EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and Resource Sharing

An Initiative to Share Digital Repository Services for Liberal Arts Colleges

drupal — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:04:18 -0600

In January 2007, 13 geographically separated liberal arts colleges joined with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Longsight Group on an initiative for shared, managed, institutional repository services. The resulting collaboration promises to dramatically lower the barrier for entry into an emerging technology for smaller colleges.

Digital Storytelling to Enhance Faculty Development in Universal Design for Learning

drupal — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:04:17 -0600

This presentation will demonstrate discipline-specific case studies to enhance faculty development in universal design for learning. We will highlight California State University's EnACT project, which supports learning for 10,000 CSU students with disabilities, and MERLOT ELIXR, a faculty development collaboration across state systems and campuses for developing cases and shared teaching resources.

Cat Herding in the Green Mountains: An Enterprise Information System for the Vermont State Colleges

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

When the Vermont State Colleges decided to replace a 20-year-old legacy information system, the "loose confederation" of five colleges needed to become a highly collaborative organization to exploit the functionality of an enterprise information system. This presentation will review the technical and organizational challenges faced during the implementation process.

Leveraging Your Existing Campus Systems to Access Partner Resources: Federated Identity Management and Tales of Campus Participation

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:50 -0500

Campuses can leverage investments in single-sign-on systems to access external systems and information resources partners. Panelists will explain InCommon federation participation, what it means for a campus, and how existing identity management systems can facilitate a much richer learning and working environment beyond the limits of campus boundaries.

Resource Sharing in a Self-Organizing Online Forum

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:51 -0500

Open Learning Support is social software integrated with MIT OpenCourseWare that allowed users to find each other to ask/answer questions. This session will describe how learners shared resources to answer questions about math and science course content. It will also describe the process of improving an online forum to meet learner needs.

Evaluating a Virtual Academic Department

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:27 -0600

Sunoikisis, a virtual classics department formed by classicists at 13 liberal arts colleges, blends on-campus teaching with distributed, online, interinstitutional instruction. This evaluation studies Sunoikisis by examining the gains and challenges to institutions and asks how institutions can sustain liberal arts education values while increasing reliance on technology in the classroom.

The DPubS Development Project: Building an Open Source Electronic Publishing System

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:29 -0600

The DPubS development project, a partnership between libraries at Cornell and Penn State, aims to provide libraries, university presses, and other independent publishers with an open-source online publishing system. This presentation will describe the functionality and uses of DPubS and its proposed development, implementation, and business plans.

REALIA Project: Building a Collaborative, Digital Collection for Teaching

drupal — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:50:32 -0500

Three consortia representing more than 40 liberal arts institutions joined forces to create and manage a Web-based, searchable collection of media for teaching foreign languages and cultures. The REALIA (Rich Electronic Archive for Language Instruction Anywhere) Project has created a unique tool that helps address a core need of thousands of faculty members.

Converting Existing Online Courses to Learning Objects

drupal — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:04:50 -0500

The University System of Georgia has been forced to confront the high costs of developing online content. One way the system has done so is to focus on content sharing and reuse by deconstructing existing online courses into reusable learning objects that faculty can retrieve and incorporate into new courses. This session will explore the benefits, success factors, and pitfalls to avoid.

Bridging the Gap: Integrating Functional and Technical Resources

drupal — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:14:54 -0500

Increasingly, IT projects require both technical and functional resources. Bringing these two areas together is challenging. The special role for those who inhabit both worlds and integrate them is that of a "bridge." Topics will include characteristics of integrators, finding the right people, empowering bridge people, and maximizing their effectiveness.