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Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
This meeting will devote several hours to presentations and discussions regarding emergency notification systems on campus. This will include a panel of speakers from various campuses who are actively working on this issue, including Virginia Tech, and presentations by a select group of vendors. Also planned for the agenda is an update on municipal networks, 4G Wi Max and 911 capabilities on campus.
Breakfast and lunch will be served in the meeting room.
(This meeting is open to all EDUCAUSE members, but capacity is limited. If you wish to attend, please write to Wendy Wigen at wwigen@educause.edu)
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Morning Seminar
Senior IT leaders in higher education function at the intersection of two worlds. CIOs serve as the interface between the processes and practices of the technological world and the ambiguities and diversity of the academic world. This seminar will review the various roles CIOs are expected to play, as well as how those roles may be changing. We will explore strategies IT leaders can use to align their organizations and themselves with the institutional missions.
While the session is especially designed for new and relatively new IT leaders, experienced CIOs will also find value in it, as it will help them reassess their roles and the their institutions' changing expectations of them. Topics will include what senior institutional leaders want and need from senior IT leaders, relationships with faculty and staff, the importance of customer service, organizational structure, leading as a change agent, and career issues.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/AligningITLeadership/45513
Session Type: Morning Seminar
Whether initiating or advancing learning space design, efforts to bring together space, technology, and pedagogy for learner success have sufficiently matured to reveal a set of principles for engaging in the process. Through presentations, activities, and discussion, we will explore how to apply these principles and will determine a methodology for initiating, assessing, and advancing learning space design appropriate for your institutional context.
The workshop will be divided into four topics: What do I want? How do I get it? How do I support it? Does it work? For each topic, you will learn about trends and issues and explore examples from existing learning spaces. This seminar will provide you with principles and frameworks within which to understand the larger issues, as well as an opportunity to begin to apply these concepts to your home institution through a series of hands-on activities and discussions.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ApplyingPrinciplesto/45583
Session Type: Morning Seminar
Modern cyberinfrastructure (CI) creates a “distributed computer” with resources dispersed in diverse geographic and administrative domains and the network providing the “backplane” for this computer. This session will present major players in research and education CI and will offer an overview of the CI Days program under way to assist campuses in planning and implementing CI.
The CI Days program is being developed in coordination with EDUCAUSE, Internet2, National LambdaRail (NLR), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Department of Energy (DOE). The NSF’s TeraGrid and the DOE’s Open Science Grid build on advanced networking to provide leading-edge collaborative computing infrastructure, Internet2 and NLR provide the enhanced network backplane infrastructure, and the NSF’s International Research Network Connections program offers international extensions. Internet2 also develops middleware tools to enable end users to reliably access CI resources, and EDUCAUSE addresses policy and funding issues involved with implementing and operating CI.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/CyberInfrastructureW/45514
Session Type: Morning Seminar
How can we use new technologies to help meet the increasing demand for professional development? Combining synchronous and asynchronous methods is part of the solution. New technologies are decreasing discretionary time for faculty and other academic professionals while increasing their workload. At the same time, professional development demands and the availability of tools and resources to address this overload are also increasing. This seminar will provide demonstrations, hands-on activities, guidelines, and supplemental materials for designing and implementing hybrid professional development.
PLEASE NOTE: You will need to bring a laptop with wireless connectivity and a 2004-2007 Web browser installed. You will need basic audio software as well as speakers or a headset that will allow you to listen to music or other sounds from your computer.
It's strongly recommended, but not required, that you bring a combination of basic audio software and a microphone that permits you to talk through that computer's Internet connection to others who are connected via computers, headsets, and the Internet. You will be encouraged, but not required to try producing "5 minute eClips" if you have a microphone.
If circumstances prevent you from bringing a laptop or other equipment to the seminar, please e-mail Victoria Fanning at vfanning@educause.edu.
Please see the below URLs for more information regarding headsets (required) and microphones for eClips (recommended).
For more information, see:
http://www.tltgroup.org/OLI/Guidelines/Headsets.htm
http://www.tltgroup.org/TLT5/QuickStarteClip.htm
http://www.tltgroup.org/tlt5.htm
Session Type: Morning Seminar
This seminar will include practical tips on what to do if your institution receives a request to produce electronic documents or data both before and during litigation, as well as strategies for making responses to such requests efficient and productive. It will include a discussion of the new federal regulations on electronic documents in litigation, cover important steps administrators must take to protect confidential documents and privileged communications with counsel, and review the institution's obligations to protect the privacy of sensitive data in electronic documents and databases.
The seminar will also address basic principles for establishing and implementing effective and legally compliant record retention and destruction policies for electronic documents and data. We will draw on the experiences of a large public university system in implementing electronic records policies and in managing electronically stored information in the context of litigation, including the Google Print Project copyright litigation.
Session Type: Morning Seminar
Windows Desktops are widely deployed and can be subject to multiple attack vectors. Windows 2000, XP, Vista, have vulnerabilities that should be mitigated effectively by network security teams or by end users. This session will cover the top security vulnerabilities in Windows desktops and how to secure them quickly and effectively.
This seminar will include slides from the EDUCAUSE effective practices security task force, material from the SANS Web site and others, demonstrations of various tools, and handouts. Participants will learn how to bypass typical mistakes, develop incident-handling protocols and procedures, and leave with a handy checklist that they can use to secure their desktop computers and network environments. These effective practices are real examples from peer institutions. We are only as secure as our weakest link, and sharing lessons learned can make us all stronger.
Session Type: Morning Seminar
Compliance guidelines for S508 and the Americans with Disabilities Act are much discussed yet seldom fully implemented in higher education online course environments. Accessibility mandates are often perceived as too complex and difficult to implement on the course development level on a day-to-day basis. As the number of higher education students with identified disabilities increases, the essential elements of universal design for learning can empower both instructors and learners. This seminar will equip course designers and instructors with practical, easy-to-implement strategies for ensuring that course materials are accessible to all learners.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/GoingBeyondBasicADAa/45516
Session Type: Morning Seminar
The growth and evolution of learning technologies challenges institutions to keep pace with emerging pedagogies and learning environments while making them relevant to their core missions, goals, and challenges. This applied session looks at institutional models of best practice and their approach to diffusion and institutionalization of innovation theory. Planning strategies for successful identification, selection, and implementation of learning technologies will be reviewed. The EDUCAUSE "grand challenges" initiative will serve as the session's backdrop, as we explore some of higher education's access, retention, affordability, and accountability issues. Selected models of best practice will focus on demonstrating success in how information and learning technology can make a difference together with organizational leadership in addressing these issues.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/LearningTechnologyin/45517
Session Type: Morning Seminar
This seminar will look at a number of perspectives involved in the management of an institutional Web presence using a Web content management system. The seminar is split into three main parts.
In the first we will outline the features and functionality expected from such systems, what they do and do not offer, and the important role of the system in the University of Hull deployment of its digital campus.
The second part will look at methods of evaluation, specifically focusing on criteria and available solutions when considering the selection of a CMS.
In the third part, we will review technical, political, and cultural lessons learned from the campus-wide deployment at Hull over the past two years of HyperContent, an open source content management system.
Session Type: Morning Seminar
Technical advances in virtual worlds continue to advance dramatically. In this workshop, we will tour Second Life, a user-created virtual world simultaneously played by thousands of people around the world. We will first examine the technical capabilities, focus on new and exciting educational possibilities, and introduce a vision mechanism for incorporating virtual worlds into teaching and learning strategies. Then, we will virtually gather at our workshop location within Second Life to explore the technical capabilities of this technology. We will learn to change avatar physical appearance, move through the virtual world, communicate with others, animate an avatar, participate in group social events, interact with objects in the world, and build and program objects. We will participate in a variety of engaging hands-on activities including games, scavenger hunts, and competitions.
PLEASE NOTE: You will need to bring a laptop capable of running Second Life on the conference network to this seminar. Before the seminar, you also will need to create your free Second Life account and install the program on your laptop (http://secondlife.com/community/support.php) and test it to ensure it runs smoothly.
If circumstances prevent you from bringing a laptop to the seminar, please e-mail Victoria Fanning at vfanning@educause.edu.
Session Type: Morning Seminar
This seminar will focus on the senior IT leader's role in securing the campus. It will leverage the work produced by the Security Task Force to help IT leaders understand current security issues and future trends. Special emphasis will be placed on using community resources to improve handling of sensitive data, preventing and responding to security incidents, and establishing security awareness programs on campus.
Session Type: Morning Seminar
Web-based collaborative and social networking tools (Web 2.0) are becoming increasingly sophisticated while gaining in penetration in higher education and beyond. Many educators and support personnel, overwhelmed by the quantity and diversity of tools available and the hype associated with them, don't know where to begin or how to best use each tool.
The goal of this seminar is to provide hands-on experience working with a number of popular Web-based applications such as Flickr, del.icio.us, MediaWiki, Google Docs, MySpace, Facebook, and RSS syndication and to develop the skills to put them to work for productivity, information dissemination, and educational applications. Examples of existing applications of these tools in higher education will also be shown and discussed. Participants are expected to have an active web-accessible e-mail account.
PLEASE NOTE: You will need to bring a laptop with wireless connectivity and a Web browser installed. You will also need an e-mail account that can be accessed at the conference via the web. If circumstances prevent you from bringing a laptop to the seminar, please e-mail Victoria Fanning at vfanning@educause.edu.
Session Type: Morning Seminar
Clickers. Podcasting. Second Life. How does a university choose which emerging technologies to pursue? This session will share Ohio State University's structured process for evaluating e-learning projects, the emerging technologies assessment (ETA), which has been tested in numerous projects. Through collaboration and role-play, participants will conduct a case study assessment of an emerging technology using the ETA toolkit.
The five-stage process is organized around a flowchart that details steps for taking an emerging technology from the idea stage through the information-gathering stage to planning and executing a pilot. It specifies stakeholder involvement and includes multiple checkpoints that permit early termination where appropriate. The end result is a recommendation to administrative leadership about whether to adopt the technology. The materials for this session will include documentation, examples, and forms that outline the goals, inputs, and outputs for each stage of the process. Participants will leave with a model they can adapt to their own institutions.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/WhatsYourETAEmerging/45369
Session Type: Morning Seminar
Where will you, your organization, and your staff be in five years? Technology, jobs, and interdepartmental relationships are all converging. What does it take to retain staff and prepare them for the changing environment? How important are relationship management, professional development opportunities, and mentoring to staff growth and retention? This highly interactive seminar will discuss practical ideas and solutions, and participants will create a draft plan for the future.
Session Type: Morning Seminar
Vision is merely fantasy if it is not achievable. For that reason, truly effective leaders are fundamentally masters of continuous, strategic change for their organizations and institutions. This seminar will focus on the nature and methods of change leadership, as well as building and leading a strategic organization that is driven by change.
Session Type: Full-Day Seminar
Institutional directory service architects and designers face a number of unique technical challenges in higher education. Directory architects from the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will share lessons learned while developing and implementing directory services at their institutions.
Topics will include designing access controls and institutional object classes; using federation identities, Shibboleth, and administrative tools; managing multiple data sources, members, accounts, and guests; mapping data sources to standard object classes; handling interactive and bulk updates; optimizing and monitoring performance, replication, and integration with external authentication systems; and managing groups and privileges.
The solutions offered are based on 14-plus years of practical experience working with the Netscape/iPlanet/Sun directory products. This seminar will focus on intermediate to advanced issues, and most information will be widely applicable to and suitable for any institutional directory effort.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ArchitectingtheInsti/45481
Session Type: Full-Day Seminar
This workshop describes good practices in outcomes-based assessment program review in an effort to demonstrate how improvements in student learning and development are made based on a systematic institutional evaluation process. Basic illustrative components of outcomes-based assessment program review are presented, as well as criteria for identifying good practices within outcomes-based assessment program review. Institutional case studies in outcomes-based assessment program review are interwoven throughout to illustrate principles of good practice. Finally, suggested steps for implementing sustainable outcomes-based assessment program review are outlined.
This workshop is intended for faculty and administrators responsible for implementing and sustaining outcomes-based assessment program review at their campuses. In addition, the workshop can help faculty and administrators understand the "what" and "why" of outcomes-based assessment program review. Furthermore, it will explain the value of the outcomes-based assessment program review process as identified by the participating good-practice institutions.
Session Type: Full-Day Seminar
Personal authoring technologies have made it easier than ever for instructors and students to contribute their thoughts, experiences, and opinions to a global discourse. In addition, these technologies provide a rich opportunity for instructors to focus their students' attention on discipline-specific questions related to a single course or topic.
This seminar will give attendees valuable "face time" with blogs, wikis, and podcasts in order to critically assess their instructional value and creative potential, as well as the IT infrastructure required to support them. We will demonstrate the numerous technologies UW-Madison is using, discuss the pedagogical application and assessment of these technologies, present an overview of IT support challenges, and provide hands-on experiences with the production of blogs, wikis, and podcasts. The seminar will conclude with a discussion of other personal authoring technologies emerging on the educational horizon.
PLEASE NOTE: You will need to bring a laptop computer with wireless connectivity and a Web browser. Please download the free audio editing application called Audacity from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. You are also encouraged to bring a laptop microphone. If circumstances prevent you from bringing a laptop to the seminar, please e-mail Victoria Fanning at vfanning@educause.edu
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/BlogsWikisandPodcast/45584
Session Type: Full-Day Seminar
This workshop on campus grids will walk participants through the setup of two different campus grid middlewares, offer examples of good grid applications, and provide access to open source grid middleware that attendees can use with institutional resources to deploy grids on their campuses.
Campus grids are little understood, and those who wish to deploy them often do not know the human and computing resources required. The goal of this seminar is to present campus grid computing from the point of view of someone who has deployed, maintained, and successfully managed a campus grid. Attendees will leave with an understanding of the logistical, technical, and physical requirements of building, deploying, and maintaining a campus-wide grid.
Session Type: Full-Day Seminar
Tired of wading through the identity and access management (IAM) vendor and open source options? Want some guidance in developing your IdM requirements and evaluating your choice?
Attend this seminar to learn more about the experience of several campuses choosing an identity and access management solution. In addition to developing an initial requirements list and proto- RFP for your institution, you'll also learn how one campus ran its selection process for their IAM solution.
This session will also offer a series of implementation case studies and conclude with a panel of experts that will help you compare and contrast selected open source and vendor options and assemble an initial list of possible solutions. This seminar is sponsored by the NMI-EDIT Consortium of EDUCAUSE and Internet2.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/StoriesfromtheFieldS/45515
Session Type: Full-Day Seminar
Making choices about technologies to promote better learning is fraught with uncertainty. Can we predict the next podcasting or YouTube? How do we strategically avoid fads and plan for new educational tools? What approaches can help identify, evaluate, and leverage emerging technologies and corresponding educational practices? What differences do we make in student learning? The NMC-ELI Horizon Project has published predictions for several years. Come help us evaluate exemplars of theory and practice and explore this domain.
Using real examples of new technology implementations, we will address the problem of what to support. What are the downsides of a pilot program? When should a technology become an institutional resource? What models can help decision makers with planning, budgeting, infrastructure, and training? Can strategies transfer from another institution to your home school?
Come learn how to use the Horizon Report to plan for the future on your campus.
Session Type: Full-Day Seminar
This seminar will cover the basics you will need to start your organization's service level management (SLM) initiative, including how to define and set up a service catalog and how to use it to simplify the creation of individual service level agreements. You will also learn about operational level agreements that define support among various IT groups. Topics will include defining services, metrics, IT department and customer roles, and templates.
This seminar has been designed to introduce you to SLM terminology and concepts so that you will have the basic understanding to plan your own SLM project. Participation in group activities will illustrate some of the issues and decisions you will encounter in your unique environment. You will take away a workbook, templates, and sample documents to assist you in creating your own SLM documents.
Session Type: Full-Day Seminar
Addressing campus reporting and analytical needs can be a daunting task. This seminar will provide a coherent framework that covers the fundamentals of the data warehouse and business intelligence (BI). It will cover specific tasks associated with defining the implementation scope, developing budgets, building the data warehouse architecture, selecting BI software, going over the concepts of the dimensional modeling, building data security, ensuring data quality, and reviewing the development of the dashboards and other information-delivery vehicles.
The implementation of the business intelligence solution addressing the needs of the academic deans, cabinet, faculty, and staff is far more than just a technical endeavor creating many changes in a slowly changing environment of higher education; from marketing and communications, to well-thought-out training programs, to redefining people's roles and responsibilities, this seminar will address how to manage changes in people, processes, and campus analytical culture that are necessary for successful BI implementation.
Session Type: Full-Day Seminar
This workshop covers information technology strategic planning in higher education environments. Participants will receive an overview of different approaches to strategic planning for technology, including best practices and analyses of the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Three case studies will be presented; each covers a different aspect of strategic planning. A hybrid approach to strategic planning will be developed using the lessons learned from these case studies. The workshop will be of interest to those engaged in any type of planning activity that involves deploying or supporting IT in large organizations.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/StrategicITPlanningi/45585
Session Type: Full-Day Seminar
This seminar will discuss fundamental security principles, such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability and how they apply to Web-based applications. We will briefly explore technical aspects of the Web and HTTP (cookies, HTTP headers, and the stateless nature of the Web) and see how these affect application security.
The main focus will be a detailed exploration of the Open Web Application Security Project's (OWASP) top-10 list of Web application vulnerabilities. We will discuss these threats in detail, give specific examples, and explain how to secure your applications against them. We will also discuss threat modeling and software development practices that will help create secure applications and demonstrate a variety of tools to aid in the testing and scanning of applications.
Session Type: Full-Day Seminar
Professors, provosts, and presidents: What do they do? What do they want from IT? This workshop provides an introduction to the organization, structure, culture, and politics of institutions of higher education in the United States. Colleges and universities are complex, unique, and highly decentralized organizations. They have multiple missions (research and scholarship, teaching and learning, service to the community) and serve multiple clienteles (students, professors, the public). Designed for campus IT professionals who want to understand the nature of higher education in the United States, this workshop will focus on institutional demographics, roles, and decision making, as well as the impact of federal and state policy on colleges and universities. Join us for a fast-paced, comprehensive, and occasionally whimsical program.
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
Lunch will be served in the meeting.
Session Type: Meeting
Lunch will be served in the meeting.
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
Lunch will be served in the meeting.
Session Type: Meeting
Lunch will be served in the meeting.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
Through contingency planning, regular backup of materials, and cross-departmental collaboration, support staff and faculty can ensure that a course can proceed if learning management system (LMS) delivery is interrupted. Texas Woman's University uses the Blackboard LMS and keeps several safeguards in place year-round.
During the first week of every semester additional safeguards are added. The contingency plan also supports ongoing backup of course materials and grades, ensuring that best practices for distance learning are included in the program. Exposing students to alternate technologies in regular class assignments serves two purposes: to support the program goal of a dual education (content matter of the discipline as well as technology skill building), and to provide additional (alternate) resources outside the Blackboard LMS so that course work is not wholly reliant on one platform.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
Interested in using Shibboleth as your Web single sign-on (SSO)? This session will provide an overview of the management issues involved in deploying the Shibboleth system as an intra- or intercampus Web SSO system. The session will provide an introduction to the federated model, the prerequisite middleware infrastructure, and the Shibboleth implementation. Two campus representatives will describe their business case for SSO software, why they chose the Shibboleth software, and their deployment process. They will also provide an overview of the policy and project management issues encountered during their deployments, as well as the impact on their business processes and help desks. This session is sponsored by the NMI-EDIT Consortium of Internet2 and EDUCAUSE.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
In 2006, George Mason University began a strategic redesign of its award-winning Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) program. Started in 1998, the program achieved great success in integrating technology fluency training into academic curricula at the university and in preparing students to understand and effectively use information technologies. With the growth in the use of new tools such as social software, Web 2.0 applications, and games, and with the changing technology skills of the student body, a new and innovative approach was required.
In this workshop, we will introduce participants to the strategic planning method used in the redesign of the TAC program. We will discuss the pioneering approach we developed to encourage student acquisition of technology concepts and skills and understanding of the impact of technology. Participants will leave with tools and approaches they can use to strategically redesign technology and learning programs at their own institutions.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
Appreciative inquiry (AI) is a dynamic and simple approach to organizational change that encourages people to study, discuss, learn from, and build on what works well. By applying AI to IT organizations, we can build positive cultures that enable people and their organizations to function at their best.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
This seminar will provide a systematic means to evaluate Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, newsfeeds, and friend-of-a-friend (FOAF) profiles to support their judicious adoption in higher education. It will help decision makers develop strategies for various degrees of integration. Distilling Oxford University's experiences will enable participants to quickly identify key issues and clarify ideas about an appropriate educational role for such technologies and how they might be suitably incorporated in institutional systems.
In particular, the seminar will share considerable experience from numerous externally funded projects in software development as well as how to make the most of open source projects to address needs-based development.
The analysis will be illustrated through four areas: blogs (for supporting personal reflections and enhancing learning experiences), wikis (for collaborative knowledge building), newsfeeds (for improving communications from small workgroups to institution-wide services), and learning management systems (personalization to support student self-publication, social networking, and profiling through FOAF).
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
Teaching effectively within a technology-rich environment is challenging. Coupled with shifting student expectations, emerging evidence regarding how people learn, and an evolving technology environment, ongoing support to help faculty develop their technical and pedagogical skills and understanding is essential for individual and institutional success.
We believe meeting these challenges requires a new approach to faculty development. In this seminar, we will share our approach to faculty development, which has been refined over 12 years of practice. We have designed this interactive workshop to facilitate participant design or redesign of programs aiming to help faculty develop the skill and understanding necessary to teach in technology-rich learning environments.
We will consider five key dimensions of faculty development: guiding principles for program design and delivery; rich assessment and evaluation practice; strategic planning and funding faculty development programs; marketing and administering faculty development programs; and human resources considerations for educational technology support units.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
The OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement is taking off, offering benefits to faculty, institutions, and learners around the globe. More than 100 institutions are participating worldwide, millions of people visit OCW sites around the globe each month, and interest continues to grow. Starting an OCW, however, is a not a trivial undertaking. This seminar will offer a much-needed "boot camp" on how to start an OCW on your campus. We will prepare you to advance your project over the hurdles of motivation and through the hoops of IP clearance. We also will demonstrate the effective use of the many production, presentation, and evaluation tools currently available.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
Today’s students favor visuals and social computing tools, while instructors want to foster the development of deep, expert knowledge. Using concept maps connects student desires and instructor objectives. INHOLLAND University of Professional Education and the University of British Columbia have innovatively linked concept maps, rich media, and Web-based content.
At INHOLLAND University students learn in a visual and social online environment, using concept maps to engage in argumentation, writing, reflection, and brainstorming. Combinations of concept maps and rich media with a learning management system, wikis, and blogs help students create a unique yet structured viewpoint that retains a bird’s-eye view of complex ideas and concepts.
Instructors and staff from INHOLLAND, SURFdiensten, and UBC will discuss the process of choosing, implementing, and piloting a new concept mapping tool; demonstrate 10-plus practices and templates; and present tools in a hands-on manner.
PLEASE NOTE: You will need to bring a laptop with wireless connectivity and a Web browser installed. If circumstances prevent you from bringing a laptop to the seminar, please e-mail Victoria Fanning at vfanning@educause.edu.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/LetsGetVisualIntegra/45460
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
Many schools desire to make improvements to successfully piloted systems to make them truly enterprise systems. This presentation will describe techniques for managing, improving, maintaining, and operating critical enterprise systems. These techniques have been culled from years of experience managing enterprise portals. While the working example focuses on the campus portal, much of this can be applied to other enterprise systems.
Topics will include organization and governance; team communication; developer communication, tools, and environments; testing tools and techniques; code migration; architecting for stability, reliability, and performance; monitoring; statistical reporting; help desk support and issue tracking; and user surveys.
You will leave the seminar with a comprehensive list of possible improvements to an existing system or items to consider when developing the implementation plan for your next system deployment to help make it a truly enterprise-grade system.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/MakingITTrulyEnterpr/45602
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
This workshop has four main sections. First we will present an overview of the policy development life cycle, allowing time for group discussion of how the stages relate to individual campuses. Writing a policy is only one step in the process: beforehand, you must identify stakeholders and solicit their support and place the policy in the context of institutional values; afterwards, the policy must be approved by the right groups, distributed, promoted, interpreted, enforced, and reviewed.
In the second section we will describe a security policy gap-analysis process based on industry-standard categories that shows how to prioritize policies based on risk and relates the process to the institutional security program. The third section will present an overview of model security policy collected by the EDUCAUSE Model Security Policy Subcommittee for its wiki. The fourth and final section will offer practical exercises in writing good policy, including a case study approach.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
The focus of this workshop will be on providing you with a broad and in-depth look at podcasting. You will leave with an understanding of what it takes to record and publish a podcast. We will explore hardware and software tools for recording, creating, and publishing podcasts, along with the technical specifications for audio and video podcasts. The RSS and XML technical specification used to create podcasts will be explained.
We will look at options for hosting podcasts including campus servers, e-learning systems, and third-party and free hosting solutions. Effective uses beyond recording of course lectures will be discussed. Come with your ideas to share for creating the next generation of podcasts. You will leave with a resource manual containing the information for the tools shown in this workshop. Participants' questions and interaction will be encouraged throughout the workshop.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
New technologies introduce opportunities for faculty members, librarians, instructional technologists, and other information-services professionals to work together in new and dynamic relationships. The success of new services, however, will be highly dependent on formal lines of administrative organization.
This seminar will focus on the provision of images for teaching and research purposes, using it as a case study to consider the success factors associated with transitioning to the electronic environment. How must campus roles and responsibilities adjust in order to provide excellent services? While focused on images, this will be a highly discussion-oriented seminar, with extensive opportunities to consider services provided around other format types such as video, music, and texts. Some advance reading will be provided.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
The presentation will introduce the dynamics of "smart" change: the definition, the principles, the dimensions, and the process. Change can be routine, strategic, or transformative. Smart change is the aggressive application of change management principles including engagement, shared leadership, and transformative goals. We will highlight four steps of the smart change process: making the case for change, developing the capacity to change, identifying the change process, and launching the change.
Participants will identify programs, services, policies, and tools required to support a vision of seamless programs and services to lifelong learners. A case study from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities MnOnline will use the building blocks for smart change, which can serve as a template for other campuses to identify their own smart change agendas.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
If you're interested in making better vendor solution choices, getting a tighter match between your needs and what the vendor delivers, negotiating better agreements, spending less money, obtaining stronger sponsor support, or reducing the time from problem definition to recommendation, this seminar is for you. Join us as we focus on important project management, vendor evaluation, and vendor negotiation strategies. Leave with a proven vendor evaluation methodology and important vendor negotiation guides to help you succeed.
Use project management methodologies to help with problem definitions, requirements, deliverables, communication, and sponsor support to create a healthy environment for your project. Understand and walk through examples of a proven vendor evaluation methodology that clearly articulates your needs, increases your understanding of vendor strengths and weaknesses, aligns expectations of both parties, and outlines solutions. Throughout the process see how important vendor negotiation principles can be used to end with a win-win solution in institutions of varying sizes. Please come prepared to share vendor-related issues from your campus at this interactive session.
Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
Working in pairs, participants will be led through an informal usability test based in part on Steve Krug's excellent script in "Don't Make Me Think" (www.sensible.com). One participant (the "user") will leave the room while the other participant (the "owner") is interviewed about the site's overall goals and key user tasks (apply for admission, find a news release, find out who teaches Chemistry 101, and so forth).
When the user returns, he or she will be asked to "think out loud" while using the site and attempting the tasks defined by the owner, who will be able to watch and listen but not comment. After a discussion with both participants about the experience, the roles will then be reversed. In addition to live user feedback about their sites, participants (and observers) will learn a simple but effective method for improving their sites--and their own Web development skills.
PLEASE NOTE: We will conduct usability testing of your institution’s home page in groups of three. You will need to bring a color printout of your home page and at least two tasks a user should be able to accomplish by starting on your home page. We will need at least one laptop for every three-person group, so if it is convenient, please bring a laptop with wireless connectivity and a Web browser installed.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/WebUsability101Watch/45370
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: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
Join us for an exciting opening event—a reception in the EDUCAUSE 2007 Exhibit Hall. More than 200 companies will showcase the latest technologies in higher education while several sponsors host hors d’oeuvres. Corporate support of this evening is provided by, Cognos Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Mirapoint, Oracle, and SAP Public Services, Inc., EDUCAUSE Gold Partners; HP and SMART Technologies, Inc., EDUCAUSE Silver Partners; Echo360, Sprint Nextel, and TouchNet Information Systems, Inc., EDUCAUSE Bronze Partners; Lockdown Networks and Tegrity Corporation.
Stop by the booth for an informal opportunity to speak with Rodney J. Petersen, EDUCAUSE government relations officer and Security Task Force coordinator.
Session Type: Meeting
Designed for first-time attendees at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, this session will help you get the most out of three days of intensive professional development. We'll cover making smart choices about which sessions to attend, networking with colleagues of similar interests, getting professionally involved, accessing information resources and services, and finding your way around the convention center. Any and all questions welcome!
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
Richard N. Katz leads ECAR, the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, which provides timely research and analysis to help higher education leaders make better decisions about information technology. In addition, he is responsible for the association's corporate relations. Katz developed a number of the EDUCAUSE regional conferences and affiliate partnerships. He has co-authored ECAR research studies on IT networking, IT alignment, leadership, enterprise systems, IT engagement in research, and academic analytics, as well as six books and more than 50 articles, monographs, and book chapters. Since July 1, 2007, Katz has been leading an EDUCAUSE team in Europe developing research programs there and, in 2008 in the Asia-Pacific region.
Session Type: Meeting
Stop by the booth for an informal opportunity to speak with Steven L. Worona, EDUCAUSE director of policy and networking programs and host of the EDUCAUSE Live! Web seminar series.
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, and Julie Little, ELI associate director.
Session Type: Meeting
CIOs are invited to share with MERLOT staff their institutions' priorities and directions. MERLOT Executive Director Gerry Hanley, Senior Director for Academic Technology in the California State University System, will share how systems and campuses are currently engaging faculty in MERLOT activities and outline strategic directions. Most of the session will focus on feedback from CIOs about current and future MERLOT initiatives.
Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
