challenges. Web Portals: What They Are, What They Do, Why You Need OneMonday, October 29, 2001 Howard Strauss, Academic Outreach, Princeton University University Web portals will change the way we build Web pages and the way they are used. Before building or choosing a portal, every organization needs to understand what portals are, what they can do, and why they must have only one. This presentation will provide a fresh look at portal definitions, structures, components, and principles, thus allowing organizations to make knowledgeable decisions when choosing a portal. |
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