Podcasts and EDUCAUSE2006

The 2007 Policy Conference kicked off with a top-ten style list of Policy Issues currently facing higher education. This entertaining and insightful list was compiled and delivered by Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell University. What's past is prologue. As we look ahead to the policy questions facing the Internet today and tomorrow, it's useful to recall what we've seen over the past 12 months. This speech, entitled the Year In Review, runs approximately 33 minutes.

In this 40-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Kathryn Gates, Jie Tang and Anil Vinjamur in a session entitled Classroom Technology Standards and Design Made Simple. They share analysis of Portland Community College's five-year project to deploy standardized classroom technology tools on four campuses in Portland, Oregon.

In this 42-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from John Walsh and Jennifer Foutty in a session entitled Community Source Procurement System.They discuss the implementation of the first module of a collaborative, community source financial system and the project's key successes and challenges.

In this 30-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Marjorie Hassen in a session entitled Content Recruitment and Development: A Proactive Approach to Building an Institutional Repository. Hassen explains  Penn Library's model for administrating the University of Pennsylvania institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons@Penn.

In this 41-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Edward Chapel and Kathleen Ragan in a session entitled Montclair State University Unplugged: Replacing Landlines with a Cellular Information Device. They'll share details of a 2005 project to replace landline telephone services with a wireless alternative that is both a telephone and a portable Internet kiosk.

In this 41-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Robert O'Leary and Nick Pavlakos in a session entitled Offshoring: Bringing Business Value to Stanford University. They discuss a partnership with an offshore vendor to bring predictability and lower costs to Stanford University's administrative systems development and support functions.

In this 36-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Brian Foley and Lynn Hulett in a session entitled The Cougar Advisors' Toolkit: WebCAT, the Purr-fect Solution. They share how Washington State University has created a single Web application that enables academic advisors to better advise students by delivering real-time, on-demand, legacy data.

In this 43-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Kaye Bragg and Penelope Swenson in a session entitled Two Questions That Promote In-Depth Course Assessment. They offer a plan for online and hybrid couse assessment that starts with two nonthreatening questions.

In this 42-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Rebecca King in a session entitled "Spiffing Up" Your Enterprise Systems. King explains how Baylor University has customized their ERP system by by augmenting purchased systems with Web-based applications.

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In this 44-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Linda Hilton and Eric Sakai in a session entitled Cat Herding in the Green Mountains: An Enterprise Information System for the Vermont State Colleges. They review the technical and organizational challenges faced during a recent enterprise information system implementation.