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Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will focus on the challenges facing CIOs, including funding strategies for today's economic reality, keeping pace with expectations, and the CIO’s evolving role. Part of the session will include structured open discussions focusing on current issues for CIOs from a breadth of institutions.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ChiefInformationOffi/45349
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will cover the unique licensing needs of higher education and productive vendor relations. The discussion will explore the challenges users of different computers in more than one venue faced, user identities, and ever-changing software needs. Participants will share experiences and formulate a consensus position on vendor issues.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/SoftwareLicensingIss/45448
Session Type: Constituent Group
The meeting will discuss the implementation and postimplementation phases of administrative systems. Implementation includes identifying selection procedures and funding mechanisms, using consultants, retraining staff, and determining required features. Postimplementation issues include developing reporting strategies, managing modifications and updates, and resolving duplicate records and integration issues. To facilitate open discussion among users, no corporate representatives, please.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/asm
Session Type: Constituent Group
What are the top-10 issues impacting community colleges today? This meeting will focus on how to manage technology-based information resources in the community college environment, with specific discussion topics shaped by the interests of attendees.
A box lunch will be served in the Sheraton meeting room.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/cc
Session Type: Constituent Group
This session will explore distributed technology support from a results-oriented perspective. The discussion will take into consideration both central and distributed issues, as well as institutional and local issues, with the goal of identifying best practices for a varying number of distributed structures.
A box lunch will be served in the Sheraton meeting room.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DistributedTechnolog/45640
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will provide a forum for discussing key issues related to instructional technologies. Topics will include using learner-centered principles, selecting technology, and leveraging information technology to enhance teaching and learning. Instructional technology combines an understanding of pedagogy and technology, and instructional technologists are a diverse group encompassing faculty, staff, and even students whose professional backgrounds include technologists and subject experts, as well as education and learning theorists.
A box lunch will be served in the Sheraton meeting room.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/insttech
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will provide a forum for discussing management issues unique to the collaborative efforts now required of librarians and IT managers. It will offer an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas regarding potential partnerships such as training, working with information providers, delivering services, and supporting instructional technology, multimedia, and campus-wide information systems.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/LibraryITPartnership/45449
Session Type: Constituent Group
Newly formed in 2007, this group focuses on all issues concerning recruiting, training, and managing staff, including finding creative PD opportunities, developing career paths, and building strong teams. Managers and aspiring managers at all levels are welcome.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ProfessionalDevelopm/45475
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will focus on planning, coordinating, facilitating, and providing technology services for state higher education systems. Identification and exploration of areas in which collaboration adds value, reduces costs, and encourages cooperation will be central to the discussion. Directors or managers of IT for state systems or coalitions of colleges, coordinators of statewide networks, and system-level IT users such as directors of distance learning coalitions should plan to participate.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/StateSystems/45476
Session Type: Constituent Group
The meeting is a forum for business and management school faculty and IT leaders to identify opportunities for collaboration and explore ideas that best benefit our unique customers. Come prepared to share strategies, solutions, and best practices.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/business
Session Type: Constituent Group
Decision support is a broadly defined topic that includes EIS, data warehousing, data mining, data marts, and OLAP. This meeting will focus on organizational and technological issues, tools, and solutions for managerial decision making, strategic planning, and information reporting. Be prepared to share lessons learned and best practices for decision-support tools and processes.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/ds
Session Type: Constituent Group
An association of small colleges and secondary schools, edACCESS has its own annual conference and Web page in addition to the associated EDUCAUSE constituent group. Open to all, this meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss ideas concerning IT management in smaller institutions.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/access
Session Type: Constituent Group
The Handheld and Mobile Computing Constituent Group was formerly known as Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). As hand-held and mobile technology has progressed group interest has evolved, and this session will focus discussion on the innovative and functional uses for mobile computing devices in higher education today. Creative ideas for projects utilizing mobile computing in teaching, learning, and administration will be explored. Topics will include hardware, applications, tools, special uses, wireless and mobile connectivity, web services, support issues, security, and others.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/HandheldandMobileCom/45450
Session Type: Constituent Group
This group focuses on campus IT policy and legal issues and supports ongoing communication among participants in the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law annual seminar. Open to all, this meeting will address current topics such as peer-to-peer file sharing, privacy (including FERPA), social networking, network monitoring, and data retention. Meet new colleagues, exchange ideas, and learn new solutions.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/icpl
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will provide a forum for discussing IT support for institutional research missions. The two broad categories of concern include support for research administration and IT support for research activities. Research administration support involves pre- and post-award support, interaction with federal grant systems, regulatory compliance, and intellectual property management. Supporting research activities includes centralized versus decentralized approaches, high-performance computing, advanced networking, and informatics, as well as enabling multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and interinstitutional work.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ResearchMissionSuppo/45451
Session Type: Constituent Group
This group is devoted to solution-independent Web portal technology in higher education. The meeting will focus on issues such as Internet strategies involved in deciding to move forward with a portal. Discussion will also identify what vendors, open source products, and homegrown solutions work best and how to integrate them with back-end systems such as Blackboard, SunGard/WebCT, and PeopleSoft.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/portals
Session Type: Constituent Group
After years of dynamic technological change, current economic circumstances continue to necessitate ever more transformation. Pressing needs to reformulate budgets, strategic plans, and organizational patterns require leadership at all levels of an organization, in informal as well as formal networks. This meeting will explore ideas and best practices for managing in our present climate.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ChangeLeadership/45452
Session Type: Constituent Group
This session will provide attendees with an opportunity to discuss current issues and share ideas and concerns about institutional data management, including governance and stewardship, policies and standards, and guidelines for application development, metadata, privacy and security, and quality and access.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DataAdministration/45453
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will provide a forum to discuss topics ranging from what makes a physical space conducive to learning to the principles and processes of learning space design. Well-designed learning spaces are predicated on an understanding of the learning activities that must occur, the type of interaction desired, the needs of the discipline, and the learning outcomes sought. Join us and share your ideas and experience on how formal spaces and informal spaces impact teaching practices, learning activities and effectiveness, and student interactions, as well as the campus sense of community.
A box lunch will be served in the Sheraton meeting room.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/learningspace
Session Type: Constituent Group
Since its inception in 1997, this group has discussed a wide range of topics relevant to network managers including network convergence, bandwidth management, management systems, security, wireless technologies, and support. This gathering will allow network managers to share ideas about their current professional challenges and new or emerging technologies with other networking experts from a wide variety of institutional backgrounds.
A box lunch will be served in the Sheraton meeting room.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/NetworkManagement/45477
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will discuss issues technical project managers face in higher education. Participant-driven discussions may include identifying best practices and tools, promoting a project management culture within IT organizations, managing cross-functional groups, training project managers, developing strategies for terminating failing projects, and meeting client expectations.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ProjectManagement/45455
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will focus on the ways in which information technologies affect specialized operations, including software selection, staff training, standards and best practices, record-keeping and access, and data storage and retrieval. Come share your pitfalls, best practices, and proven solutions with your colleagues.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/RegistrarsandAdmissi/45350
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will foster the discussion of IT issues specific and possibly unique to small colleges, allowing participants to share challenges, solutions, and successful techniques employed in the planning and management of technology-related resources.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall to this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/smallcol
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will focus on the challenges of meeting the expanding technical needs of faculty, staff, and students. We will address staffing, training, and help desk tools and issues, as well as hardware and software standards. Come prepared to exchange ideas, best practices, and solutions with colleagues from a broad array of institutions.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/ds
Session Type: Constituent Group
This session will allow Webmasters, project managers, administrators, designers, and other Web professionals to exchange ideas on the use of the Web as both a productivity and public relations tool. Topics may include content management systems, streaming media, the IT-PR working relationship, and Web-related tools and technologies.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/WebProfessionals/45454
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will provide a forum to discuss issues related to IT accessibility. Anyone who plays a role in managing, developing, deploying, or supporting IT in a higher education environment shares the responsibility for ensuring that IT is accessible to students and employees with disabilities and is encouraged to participate. This is the new group’s first meeting, so the opportunity is ripe to help define the group's goals and objectives and influence its direction.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DorisKearnsGoodwinon/45458
Session Type: Constituent Group
IT Architects in Academia (ITANA) focuses on the practice of IT and enterprise architecture (EA) in higher education. We will review various ways IT architecture is implemented on campuses and how people engage with the campus. Discussion will include hot topics such as service oriented architecture and EA challenges and incentives. We will also plan for future ITANA work. For more information, see our Web site (www.itana.org) and our wiki (https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Home).
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ITArchitects/45351
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will address the challenges involved in developing an IT strategic plan and maintaining its relevance. The discussion will focus on crafting a strategic planning framework: what to include, what works, and what doesn't. Participants will share experiences and can ask questions of fellow attendees.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ITStrategicPlanning/45352
