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Featured SpeakersBeyond BandwidthThursday, October 03, 2002 James D. Bruce, Professor Emeritus, MIT Today, commercial network providers as well as the higher education community through Internet2 can provide network bandwidth and capabilities far beyond what we could only imagine a few short years ago. The availability of these network services leads to three questions: How will our faculty, staff, and students use the new possibilities that they have for research, teaching, and learning, and for leisure? Can we afford the costs? What new technology services are necessary to make the network even more valuable? The presentation will provide examples to illustrate implications for the future. California Dreamin': How Planning, People, and Persistence Make Them Real - Sponsored by PeopleSoft, Inc., An EDUCAUSE Platinum PartnerWednesday, October 02, 2002 Hilary J. Baker, Vice President for IT / CIO, California State University, Northridge David J. Ernst, Associate Vice President & CIO, University of California Office of the President This presentation will focus on how one university was able to develop, justify, fund, and execute a strategic technology plan that is beginning to achieve the dreams outlined seven years ago. The lessons learned from the California State University's approach apply as we address today's infrastructure, academic technology, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) and outsourcing challenges. Innovations in Online Learning: Moving Beyond No Significant Difference - Sponsored by PeopleSoft, Inc., An EDUCAUSE Platinum PartnerWednesday, October 02, 2002 Carol A. Twigg, President & CEO, National Center for Academic Tranformation Colleges and universities are offering thousands of fully online courses, ostensibly altering centuries-old methods of teaching and learning. Few of these courses, however, make significant improvements in either the cost or quality dimensions of student learning; instead, they frequently replicate face-to-face pedagogies and organizational frameworks. Are you taking advantage of IT's capabilities as you design new learning environments, or are you simply migrating your on-ground approaches online? Using examples drawn primarily from the Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign, this presentation will discuss how IT can be used to surpass traditional modes of instruction. IT's Up to You! - Sponsored by PeopleSoft, Inc., An EDUCAUSE Platinum PartnerWednesday, October 02, 2002 Marilyn A. McMillan, Associate Provost and Chief Information Technology Officer, New York University Constituents in surging numbers appreciate the usefulness of IT. Senior officers recognize IT's strategic impact. More than ever, organizational effectiveness lies at the very heart of IT. Amid pressures to deliver, we must put renewed emphasis on familiar themes: service, teamwork, quality, innovation, and leadership. New York University initiatives in instruction, help, wireless, digital library, and workflow illustrate how IT organizational effectiveness enables miracles. If we can make IT here, you can make IT anywhere! Reflections on IT Leadership: The Legacy of Diane BalestriThursday, October 03, 2002 Susan L. Perry, Senior Advisor, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Martin Ringle, Chief Technology Officer, Reed College The posthumous recipient of this year's EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in the Profession, Diane Balestri, was one of IT's most influential and articulate writers and thinkers. Her early work was grounded in emerging IT practices of the 1980s, but prophetic in offering solutions that influenced the directions many of us followed over the next decade. Her work in the late 1990s shows how her thinking developed over time and helps us envision our next stages of development. Martin Ringle, Chair of the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors, and Susan Perry, Senior Advisor for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Director of Programs for the Council on Library and Information Resources, will review Diane Balestri's seminal writings and suggest how they can help us understand the past and move toward the future. Winner: 2002 EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in the Profession. Leadership awards sponsored by SCT, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner. The Development and Future of the IT World: Higher Education's RoleThursday, October 03, 2002 Douglas E. Van Houweling, President & CEO, Internet2 As we tend to our daily tasks, we often fail to recognize the impact the higher education community has had on the evolution of today's information technology environment. What have we accomplished? What were the keys to our influence and success? What should we focus on now? What are the prospects for continued success? And, how important will that success be to the future of our institutions, our communities, and the world? Winner: 2002 EDUCAUSE Award for Excellence in Leadership. Leadership awards sponsored by SCT, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner. The New Computing--RevisitedThursday, October 03, 2002 Kenneth C. Green, Founding Director, The Campus Computing Project Without question, computing and information technology have become ubiquitous in higher education. Students now come to campus to learn about and to learn with computers. Technology is an essential component of the experience. But has the "new computing delivered the promised "computer revolution" in higher education? What have we learned about the "new computing" over the past two decades? How do our accomplishments compare to our aspirations and expectations? And what does the experience of the past two decades tell us about the "new computing" that lies ahead? Winner: 2002 EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in Public Policy and Practice. Leadership awards sponsored by SCT, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner. What's Become of the Digital Library? - Sponsored by PeopleSoft, Inc., An EDUCAUSE Platinum PartnerWednesday, October 02, 2002 Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information Over the past few years we have heard a great deal of hype and speculation about digital libraries and how they might supplant existing library organizations in educational institutions. Reality has proven to be much more complex, involving the transformation of academic libraries and the emergence of commercial and not-for-profit organizations. This presentation, which is oriented to academic information technologists, administrators, and faculty rather than specialists in digital libraries and networked information technologies, will chart the developments that have brought us to the present, assess the potential roles and implications of digital libraries and networked information resources, and speculate about the near-term future. |
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