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Session Type: Meeting
Breakfast will be served in the meeting room.
Session Type: General Session
With stories and insights from the successes and failures of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, Goodwin offers timeless lessons that apply to the worlds of business, politics, and higher education. Her talk will focus on the individual qualities that make a leader great.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DorisKearnsGoodwinon/45458
Explore technology solutions offered by more than 200 companies. The exhibit hall is also the place for refreshment breaks, lunch, and corporate drawings, plus our massage area, the "Relaxation Station", sponsored by Rave Wireless.
Brian L. Hawkins has been president of EDUCAUSE since its inception in 1998 with the merger of CAUSE and Educom. He is responsible for all aspects of the association's mission to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Featured Speaker
In July 2007 EDUCAUSE Vice President Richard Katz and University of British Columbia CIO Ted Dodds set aside their North American, feline, and canine differences in pursuit of worldly knowledge. Richard and Ted will share insights from nearly four months in Europe, drawing from case studies, surveys, meetings with remarkable people—and their increasingly open minds.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TheAdventuresofKatza/45354
Session Type: Track 1
A challenge arises in making digital information and communication technologies accessible to indigenous communities. From digital preservation of cultural and historic artifacts to embedding culturally sensitive materials in academic courses, technology can become a double-edged sword: it can be deployed to obfuscate a critical analysis of how "communication" is understood as meaningful by First Nations themselves.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/IndigenousCulturesFr/45586
Session Type: Track 1
The Road to Xavier portal for admitted students was named Best University Web Site 2006 by the Web Marketing Association. Beyond enabling the recruitment of a banner class, this Web 2.0 project laid the foundation for the Virtual Learning Commons, Xavier's comprehensive fully integrated Web presence to support 21st-century learners.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/XavierUniversitysWeb/45371
Session Type: Track 2
This session will discuss Northwestern University's recent investigation to determine which external vendor might be suitable to provide e-mail and other student collaboration services for our student community. The process included vendor review and hours of working through the institutional process to arrive at an acceptable conclusion.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/OutsourcingStudentEM/45372
Session Type: Track 2
Florida State University has used business intelligence to reengineer much of our admissions processes, including decision processing, back-office workflow, data auditing, and reporting. Leveraging data gives us a strategic advantage in managing head count, quality, and diversity. We will discuss data uses, as well as organizational and process change.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/UsingBusinessIntelli/45418
Session Type: Track 3
In this session, presenters from two research-extensive universities will advocate a role for librarians in addressing the impending "data deluge" and the emerging need of researchers for help in describing, preserving, and providing access to their data. Activities taking place on their campuses to meet these needs will also be discussed.
Session Type: Track 4
The University at Albany and Davidson College will discuss the strategies they use to convey information about IT services to their respective user communities. Both institutions have developed a protocol for communicating about IT to non-technical audiences in user-friendly ways.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/InPlainEnglishPlease/45373
Session Type: Track 4
Technology is embedded in almost every activity of higher education organizations, but the value it brings is not always readily apparent. A model under development at the University of Kansas seeks to create a visual roadmap showing the strategic relationship and impact of IT services to institutional activities and services.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/VisualizingtheInstit/45374
Session Type: Track 5
Faced with increased data storage requirements and static backup capabilities, Bowdoin College turned to disk-to-disk backup technology to provide speed and flexibility for the enterprise. By introducing virtual tape library technology into our backup strategy, we now have a hierarchical backup strategy that can scale with the college's future growth.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DisktoDiskBackupSoMu/45603
Session Type: Track 5
Conversations about convergence almost always end up focusing on voice services (whether they will continue to exist, and how they will be provisioned) and then on convergent services applications and catalysts. And funding issues remain of central concern. The panel will address these issues and concomitant opportunities evolving around them.
Session Type: Track 5
The federal government promotes identity management, both within the government and between the government and other organizations. For example, standardized smart cards are being deployed throughout the federal government and distributed to certain contractors and grant recipients. NSF, NIH, and the Department of Education have expressed interest in pilot projects aimed at interfederating with higher education groups. These and related initiatives will be discussed by representatives of the participating agencies.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TheFederalGovernment/45518
Session Type: Track 6
Presenting two best-practice models for cyber incidents: To prevent cyber incidents, learn how to use an uncomplicated cyber risk assessment to help you focus your institution's limited resources. When an incident occurs, know how to douse the effect of breach events when notification is required.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/StopDropandRollPreve/45375
Session Type: Track 7
Successful higher education e-learning environments exemplify clear alignment among seven factors: objectives, content, instructional design, learner tasks, instructor roles, technological affordances, and assessment. Objectives and assessment are commonly misaligned, but misalignments can be addressed using instructional designs focused on authentic tasks and assessments.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/AuthenticTasksandAss/45377
Session Type: Track 7
McGill University's unique, individualized, and scalable learner-centered approach to training and support has helped over a thousand faculty successfully transition from one learning management system to another in an academic year. This session will offer learner-centered training and support strategies and lessons learned from our transition.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/PracticingWhatYouPre/45376
Session Type: Track 7
This session will cover lessons learned and best practices for creating highly interactive, student-centered, rich-media online courses with customizable and mobile learning using Mediasite video streaming and video and audio podcasting. It will include a tour of a course Web site, 10 principles for good practice for innovative online education, and a course design toolkit.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/UsingVideoStreaminga/45661
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
If your institution forwarded 10 early settlement letters from RIAA, your students probably paid $30,000 this year in settlements. Should you forward these letters? What if your campus appears on an "evil top 25" list? What technological means should you employ? Who ya gonna call? Join a lively discussion of timely issues and solutions and an opportunity for blue sky ideas.
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
Is your campus using or considering open/community source as part of your application portfolio? If so, what are the forces driving the adoption? Are the decisions tactical or strategic in nature? What challenges do you face? What are the benefits to the campus? Discuss the issues, share experiences, and learn from your colleagues.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
Managing the academic enterprise is becoming a profound challenge, increasing in complexity and requiring innovative approaches. This presentation explores new concepts, tools, models, and processes that are required to confront the challenges, including curriculum architecture, managing the margin, being learner-centered, and integrating curriculum and learner assessments.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
In this session you will learn how to deliver a best-practice approach to managing lifelong relationships with your constituents. With SunGard Higher Education's Banner Enrollment Management Suite you can deliver dynamic, personalized experiences to your education community and assess those relationship-building efforts to improve institutional accountability, productivity, and performance.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Join us to learn how Mac OS X Server makes it easy for groups to collaborate and communicate with advanced server-based collaboration features.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Experience new features in Excel and Word that speed up and automate the process of researching academic topics and creating well-organized reports. Both of these applications have new time-saving features that simplify complex research and reporting. Learn new ways to create conditional formulas in Excel, automate tables of contents in Word, and use the Research Task Pane across all Office applications.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Business intelligence (BI) offers universities the promise of transforming insight into action, of solving problems quickly and capitalizing on opportunity more fully. Universities are gaining competitive advantage and realizing increased productivity by deploying enterprise BI. Oracle BI reduces the cost and complexity of delivering accurate and timely information. The Oracle Database features embedded online analytical processing and data-mining capabilities. Experience hands-on how information empowers the enterprise.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Service oriented architecture with the fully featured Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS) addresses the development and deployment of integration processes and composite applications. This workshop will explain what SOA is, how to implement it, and the benefits it offers you, whether your focus is technical or business.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
As you face increasing pressures to measure, account for, and improve performance, you know it takes more than just reports to make the right decisions. Experience how SunGard Higher Education solutions leverage data and business intelligence technologies to provide users with relevant information, giving them greater performance visibility and insight to improve institutional effectiveness, increase productivity, and help meet accountability requirements. Special thanks to Sun Microsystems for contributing the hardware for this workshop.
Mark A. Luker leads the association's office in Washington, D.C., overseeing government relations, policy analysis, and Net@EDU, a thought leadership coalition to advance networking for research and education. He has co-edited Computer and Network Security in Higher Education and edited Preparing Your Campus for a Networked Future.
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Featured Speaker
Routine in business, data mining has unrealized potential in education. Sophisticated educational media enable the collection of rich data streams about individual learners. Analyzing these data streams could yield formative, diagnostic information about student performance (including real-time feedback to teachers) and research findings about student behavior and learning. Session presenters will share their work exploring the educational potentials of data mining.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DataMiningasanEmergi/45355
Session Type: Track 1
We discuss a methodology for abstracting enterprise services and the policies that dictate them through the use of a Web-based user interface. This establishes a unified tool for publication, storage, and recovery of files that streamlines training and support costs, facilitates innovation, and promotes the continued evolution of enterprise-level solutions.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DefiningtheDigitalCo/45482
Session Type: Track 1
The e-Framework for Education and Research is an initiative created by public funding bodies in Europe and Australasia. It coordinates information relating how educational institutions across the globe are using technology to support their strategic priorities and how this can be supported by a service-oriented approach to technologies based on open standards. The session will give an overview of the e-Framework and raise some points for discussion.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TheeFrameworkforEduc/45705
Session Type: Track 1
Do physical spaces differ fundamentally from virtual learning environments? The Center for Digital Media in Vancouver, B.C., is constructing a physical complex simultaneously with a virtual campus in Second Life. We will explore the results that arise from engaging prospective students in the "modding" (modification) of a virtual space with architectural implications for the physical structure.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ThePedagogyofPartici/45662
Session Type: Track 2
Kuali Rice integrates workflow, a lightweight service bus, and centralized notification within an easy-to-use, enterprise class, development framework. The suite enables agile development so that developers can react to end-user business requirements in an efficient and productive manner, allowing them to focus on producing high-quality business applications.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/KualiRiceSimplifying/45378
Session Type: Track 2
Payment card industry (PCI) standards dictate effective management of credit card systems across the organization. The University of Richmond will discuss its development of a centralized e-commerce policy and oversight group, choosing appropriate vendor solutions, and achieving PCI compliance campus-wide.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TacklingCampusWideEC/45379
Session Type: Track 3
The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania has as a goal expanding opportunities for undergraduates to conduct significant research and promoting the products of this research. CUREJ, the College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal, was developed in collaboration with the Penn Libraries to achieve this goal.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/PublishingUndergradu/45380
Session Type: Track 4
Changes to complex systems require careful planning and coordination to ensure additional incidents are not created in the production environment. This presentation will detail how Marquette University implemented ITIL-based change management to stabilize the infrastructure, gain visibility of work, and comply with financial audits.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImprovingITGovernanc/45604
Session Type: Track 4
Interested in ways you can improve partnerships? Based on focus group research conducted with education and industry participants nationally, this session will share findings and recommendations from a 2007 report regarding elements of effective partnerships, employer and educator perceptions, overcoming barriers to success, and tips for evaluation of partnerships.
Session Type: Track 4
What information technologies are used by undergraduates? How does IT contribute to their academic experiences and learning? What has changed since 2005? ECAR presents key findings from the fourth annual survey of undergraduates, with responses from 27,846 students at 103 higher education institutions. Plans for 2008 will also be discussed.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/UndergraduatesSpeaka/45641
Session Type: Track 5
The identity management infrastructure at Washington State University evolved piecemeal over a number of years. In 2004, a project was initiated to architect a more robust alternative. This presentation will briefly describe the legacy infrastructure, the future architecture as envisioned by the project, and the solution that has been implemented.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/IdentityManagementTh/45381
Session Type: Track 5
This session will present a survey and an informal poll of current campus network security practices and products in higher education for NAC (network access control and protection) and VoIP (voice over IP).
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/NetworkSecurityEffec/45382
Session Type: Track 5
Illinois State University has embarked on a multifaceted comparative study called the Digital Citizen Project, which investigates what works and what doesn't regarding P2P, media, and copyright. The latest baseline data will be shared and discussed, with its implications for industry and higher education. An update on technical monitoring solutions and legal service alternatives will also be featured.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ResearchingP2PActivi/45706
Session Type: Track 7
This presentation will demonstrate the use of a modular-based template that allows faculty to create database-driven, media-rich content for their courses. The initial project for which the template was created, the Shelley Project: Victor as Virtuoso, will be presented, as well as two subsequent projects.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/CreatingEngagingMult/45384
Session Type: Track 7
The adage goes, "It's harder to facilitate change in higher education than to move a graveyard." This session will describe such a change: one university's merger of educational technology with traditional faculty development resources to provide a single point of service to enhance teaching and learning.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/MovingtheGraveyardMe/45383
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
If your campus was hit by a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina or a fire destroyed your primary machine room or a key telecommunication facility at your site, would you be prepared? Come visit with your peers and learn what IT professionals, business staff, and senior administrators are watching and what they plan to do to address these and other emerging threats.
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
Institutional repositories are creating a buzz on campuses. Let’s separate the reality from the hype. What are the technical considerations? How do you support one and encourage use? Join colleagues for a discussion of institutional repositories from the point of view of a technologist, a librarian, and a faculty member.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
Increasing expenses, declining revenues, and budget constraints are forcing more institutions to revisit their goals and strategies. Attend this session to learn how institutions can use existing resources to offer nontraditional programs, attract nontraditional students, launch distance education programs, and increase revenues. A panel of higher education institutions will share strategies for achieving growth and revenue from divisions tied to traditional institutions and programs.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
In higher education, ERA isn’t about baseball—it’s about enrollment, retention, and advancement. Through partnership with customers, we’ve learned that ERA success depends on the right technology, strategies, and services. Jenzabar Chairman and CEO Robert A. Maginn and client panelists reveal the secret to delivering great constituent service, cutting costs, and boosting revenue.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Apple's Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server offer built-in features to facilitate the creation and distribution of institutional-scale podcast projects. Learn how to podcast for distribution in iTunes U and other campus distribution services, and for playback in iTunes and on iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Find out how to mesh your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system into social networking sites to provide a thoroughly rewarding Web 2.0 experience for students. This workshop presents the latest in three-dimensional interface technology and reveals the dramatic impact it has on constituents across the academic enterprise. Attend this session and begin implementing the mighty instruments of change to redefine the user experience.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
In the past, collaboration on shared projects required a complex network infrastructure and administrative support. Now, Groove lets you work on projects on a peer-to-peer basis and provides customized, shared workspaces. Work online or offline and stay in sync automatically, without having to connect to the central network to access or update information. Projects completed with Groove can easily be submitted to a network share or synchronized with a SharePoint site.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
This workshop will provide hands-on experience using the student, faculty, and staff center. See what it's like to use the system daily to enroll in classes, view accounts, and pay bills as a student, to submit grades and advise students as an instructor, and to manage the student system as a staff member.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Explore how Sun's comprehensive portfolio of identity management solutions can help you manage, protect, store, verify, and share identity data. Our solutions fit a wide range of business needs across your enterprise. If you're working on meeting the compliance regulations for your industry, our compliance solutions provide a complete approach to enterprise identity management and compliance for ERP customers, with preventative compliance and centralized control.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Explore how the Banner Enrollment Management Suite’s sophisticated relationship and performance management capabilities help you connect with prospects, students, parents, alumni, and other constituents to build a strong foundation for your institution’s enrollment management future. We will also discuss technical and planning considerations to help you prepare for managing your student enrollments more effectively. Special thanks to Sun Microsystems for contributing the hardware for this workshop.
Session Type: Meeting
Lunch will be served in the meeting.
Session Type: Meeting
Incorporated in May 2006 as a nonprofit entity, the Kuali Foundation directs initiatives in the higher education enterprise software space. Kuali Financial Systems has released its first version, and initiatives in Research Administration and Endowment are underway. Come meet and engage the current leadership at this open discussion session of current projects, work processes, and what’s next.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
Session Type: Meeting
Lunch will be served in the meeting.
Session Type: Meeting
TLT Group president and director of technology and education will lead a discussion among subscribers and friends of the group on current topics related to teaching, learning, and technology.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
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
The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research is dedicated to fostering a culture of evidence in higher education IT by providing reliable data and discriminating analysis. Please join ECAR's Director and fellows to discuss ECAR initiatives and research development opportunities.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
Cynthia Golden coordinates the content of all EDUCAUSE professional development activities as well as the association's content and knowledge management initiatives, and has general oversight of publications, communications, and IT services and strategies within the association. She is responsible for program development for management and leadership development institutes and seminars, and works with the program committees for the annual, regional, and special-topic conferences to create relevant and compelling conference experiences for the members. She also coordinates efforts with EDUCAUSE affiliates such as NERCOMP and SAC, and works with the Professional Development Committee. She has written extensively for professional magazines, and edited and contributed to Cultivating Careers: Professional Development for Campus IT.
Stop by the EDUCAUSE booth (# 1612) for informal opportunities to speak with Teddy Diggs and Nancy Hays, editors of the association's publications, EDUCAUSE Review and EDUCAUSE Quarterly (EQ), about authoring opportunities and topics of current interest.
Session Type: Meeting
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall to this meeting.
Session Type: Featured Speaker
New technologies and infrastructure that extend bandwidth and power to the seafloor are being developed within the Ocean Observatories Initiative of the National Science Foundation. A major component of this effort involving construction of major cabled subsea networks is focusing on science and education programs that will make use of this unprecedented interactive access to study the northeast Pacific Ocean. The last frontier on Earth—the deep sea—will be accessible to a global community of scientists, educators, decision makers, and learners of all ages. New technologies will enable new approaches to studies of ocean and earth processes that, for example, regulate global climate, absorb greenhouse gases, generate earthquakes and tsunamis, support major fish stocks, harbor life in the extreme environments of sea floor volcanoes, and form vast mineral resources.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TransformingEarthSci/45361
Session Type: Track 1
Our Team Learning Classroom was designed to support a variety of teaching approaches, including team-based learning. This presentation will review the design challenges, methods, and support models for creating a successful, flexible, technology-enabled classroom that encourages faculty to explore innovative teaching and learning modalities.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ScalingUpSmallGroupL/45385
Session Type: Track 1
This presentation will give an overview of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud server capacity on-demand service, the EC2 implementation details facing any IT organization (technical, policy, and legal), and how UMR IT met those challenges to use this service and create solutions that benefit our campus.
Session Type: Track 2
What would you do if a broken water pipe temporally disabled your IT capability, or a fire destroyed your primary or secondary IT facilities? Penn State has developed a plan addressing three unique event levels--incidents, disasters, and catastrophes--with three plan phases, each of which initiates a unique recovery response.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ItCantHappenHereDeve/45663
Session Type: Track 2
Social networking software like Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube has become a way of life for today's students. In this session, we will explore whether and how we might use these technologies, or ideas they generate, to create better and more effective student and academic services at our institutions.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/SocialNetworkingTech/45587
Session Type: Track 3
The ARL's Know Your Copy Rights is a multifaceted campus copyright education initiative that accentuates the positive and emphasizes what you can do with copyrighted materials. This effort offers resources, including a unique brochure, specifically created for all campus constituencies with the assistance of nationally recognized copyright educators.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/WhatCanYouDoTheResto/45707
Session Type: Track 4
With focus from leadership and commitment across IT, the University of Rochester has developed and implemented a flexible project management strategy. It helps align projects into manageable programs that support the university's strategic mission. This presentation will highlight the development process, challenges, and implementation of a successful project management methodology.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ITProjectManagementM/45483
Session Type: Track 4
The Higher Education TechQual+ Project is a nationwide effort to develop a standardized approach to outcomes-based, service-quality assessments. The instrument is delivered through the Web, shielding participants from the complexities of survey research. The presentation will cover project history, the instrument, and assessment and reporting functionality, as well as case studies of its use at several institutions.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ServiceQualityAssess/45386
Session Type: Track 4
Begun in 1990, the Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of computing, e-learning, and information technology in American higher education. The session will present the results of the 2007 Campus Computing Survey, including new data on P2P policies, open source deployment, IT security issues, strategic and financial planning for IT, instructional integration of IT, campus IT standards, course management systems, and Web site services.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/The2007CampusComputi/45709
Session Type: Track 5
Griffith University has the advantage of having a centralized IT and information services organizational structure, which has enabled the development of some highly innovative solutions for delivering student computing services.
Session Type: Track 6
Georgia State University is one of the first universities to embrace the ISO 27001:2005 standard for establishing an information security management system (ISMS). A systematic and disciplined approach helps us leverage technology to develop a world-class ISMS that empowers users and improves processes. This session will discuss the importance of developing a comprehensive, risk-management based information security program.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/GSUsRoadmapforaWorld/45387
Session Type: Track 6
Baylor University has spent two years working on a large-scale deployment of whole disk encryption. This session presents the process from selecting the encryption technology to the culminating deployment. The result is mitigation of data loss that can result from the loss or theft of a technology asset.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/WholeDiskEncryptionE/45388
Session Type: Track 7
Net Gen workers are your new hires, student employees, and recent graduates text messaging you about that job posting! Be prepared to transform your work environment and rethink institutional policies to successfully recruit and retain this net savvy workforce with its unique worldview and ease of incorporating new technologies into work and play.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/CultivatinganAgileWo/45492
Session Type: Track 7
Digital field assignments combine active-learning strategies with digital technologies to engage today's learners in team-based assignments in which students apply classroom concepts as they research real-world problems. This session will define the concept of digital field assignments, present case studies, and share best practices.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DigitalFieldAssignme/45605
Session Type: Track 7
This presentation will demonstrate discipline-specific case studies to enhance faculty development in universal design for learning. We will highlight California State University's EnACT project, which supports learning for 10,000 CSU students with disabilities, and MERLOT ELIXR, a faculty development collaboration across state systems and campuses for developing cases and shared teaching resources.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DigitalStorytellingt/45484
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
Cyberinfrastructure is a hot topic (NSF issued a CI report and EDUCAUSE has a CI working group) that promises to be an effective way to organize and fund IT services. Come share your thoughts on what it is and what it isn't, as well as how we might engage our faculty and administrators in such a geeky-sounding topic.
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
Technology policy and security continue to be hot areas in higher education, and experienced security professionals are becoming hard to find and keep. If you try to grow them, you may fall behind in building your defenses. If you seek an experienced security officer, you may find you need to spend a lot more money. Also, do you require staff certifications? Do you pay for staff certifications? Discuss these issues and share practical advice and ideas with your colleagues.
Diana G. Oblinger leads the association's teaching and learning programs and directs the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), a community of higher education institutions and organizations committed to advancing learning through IT innovation. ELI's popular materials include the 7 Things You Should Know About… series as well as practical, time-saving Discovery Tools. She has authored, edited, or co-edited eight books including Learning Spaces and Educating the Net Generation, and is co-author of the popular IT Myths series in EDUCAUSE Review.
Session Type: Meeting
The Net@EDU Identity Management Working Group was formerly the PKI Working Group. The renaming recognizes that PKI is just one of the many technologies and services that campuses need to appropriately implement identity management. In this session, the co-chairs will review the group's activities, recruit volunteers for upcoming projects, and develop a list of topic areas for future focus.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
A significant trend in higher education IT is a move toward services. Universities worldwide are hosting campus e-mail and a suite of Web-based services on Microsoft’s Windows Live Platform. This session presents Microsoft’s roadmap and new announcements, bringing together a panel of IT leaders to discuss the impact on their campuses.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
Schools are now taking an enterprise-wide approach to information and identity management. Priorities include student and faculty performance and integrated data security. Understand currently deployable standards-based solutions that provide insight around the student and enable informed decisions in a secure environment. Learn our strategies around student administration solutions, service-oriented architectures, and securing sensitive information.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
iTunes U is a free service for qualifying colleges and universities. Leveraging the innovation of the iTunes Store, it’s a powerful way to manage a broad range of audio or video content and make it available quickly and easily to students, faculty, and staff. Learn how iTunes U can be successfully deployed on your campus.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
With Datatel Colleague Studio, programmers now have the cutting-edge tools they need to build and modify Web forms more easily than ever before. Attend this hands-on session to experience what it's like to effortlessly develop Datatel WebAdvisor processes and immediately see the results of your programming changes. With Colleague Studio, you'll never break a sweat, no matter how extensive your programming changes.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Never before has SharePoint been such a comprehensive knowledge resource. Now, custom wikis and blogs can be searched by keyword and used as study resources. Instructors can provide larger, more specifically targeted stores of information to students. SharePoint Server 2007 for Search delivers out-of-the-box search for file shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, and Microsoft Exchange Server public folders.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
A service oriented architecture and Oracle Fusion Middleware products provide universities with a standards-based approach to satisfy requirements for application integration projects, real-time access to data from disparate systems, and automation of business processes. Oracle's key enabling technologies for efficient and reusable integrations make it easier and faster to develop and deploy integrations between applications. Learn hands-on how you can benefit from this approach to application integration.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Service oriented architecture with the fully featured Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS) addresses the development and deployment of integration processes and composite applications. This workshop will explain what SOA is, how to implement it, and the benefits it offers you, whether your focus is technical or business.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
This interactive session will address how service-oriented architecture (SOA) and related technology trends can help you build an agile technology environment. You will learn how to apply SOA effectively to higher education business needs and discover what you can do today to prepare for your institution's success. Special thanks to Sun Microsystems for contributing the hardware for this workshop.
The mission of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative is to advance learning through IT innovation. Stop by the booth for an informal opportunity to speak with Jarret Cummings, ELI program administrator.
Session Type: Featured Speaker
In November of 2006, Brian Hawkins announced his plans to retire from the presidency of EDUCAUSE at the end of the 2007•2008 academic year. For this session, he was asked to share the important lessons he has learned in his nearly 40-year career in higher education regarding management, leadership, and professional life. He will discuss issues including personnel management, professional development, and how to map a course for good leadership and a successful career.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/LearningtoDriveandOt/45360
Session Type: Track 1
Enterprise authentication, authorization, and federated trust are increasingly important in enabling access to a wide swath of applications that use campus-based credentials. Their use makes access easier and more secure. A review of the successful METEOR federation and the EA2 Task Force work offer insight on how to move forward.
Session Type: Track 1
Blogs, wikis, and networking tools appear to gain widespread acceptance. How are higher education professionals using social software tools in their practice? Is there any convergence with what students using them bring to the institution? We will invite participation to explore these questions and determine if there are international differentiators.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/SocialSoftwareinHigh/45708
Session Type: Track 1
Within the past couple of years, teaching and learning has fallen from the CIO’s top-ten list. This session will examine the ten most pressing challenges within teaching and learning. Members of the EDUCAUSE Advisory Committee for Teaching and Learning will provide insights into each of these issues and a look into possible future efforts.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TopTenChallengesofth/45522
Session Type: Track 1
This session will report on the Digital Enhanced Learning Initiative (DELI), which explores how student-centered technologies can enhance students' academic experiences. Students in five freshman seminars received an iPod or a digital camera to complete course work. Students keep the technology in exchange for sharing information on their use during their remaining four years at the college.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/UsingEmergingStudent/45485
Session Type: Track 2
In just over 90 days, in the midst of a significant advancement restructuring and decentralization change, Northeastern University used a "software as a service" approach to design and deliver an entirely new customer relationship management prospecting and fundraising tool integrated with existing enterprise advancement, financial, and authentication systems.
Session Type: Track 3
Join this panel that continues the discussion addressed in a 2006 EDUCAUSE Quarterly article by McDonald and Thomas on the disconnects between library culture and millennial generation values. Panelists will cover three broad areas of demographics, design, and social outreach as related to the needs of the millennial library researcher.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ADiscussiononDisconn/45389
Session Type: Track 3
Are you "growing your own" digital library team? Wondering how best to provide them with the knowledge, skills, and perspectives they need to plan and carry out their projects? Come hear how several library directors are addressing this challenge at their libraries.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ProfessionalDevelopm/45397
Session Type: Track 4
Ohio's Collective Action project responds to society's twin accountability demands for higher education: increasing and documenting student success, and improving access and affordability. It does so through an open source collaboration among K-20 infrastructure providers, the OhioLINK library consortium, the Ohio Board of Regents, public schools, and Ohio colleges and universities.
Session Type: Track 4
Determining what to measure, how to measure it, and to whom to report the results can be more of an art than a science. In this session, four major research universities will address how to communicate the importance of IT to administration, outreach, teaching and learning, and research.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/MeasuringWhatMatters/45486
Session Type: Track 4
Relationship management is a holistic approach to understanding customer IT needs that augments existing relationships between customers and IT service teams. The goals are to position central IT to understand customer priorities and to inform operational and strategic planning. This panel discussion will offer three institutions' approaches and the successes and challenges they face.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/RelationshipManageme/45390
Session Type: Track 5
Facing an aging telephone copper plant and rising provider costs, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania implemented a multicampus VoIP system to save more than $1 million over a five-year period while substantially upgrading functionality in the process. This presentation will outline the entire VoIP conversion process, from the planning stages through funding, implementation, and training.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/IncreasingPerformanc/45391
Session Type: Track 6
The focus on information security at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, as in many institutions, has evolved gradually over a number of years. Beginning with what can best be described as ad hoc initiatives driven by afterthought oversight, the university's focus on information security is maturing into a formalized, integrated business component and directive.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/InformationSecurityZ/45392
Session Type: Track 7
The CITES Help Desk at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign needs an effective training program in our dynamic workplace. Learn how training games help us reinforce our traditional training, enrich the job skills of our student consultants, provide information on existing services, and foster teamwork among our staff.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/AddingFunandGamestoT/45393
Session Type: Track 7
Empowering students and faculty to gather knowledge and shape course content that is accessible anywhere, anytime is expanding the scope of learning in many educational settings. Best practices in developing, sharing, and using course content online through wikis, blogs, podcasting, RSS feeds, and social bookmarking will be explored.
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
We run the computer operations. Of course, we're professional and execute our job responsibilities in an ethical manner, but what happens when the auditors arrive? Let's discuss the dos and don'ts in procurement processes, staff management, and organizational operations. Know best practices and how to build and maintain an organizational environment on an ethical foundation before the auditors and the media arrive.
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
Given the unrelenting pace of technology innovation, keeping up with developments is often a daunting challenge. What methods do you use to learn about new and emerging technologies? How do you identify the promising ones that you might pursue later? Join us to share insights and tips from colleagues.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/NewandEmergingTechno/45457
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
Join CDW-G to discover if this myth is plausible or busted. This session includes the findings of the third annual IT Security Report Card and a panel discussion of institutions’ biggest security challenges, as well as security best practices.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
Hear how some institutions view compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and how Baylor College of Medicine has used the SAP Virsa Compliance application. Learn about additional compliance software that is available for users of any ERP system.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/GovernanceRiskandCom/45576
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
iLife ’08 and iWork ’08 contain the most significant upgrades ever to Apple’s award-winning suites of digital lifestyle and productivity software. Discover how iLife and iWork allow students and faculty to create and manage content empowering media-rich learning for today’s students.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Building solid relationships with alumni and donors is the foundation of your institution's strategic plans for growth. Datatel's Colleague Advancement and ActiveAlumni solutions provide the precision instruments needed to establish lifelong relationships, personally connect with alumni and donors, streamline administrative processes, and lay the groundwork for effectively growing support. Discover how to turn your advancement office into a relationship-building machine.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Windows Live @ edu provides accredited institutions of higher education with free hosted e-mail and a rich array of online communication and collaboration services for students and alumni accessed through the Windows Live @ edu ID. This session will provide an overview of the e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, file sharing, online storage, document collaboration, and social networking services in Windows Live @ edu as well as the account setup, provisioning, and identity management capabilities provided to program participants.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Training your user community is the most critical element in your software implementation. Learn how the User Productivity Kit can educate your end users on new software, help them practice with its functionality, and teach them to become proficient faster. This session will also focus on the creation of implementation documentation, including test scripts and user guides.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Explore how Sun's comprehensive portfolio of identity management solutions can help you manage, protect, store, verify, and share identity data. Our solutions fit a wide range of business needs across your enterprise. If you're working on meeting the compliance regulations for your industry, our compliance solutions provide a complete approach to enterprise identity management and compliance for ERP customers, with preventative compliance and centralized control.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Get your hands on Luminis Platform IV and explore its functionality via self-guided exercises. Luminis Platform IV is a feature-rich product that allows institutions to further personalize delivery of self-service applications, content, and data-and improve the overall constituent experience. It also adds more value to online self-service, branding, and community environments. Special thanks to Sun Microsystems for contributing the hardware for this workshop.
Stop by the booth for an informal opportunity to speak with Garret Sern, EDUCAUSE government relations officer.
Impromptu BOFS, which allow small groups to talk about areas of particular professional interest, will be held Wednesday and Thursday, from 4:55 to 6:10 p.m. Attendees may schedule on-site meetings using the BOF bulletin board located near the conference registration desk. Attendees should check the same bulletin board in the conference registration area after 2 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday for that day's topics and room locations.
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: Poster Session - Leadership
Accessibility must be an intrinsic part of all IT assessment, design, and implementation. Moreover, accessibility must encompass all aspects of IT, from applications to hardware and the environments in which IT is used. Institutions require policies and procedures to facilitate these endeavors. This session will discuss how to ensure accessibility.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
What are our individual strengths? If we had our druthers, what work would we do? What is the organization's overall work? How do these converge? Come learn how to appreciatively maximize your staff's contributions by aligning them to both the necessary work and the work at which they will succeed.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
The Appalachian College Association (ACA) LAMP initiative is the sixth-largest production implementation of Sakai in the world, based on user counts on Sakai's Web site. This session will share how a consortium of 36 small, private Appalachian colleges built a successful learning management and collaboration community.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/BeyondWhatsInItforMeShari/45860
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
IT priorities can be effectively linked with "big picture" educational goals by creating effective conferences and planning events. Learn how to create large team planning solutions and align goals for your institution without leaving your people behind.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/BigTeamPlanningBring/45506
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
WebLion is a collaborative partnership to build a content management system designed specifically for the higher education community based on the popular open source Plone platform. Using agile development practices and leveraging social networks has yielded surprising success. Institutions outside Penn State are now clamoring to join in the fun.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
In 2005, Georgia State University implemented a project management office to review the projects being requested of the IT staff and to prioritize and forecast resources needed to complete them. This presentation will offer lessons learned to date.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/BuildingtheRightProj/45504
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Higher education institutions by law must make programs and services accessible to students with disabilities. What does this mean for information technology groups? Representatives from universities will share their accessibility strategies and solutions.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Many institutions grapple with the challenge of developing a shared vision for academic technology. Academics may not know what's possible, while technologists may not fully understand the needs of those whom they serve. In this session, we will present a campus-wide participatory process for identifying possible priorities, mutual education, and informed decision making.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Web 2.0 applications are becoming widely used in higher education and are posing new accessibility challenges to people with disabilities. This presentation discusses a new generation of tools for designing and evaluating accessible Web applications using the Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension and the Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
The Course Development and Web Services unit at the University of Central Florida will share lessons learned from implementing Holacracy, a practical system for achieving agility in all aspects of IT leadership and governance. Holacracy offers an organizational structure and concrete practices that fully embody agile principles.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Attendees will learn how Pima Community College organized 260 IT projects, streamlined the process by which projects are submitted, reduced the amount of time that is spent in a reactive mode, improved communications within the IT department, and created a transparent process that keeps clients apprised of IT project status.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Even the most seasoned IT professional needs constant training. How do you instill the love of lifelong learning in nontechnical support staff, at the same time moving them along the continuum toward more confidence and skill in technology support and troubleshooting? Empower them to learn, then teach them to teach other.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/NoTrainNoGainRetooli/45505
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy, when linked with good assessment strategies, provide excellent measures of teaching and learning effectiveness. Technology enables the use of universal design principles to address different learning styles and rates and methods of expression. The session will discuss the importance of accessible design concepts regarding assessment tools and instruments.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/OnlineAssessmentTool/45599
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Today's complex workplace and demanding IT environment mandate that traditional barriers between business units, in-house IT, and vendors be replaced by partnerships working toward common goals. Learn how UC Irvine's Facilities Management and Administrative Computing staff broke down these barriers and partnered with a vendor to build and implement a flexible project management system.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/PartnershipsClientsI/45510
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Using Chickering and Gamson's seven principles for good practice in education, Purdue has developed methodologies to assess the learning impact of IT services. We have created a "learning impact profile" of IT systems to guide decision making and evaluate overall health. This presentation will highlight the results of our longitudinal analysis.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Computing Services developed tactical planning in 2004 for the 200-plus staff at the enterprise level. University Libraries adapted the process for their IT group of four, and both groups have used the process for two to three years.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/RightSizingITPlannin/45577
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
This session will discuss how 13 University of North Carolina universities moved from a loose-knit federation informally sharing information, collaborating on IT issues, and planning for IT initiatives into a structured, shared-services alliance. Two very different universities, UNC Asheville and UNC Wilmington, will share their experiences with recent ERP implementations and other administrative IT initiatives.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Software asset management is a challenge every institution faces. This panel discussion will allow schools to share strategies for license compliance and inventory control.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/SoftwareAssetManagem/45703
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Innovation and fiscal responsibility are essential to the life of any modern academic institution. With the establishment of Campus Technology Exchange, Gettysburg College established a way for departments and individuals to share ideas and dreams for technology, develop them, and implement them in an organized, supportive, and fiscally responsible way.
Session Type: Poster Session - Networking
This presentation will describe Nagoya University's Survivor Confirmation and Management Services. Available through the university's portal, the service is intended to confirm who is alive after a major disaster like a large-scale earthquake and manages the data for recovery planning. We will summarize the experiences of our disaster drill conducted in October 2006.
Session Type: Poster Session - Networking
The expectations of IT services today are 24 x 7. Knowing as soon as possible when systems are not available is the key to providing high-quality service. Automatic monitoring and staff notification are critical. Learn how University of North Carolina Wilmington implemented multiple monitoring systems to ensure system availability.
Session Type: Poster Session - Networking
To meet the power and cooling demands of modern computing and network equipment, IT organizations will either need to retrofit or relocate their data centers. This session will focus on the project and constraints of retrofitting an operational data center at Louisiana State University and discuss some power and cooling concepts.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TheHeatIsOnFacilityC/45580
Session Type: Poster Session - Security
Good user awareness is key to good information security practice. Learn how we're working to create security awareness and encourage standards compliance at Rochester Institute of Technology through the strategic implementation of our Digital Self-Defense program's communications and training initiatives.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/AdvancingDigitalSelf/45365
Session Type: Poster Session - Security
Telecommuting is becoming an attractive alternative to expending large amounts of capital dollars for campus infrastructure expansion. What information security considerations must universities take into account when planning for support of telecommuting initiatives? This presentation will outline information security planning considerations that will assist with development of technology support plans.
Session Type: Poster Session - Security
The higher education community faces increasingly difficult issues of security in a networked world, compounded by the demands of advanced applications. Performance requirements (high bandwidth, end-to-end transparency, new protocols) are essential for the academic mission and innovation, but are not easily accommodated in current approaches to network security. The Salsa group is forging new frontiers to address these issues.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/SomeFrontiersofSecur/45509
Session Type: Poster Session - Security
The University of Washington protects its wireless networks via its enterprise credential, the UW NetID. This poster session will explore how the UW uses its UW NetID system to provide short-term credentials to guests such as library patrons and conference attendees for the purpose of wireless network access and other services.
Session Type: Poster Session - Security
Risk analysis and security policy development are essential components of an educated approach to security. This session will discuss an online security role-play scenario and policy development exercise designed to include Schneier's five-step risk assessment methodology while developing higher-level cognitive, consensus-building, communication, and decision-making skills.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
Recent advances in both technology and cognitive science have given birth to new possibilities for design of diagnostic educational assessment systems effective for measuring student learning. In this session, we will present an innovative assessment design project at Arizona State University that brings cutting-edge test development models to university faculty.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/AMultidisciplinaryAp/45507
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
The ICT-PBL Literacy Project is a problem-based learning approach to integrating information and communication technology literacy into the curriculum at Purdue University. The instructional modules include access to information technology, problem-solving strategies, and the creation and communication of information within the context of the first-year Composition course.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
Virginia Tech, Maryland, and Cambridge are collaborating on the development of an open source online student rating of instruction system that will be integrated with Sakai. This presentation will describe the collaborative development partnership, the features and advantages of online student rating systems, and the results of pilot studies.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
The DiViDU video-based learning environment pays systematic attention to theory, peer-learning, and coaching in the workplace. Learning from professional practice forms the basis for competence-based learning and was used with beginning teachers and dentists. A shared knowledge basis is created as students and tutors fill a video repository with clips of their own practice.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DiViDULearningfromPr/45508
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
The Open Source Portfolio (OSP), which began as a student-centered tool promoting student learning and providing opportunities for career development and reflection, also offers features that make it an essential tool for value-added assessment, program improvement, and accreditation. This session will offer perspectives from several campuses concerning these OSP applications.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/EPortfolioforAssessm/45579
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
Recent technical and contract issues prompted Emporia State University to evaluate its relationship with Blackboard, which included an examination of faculty use of Blackboard and the various available tools in Blackboard. Deployment-related issues will be addressed in terms of product support and faculty training.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/FacultyUseofBlackboa/45366
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
This presentation will discuss the findings of an analysis of an open-ended question on the ideal learning environment included in a technology survey answered by 9,000 students. A team of researchers used grounded theory to find a description of a learning environment that would be suitable for a majority of those answering the question.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/FromtheHorsesMouthSt/45600
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
HumaniTech links humanities and technology by combining the perspectives and skills of faculty and staff from both humanities and campus-wide resources to work across disciplines and lines that often divide the research university: research/teaching, central/local control, faculty/staff, traditionalists/innovators. HumaniTech focuses on collaboration where IT is essential to these bridge-building efforts rather than a goal in itself.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/HumaniTechBridgingDi/45578
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
This session will describe how to use information about the economics of scholarly communication within information literacy instruction and the reactions of differing groups of students. Assessment data and examples of materials that contextualize freely available Web resources and library resources within the flow of scholarly information will be provided.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
In any educational environment, one key to effectiveness is knowing to what students dedicate their time, by identifying the tasks and actions that make up the process of e-learning. The UOC has developed a tool to measure this time investment, considering the specific characteristics of a virtual university.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
This session will report on the results of an exploratory study meant to determine students' receptivity to a blended learning environment and its impact on academic performance. Unique was its focus on two sections of a large Introductory Psychology course (n=1,000), whose enrollees were mostly freshmen new to the university environment.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/OnlineorFacetoFaceHi/45581
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
The Iowa ePortfolio project at the University of Iowa spawned recent innovations in Web-based portfolio security and scoring. Directory structures having various security levels permit compliance with federal privacy regulations and options for open ePortfolio access to employers. An online database working alongside ePortfolios was also developed that enables electronic scoring and processing of ePortfolio artifacts.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
Following a student survey conducted in 2003, Western Washington University established a Student Technology Center with the mission to provide academically oriented technology training, tutoring, and multimedia services. This presentation will describe how the center continues to tune its services to best support curricular needs.
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
Renew acquaintances, meet new colleagues and discuss the most pressing issues from the member campuses of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Hosted by the CCCU Commission on Technology.
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Organizational Update
This year, CNI played an essential role in shaping, articulating, and advancing the networked information agenda. Working with partner organizations and our members, we explored issues as diverse as institutional repositories and learning spaces. We are engaged in new work on the cyberinfrastructure needs for scholarship, particularly in regard to data curation and archiving. In this session, open to both members and nonmembers, we will highlight CNI's program and current developments in networked information.
Session Type: Organizational Update
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's mission is advancing learning through IT innovation. Learn about ELI's new membership structure, current directions, programs, and products and share your thoughts with us.
Session Type: Organizational Update
The IMS Global Learning Consortium is inviting those with a demonstrated track record in leading the deployment of technology to meet strategic learning objectives to participate in the new Learning Technology Advisory Council (LTAC) and the Learning Impact Awards and Recognition program. Come learn about the opportunities to participate in this session.
Session Type: Organizational Update
With the deployment of the Internet2 Network near complete, the Internet2 community is already leveraging its ability to provide flexible and scalable next-generation services. Internet2 members are also increasingly deploying and using middleware technologies such as Shibboleth and embracing security in a high-performance networking environment. This session will provide an overview of the advanced networking capabilities Internet2 members are leveraging to enable their constituents to conduct research and education in new ways.
Session Type: Organizational Update
This session will discuss the mission, organizational structure, and current activities of the Quilt, a coalition of the major advanced regional R&E network organizations. The Quilt provides a dynamic forum where leaders across the advanced research and education network community build on the intellectual capital and best practices of network service providers worldwide.
This session will feature updates on the Quilt's new organizational structure, our expanded focus on activities to support the regional R&E networking community, our membership support activities, and our recent historic developments and future plans. New programmatic activities, as well as recent and upcoming technical workshops and member meetings, will also be discussed.
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
The Sakai Foundation, JASIG and the Kuali Foundation are pleased to jointly host a reception for their constituents. Please RSVP to jbdreese@indiana.edu ASAP.
Session Type: Meeting
