EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and Financial Management

EDUCAUSE Core Data Service 2006 Results

drupal — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:39:01 -0600

This session will summarize the highlights from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Core Data Service survey data. These analyses will identify key findings, important trends, and similarities and differences across different types of institutions. This year more than 940 institutions participated in this collaborative effort. A discussion period will conclude this session to understand concerns and issues from the audience, as well as discussion of future directions.

The 2007 Campus Computing Survey

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

Begun in 1990, the Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of computing, e-learning, and information technology in American higher education. The session will present the results of the 2007 Campus Computing Survey, including new data on P2P policies, open source deployment, IT security issues, strategic and financial planning for IT, instructional integration of IT, campus IT standards, course management systems, and Web site services.

ITIL: An Effective Methodology for Managing IT Services

drupal — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:16:36 -0600

ITIL, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a process-based framework for more effectively managing IT services. Although just emergent in higher education, it has been widely adopted in industry. It is surprisingly well-suited to higher education. This session will introduce ITIL and serves as a companion to another session describing Yale's experience implementing ITIL.

Bruce Schneier on Information Security: Ten Trends - Sponsored by AT&T, An EDUCAUSE Silver Partner

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:34 -0500

Surveying current trends in information security, it’s clear that a myriad of forces are at work. But fundamentally, security is all about economics: both attacker and defender are trying to maximize the return on their investments. Economics can both explain why security fails so often and offer new solutions for its success. For example, often the people who could protect a system are not those who suffer the costs of failure. Changing these economic incentives will do more to improve security than will more technology.

Increasing Performance While Decreasing Cost: Converging Communications with VoIP

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:38 -0500

Facing an aging telephone copper plant and rising provider costs, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania implemented a multicampus VoIP system to save more than $1 million over a five-year period while substantially upgrading functionality in the process. This presentation will outline the entire VoIP conversion process, from the planning stages through funding, implementation, and training.

Letting Go of ResNet

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:48 -0500

Presenters from three schools, Southwestern University, Ithaca College, and Birmingham-Southern College, will discuss how their ResNets had become a drain on money, staff, and bandwidth. By outsourcing their ResNets, they are able to control the costs of managing a ResNet and to reclaim valuable IT resources.

Chicken or Egg: IT Services or IT Costs

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:30 -0600

How do you review operational services or activities to verify costs, value, technology, dependencies, and effectiveness? Ongoing operations account for the bulk of the IT budget. Several universities will present how they review and value "running the trains" activities. How do you cost out operational services? Can you quantify customer value? Has the technology changed?

IT Funding in Higher Education: Findings from ECAR

drupal — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:42:55 -0500

In early 2004, the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research received survey information from nearly 500 colleges and universities regarding their funding environment, trends, strategies, and directions. This presentation will summarize the study's key findings, including trends regarding the sources of funding, the relationship between budgetary flexibility and perceived IT effectiveness, and fixed cost and variable cost mixes in higher education environments.

Benchmarks: Helping Your President Understand IT Investments

drupal — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:08:45 -0500

Presidents face increasing requests for financial resources to support the use of IT on their campuses. Benchmarks for IT--developed in the COSTS project--will be used to illustrate how to shed light on making decisions about information technology in ways similar to decision making about other more traditional resources.

When E-Learning Goes Enterprise Wide

drupal — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:01:20 -0500

As e-learning at UBC has shifted from pilot to enterprise practice, an unprecedented need for ongoing communication and collaboration among disparate academic and administrative units and people was created. This presentation will discuss funding, organizational, and policy issues that have arisen, with emphasis on decentralized collaborative activity.