Podcasts and Enterprise Portals

This 40-minute podcast recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference features James Farmer, Coordinator, Interoperability Center, Georgetown University, David W. Koehler, Director of Information Systems, CIT, Cornell University, and William G. Thompson, Jr., Associate Director, Enterprise Application Services, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey speaking on The uPortal Project. The moderator is Bradley Wheeler, VP for IT & CIO, Dean, and Professor, Indiana University.

The abstract from this session:

This podcast features a keynote address from the 2007 Enterprise Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Our speaker is H. David Lambert, Vice President for Information Services and Chief Information Officer at Georgetown University. His speech is titled “The Adaptable University” and runs approximately 53 minutes.

Institutions of higher education have become increasingly concerned about their ability to maintain critical services to faculty, students, and staff in the event of a major disruption. As we build or buy new information systems, enhance new facilities, and design new programs, we must be concerned with business continuity and creating resilient, adaptable institutions that consider academic sustainability in every aspect of the enterprise.

 

In this 44-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Mike Cuchna, Charles Mathew, Gordy Pace, and Jeremy Trumble in a session entitled A Collaborative Approach to Building Enterprise Portals: Perspectives from Coast to Coast. Representatives from Merced College, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Temple University, and the University of Montana will discuss how nearly 100 institutions are working collaboratively to develop enterprise Web portals.

 

In this recording, Vidya Ananthanarayanan sits down with Rich Kogut to chat about his experiences with the first American research university built in the 21st century.  Learn about the challenges & opportunities presented by opening a new campus, the questions of centralization vs. decentralization, identity management, and the use of technology at UC Merced. 

This 24 minute interview with Lev Gonick, Vice President for Information Technology Services/CIO at Case Western Reserve University is packed full of commentary about public policy, immersive learning environments, the OneCleveland project, the digital divide, and blogs.  Lev was one of the more engaging personalities that I met at the show and I hope you enjoy my conversation with him.