EDUCAUSE | Collaboration, Presentations/Speeches, and Resource Sharing

NJVid - A Statewide Video-on-Demand Repository

drupal — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:38:31 -0600

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a 3-year grant for nearly a million dollars to a partnership between William Paterson University, Rutgers University Libraries and NJEDge.Net to develop and deploy a statewide academic video-on-demand repository. The digital video repository (Fedora Commons-based) will he housed in the core of the NJEDge network and will provide "lectures-on-demand", licensed commercial videos, and locally owned videos. A Video Commons collection will be publically available including history, lectures from notables, and video documenting research and scientific advances. NJVid is notable for providing a statewide video strategy to accommodate any type of organization-higher education, K12, public libraries, museums and archives. A substantial part of this project will provide the resources to develop a statewide Shibboleth-based Identity management infrastructure, supporting statewide network authentication and authorization that can be used for many content resources. This presentation will describe the open source architecture and middleware applications that are under development. Much effort will be expended for an extensible approach that can be implemented by other statewide or consortial video initiatives.

An Initiative to Share Digital Repository Services for Liberal Arts Colleges

drupal — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:04:18 -0600

In January 2007, 13 geographically separated liberal arts colleges joined with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Longsight Group on an initiative for shared, managed, institutional repository services. The resulting collaboration promises to dramatically lower the barrier for entry into an emerging technology for smaller colleges.

Multi-Institutional IT Collaboration

ckeller — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:35:00 -0500

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR/HP Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives, June 11-13, 2007, Boulder, Colorado. In 2006, ECAR distributed three surveys: the first was designed simply to ascertain whether the responding institution collaborated in significant ways; the second asked responding collaborators to describe their experiences, views, outcomes, concerns, and readiness with and for collaborations; and the third asked self-identified non-collaborators in IT to describe the barriers to collaboration they face, the cultural assumptions and beliefs of their institutions, and their views about the possible future for IT collaboration at their institutions. The survey responses offer a rich snapshot of how and when colleges and universities collaborate, the nature of the collaborations themselves, and a sense of the effectiveness of IT collaborations in higher education.

Collaborating on an ERP System Implementation in Wisconsin

drupal — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:50:53 -0500

Under the auspices of WAICU, four members of WAICU (Lakeland College, MSOE, Ripon College, and Wisconsin Lutheran College), with different constituencies and business processes, created the WAICU Educational Technology Consortium (ETC), Inc. to purchase, implement, and support a common administrative system.

Collaboration at the Core of Change

drupal — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:50:53 -0500

Lake Forest College and Kalamazoo College have undertaken a collaboration initiative to provide e-mail and help desk services on shared hardware located in a remote data center. Representatives from both schools will discuss the process for forming the collaboration and the benefits realized to date.

A Collaborative Approach to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

drupal — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:30:44 -0600

Loyola Marymount University and Bowdoin College have formed a business partnership to inexpensively provide an enterprise-class disaster-recovery and business-continuity solution for their institutions. How did they make this opportunity a reality? What hurdles and successes did they encounter? What technologies were leveraged to implement this low-cost solution?

Collaboration and the Academy of the Future

drupal — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:30:43 -0600

This session will discuss the essential need to collaborate in the new models of higher education. Collaboration is no longer an alternative strategy—it is the only means of competitive survival. The session will identify reasons why we must collaborate, obstacles to collaboration, and new business models to facilitate this much-needed approach in the current and future higher education environment.

The Use of Rich-Media Resources for Scholarly Communication

drupal — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:47:18 -0600

The ResearchChannel is an intellectual community that acts as a technology test bed and innovator for new methods to globally distribute scholarly research. Network, computing, and content-creation collaborations allow participants to make the most of traditional, new, and emerging technologies. New technologies are essential for enhancing research, reaching a wider audience, and providing alternative, high-speed exchanges of video resources. Through partnerships and collaborations with other academic and research institutions, the ResearchChannel creates accessible, high-quality video resources for use within scientific communities. This session will also include a briefing regarding efforts to improve access to federally funded research by Clifford Lynch from CNI.

Collaboration Beyond the Brick Walls

drupal — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:42:47 -0600

Framingham State College and Bryant University have successfully implemented cross-campus collaboration projects to place library resources and services at the forefront of research and teaching. They will share the ideas, steps, and outcomes of using course management systems in partnering with faculty to reach on-campus and distance learners.

Experience TeamSpot: “Walk Up" Technology for Informal Learning Spaces

drupal — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:01:04 -0600

TeamSpot helps accelerate collaboration when teams use digital resources. Deployed at a growing number of academic institutions around the world, TeamSpot allows laptop and Tablet PC users to interact with each other and with information in accordance with emerging Net Generation preferences.