EDUCAUSE | Podcasts and Educause_SA07

Podcast: Information Literacy in the Digital Age

gbayne — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:40:46 -0500

In this hour-long podcast, we feature a panel discussion from the 2007 Seminars On Academic Computing entitled, "Information Literacy in the Digitial Age". Panelists in this discussion include:

Irvin R. Katz, Senior Research Scientist for the Educational Testing Service
George Lorenzo, President and CEO of Lorenzo Associates, Inc.
Moses Wolfenstein, Graduate Student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Session convener: Charles D. Dziuban, Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida

This session will be an examination of information literacy preparation for higher education via the K–12 setting, and close with a presentation on the iSkills Assessment (the former ICT Literacy Assessment) tool.

This podcast was edited with assistance from Kelly Walker.

Podcast: Service Oriented Architecture

gbayne — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:46:18 -0500

This podcast features a panel discussion from the 2007 Seminars on Academic Computing. The topic is Service Oriented Architecture and panel participants include:

Jens Haeusser, Director, Strategy, The University of British Columbia
Charles F. Leonhardt, Principal Technologist, Georgetown University
Piet Niederhausen, Web & Data Architect, Georgetown University

The abstract from this session:

This is a review of service oriented architecture from a number of perspectives. The panel will define SOA, discuss its value to higher education, and present use cases on how it can enhance our scholarly and enterprise systems. Challenges in organizing for and implementing SOA will be highlighted including a discussion of using SOA in enterprise open source development as well as distributed environments.

This podcast edited with assistance from Kelly Walker.

Podcast: The Disruptive Nature of Technology - Jon Udell

gbayne — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:48:40 -0500

This hour and five minute long podcast features a session from the Seminars on Academic Computing Conference by Jon Udell, Evangelist of Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and new media innovator. His 1999 book, Practical Internet Groupware, helped lay the foundation for what we now call social software. This session is entitled, "The Disruptive Nature of Technology".

Web 2.0 and other emerging technologies invite exploration, innovation, and building with “small pieces loosely joined.” Yet those opportunities can disrupt traditional academic processes that undervalue amateur participation, discourage faculty from venturing outside their realm of primary expertise, and look to “enterprise solutions” for administrative convenience. Can the academy include “half-baked ideas” in its core mission and processes? This session addresses these issues from the perspective of an IT professional outside the academy.

Podcast: The Institutional Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure and E-Research

gbayne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:42:50 -0500

In this one hour and twenty minute podcast, we feature the closing speech from the 2007 Seminars On Academic Computing in Snowmass Village, Colorado. The speaker is Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. His speech is entitled, The Institutional Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure and E-Research.

It has become clear that scholarly practice and scholarly communication across a wide range of disciplines are being transfigured by a series of developments in IT and networked information. While this has been widely discussed at the national and international levels in the context of large-scale advanced scientific projects, the challenges at the level of individual universities and colleges may prove more complex and more difficult. This presentation will focus on these challenges, as well as the development of truly institution-wide strategies that can support and advance the promises of e-research.

Podcast: The Role of Play and Preparing for a Changing Student Population - An Interview with Rachel Smith

gbayne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:23:38 -0500

In this 9 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Rachel Smith, Vice President of NMC Services for the New Media Consortium. The interview was recorded at the 2007 Seminars On Academic Computing Conference where Rachel Smith presented two session, "Games for Learning" and "The Role of Play and Preparing for a Changing Student Population".

Students are arriving on campus with a set of expectations and behaviors that differ from those of previous generations, including the faculty, who are faced with engaging them in the process of learning. Students' experience with new kinds of games and media has shaped their view of what learning is and how it occurs. This conversation will explore the changing way that young people approach playing, learning, and working and will examine how the concept of play can build bridges between traditional and emerging student populations.

Podcast: Using Second Life for Immersive Learning

gbayne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:39:48 -0500

In this 14 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Cynthia Calongne, Professor of Computer Science at Colorado Technical University. She presented two sessions at the 2007 Seminars On Academic Computing Conference entitled, "Beyond Course Management Systems: Second Life" and "Using Second Life".

Second Life lets students and instructors meet and collaborate to work on projects and exchange information. The immersive environment is helpful for many teaching concepts and collaborative learning. In this discussion we find out how Second Life is being used in higher education as well as with K-12 students.

This podcast was edited with help from Kelly Walker.

Podcast: Privacy and Security in Higher Education: Filling the Policy Vacuum

gbayne — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:57:22 -0500

In this hour and ten minute long podcast from the 2007 Seminars on Academic Computing, we hear from Fred H. Cate, Distinguished Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, with a speech entitled, Privacy and Security in Higher Education: Filling the Policy Vacuum .

Colleges and universities possess an exceptional volume and variety of personal information. Our stewardship of such information has been inconsistent and inadequate, and we often implement new technologies and systems without considering systemic privacy and security implications. Although many publicly reported security breaches occur on campuses, we have been slow to provide training in privacy and security issues, rarely audit for compliance, and lag far behind industry and government in appointing privacy and security officers. This session will address the information policy challenges facing colleges and universities, today and in the future, and will offer practical steps for overcoming them.