EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and Networking and Emerging Technologies

Managing Cyberinfrastructure Strategically

drupal — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:39:00 -0600

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.

Investigating Service Oriented Architecture

drupal — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:49:44 -0600

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.

Students as "Angel Investors": Technology-Fee Projects Drive Campus IT Innovation

drupal — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:49:43 -0600

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.

New and Emerging Technologies

drupal — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:56:44 -0500

Given the unrelenting pace of technology innovation, keeping up with developments is often a daunting challenge. What methods do you use to learn about new and emerging technologies? How do you identify the promising ones that you might pursue later? Join us to share insights and tips from colleagues.

Transforming Earth Sciences via Next-Generation Internet Linkages Between the Oceans and Classrooms, Laboratories, and Living Rooms

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:33 -0500

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.

What's Your ETA? Emerging Technologies Assessment for Academic Technology Professionals

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:35 -0500

Clickers. Podcasting. Second Life. How does a university choose which emerging technologies to pursue? This session will share Ohio State University's structured process for evaluating e-learning projects, the emerging technologies assessment (ETA), which has been tested in numerous projects. Through collaboration and role-play, participants will conduct a case study assessment of an emerging technology using the ETA toolkit.

The five-stage process is organized around a flowchart that details steps for taking an emerging technology from the idea stage through the information-gathering stage to planning and executing a pilot. It specifies stakeholder involvement and includes multiple checkpoints that permit early termination where appropriate. The end result is a recommendation to administrative leadership about whether to adopt the technology. The materials for this session will include documentation, examples, and forms that outline the goals, inputs, and outputs for each stage of the process. Participants will leave with a model they can adapt to their own institutions.

El Dorado and the DC-3: Scaling Emerging Technologies

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:49 -0500

The University of Central Florida created a successful systematic faculty and course development model, but the very success of this activity has made it difficult to modify the model to allow for the incorporation of viable emerging technologies. Come see how UCF is overcoming this challenge.

The Challenge of Campus Cyberinfrastructure

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:42 -0500

Campus IT leaders are facing unprecedented demands for the support of high-performance computing, storage, communications, and related infrastructure for research. The new EDUCAUSE Working Group on Campus Cyberinfrastructure is working with the community to develop strategies and business models to address these exciting challenges.

Transitioning Academic Technologies from Experimentation to Institutional Support

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:47 -0500

Using the Duke Digital Initiative and its predecessor, the Duke iPod First-Year Experience, presenters will describe an assessment-driven model for the implementation and adoption of emerging technologies and describe implications of the process and model for other institutions.

Welcome to the Participation Age

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:26 -0600

For 24 years Sun Microsystems' vision has been to connect everything and everyone to the network. Now that vision is becoming reality as the Internet comes of age and allows individuals to not only connect, but continuously interact, creating communities that are dramatically accelerating the pace of global change. Scott McNealy will highlight the unique challenges and opportunities this new era represents for the educational community, and how educators can tap into the Participation Age.