Podcasts and ECAR

EDUCAUSE Now is a monthly podcast, focusing on the intelligent use of information technology in higher education. Each episode features a variety of stories, interviews, and views that relate to IT in higher education.  Let us know what you would like to hear at podcast@educause.edu.

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EDUCAUSE Now is a monthly podcast, focusing on the intelligent use of information technology in higher education. Each episode features a variety of stories, interviews, and views that relate to IT in higher education. EDUCAUSE Now will also inform you about upcoming events, report on past events, and feature the movers and shakers in policy, teaching and learning, security, and a whole host of other important topics for our members. Let us know what you would like to hear at podcast@educause.edu.

This episode of EDUCAUSE Now features:

This 49-minute podcast recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference features Judith Borreson Caruso, ECAR Fellow and Director of Policy and Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Gail Salaway, ECAR Fellow, EDUCAUSE speaking on "Undergraduates Speak about IT: Results of the 2007 ECAR Survey."

The session abstract:

What information technologies are used by undergraduates? How does IT contribute to their academic experiences and learning? What has changed since 2005? ECAR presents key findings from the fourth annual survey of undergraduates, with responses from 27,846 students at 103 higher education institutions. Plans for 2008 will also be discussed.

This podcast features a 13 minute interview with Jack McCredie, Associate Vice Chancellor, Emeritus, CIO, Emeritus, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He discusses collaboration between departments, campuses, and institutions and the issues and challenges facing system unification.

An important issue in planning, managing, and funding the broad range of information services on campuses is how to get departmental, campus, system-wide, and external organizations to work well together. Often they do not, and sometimes they actively compete.

The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), the Common Solutions Group, CNI, the UC Berkeley campus, and many other organizations have been working on developing collaborative models that provide better service and that save money.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting

In this 26 minute recording, we'll hear from Rob Abel, CEO of the IMS Global Learning Consortium. Listen in as Marliu Goodyear hosts a discussion about standards, course packs and more.

In this 24 minute recording, we'll hear from Tracy Schroeder, Vice President for IT and CIO at the University of San Francisco. Listen in as Marliu Goodyear hosts a discussion about ERP systems, identity management, metrics and more.

See also:
http://www.itil.co.uk/
http://www.educause.edu/conference/camp/

In this 18 minute recording, Bill Hogue sits down with MIT's Patrick Dreher for a discussion about research computing, cyberinfrastructure, and open content.

See also:

• A Baseline Study on IT Engagement in Research
• The Net@EDU Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group

The attached MP3 provides continuing coverage of a series of interviews conducted at the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. Listen as Marilu Goodyear hosts a 30 minute interview with Phil Long, Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among other things, they take on the issue of patents, discuss Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns, and tackle the prospects for continued research on learning space design.

In this 17 minute recording, we'll hear from Marjory Blumenthal, Associate Provost responsible for Academic Affairs at Georgetown.  We'll talk about her work with with the Pew Internet & American Life Project, issues affecting the development of internet, and insights gleaned from her work on the book, Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation and Creativity. 


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org