EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and Institutional Management

State Systems

drupal — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:04:16 -0600

This meeting will focus on planning, coordinating, facilitating, and providing technology services for state higher education systems. Identification and exploration of areas in which collaboration adds value, reduces costs, and encourages cooperation will be central to the discussion. Directors or managers of IT for state systems or coalitions of colleges, coordinators of statewide networks, and system-level IT users such as directors of distance learning coalitions should plan to participate.

Performance Management Strategies: Best Practices from the Battlefield

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:40 -0500

Higher education IT managers come under fire when asked to help design and support initiatives for performance management, reporting, and business intelligence. How do you shift from collecting and housing data to making it useful in daily decision making? How do people, process, and technology come together in a successful performance management strategy? Hear from veterans about best practices-based approaches to this challenge.

Determinants for Success and Failure of Educational Innovation Projects

drupal — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:08:31 -0500

The Dutch Government places a premium on good use of information and communication technologies at all levels of education. This contribution will present the results of an in-depth study identifying determinants for success and failure of large-scale educational innovation projects in higher education to enable future projects to achieve better and more sustainable effects.

Higher Ed 101: Filling a Void in IT Professional Development

drupal — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:00:34 -0500

Friction between IT and higher education sometimes occurs when IT misunderstands higher education's organizational structure. To reduce unnecessary conflicts, we developed a mandatory staff development course on how higher education works. Come take the (shortened) course, leave with a template for your staff development, and, oh yes, will you pass?