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Session Type: Meeting
Session Type: Meeting
Over the last year, CampusEAI Consortium has expanded its membership, solutions, services and had numerous successes in Portal, Collaborative Technologies, Identity Management, Portlet and Application Development, IPTV and Sakai. CampusEAI’s Executive Director, Anjli Jain, will highlight what we’ve accomplished as a community in the past year and share the targets, goals and objectives for 2007-2008. This event is by invitation only. For more information, please contact info@campuseai.org.
Session Type: Meeting
Breakfast will be served in the meeting.
Session Type: Featured Speaker
Many campuses are exploring how information technologies might play a critical role, when disaster strikes, in ensuring the continuity of their most essential business, educating students. This panel will explore how Web-based services can be used to minimize the impact on instruction of a significant shutdown of the physical campus. Not all disasters have the same uniform impact; this panel will emphasize how to plan the process, from course preparation to delivery, for pandemics like Avian Flu.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DisasterPlanningMain/45356
Session Type: Track 1
Collaborative research teaches students critical knowledge management skills, whether they are undergraduates learning the basics of Web research or advanced scholars defining their own knowledge domains. Faculty need practical examples and strategies to initiate social bookmarking activities. Case studies demonstrate how this has been accomplished in undergraduate and graduate courses.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/FromInformationLiter/45394
Session Type: Track 1
Three years ago, INHOLLAND university launched a learning scenario that required the latest in electronic communication and collaboration tools. The new digital campus that was built is being redesigned now using Windows Vista and SharePoint 2007. What did we learn during the past three years, and what do we hope to achieve now?
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TopDownorBottomUpDes/45642
Session Type: Track 2
Returning exams can be a burdensome task to faculty, involving distribution, collection, and storage of graded work. This session will demonstrate how barcode-assisted imaging technology is used to automate indexing and distribution of exams to electronic student drop boxes. This method reduces costs, improves turnaround time, and simplifies the resolution of grading challenges.
Session Type: Track 2
This presentation details a five-phase deployment strategy for identity and access management (IAM). IAM provides a number of capabilities, including authentication management, authorization management, user administration, resource provisioning, auditing, and reporting to create a comprehensive and efficient approach to managing identities in a heterogeneous environment.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/IdentityManagementUs/45487
Session Type: Track 3
Since 2003, an interdisciplinary team of Swedish, Australian, and American researchers has developed and tested inclusive, transferable processes for collaborative planning and iterative assessment of learning commons initiatives. This session will illustrate essential process, outcome, and philosophy elements for producing student-generated insights on (re)design of campus learning spaces.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ACollaborativeCodesi/45588
Session Type: Track 4
This session will describe a leadership development process for IT professionals that includes a leadership framework (using leadership research instruments, examining individual strengths, promoting team participation); managing resources (program planning, organizing and budgeting, conflict resolution and negotiation); and improving performance of IT units (valuing diversity, futuring, trend analysis, scenario development and visioning, and entrepreneurship).
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ALeadershipDevelopme/45395
Session Type: Track 4
While the challenge of IT strategic planning might be similar across institutions, the individual approaches used are influenced by many factors including those unique to an institution. SMU's approach for an IT strategic plan takes into consideration the desire for one unified plan that includes the goals and objectives of both centralized and decentralized IT.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ChartingtheITPathUni/45396
Session Type: Track 4
This session presents findings from the 2007 ECAR survey on IT help desk management in the U.S. and Canada. Using assessment methods derived from IT service management standards and the broader IT help desk literature, ECAR has developed a robust view of the state of the practice in this highly significant service area.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TheITHelpDeskinHighe/45490
Session Type: Track 5
This session will describe and explain the policy, practices, and technologies implemented at the University of Southern California to allow the extension of electronic services for learning, research, and collaboration to guests and colleagues at other higher education institutions.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/CollaboratorsattheGa/45488
Session Type: Track 5
EDUCAUSE recently convened a summit of university CIOs to obtain their insights on generating a set of national cyberinfrastructure priorities and to determine strategies and tactics for EDUCAUSE and its members. Learn about the projects EDUCAUSE initiated based on this meeting, and how your institution can become more involved in these efforts.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ManagingCyberinfrast/45710
Session Type: Track 5
Gettysburg College is conducting a pilot program for using Tablet PCs as a primary computing tool. This program involves 23 individuals from all divisions of the college with access to no other PC than their Tablet PC, docking station, auxiliary keyboard, and monitor. These individuals shared their experiences.
Session Type: Track 6
IT security is cool and fun! Learn how the National University of Singapore combined exciting and fun events such as an IT security carnival, a freshmen awareness camp, a hacking challenge, a server accreditation challenge, a security quest, and many other activities into successful security educational campaigns over the past six years.
Session Type: Track 7
This session will present our evaluation of the impact of tablet PCs and DyKnow software on student learning. We focus on explaining how our mixed-method evaluation of student learning leverages varied methodologies that span live classroom and controlled laboratory environments. We show how this approach generalizes to other evaluation projects.
Session Type: Track 7
The demand for quality, effective online teaching environments is growing. Using three research studies (on social presence in distance learning, threaded discussion, and student technology usage), Academic Outreach proposed synchronous and asynchronous educational strategies to faculty and students in distributed/blended learning environments. Don't miss this opportunity to hear our results.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImprovingDistributed/45489
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
Well-managed access to online resources enables collaborative applications, ensures privacy, and supports identity management infrastructures. Come to this session to discuss identity management on campus, including policy and governance, technology and practice, and implementation. Share your experiences and learn from your colleagues.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/IdentityManagement/45702
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
How do you know that your data exchange is secure? Our campuses exchange data daily, much of it critical and confidential. Is your banking relationship supporting secure data exchange? How secure are your retirement file feeds? Can anyone on campus initiate data exchange? If so, are they trained to make the exchange secure? Discuss challenges and solutions for making data exchanges secure.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/SecureDataExchange/45353
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
In a world of information overload, institutions struggle to engage their communities online in a meaningful way. They are turning to Web designers and developers who can create engaging, cross-platform, rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe will address the latest trends in RIA development and discuss how its rich client technologies, including Flash and Adobe Integrated Runtime (Adobe AIR), are leading the RIA movement.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
Communications technology can help differentiate your campus not only in serving current students but also in creating a sense of life-long community so that generation after generation of families keep coming back. Hear from one campus using intelligent communications today to make a difference.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/IntelligentCommunica/45478
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
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
The new Windows Vista desktop operating system’s great built-in features enable small groups to gather for collaborative study sessions. Windows Meeting Space allows face-to-face collaboration for up to 10 users, as well as easy and secure application and file sharing over wireless networks.
Session Type: Corporate Workshop
Security has been expressed as the number-one concern of higher education institutions. Oracle provides strong security and data protection for consolidated applications and databases where multiple and highly privileged users may coexist within the same database. Join us to learn firsthand how Oracle can protect one of your greatest assets—your data—against internal and external threats by enforcing separation of duty, encryption, and SSN remediation.
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.
Session Type: General Session
Approximately a year ago, the Commission on the Future of Higher Education formed by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings issued its report, A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education, which called for dramatic improvement in the national higher education system. Focusing on issues of access, affordability, quality, and accountability, the report outlined significant shortcomings and recommended sweeping changes. Our panelists, all members of the commission, will address issues raised in the report and the role technology can play in support of the recommendations.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TheRoleofInformation/45363
Stop by the booth for an informal opportunity to speak with Wendy Wigen, EDUCAUSE government relations officer.
Session Type: Featured Speaker
Recognitions, awards, best practices, best of breed: so engaging, so uplifting, so motivating, so prominently covered. Failures, frustrations, firings, misdirection: so off-putting, so depressing, so demoralizing, so rarely covered. The literature on quality improvement and economist Paul Ormerod’s Why Most Things Fail contend that progress and quality improvement require that we not only seek success but also avoid failure, and therefore that we understand both. In this session, Jackson will offer a different perspective by reflecting on some mishaps and why they occurred.
WINNER: 2007 EDUCAUSE Leadership Award. Award sponsored by SunGard Higher Education, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ThingsIveScrewedUp82/45358
Session Type: Track 1
Often technological innovation seems to be implemented in a vacuum. This presentation will show how UCLA used student feedback and control group studies to inform an ongoing course Webcasting pilot project.
Session Type: Track 1
As a takeoff on the popular reality TV series Project Runway, Project Technology follows six faculty during a school year as they attempt to effectively integrate technology into their teaching to enhance student learning. Session attendees will learn and see firsthand how faculty members struggled with and mastered new technologies.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ProjectTechnologyAWo/45665
Session Type: Track 1
Second Life is a user-created virtual world simultaneously played by thousands of people around the world. In this session, we’ll share our experiences of teaching in Second Life. Using the interaction combinations integration model we developed as a framework, we will describe our projects, outcomes, and recommendations.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DigitalFieldAssignme/45605
Session Type: Track 2
Open source software provides new choices for enterprise applications. It also raises questions for decision makers about allocating resources to software development projects and what IT direction they are setting with these choices. Case studies of open source decisions at two universities analyze campus priorities, sustainability, fit with the IT culture and environment, and strategies for successful decision making.
Session Type: Track 3
Tremendous progress has been made in putting scholarly and research materials online, yet far less progress been made in the development of tools to facilitate the use of online resources. This presentation will discuss Zotero, a tool developed at the Center for History and New Media, which aims to fill this gap.
Session Type: Track 4
At EDUCAUSE 2003, ACU presented a session dealing with the difficulties of implementing a programming prioritization process and the benefits of doing so. Since that time, we have continued to keep our President's Cabinet engaged, but in much different ways than when we began. We will discuss where we started and how the process has evolved.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/EngagingExecutivesin/45398
Session Type: Track 4
As higher education institutions face a growing shortage of IT leaders, some executives question the need for a CIO while others see this role expanding. During this annual Gartner/EDUCAUSE update, we will look at the role of the CIO and how it has evolved, along with current and future institutional needs for IT leadership. We will also look at how institutions can prepare for the next generation of IT leaders and future models for IT governance.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ITLeadershipandtheRo/45664
Session Type: Track 4
At LSU , student government is extremely active in a spectrum of campus issues, including IT. Like many universities, LSU has a technology fee, but unlike most, student oversight is required by state law. Far from finding this oppressive, students have become "angel investors," initiating investment and stimulating interest in emerging technologies.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/StudentsasAngelInves/45607
Session Type: Track 5
The Network Policy Council is an EDUCAUSE advisory body on federal policy. The NPC strives to understand the full range of network and telecommunications policy issues confronting the research and education community and to develop a comprehensive policy message. This session outlines the NPC’s activities over the past year and provides insight into current federal policy and regulatory issues.
Session Type: Track 6
The University of Notre Dame recently changed its network border policy to deny most unsolicited network traffic from the Internet. A small set of services like the Web, secure shell, and VPN are allowed in, but all others are denied by default.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/BorderPatrolAccessDe/45399
Session Type: Track 6
In 2004, Visa and MasterCard collaboratively developed the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) to create common industry security requirements. This session will share the campus perspectives and approaches of Washington State University and the University of Washington in addressing the standard.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/PCIComplianceintheUn/45462
Session Type: Track 7
The University of Nebraska at Omaha is engaged in shifting campus culture from teaching to learning through the adoption of myMAPP-mapping academic performance through e-portfolios-an innovative e-portfolio system that addresses how all parts of an institution contribute to the continuous improvement of learning.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/CulturalShiftfromTea/45400
Session Type: Track 7
In the summer of 2006, Mount Holyoke implemented Sakai, an open source learning management system, to replace WebCT and provide diverse capabilities through a single portal. This presentation will cover planning, deployment, and transition of users and materials. The discussion will particularly focus on lessons learned including successes, challenges, and vision for future development.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/IntotheFryingPanLess/45491
Session Type: Track 7
Students' preferences and demands challenge existing IT and other campus services. Sometimes a gap exists between what today's students expect and what universities are likely to deliver. Finding imaginative solutions for this "digital disconnect" can improve the teaching and learning environment. This session will address themes including informal learning spaces, classroom instruction, online resources, and promoting services.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/SolutionstoDigitalDi/45519
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
How big a deal is e-discovery? How much attention do CIOs and their staff need to invest in it, and in what issues? What division of labor does it require? What campus officers are key to effectively navigating e-discovery? Do federal and state IT e-discovery issues differ? Do they differ for public and private institutions? What's the most important thing to do, and avoid doing, regarding e-discovery?
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
Can applications like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn teach us anything about practices in higher education? Come prepared to talk about the positive aspects of these seemingly superfluous applications and how using them can help build community and enhance the quality of life for you and your students.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
This session will introduce Blackboard’s approach to connecting secondary school outcomes with changing college and university needs and workplace requirements. We will share K–20 practitioners’ best practices and common approaches to addressing the challenges facing new learners in a new century.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
Is your institution dealing with student computing complexity? With IBM Virtualization solutions, educational institutions can deliver virtual clients to users with single-point, secure, consistent access to required applications from almost any device with an Internet connection while simplifying management and support. Learn about virtual client delivery through server-based virtualization during this presentation.
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
Information is your institution's most powerful management tool. Datatel is helping institutions implement innovative approaches to reporting and analytics and tap the full potential of enterprise data. Unearth the secrets to maximizing your constituents' efficiency and awareness, and discover how to answer business questions by effectively analyzing information and trends. This workshop demonstrates how a data warehouse platform can be the right tool.
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
Experience how your faculty and staff can quickly submit requisitions and expense reports for faster processing and accuracy. Learn about the extensive HR self-service solutions and interact with the system to enroll in benefits, retrieve a pay slip, or apply for a job.
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.
Session Type: Meeting
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: EDUCAUSE 2007 and EDUCAUSE 2008 Program Committees Joint Meeting.
1:15 pm - 4:00 pm: EDUCAUSE 2008 Program Committee only.
Lunch will be served in the meeting.
Session Type: Meeting
In July, 2007 EDUCAUSE convened a national meeting of university CIOs to discuss how CI can function. This meeting generated a set of CI national priorities, strategies and tactics for EDUCAUSE and its' members, including focus on support for research, university leadership's role in the strategic planning for a robust CI on campus, and the need for a sustainable CI funding model. (see http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/AReportontheEDUCAUSE/44952)
In additional to the national level, there are both middle layer campus and individual level components of CI. The Net@EDU Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CCI) working group is focusing on strengthening this middle layer in the nation's cyberinfrastructure framework. Meeting participants will help answer vital questions pertaining to campus CI components, including:
- Where does one identify and support this common core middle level of CI that needs to exist to interface with the national layer and individual PI independent of local campus cultures or specific disciplines?
- How can we create a palate of different tactics that can be adopted to particular campus and support our agreed-upon national priorities?
- How can campuses, working through EDUCAUSE, work together to implement these strategies?
Come prepared to work as you learn more about the CCI's current projects and how you can become more engaged with this effort.
Lunch will be served in the Grand Hyatt meeting room.
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: Hot Topics Discussion
Will teaching in a virtual environment really be the next big thing? A number of institutions and faculty think so, and that number is growing. This session brings together those who want to discuss how virtual learning environments impact all facets of the institution. Given the position of Second Life in this arena, it will probably dominate most discussions.
Session Type: Constituent Group
After years of dynamic technological change, current economic circumstances continue to necessitate ever more transformation. Pressing needs to reformulate budgets, strategic plans, and organizational patterns require leadership at all levels of an organization, in informal as well as formal networks. This meeting will explore ideas and best practices for managing in our present climate.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ChangeLeadership/45452
Session Type: Constituent Group
This session will provide attendees with an opportunity to discuss current issues and share ideas and concerns about institutional data management, including governance and stewardship, policies and standards, and guidelines for application development, metadata, privacy and security, and quality and access.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DataAdministration/45453
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will provide a forum to discuss topics ranging from what makes a physical space conducive to learning to the principles and processes of learning space design. Well-designed learning spaces are predicated on an understanding of the learning activities that must occur, the type of interaction desired, the needs of the discipline, and the learning outcomes sought. Join us and share your ideas and experience on how formal spaces and informal spaces impact teaching practices, learning activities and effectiveness, and student interactions, as well as the campus sense of community.
A box lunch will be served in the Sheraton meeting room.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/learningspace
Session Type: Constituent Group
Since its inception in 1997, this group has discussed a wide range of topics relevant to network managers including network convergence, bandwidth management, management systems, security, wireless technologies, and support. This gathering will allow network managers to share ideas about their current professional challenges and new or emerging technologies with other networking experts from a wide variety of institutional backgrounds.
A box lunch will be served in the Sheraton meeting room.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/NetworkManagement/45477
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will discuss issues technical project managers face in higher education. Participant-driven discussions may include identifying best practices and tools, promoting a project management culture within IT organizations, managing cross-functional groups, training project managers, developing strategies for terminating failing projects, and meeting client expectations.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ProjectManagement/45455
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will focus on the ways in which information technologies affect specialized operations, including software selection, staff training, standards and best practices, record-keeping and access, and data storage and retrieval. Come share your pitfalls, best practices, and proven solutions with your colleagues.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/RegistrarsandAdmissi/45350
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will foster the discussion of IT issues specific and possibly unique to small colleges, allowing participants to share challenges, solutions, and successful techniques employed in the planning and management of technology-related resources.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall to this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/smallcol
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will focus on the challenges of meeting the expanding technical needs of faculty, staff, and students. We will address staffing, training, and help desk tools and issues, as well as hardware and software standards. Come prepared to exchange ideas, best practices, and solutions with colleagues from a broad array of institutions.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://www.educause.edu/groups/ds
Session Type: Constituent Group
This session will allow Webmasters, project managers, administrators, designers, and other Web professionals to exchange ideas on the use of the Web as both a productivity and public relations tool. Topics may include content management systems, streaming media, the IT-PR working relationship, and Web-related tools and technologies.
Please bring your box lunch from the exhibit hall for this meeting.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/WebProfessionals/45454
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.
Session Type: Meeting
Learn more about the initiatives of the Security Task Force, including progress in strategic areas such as data protection, risk assessment, incident response, and business continuity. Attendees are also invited to bring questions and suggestions regarding efforts to improve IT security in higher education. Volunteer opportunities will also be described.
A box lunch will be served in the Sheraton meeting room.
Session Type: Meeting
If you are interested in advancing learning through IT innovation, you’ll be interested in the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This session will introduce you to ELI’s focus, programs, and services, as well as how you can get involved in ELI activities.
A box lunch will be served in the Sheraton meeting room.
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 for this meeting.
Stop by the booth for an informal opportunity to speak with Wendy Wigen, EDUCAUSE government relations officer.
Session Type: Featured Speaker
This panel will tell the story of the uPortal project, a community effort to develop a free, sharable, enterprise-wide Web portal specifically for higher education. The flagship project for JA-SIG (the Java Applications Special Interest Group), uPortal has become the most widely used portal in production in higher education.
WINNER: 2007 EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award. Award sponsored by SunGard Higher Education, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TheuPortalProject/45359
Session Type: Track 1
ITIL, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a process-based framework for more effectively managing IT services. Although just emergent in higher education, it has been widely adopted in industry. It is surprisingly well-suited to higher education. This session will introduce ITIL and serves as a companion to another session describing Yale's experience implementing ITIL.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ITILAnEffectiveMetho/45666
Session Type: Track 1
Marist College's award-winning work with Web 2.0 applications has led to the development of an e-learning 2.0 strategy for the pedagogically based deployment of these technologies. We will present our strategy and lessons learned from recent implementations, including methodologies for controlling costs, enhancing learning, and ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/Ridingthe20WaveSuccessful/45816
Session Type: Track 2
Need to preserve selected records in accordance with your retention schedule, remove "old" e-mail from fast storage media, or keep a tamper-proof copy of all e-mail for legal compliance? How do you implement a workable solution that balances risks, is underpinned by policy, and responds to legal, user, and technical pressures?
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/EMailArchivingAllThi/45404
Session Type: Track 2
Learn how Indiana University has successfully implemented the world's largest installation of the Sakai open source collaborative learning environment on eight campuses statewide. This presentation will cover migration from an enterprise legacy system, tiered support model, virtualized hardware solutions, source code management techniques, and balancing local needs with community-driven development.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImplementingSupporti/45403
Session Type: Track 2
Vendor acquisitions, open source initiatives, and the emergence of service oriented architectures have drastically changed the landscape for ERP systems. In this session, we will share how the University of Michigan planned and continues to plan for the future of its enterprise administrative systems in this dynamic environment and what others can learn from our planning efforts.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/StrategicPlanningint/45463
Session Type: Track 3
Trinity University's Coates Library adapted an immersive marketing campaign strategy known as an alternate reality game when designing the library's 2006 new student orientation. Objectives emphasized critical thinking skills, orientation to the online and physical environments, interactions with librarians, and entertaining engagement.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImmersiveMarketingfo/45405
Session Type: Track 4
This session provides an overview and background on the Frye Leadership Institute. Participants in the 2007 Institute will offer their comments and observations, and there will be an opportunity for the audience to ask questions and engage in discussion of this special professional development opportunity.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/FryeInstituteOvervie/45712
Session Type: Track 4
Delivering improved services to meet students' technology expectations is a top priority for institutions. Tight budgets and increasing demands for IT services require searching for new or expanded sources of revenue. This session will cover identifying, assessing, and applying for appropriate grant opportunities to help you fund strategic IT initiatives.
Session Type: Track 4
IT leaders from four universities will discuss IT strategic planning process successes and challenges. This session will explore how to succeed when an institution-wide strategic plan doesn't exist, how to involve the community, and lessons learned, as well as what's still missing from our plans.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ITStrategicPlanningM/45413
Session Type: Track 4
In 2006 EDUCAUSE began a worldwide discussion with members about the changing role and nature of IT in higher education. This session summarizes the work of an EDUCAUSE advisory group on the drivers of change in higher education and IT, their vector, and the strategies and approaches that may help colleges and universities leverage emerging technologies and extend their footprints into emerging social networking environments.
Session Type: Track 5
Low-cost usability testing is a useful technique for improving a Web site's organization and function. This technique is especially effective for universities using content management systems to distribute site content responsibilities. Learn how you can use these simple techniques to improve your campus's Web presence.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImprovingWebUsabilit/45401
Session Type: Track 6
Maintaining spreadsheets on server configurations, firewalls, and personal identity data, each with redundant and inconsistent information, is outmoded in today's security climate. This presentation will demonstrate using Protégé, an open source ontology and knowledge-base tool, to intelligently capture and maintain comprehensive enterprise security information in a single repository.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ChaostoClarityConsol/45461
Session Type: Track 7
EDUCAUSE has identified analytics as one of the grand challenges for 2007. This session will share an analysis of data collected from over 30,000 students using a course management system and will explain how analytics can be used to make predictive decisions about student success and inform early intervention efforts.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TheGrandChallengeUsi/45520
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
Yours, mine, or ours? No, not the blended family structure found in today’s society but rather an open discussion on how we identify, and develop, tomorrow’s leaders. When are you responsible for your own development opportunities, when does the organization step up, how do we cultivate the best and brightest?
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
Do faculty, staff, and students have preconceived notions about the level of privacy they can expect? Is this the same as what they get? What is the minimum level of information required? Who needs to know what? Please come with questions, answers, and best practices to share.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
Learn how the integration of iTunes U, content, and mobile devices enable innovative teaching, learning, and research opportunities for faculty and students.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
We are currently in the participation age, and terms such as Web 2.0 are used to describe new Internet applications and social networking capabilities. Is there an analogue to Education 2.0? What are the implications? Sun Microsystems gives a perspective on some of these issues, the business of education, and areas of innovation.
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
Oracle Content Database Suite provides a content management technology platform for deploying content-centric applications. Consolidate network file shares and build content-enabled applications with Oracle's rapidly deployed and easy-to-use content management solution. Content Publisher offers advanced template-based technology to automatically publish over 225 file formats as well-designed, fully linked Web sites. Learn about and experience hands-on Oracle's content management solutions.
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.
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.
Session Type: Featured Speaker
The national Speak Up initiative annually collects and reports on the authentic, unfiltered viewpoints of K–12 students, teachers, parents, and school leaders about education technology and 21st-century learning environments. Learn about the expectations of today's K–12 students (the higher ed students of tomorrow) for technology use and their new aspirations for learning as uncovered in the most recent survey data.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TomorrowsStudentsAre/45357
Session Type: Track 1
This session will share the vision of pioneers of evolving technologies on how to use them to reach their full potential. Topics will include 3D rapid prototyping, Google applications for higher education, digital preservation, storage and information life-cycle management, advances in virtualization, Web 2.0, m-learning, and location awareness.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImaginingTomorrowsFu/45408
Session Type: Track 1
UNCW has begun a new initiative to develop and test a wide range of information services accessible through mobile devices. This session will compare the relative costs and advantages of applications based on SMS text messaging, WAP browsers, and Java MIDlets as well as the structuring of the relationship between the faculty start-up and the institution to develop and pursue the resulting initiatives.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/CourseViewsAScalable/45411
Session Type: Track 1
Stanford University's next-generation course delivery interface features dramatically enhanced video assets combined with an innovative new bookmarking tool. This tool enables the creation of personal notated bookmarks synchronized with streaming media content, innovative one-click navigation, sharing functionality for collaborative learning, and direct dialog with teaching staff.
Session Type: Track 2
Although located just 20 minutes apart from each other, Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and Bristol Community College are worlds apart. A prestigious art school, a private Ivy League university, and a blue-collar community college are all using dynamic e-portfolios to assess student learning and showcase their work.
Session Type: Track 2
See how Washington State University has extended its authenticated online resources to "friends" of the university with Friend Accounts, extending identity management beyond the confines of the traditional student/employee roles. This presentation will describe the business need for Friend Accounts and will offer an in-depth look at Washington State University's solution.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ExtendingAuthenticat/45495
Session Type: Track 2
Service oriented architecture is all the rage. Vendor products like registries, ESBs, XML gateways, and WSM promise "SOA in a box." But SOA is actually about process and culture. What's hype and what's reality? What can it do for you? Where do you start? The University of Washington will describe its nascent SOA initiative and lessons learned.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/InvestigatingService/45608
Session Type: Track 3
In January 2007, 13 geographically separated liberal arts colleges joined with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Longsight Group on an initiative for shared, managed, institutional repository services. The resulting collaboration promises to dramatically lower the barrier for entry into an emerging technology for smaller colleges.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/AnInitiativetoShareD/45493
Session Type: Track 4
Several news reports suggest that the recent investigations by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo revealing actual or inferred improprieties involving student loan and study abroad programs may expand to include other campus operations. This panel session will focus on accountability, ethics, and conflict of interest issues affecting the campus IT community in the wake of these disclosures.
Session Type: Track 4
Dickinson College created an IT strategic planning process aligned with its governance structure, budget process, project management function, and personnel evaluation process. Adapted from the best practices of larger institutions, this "lightweight" approach will appeal to colleges seeking the advantages of planning while minimizing the overhead associated with this activity.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ITStrategicPlanningf/45464
Session Type: Track 4
Xavier recently became the first university to move beyond version 1.0 "siloed" organizations and version 2.0 nominally "blended" organizations by replacing legacy structures (library, IT, instructional technology, Web, registrar) with a fully integrated information resources organization. This highly innovative user-centric strategy is designed to provide excellent support to 21st-century learners.
Session Type: Track 5
Rochester Institute of Technology has implemented a centralized trusted communication service to deliver all official communications, allowing users to opt out of optional communication categories and choose from multiple delivery mechanisms (e-mail, portal, mobile device). This presentation will include university policy discussions, business process decisions, a technical overview of the solution created by RIT, and lessons learned.
Session Type: Track 6
Can too much security be a bad thing? Tighter Air Force policies are conflicting with the Air Force Academy's academic mission. While most colleges are tightening security, we are trying to relax ours. This talk will explain why this struggle will eventually occur at all educational institutions and how we have dealt with it.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/AcademicFreedomVersu/45407
Session Type: Track 7
This session will discuss the methods and preliminary results of the first and second steps of a three-step process for assessing a survey's validity. The survey of interest was designed to expand on McVay (2000, 2001) and Bernard et al. (2004), as well as examine learner characteristics and technology capabilities of online students.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/IntersectingLearnerC/45494
Session Type: Track 7
This session will feature a live online session that demonstrates the benefits of a writing tablet as a tutoring tool. A question will be captured on NetTutor, and students in California will work the solution using a tablet/voice on a NetTutor Internet whiteboard. The session will be captured and sent to a streaming movie server to be archived.
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
How does your institution fit the 50-gallon flow of demand for IT services through the 20-gallon pipe of your available IT resources? Any way you look at it, the pressure’s going to rise and something has to give. Let’s get together to discuss how we make our limited supply of resources fit the seemingly unlimited demand for IT services.
Session Type: Hot Topics Discussion
Adolescents who grew up playing Space Invaders are now in their mid to late 30s, the age of many new faculty hires. Does their entrance into the academy signal the long-awaited "generational shift" away from technophobia and toward technophilia? Will the promise of teaching and learning technologies finally be realized now that an entire generation of new faculty has grown up with computers? Has academic conservatism already thwarted this promise? Come discuss millennial faculty with us.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
Is your data locked up? With performance management, learn how to spend less time unlocking your data and more time analyzing it. In this session Long Beach City College will cover a unique perspective on choosing, implementing, and using a performance management solution. The session will include demos on both enterprise planning and business intelligence solutions.
Session Type: Corporate Presentation
As spam, viruses, and malware threaten e-mail networks, many organizations have deployed point solutions to manage these first-generation problems. Archiving, compliance, and storage represent the next set of challenges for e-mail management. Learn how appliance-based messaging systems circumvent these multifaceted problems and the complexity caused by point solutions.
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
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
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
What do I need to get my degree? How long will it take? What courses are available, and when ? What if I want to switch majors? Join us for a hands-on experience with Oracle's Campus Solutions, which provides innovative capabilities for student self-advising. Work with the student decision-making tools that connect degree audit information directly to immediate and future enrollment and let students dynamically assess academic paths.
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
Session Type: Meeting
Discussion regarding the status and progress of the TechQual+ project for participating institutions. Institutions interested in hearing more about the project are welcome to attend.
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
This meeting will provide a forum to discuss issues related to IT accessibility. Anyone who plays a role in managing, developing, deploying, or supporting IT in a higher education environment shares the responsibility for ensuring that IT is accessible to students and employees with disabilities and is encouraged to participate. This is the new group’s first meeting, so the opportunity is ripe to help define the group's goals and objectives and influence its direction.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DorisKearnsGoodwinon/45458
Session Type: Constituent Group
IT Architects in Academia (ITANA) focuses on the practice of IT and enterprise architecture (EA) in higher education. We will review various ways IT architecture is implemented on campuses and how people engage with the campus. Discussion will include hot topics such as service oriented architecture and EA challenges and incentives. We will also plan for future ITANA work. For more information, see our Web site (www.itana.org) and our wiki (https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Home).
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ITArchitects/45351
Session Type: Constituent Group
This meeting will address the challenges involved in developing an IT strategic plan and maintaining its relevance. The discussion will focus on crafting a strategic planning framework: what to include, what works, and what doesn't. Participants will share experiences and can ask questions of fellow attendees.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ITStrategicPlanning/45352
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
This poster will describe the redesign of the virtual classroom using user-centered design, which helps ensure the classroom meets student and faculty needs and expectations. This iterative development process guarantees a smooth university-wide deployment of the new virtual classroom.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
The Interdisciplinary Learning Community is aimed at broadening our curriculum in communication arts, fine art, and music technology. It establishes a connection for students involved in an incomplete curriculum in media sources and studies through cross-curricular assignments.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
IT at Harvard Business School has a growing portfolio of projects with a fixed capacity of team members who are constantly pulled onto many projects simultaneously, making it difficult to keep up with new demands while maintaining 150 applications. Moving to Agile fixed our ongoing support issues while guiding our organization light-years forward.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
Oregon State University (the Beavers) and the University of Wisconsin (the Badgers) developed enterprise-wide support systems using open source tools. Coho, OSU's help desk solution, has been released as an open source application, and demand for UW's KnowledgeBase help desk necessitated a decision regarding licensing options. This session will share perspectives and lessons learned during the development of these applications.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
Many instructors are adopting clicker technology as a way to engage students during lecture. Usually, students are responsible for the purchase of their clickers. Hear how four universities standardized on a single clicker type, thereby saving students the cost of purchasing multiple products for classes that use clickers.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ClickerPickersFourUn/45367
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
Tacoma Community College has created an online course development process. The process is designed to support faculty by providing a clear timeline for course development, a discussion of what kind of training faculty will need to develop and teach online courses, the kind of support faculty will need, and online course development rubrics for quality assurance and peer review.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/CreatinganOnlineCour/45364
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
McGill University adapted its in-house automated classroom recording system to add podcasting and seamless integration with Blackboard's Vista Enterprise. The system was designed to provide students with opportunities for mobile review. Survey results will be presented to determine if students are as mobile as we think they are.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DesigninganEnterpris/45368
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
Server virtualization has become a new trend in making efficient use of hardware resources. However, it is often viewed as a large-enterprise solution. Learn how to best take advantage of its features, even in less-expansive IT environments.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/GettingtheMostfromSe/45511
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
A growing body of research relates to the effectiveness of handheld devices in the classroom. This session will focus on results from a study at Saint Francis University to find if handhelds can effectively provide multimedia content (videos, pictures, sounds) to enhance the curriculum and increase knowledge retention among students in the classroom.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
This session will report study results of a two-year project that incorporates Tablet PCs along with innovative software applications into an existing nursing curriculum to promote more active learning experiences for students and equip new graduates with health-technology and health-informatics skills. Lessons learned and findings will be discussed.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
After delivering graduate courses in an asynchronous, text-based environment for 10 years, education professors at George Fox University are now venturing into the virtual world of Second Life to explore how to set up class in this new territory.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
Many of the motivations for podcasting a class take on a different light when dealing with a freshman course at 8:00 a.m. The presentation will highlight a portable and easy-to-use podcasting implementation and address some of the unique challenges of using podcasting for a freshman class.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/WelcometotheSocialEf/45582
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
WSU has developed a central solution to allow departments to accept online payments from their Web sites without having to accept credit card information. A central payment site allows departmental sites to use the centrally maintained site for payments, while still keeping the look and feel of their own sites.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ACentralSolutionforE/45479
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Designing and implementing a network, server, and application architecture for 24 x 7 Web application delivery is a must in today's demanding business environment. This presentation will cover the planning, complexities to address, and necessary steps to achieve reliable delivery of campus-wide financial, human resources, and student applications.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/Architecturefor24x7A/45459
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Rose-Hulman is using PayPal to process tuition payments, deposits, fees, donations, and sales. From admissions to alumni transactions, we have found PayPal to be fast, safe, and secure. This presentation will cover the security, operational, and functional issues we faced during our first three years of using PayPal for electronic payment processing and will highlight its integration with SCT Banner.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
The initial impetus for a content management system at Community College of Vermont was to rescue users adrift in a sea of information. A stolen staff laptop quickly refocused the effort on ways to store sensitive data. This session will offer tips for managing information in a secure Web environment.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Dartmouth College has implemented "data democracy" through the delivery of a rich dashboard as a way for development managers to identify more potential donors, more quickly, more effectively, and more productively. This presentation will describe the processes and software used, demonstrate the application, and offer new insights into the development process.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Most campus systems are designed by technology experts with limited understanding of end-user needs. Our portal team included campus constituents experienced in product and graphic design principles, which yielded a new kind of software system that has more in common with iTunes or Amazon than a typical campus system.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
With systems via Web, users have to track links and keep up with changes in URL and authentication schemes. Escritorios is an in-house portal that groups applications according to the user's credentials and manages authentication between services. The process includes auditing Web applications and establishes guidelines for authentication standards.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
All too often massive projects to replatform large-scale legacy systems do not meet the immediate needs of the institution. By building a robust service oriented architecture, RIT has leveraged data from multiple platforms to improve the user experience, without waiting for each legacy system to be ported to a new platform.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Using the open source content management platform Drupal, Lafayette College supports two highly flexible and distinctly different online spaces: a departmental Web site full of easily edited and highly searchable documentation, current news, and dynamic RSS feeds, and a campus-wide community space where blogging, photo sharing, podcasting, and class discussions coexist.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Far from being strangers to the power of search engines and knowledge bases, members of the academy increasingly demand sophistication, depth, breadth, and efficiency in retrieving localized technical support. In response, LSU developed GROK, a knowledge base with a mobile device interface, multimedia features, and a collaborative authoring environment.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/GROKAVirtualWorldofH/45601
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
The University of Sao Paolo structured a set of mechanisms for effective IT governance. This poster will present the strategies and outcomes of our initiatives to manage our complex IT infrastructure and to address the growing needs for quality IT services.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImprovingServiceMana/45480
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Yale University is implementing two ITIL processes: incident and problem management. This presentation will discuss our incident and problem management design projects, including the maturation of the help desk to an ITIL service desk, the benefits of clearly distinguishing incidents and problems, and measuring process effectiveness.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/IntegratingIncidentandPro/45815
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
The desktop support environment has dramatically changed in recent years. This presentation will discuss how Carnegie Mellon has adapted its support program to meet these new challenges by using a proactive work-group approach that leverages new and existing infrastructure.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
The Open Podcasting Module represents community source software at work. Requirements to add podcasting capability to Blackboard software were developed collaboratively by more than 20 institutions worldwide. This session will recount how two schools negotiated a win-win contract with a vendor while keeping the end product open source.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
UC Irvine's Academic Personnel Systems Recruit tool provides Web-based faculty recruitment processes for the entire campus. Learn how applicants apply completely online and how all applicant documents are made available to faculty search committees, reducing administrative overhead and increasing the ability to attract the best candidates to our campus.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Rose-Hulman uses PayPal for online payment processing, including tuition, deposits, fees, donations, and sales. From admissions to alumni transactions, we have found PayPal to be fast, safe, and secure. This session introduces the security, operational, and functional issues we faced during our first three years of using PayPal and highlights its integration with SunGard Banner.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Universities are seeing an increased demand for 24 x 7 IT operations. Temple University operates in 24-hour mode for both its help desk and student lab services. We've learned that "tech around the clock" does not mean only extra hours; it opens a new set of unexpected challenges and rewards.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TechAroundtheClockEx/45512
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Making collaborative and social computing accessible can be extremely problematic. Federal regulators do not view "cutting edge" as an exemption from providing services to students with disabilities. This presentation will propose a plan for resolving accessibility issues for wikis, podcasts, and blogs. The plan applies to future tools yet to be deployed.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
How can schools leverage IT expenditures using proprietary portal software? Many desire the support and security it offers, yet seek a way to share resources to get the most from their limited budgets. By joining together to build one affordable, extensible portal solution and then sharing that code, our schools are offering a shared source model.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
The University of Rochester has embarked on a multiyear project to implement the university's URinfo data warehouse in line with the vision of the data warehouse as the ubiquitous interface for administrative systems reporting and analytics.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
RIT's financial aid self-service application uses an open source service oriented architecture to provide students with a view into the financial aid process via the RIT student portal. Learn how open source projects, including the Java/J2EE Spring Framework and XFire SOAP services, support reusable business and data access objects.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
Web sites are a critical resource for communicating with our community. Sites are created, evolve, and often disappear when projects end. This session will examine the issues regarding the preservation of our institutional Web site from library and technology perspectives and will propose strategies for maintaining Web site persistence.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
Frequent use of mobile devices does not mean that students or instructors are ready for mobile learning and teaching. This presentation will offer an overview of potential instructional uses, benefits, challenges, and implications of mobile computing/communication devices on campus.
Winner: 2007 Award for EDUCAUSE Quarterly Contribution of the Year. Award sponsored by SunGard Higher Education, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
This presentation will address the challenge of how to connect a variety of image systems and software tools into a coherent interface for teaching, learning, and research. We will review existing image systems, discuss interoperability issues, and report on a model project to connect the open source Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) system with other systems and tools.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
Brigham Young University's Copyright Licensing Office is dedicated to promoting copyright education, securing permissions, and increasing legal compliance. This session will cover several tools developed to accomplish these goals, including a university copyright policy, an online tutorial, a resource manual for faculty, a helpful Web site, and databases to process permissions requests.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DevelopingaCampusCop/45660
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
This poster session will explore how faculty can add quality content to build online courses to use for student discussions and group projects. Faculty can use subject-specific online database articles, e-journals, e-books, and other tools to update professional knowledge and expand student learning. Copyright solutions will also be discussed.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
A common belief is that the quality of streaming media is so low that the quality of the original video is unimportant and does not hinder its effectiveness or current and future usability. ResearchChannel has been dealing with streaming video quality for 10 years and will share practical tips for production, digitizing, and streaming.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
All digital collections are not the same. Image capture, processing, classification, and retrieval depend on many factors. The University of Central Florida Libraries manages multiple digital collections, each a little different from the others. This session will illustrate how these differences drove our decisions, from selecting equipment to metadata schemas, with positive results.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
This session will present a social networking content gadget to promote content reuse and distribution in higher education. This SNC gadget automatically creates a social networking group based on the content and produces a ranking of the most highly evaluated content.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
The Dutch Webstroom community of experts managed to leverage the uptake of streaming media in the Netherlands. This presentation will share the activities of Webstroom, the lessons learned as the community was formed, and the insight of experts working together in pilot projects and with communities abroad.
Session Type: Meeting
The EDUCAUSE Board of Directors has scheduled the 2007 EDUCAUSE annual business meeting to be convened at EDUCAUSE 2007 in Seattle, Washington.
The annual business meeting agenda includes reports from the president and executive officers of EDUCAUSE regarding the association's programmatic directions, goals, and accomplishments; a report from the EDUCAUSE treasurer on the financial condition of the association; and a report from the Nomination and Election Committee. New business will be entertained at this meeting.
Preliminary Agenda
- Call Meeting to Order-John E. Bucher, Chair of the Board
- Nomination and Election Committee Report-Martin Ringle, Committee Chair
- Treasurer's Report-Tracy Mitrano
- President's Report-Brian L. Hawkins
- Executive Officer Reports:
- Cynthia Golden, Vice President
- Richard N. Katz, Vice President
- Mark A. Luker, Vice President
- Diana G. Oblinger, Vice President
- New Business-John E. Bucher
- Adjourn-John E. Bucher
Gather up your squadron and soar into the wild blue yonder at Just Plane Fun! We have your ticket to fun at Seattle's Museum of Flight, where you'll experience a unique night of flight. Sample an assortment of delicious food and beverages, mingle with your conference crewmates, and plan your own itinerary from a list of fabulous activities:
- Experience flight without ever leaving the ground in the flight and X-Pilot simulators.
- Stroll through the beautifully lit Great Gallery, featuring exhibits such as Apollo, devoted to exploration of the moon, and the Tower, which contains a full-scale replica of an air traffic control tower.
- Step back into history in the magnificently restored Red Barn, birthplace of the Boeing Company.
- Explore the Personal Courage Wing, an exhibit showcasing 28 fighter aircraft from World Wars I and II and the tales of courage and spirit linked to them.
- Enjoy a variety of tunes and fly across the dance floor.
Just Plane Fun! will be a first-class adventure for all—don't miss it!
Planning to attend? Please note that only those with a teal name badge holder or a previously purchased guest ticket will be allowed admittance to this event. We’re sorry, but because the conference is now at capacity, guest tickets are no longer available for purchase.
Please check the shuttle schedule in your tote bag for departure times and locations. Note that shuttle departures for the walking hotels will be from the convention center and not the individual hotels.
A special thanks to Microsoft Corporation, An EDUCAUSE Gold Partner, and the NTI Group, Inc., for sponsorship of this event.
