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EDUCAUSE 2009 Midwest Regional Conference: Call for Proposals Now Open

cluckett — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:39:03 -0500

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:

Managing Enterprise Resources: Best Practices in Architecture and Implementation
IT Service Management Models in Higher Education
Emerging Practices: The Intersection of Teaching, Learning, and Technology
Building Information Services Together: Emerging Practices for Library and IT Collaborations to Advance Institutional Mission
Corporate and Campus Solutions

Midwest Regional 2008: The Evolving Challenges Facing IT in Higher Ed

cluckett — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:20:02 -0600

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:

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
Libraries, Information Resources, and Literacy (New!)
Corporate and Campus Solutions

Keynote Speakers

Susan E. Metros, Deputy CIO & Associate Vice Provost, University of Southern California, Challenging IT Leaders to Mashup, Twitter, Tag, and Poke: New IT Strategies for a Digital Society
Bradley Wheeler, Vice President for Information Technology & CIO and Professor of Information Systems, Kelley School of Business (Topic TBA)

Half-day preconference seminars will offer a close look at important current issues, such as essential privacy practices, rendering animations and images for more dynamic courses, and using communication as an effective leadership strategy.

Midwest Regional Conference 2008: Call For Proposals Now Open

cluckett — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:58:27 -0500

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.

A related opportunity: consider submitting material for publication in EDUCAUSE Quarterly. EQ authors receive full editorial support and gain valuable exposure and recognition in a professional forum.

2007 Ohio Higher Education Computing Conference

dchen — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:43:13 -0600

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

2007 Midwest Conference to Focus on Challenges in Higher Education IT

cluckett — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:10:17 -0600

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.

An Interview with MWRC Attendees about Identity Management

mpasiewicz — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:59:00 -0600

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 ...

Thanks to Tom Stamm for providing the music in this podcast under a Creative Commons license.

An Interview with Kurt Squire

mpasiewicz — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:23:00 -0600

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.

Thanks to Tom Stamm for providing the music in this podcast under a Creative Commons license.

More MWRC Coverage > A Model for Funding and Improving Campus Technology Resources

mpasiewicz — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:43:00 -0600

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.

Thanks to Tom Stamm for providing the music in this podcast under a Creative Commons license.

MWRC Session on Establishing an IT Process Improvement Program

mpasiewicz — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:24:00 -0600

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.

Thanks to Tom Stamm for providing the music in this podcast under a Creative Commons license.

Humor and Memory ...

mpasiewicz — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:19:00 -0600

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