EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2006

Join us in Austin for the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference, February 22-24, 2006. This year's theme is "Building the IT Community of the Future." Whether your focus is administrative services, information resources, teaching and learning, technology infrastructure, or management within higher education, you will find opportunities to learn, share, and connect with others in your field and from your part of the country.

At the center of the conference are practical "how to" sessions that offer valuable, region-specific information and ideas to help you manage and lead IT at your institution. Join us for preconference seminars on the morning of February 22nd and the full conference program February 22-24. The sessions follow four key tracks:

• Enterprise Business and Learning Solutions
• Research and Emerging Trends
• Technology Innovations and Tools in Teaching, Learning, Libraries and Support
• Corporate and Campus Solutions

Enjoy the weekend before or after the conference in Austin—you'll find plenty to see and do. The Omni is located downtown near fabulous restaurants and offers easy access to some of the brightest music venues. Enjoy a stroll along Town Lake, a tour of the new Texas State History Museum, or an evening of bat watching (the largest urban bat colony in the world roosts in Austin).

Keynote Speakers

The History of the Future of Identity Management

Kenneth Klingenstein
Director, Middleware and Security, Internet2

Katrina: Experiences and Lessons Learned

This panel will focus on the impact for those at ground zero as well as the impact on those providing assistance. For further introduction to this discussion, listen to panel moderator Dennis Maloney’s session overview. You are invited to submit questions for the panel in advance; e-mail them to dennis.maloney@colorado.edu.

Faculty Voices: Interactive Learning and Student Engagement

Student engagement is critical to learning, retention, and success. Using technology to promote interactivity in learning environments is one pathway to that engagement. IT staff must partner with faculty to determine best practices and to provide the necessary resources for seamless implementations. This panel brings together experienced faculty to demonstrate their uses of technology in face-to-face, online, and hybrid courses and to describe how those uses reflect their teaching philosophies and address their greatest teaching challenges.

For further introduction to this session’s discussion, listen to panel moderator Deborah Keyek-Franssen’s overview. You are invited to submit questions to the panel in advance; please comment here.