EDUCAUSE | Podcasts and Institutional Management

E08 Podcast: Why IT Matters: A President’s Perspective on Technology and Leadership

gbayne — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:26:27 -0600

This fifty-five minute podcast, recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference, features a speech by Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The speech is entitled, "Why IT Matters: A President's Perspective on Technology and Leadership." Video for this speech is also available.

In May 2003, Nicholas Carr’s Harvard Business Review article postulated that information technology doesn’t matter. As higher education enters a period of great change, such issues as sustainability, diversity and student access, affordability, and accountability will increasingly dominate our institutional strategies. This talk focuses on a presidential view of why IT does matter and how aspiring IT leaders can work with presidents to help their campuses innovate and succeed in addressing these important issues.

This 2008 EDUCAUSE Conference podcast is sponsored by Real Networks, Inc.

Podcast: Robert J. Lowden on Virtualization

gbayne — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:18:17 -0500

Gartner estimates that 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies will use virtualization by 2008. As higher education IT organizations adopt this technology, a variety of strategic decisions must be applied to the challenges of P2V—transitioning from physical to virtual—across the enterprise.

In this 11 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Robert J. Lowden, Director of University Information Systems at Indiana University. His presentation at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Enterprise Conference is entitled, "Virtualization Across the Enterprise". In this interview, Mr. Lowden shares experiences, challenges, and strategies of implementing a virtual approach to storage and processing.

EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: Creating and Implementing IT Processes

Carie417 — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:08:56 -0600

In this 50-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Tom Jordan in a session entitled Creating and Implementing Effective IT Processes. Jordan talks about the characteristics of effective IT processes and relates positive and negative experiences in designing and implementing structured processes in organizations that are sometimes reluctant to implement them.