Collaboration and Presentations/Speeches

The E-Teaching Collaborative is an innovative, interdisciplinary team that provides faculty with one-stop access to support in electronic learning resources, technological tools, and educational methodology. This session will feature an interactive discussion of the ETC's collaborative processes and the unique technological solutions employed by the team.

This fall, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative invites you to embark on a journey to map the top challenges in teaching and learning with technology. Attend this interactive session to learn from a panel of community experts about some of the top challenges on their campuses. Then, weigh in on the discussion, joining your peers in a high-energy brainstorming session to help develop a community inventory. Youll also have an opportunity to explore how you can contribute as we inaugurate this project centered on community engagement and sharing.

In 2007, the University of Tennessee expanded its use of synchronous collaboration software beyond distance education to enhance on-campus classes. This presentation will detail actual classroom uses of the tool and outline how we implemented a plan for growth that included developing asynchronous online faculty training and modifying user support.

Research1 is an online community that allows researchers to collaborate with peers, share their work, and interact with the general public through project-related digital media, blogs, and forums. The presenter will describe the platform and invite members of the global research community to become involved in the initiative.

Wagnerpedia is a dynamic public campus-wide workspace that offers students, faculty, staff, and the community at large a place to create ongoing collaborative content. This presentation will examine how the cohesive quality of Web 2.0 technology can be used to connect a college with its community.

The Faculty Technology Integration Institute is the result of an interdepartmental collaboration to provide meaningful faculty development opportunities and sustainable innovation. This presentation will provide the results of case study research on the impact of this program on campus-wide change efforts at the University of South Florida Lakeland campus.
Additional contributor: Rosa Walsh, Faculty Services Administrator, University of South Florida

This poster will present an approach to designing a program and an enterprise-wide implementation that met disparate needs and goals. The defined processes and the role of each school, the instructional technology unit, and the office of associate provost in achieving shared and diverse goals will be showcased.

Led by Lake Forest College, Chicago-area academic, cultural, and civic institutions are developing VBI, the Virtual Burnham Initiative, with 3D models re-creating the 1909 Plan of Chicago housed on a project website. VBI is a project about the Chicagoland community that builds community between academic institutions, area organizations, and the greater public through technology.

Academic IT leaders have much to learn from IT leaders in other businesses and organizations. The Duluth Area CIOs Consortium has members from local business, health care, government, and education. This session will describe the consortium's establishment, goals, and meeting structure, as well as the benefits of membership.

This session will use the InfoCommons at Northwestern Library as a case study to examine a very successful partnership in technology application and space planning between two high-profile campus entities.