Centralized and Decentralized Support

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This episode of EDUCAUSE Now features:

This is a 6 minute interview with Jenn Stringer, Director of Educational Technology at Stanford School of Medicine. It was recorded at the 2007 Educause Western Regional Conference in San Francisco, California. Jenn Stringer was part of a panel for a session entitled, Campus Learning Spaces: Two Innovation Design Approaches.

As educators emphasize learning over teaching, campus facilities are redesigned and repurposed. The decentralized Stanford University academic culture informs a "test kitchen" approach for piloting and disseminating instructional technology innovations.

In this 45-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Shawn Clouse, Andrew Covell, Steve Fleagle, Ray Ford, Paul Gandel, and Maggie Jessie in a session entitled Building Effective Relationships Between Central and Decentralized IT Units on Campus. Using examples from their own diverse campus environments, panelists will share how their universities are managing central and decentralized units.