EDUCAUSE | Networking and Emerging Technologies

Podcast: Information Technology Challenges at NASA

gbayne — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:43:59 -0500

This 56 minute podcast features the opening keynote address from the EDUCAUSE 2008 Southeast Regional Conference. The speech, "Information Technology Challenges at NASA," is by Michael J. Bolger, CIO at NASA.

This keynote presentation discusses the current IT environment at NASA and the IT challenges that the agency faces as it moves into a new era of space exploration. The CIO from the Kennedy Space Center talks about new strategic directions and supporting initiatives being implemented across the agency to enable future mission success.

Podcast: Supporting Faculty Adoption of Emerging Technologies: Wanderlust or Creating a Campus Roadmap?

gbayne — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:41:10 -0500

This hour and thirteen minute podcast features a panel discussion from the EDUCAUSE 2008 Southeast Regional Conference. The participants of this general session, "Supporting Faculty Adoption of Emerging Technologies: Wanderlust or Creating a Campus Roadmap?," include:

W. Gardner Campbell, Professor of English, University of Mary Washington
Jean Ann Derco, Executive Director, Educational Technology, The University of Tennessee
James Groom, Instructional Technology Specialist, University of Mary Washington
Dolly J. Young, Full Professor of Spanish, The University of Tennessee
Session moderator: Julie K. Little, Interim Director, ELI, EDUCAUSE

Faculty who are early adopters of technology are experimenters and risk-takers; they broaden the landscape of effective teaching and learning with technology. Yes, they push the envelope, but they also offer partnership for identifying what’s scalable and sustainable for broader use. Our panelist share their campus perspectives on adopting emerging technologies from Web 2.0 to virtual worlds, their successes and challenges, and the partnerships they’ve formed.

Podcast: American Higher Education Is Going Global: Implications for CIOs, National Networks, and Federal Policymakers

gbayne — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:02:04 -0500

This 44 minute podcast features a keynote address by Jeffrey S. Lehman, Former President of Cornell University. His speech, "American Higher Education Is Going Global: Implications for CIOs, National Networks, and Federal Policymakers," was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Policy Conference in Arlington, Virgina.

U.S. universities have come to see their universes in global terms, most visibly in brand-new overseas campuses. But just as important are joint teaching and research projects that dramatically intensify the flow of data to points halfway around the world. Historically, such data flows have required the physical transportation of people or storage media from place to place. Dramatic improvements in networking technology, however, are changing academic leaders' perceptions of the kinds of collaborations that are possible. The most ambitious forms of network cooperation test the capabilities of the global cyberinfrastructure, with bits crossing campus, regional, national, and international networks. Each of the four tiers is a vital link. Each involves a different set of actors, challenging us to develop new policies and governance structures that respond to the concerns of each level, as well as a truly global perspective that is not yet effectively captured. Our national policy community must step into this void, helping demonstrate the range of possibilities and the choices we face, while respecting and reflecting that people in other countries will likely perceive matters differently from us.

FireEye Joins Internet2 to Participate in High-Performance Network Security and Malware Analysis Initiatives

vvogel — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:28:23 -0500

FireEye, Inc., a leader in global anti-botnet protection, announced that it has joined Internet2 as a corporate member. FireEye plans to collaborate with the Internet2 community on advanced network security projects involving high-performance network security and next- generation malware analysis In addition, FireEye and Internet2 will host a joint webinar titled "Botnet Incident Response" on April 2, 2008. FireEye's chief security content officer Dr. Fengmin Gong will also present "Scaling Security Analysis vs. Next-Gen Botnet Malware Using VM-Based Analysis" at the Spring Internet2 Member Meeting on April 21-23 in Arlington, Va. Harold Stonebraker, a security investigator at FireEye, will present "Incident Response and Network Forensics: Avoiding Common IR Errors".

While emerging network technologies will be used by legitimate organizations to drive innovation, they may also be exploited by criminals and their botnets to conduct illicit activities. As such, FireEye continues to advance its anti-botnet security technologies for the next-generation Internet. As a corporate member of Internet2, FireEye will collaborate with higher education institutions and researchers to investigate how anti-botnet protections can be incorporated into the design of next-generation Internet technologies.

Read the full press release or learn more about Internet2's security initiative.

2008 Horizon Report Profiles Six Key Emerging Technologies

cluckett — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:10:13 -0600

2008 Horizon Report

The 2008 Horizon Report, released today at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, spotlights six emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on higher education in the next one to five years, presenting an overview accompanied by examples and suggested readings for each technology. The report is based on research by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and is a collaborative effort of the NMC and ELI. Read the press release for more information.

Western Regional 2008: The Balance Between Institutional and Individual User Needs

cluckett — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:52:13 -0600

The 2008 Western Regional Conference, "One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Finding Practical and Innovative Solutions for Your Campus," will be held March 31–April 2 in San Francisco. View the program and register by March 3 to save money with low early-bird rates.

The conference will focus on these topic areas:

Engaging Today's Learners
Leadership and Management Challenges: Rapid Change, New Demands, and Limited Resources
New Models for Providing Technology Services
Corporate and Campus Solutions

General Session Speakers

Up Against the Firewall
Monday, March 31, 1:00–2:15 p.m.
Brenda Laurel, Chair and Professor, Graduate Program in Design, California College of the Arts
Rob Tow, Science and Technology Consultant, California College of the Arts
Don't Download This Panel
Wednesday, April 2, 10:45 a.m.–12:00 noon
Closing panel with Kenneth C. Green, Campus Computing Project; Greg DePriest, NBC Universal Vice President, Technology Policy; and Fred Von Lohman, EFF Senior Staff Attorney; moderated by Kent Wada, Director, IT Policy, UCLA

Half-day preconference seminars will cover important issues such as privacy practices for academic organizations, effective leadership strategies, and fitting new technologies into existing infrastructures.

2008 Southwest Conference Will Address Empowering Community Through Technology

cluckett — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:44:00 -0600

The 2008 Southwest Regional Conference, "Empowering Community Through Technology," will be held February 20–22 in Houston, Texas. View the program and register by January 23 to save money with low, early-bird rates.

Jean E. Engle, chief knowledge officer, NASA/Johnson Space Center, will present a general session (topic TBA) on Friday, February 22.

The conference will focus on these topic areas:

Empowering Our Teaching and Learning Communities
Leading the Charge for Change
Making IT Work: The Confluence of Technology, People, and Expectations
Corporate and Campus Solutions

View the list of speakers, who will address pertinent topics such as IT governance structure recommendations, succession planning for CIOs, tracking assessment data for general education, and active learning with mobile and wireless technologies. In addition, half-day preconference seminars will cover topics such as blended learning, effective leadership strategies, and privacy practices for academic organizations.

E07 Podcast: Transforming Earth Sciences via Next-Generation Internet Linkages

kellywalker — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:43:21 -0500

This 32-minute podcast recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference features John Delaney, Professor of Oceanography, University of Washington speaking on Transforming Earth Sciences via Next-Generation Internet Linkages Between the Oceans and Classrooms, Laboratories, and Living Rooms. The slides that accompanied the presentation are also available.

The abstract from this session:

New technologies and infrastructure that extend bandwidth and power to the seafloor are being developed within the Ocean Observatories Initiative of the National Science Foundation. A major component of this effort involving construction of major cabled subsea networks is focusing on science and education programs that will make use of this unprecedented interactive access to study the northeast Pacific Ocean. The last frontier on Earth—the deep sea—will be accessible to a global community of scientists, educators, decision makers, and learners of all ages. New technologies will enable new approaches to studies of ocean and earth processes that, for example, regulate global climate, absorb greenhouse gases, generate earthquakes and tsunamis, support major fish stocks, harbor life in the extreme environments of sea floor volcanoes, and form vast mineral resources.

September/October EDUCAUSE Review Now Available Online

cluckett — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:07:34 -0500

The back-to-school issue of EDUCAUSE Review, focusing on faculty development, is now available online. Read articles from Gardner Campbell on experiencing a “computer romance”; Patricia McGee and Veronica Diaz on getting a handle on all the latest learning technologies; Anne H. Moore, Shelli B. Fowler, and C. Edward Watson on designing change for faculty, students, and institutions; and Joel L. Hartman, Charles Dziuban, and James Brophy-Ellison on assessing roles in shaping and supporting the assimilation of IT into the teaching and learning process.

EDUCAUSE Review is also available via RSS feed. Click the orange RSS icon on the EDUCAUSE Review home page to access the XML required to subscribe.

Beacon Technologies Provides IT Support to Multiple Universities Nationwide

bwalker — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:06:59 -0500

Beacon Technologies has a history of working with Universities to provide IT services including website design and development, programmatic solutions, content management systems, ecommerce solutions, and other services. Beacon began their work in the education sector with providing the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Genomics department in combination with Duke University with a website that captured the departments need for a highly technical, yet clean and functional look and feel.   The designers at Beacon Technologies are able to transform a vision into web graphics that convey the sophistication that today's graphic design demands.

Since their humble beginnings with the UNCG Genomix department, Beacon Technologies has gone on to work with Wake Forest's MBA school site providing search engine optimization to designing and developing the entire website for Texas Southern University.

Many schools are now moving to provide ecommerce solutions to sell their school's products directly on their websites. Beacon has been able to capitalize on this by providing turn-key ecommerce solutions. A good example of this is NC State's Engineering department's ecommerce store in which they now sell school products and resources nationwide.

If you are shopping for a great company to help provide IT support that has the experience in the education sector, Beacon Technologies has proven they have what it takes to succeed.   The day when you could find a student that knows HTML to provide all of you IT support are gone. Designing, developing, or supporting a national level school takes more than what a group of students can supply.