Midwest Regional Conference

The call for proposals is now open for the 2009 Midwest Regional Conference, "Intersections: Emerging, Commonly Accepted, and Best Practices in Higher Education IT,” March 23–25 in Chicago.

The deadline for submissions is October 6.

The program for this leading event in higher education IT will follow these tracks:

The 2008 Midwest Regional Conference, "New Directions in Higher Ed IT: Navigating the Course While Still Drawing the Map," will be held March 17–19 in Chicago. View the program and register by February 19 to save money with low early-bird rates.

The conference will focus on these topic areas:

The call for proposals is now open for the Midwest Regional Conference 2008, "New Directions in Higher Ed IT: Navigating the Course While Still Drawing the Map," March 17–19 at the InterContinental Chicago Hotel in Chicago. The program for this leading event in higher education IT will follow these tracks:

• Collaborate from Where You Are
• IT Agility for a Constantly Changing Environment
• IT Infrastructure: Adding Value and Helping Organizations Achieve Their Strategic Objectives
• Technology to Support Learning
• Corporate and Campus Solutions

Submit a presentation proposal. The deadline for submissions is November 5, 2007.

2007 OHECC (Ohio Higher Education Computing Council) call for proposals open at http://ohecc.bgsu.edu/

The 2007 Midwest Regional Conference, “Facing a River of Challenges,” will be held March 12–14, in Chicago, Illinois. This conference will focus on leadership challenges, mapping the relationships between learners and learning environments, enterprise resource planning, and campus IT security, and will feature two keynote speakers:

• Richard N. Katz, Vice President of EDUCAUSE—School of Athens or Mr. Ford's Factory: IT and the Future of Higher Education
• Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT and Policy and the Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell University— From Soup to Nuts: Copyright, Social Networking Technologies, and Electronic Surveillance

In-depth, half-day preconference seminars will spotlight open source, learning spaces, Web accessibility design, and project management.

At the end of the preconference session on identity management, I spoke with a few attendees about their interest in the topic. Listen in to what they had to say ...

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Building on my earlier blog entry, I was very  interested in the presentation on the Midwest Regional presentation on gaming and education. Kurt had a really interesting presentation, but I missed the opportunity to capture the audio of the session.  Fortunately, I go the opportunity to sit down with him for a few minutes to discuss his interest in the topic.

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Listen in on a thirty-eight minute session by John G. Henderson and Michael R. Hoadley on how Eastern Illinois University combined a program that required matching funds from individual schools and student feeds with a collaborative envirorment to propel the pursuit, acquistion and effective deployment of technology resources.

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Listen in on this outstanding forty-seven minute session as Carrie E. Regenstein and Jeff Silber describe their experiences crafting University of Wisconsin-Madison's process improvement program.

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I'm a big, BIG believer of integrating psychology and cognitive science into our any substantative discussions on usability (aka human-computer interaction), social software, and above all, into topics on learning and memory ... the fact is, I get scared when resources don't include explicit references to empirical data found in these fields.

Now and then, the topic of humor emerges, and a presentation from Peter Jonas addressed just that. It was wildly entertaining and while the professor doesn't have a background in Cognitive Science/Psychology, much of what he discussed was rooted in the discipline. I tried to get a recording of the presentation, but unfortunately some glitches imparied my ability to get a quality archive of the session. Hopefully we'll get a chance to try again at another conference. This was definately a fun presentation.

My cognitive psych professor also did some research on humor and its connection to memory. I'm going to forward him a link to this blog entry and try to entice him to comment and share some of what he found.

Until then, enjoy our coverage of our other sessions!

Cheers,

Matt