Podcasts and Information Systems and Services

In this podcast, we feature an eleven minute interview with Albert DeSimone, Commuications Director for the University of Georgia. As a Communications Officer at the University of Georgia specializing in Information Technology, Mr. DeSimone assists students, faculty, and staff with Web-related projects. He was interviewed at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Southeast Regional Conference regarding his presentation entitled, "Assessing "Portalness: A Guide for CIOs and Other Decision Makers".

The abstract:

Assessing the effectiveness of a portal solution requires more than statistical analysis. In this presentation we will go beyond simple quantitative analysis (number of "hits" or visits) to assess the effectiveness of a portal based on qualitative attributes (integration, personalization, and customization) to assist in the evaluation of a current or future portal implementation.

 

In this 56 minute podcast, we feature the opening keynote address from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Southeast Regional Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a speech by Beach Clark, Vice President of Information Technology at the Georgia Aquarium entitled "Information Technology at the Georgia Aquarium: A Trendsetter's Perspective".

This session will portray the challenges of implementing information technology projects at the Georgia Aquarium, the world's largest aquarium. It will focus on lessons learned, system features that bolster business, and suggested areas of improvement both internally and with technology.

 

The opening keynote address from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Enterprise Conference in Chicago, Illinois. This speech was given by Kenneth C. Green, Founding Director of the Campus Computing Project, the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American colleges and universities. This speech, entitled The Changing Role of Enterprise Systems: From EDI to Internet Icons, is approximately an hour and three minutes long.

Over the past 15 years campus administrative information systems have morphed into enterprise systems. This presentation will focus on the promises (implied and inferred) in this transformation from EDI in the 1990s ("systems will share data"), to the Internet-spawned expectations for online resources and services, to the recent Spellings Commission report mandate that campuses "bring data" from their enterprise systems to address critical assessment and outcome issues.

In this 35-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Tim Antonowicz in a session entitled Server Consolidation: A Case Study in Success. He shares how Bowdoin College has saved nearly $300,000 in hardware costs using HP Blades and VMWare.

In this 45-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Geoffrey Robert Dengate and Janice Rickards in a session entitled Milking the Model: Getting the Most Out of Integration and Centralization. They will describe the Griffith University model for the delivery of information services, highlighting the benefits it provides and factors facilitating its success, and will conclude with speculation on further development of the model in the future.

In this 50-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Leo Fernig and Richard Spencer in a session entitled Community Source Development of a Next-Generation Student System. They'll share how the University of British Columbia is working with other institutions to develop a community source, next-generation student system that will use a service-oriented architecture.

This 49 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled A Technical and Nontechnical Model of Partnering to Achieve Campus Technology Needs.

This 50 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled 64 Campuses, One Central Organization for Training and Professional Development.

This 44 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled The Lehigh Lab, One Year Later: Increasing Faculty Involvement.

This 53 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Building Collaborative Administrative Systems Governance.