EDUCAUSE | Collaboration and Presentations/Speeches

Inspiring Innovative Teaching Ideas Through the E-Teaching Collaborative

drupal — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:54:54 -0600

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.

The EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning Challenges, 2009

drupal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:12:52 -0600

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.

Research1: Developing an Online Community for the Sharing of Research

drupal — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:56:37 -0600

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.

Asynchronous Synchronicity: Assuaging the Hordes!

drupal — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:19:10 -0600

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.

Wagnerpedia: Civic Engagement in a Web 2.0 Environment

drupal — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:38:52 -0600

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.

Sustainable Faculty Technology Development to Facilitate a New University Culture

drupal — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:22:56 -0500

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

Addressing Shared and Diverse Needs Through Collaboration

drupal — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:37:31 -0500

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.

The Virtual Burnham Initiative as a Collaborative Project of, by, and for the Community

drupal — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:55:04 -0500

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.

When The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Part(ner)s: Partnering for Success

drupal — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:00:13 -0500

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.

The Duluth Area CIOs Consortium: Collaborating with Regional IT Organizations

drupal — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:00:12 -0500

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.

InCommon and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation

drupal — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:35:40 -0500

All dozen institutions comprising the CIC recently decided to join the InCommon Federation. This session will describe the motivation for and experience of joining InCommon. We'll also describe some of the use cases, including interactions with the federal government, interinstitutional access, and community source development projects.

Partnering Effectively with Cross-Campus Groups and Organizations

drupal — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:29:57 -0500

Institutions of higher education are complex, decentralized organization that benefit from the individual expertise of their members. Institutional decentralization, however, can hamper cross-campus collaborations. This presentation will focus on understanding how institutional frameworks unknowingly sidetrack collaborations and the steps that can be taken to minimize these barriers.

Collaborative Development: The Human Side of Project Management

drupal — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:29:57 -0500

UW–Madison successfully managed a large IT project using a new collaborative development methodology. The goal was to bring the product to life quickly with fewer bugs and greater input from both functional and technical people. This methodology impacted our organization in unexpected ways. We'll share successes and lessons learned.

Using Wikis for Collaborative Group Work

drupal — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:15:01 -0500

Discover how Bridgewater State College's new wiki web tool provides collaborative group space for academic and administrative group projects, as well as how this tool was implemented using the Mediawiki open source platform.

Cyberinfrastructure and Emerging Scientific Data and Knowledge Systems

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

Scientific progress and discovery increasingly hinge upon analysis of a wide variety of data sources. With these datasets growing ever larger and more complex, we are increasingly challenged in the areas of management, preservation, integration, and access to high-level services that facilitate inquiry and hypothesis testing. We are also seeing an increase in geographically distributed resources. For science to advance, we must develop new knowledge-based environments that allow researchers to easily query and analyze vast holdings of diverse, distributed data. NCAR has joined a number of collaborations aimed at addressing critical science and societal challenges, ranging from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the International Polar Year, regional climate modeling, solar-terrestrial science, digital preservation, and more. We will survey these areas, discuss some of the challenges we face in developing effective cyberinfrastructure, and briefly touch on the important migration towards "science gateways" and knowledge-based environments.

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.

The 2008 Horizon Report

drupal — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:07:25 -0600

The annual Horizon Report, a joint publication of the NMC and the ELI, highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression. This session will review the research and process behind the report. The 2008 Horizon Report and its findings will be officially released at this session.

Engineering a Public Affairs Project

drupal — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:38:59 -0600

This session will describe a collaboration between two very different academic disciplines at Princeton University, the University Channel and CoBlitz, to deliver recordings of public events in academia to millions. The partners describe how a group of public policy schools teamed up with an engineering consortium to create this unique multimedia project.

A Collaborative Codesign Approach for Student-Centric Learning Commons

drupal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:24:34 -0600

Since 2003, an interdisciplinary team of Swedish, Australian, and American researchers has developed and tested inclusive, transferable processes for collaborative planning and iterative assessment of learning commons initiatives. This session will illustrate essential process, outcome, and philosophy elements for producing student-generated insights on (re)design of campus learning spaces.

HumaniTech: Bridging Divides, Building Collaborations

drupal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:24:33 -0600

HumaniTech links humanities and technology by combining the perspectives and skills of faculty and staff from both humanities and campus-wide resources to work across disciplines and lines that often divide the research university: research/teaching, central/local control, faculty/staff, traditionalists/innovators. HumaniTech focuses on collaboration where IT is essential to these bridge-building efforts rather than a goal in itself.

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.

Collaborators at the Gates of Troy: Extending E-Services at USC

drupal — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:04:17 -0600

This session will describe and explain the policy, practices, and technologies implemented at the University of Southern California to allow the extension of electronic services for learning, research, and collaboration to guests and colleagues at other higher education institutions.

Models for Collaborative Online Learning: Pedagogy, Design, and Epistemology

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:41 -0500

This session will examine models for collaborative learning evidenced within the context of an online Master of Educational Technology program. This session will examine models of online learning from pedagogical and instructional design perspectives and consider the epistemological implications of collaborative spaces for learning and knowledge production.

From Information Literacy to Scholarly Identity: Effective Pedagogical Strategies for Social Bookmarking

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:39 -0500

Collaborative research teaches students critical knowledge management skills, whether they are undergraduates learning the basics of Web research or advanced scholars defining their own knowledge domains. Faculty need practical examples and strategies to initiate social bookmarking activities. Case studies demonstrate how this has been accomplished in undergraduate and graduate courses.

Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:39 -0500

The structure of the traditional term paper can limit its educational value. To make the assignment more meaningful, students published their papers in Wikipedia. This session will examine how publishing for a large online community motivated students to do better work and deal with issues of voice, knowledge, and community.

Keeping Pace with the Net Generation: A Student Affairs Perspective

drupal — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:19:05 -0500

The student affairs division can be a valuable partner in developing a campus response to Net Generation issues. In addition to improving the “Net IQ” of staff on campus, student affairs can and should play a significant role in assessing the impact of technology on student development and behavior, crafting policies and procedures, and educating students about technology rights and responsibilities.

Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy

drupal — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:19:04 -0500

The family of literacies now promoted in higher education (information literacy, IT fluency, and media and visual literacies) continues to multiply. These educational agendas call for more pervasive collaboration among all stakeholders (faculty, administrators, librarians, technologists, student life staff, assessment specialists, and others) because of conceptual and programmatic linkages and convergences among them. The blending of these literacies can become a catalyst that taps into student learning and engagement at a deep level and effects cultural change within and across institutions.

The University in a Networked Economy and Society

ckeller — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:14:50 -0500

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR/HP Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives, June 11-13, 2007, Boulder, Colorado. When Yochai Benkler's book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, came out, Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig said, "This is -- by far -- the most important and powerful book written in the fields that matter most to me in the last ten years. If there is one book you read this year, it should be this." This work examines the ways in which information technology permits extensive forms of collaboration that may have transformative consequences for economy and society. Benkler's presentation outlines the characteristics of the networked information economy and the roles of collaboration and commons-based production of information, knowledge, and culture, and it suggests avenues to apply these broad trends to education and education-related policy.

Campus Infrastructure and Collaborative Application Integration

drupal — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:24:28 -0500

Campuses will provide part of the solution to the problem of managing access to resources supporting scholarly collaborations. We'll look at campus identity management tools and practices that hold promise for collaboration support, including a demonstration of a prototype "collaboration platform" to help shift our discussion from the abstract to a concrete casting of some of its elements and operational processes.

Collaborative Applications, Suites, and Tools

drupal — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:24:28 -0500

We continue the review of existing practice.

Collaborative Applications: Scope, Terminology, and Central Questions

drupal — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:24:27 -0500

This session will introduce the workshop topic by providing an overview of its scope and terminology. In addition to explaining the workshop process, we'll present the set of questions to be addressed during the workshop and refine them with the participants.

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.

Navigating the Tennessee River: The Commons Steering Committee Charts a Course

drupal — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:16:07 -0500

Bringing together diverse work groups from IT and libraries to develop a new service can be challenging. This session will describe how the University of Tennessee applied many of the techniques used to build and manage teams to successfully meld these campus units to create an information commons.

Put Higher Education First: Check Egos and Institutional Biases at the Door!

drupal — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:50:54 -0500

Managing a project that involves collaboration between a number of different educational institutions and corporate partners presents unique challenges that require creative communication and team-building techniques. Learn about our experience with these challenges on the Kuali Financial System project.

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.

The Commons: A Concept to Stimulate Interdisciplinary Work

drupal — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:30:45 -0600

Commons are physical and virtual spaces designed for research collaboration. They bring back the best of the computing environment of the past and interject modern computing tools to stimulate solutions to complex, interdisciplinary problems. This presentation will describe Kansas State University's efforts in creating humanities and geospatial commons.

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?

The CIO Perspective on Changes and Challenges: Opportunities for Collaboration

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

IT leadership has always been important, but given the challenges facing higher education, it is essential for not only cost-effective operations but long-term strategic success. A panel of four Texas CIOs will discuss significant issues in higher education IT and provide practical examples of how they can be addressed effectively through collaborative initiatives. Examples will include approaches for identifying opportunities, engaging leadership, and building effective partnerships with external/internal stakeholders.

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.

From Labs to Collaborative Spaces: Development of Temple University's TECH Center

drupal — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:15:36 -0600

In January 2007, Temple University will open the TECH Center, the largest facility of its kind in the nation. Designed to meet student technology needs and encourage collaborative work, the 24-hour center will feature 640+ student workstations, multimedia breakout rooms, an extensive wireless lounge space, a help desk, faculty resources, and a cybercafé.

Team Building in Virtual Worlds

drupal — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:15:36 -0600

The use of virtual worlds provides a means for educators to bring a simulated real-world experience to the classroom. This case study will explore how undergraduates were able to go beyond the confines of the classroom space to gain team-building skills through the use of the virtual world Second Life.

Building on Distributed Access Management

drupal — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:41:07 -0600

What is beyond or outside Stage 2 and 3? What is around the edges? Where is this architecture going? We will discuss possibilities and challenges for using these technologies in distributed or virtual organizations and identify needs not yet addressed, such as policy editing and standardized provisioning tools.

A Collaborative Approach to Building Enterprise Portals: Perspectives from Coast to Coast

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:49 -0500

Nearly 100 institutions are working collaboratively to develop enterprise Web portals. Representatives from Merced College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Temple University, and University of Montana will discuss the consortium, its successes, and lessons learned in their attempt to implement enterprise portals at an affordable price.

Developing Collaborative Project Managers in IT

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:48 -0500

Hosted by UConn's IT PM Office and at least one other institution, we will share how to develop collaborative IT project managers. We will focus on changing from a traditional organization of technical project managers to an organization with well-rounded project managers who have additional leadership, administrative, analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

Informal Team Collaboration: Forces Driving Advanced Learning Space Design

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:46 -0500

Net Generation students are here, laptops in hand, ready for wireless, multitasking. How do we accommodate them? We will focus on informal learning spaces and team collaboration, exploring issues, proposed solutions, and implementation considerations. We will look at, and demonstrate a solution from, research on ubiquitous computing and human-computer interaction to provide students with shared workspaces for team collaboration. We will also share the results of experiments and assessment efforts coordinated across several institutions including MIT and the University of Washington.

Achieving the Impossible Through Partnerships and Alliances

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:45 -0500

Partnerships and alliances leverage the talents of many to accomplish an important goal not otherwise achievable, or not achievable in a cost-effective way. Their formation and ongoing support, however, can be time-consuming, costly, and risky. This seminar will cover critical success factors in building successful partnerships and alliances and will present numerous case studies of such collaborations within higher education. Group exercises will be used to analyze the potential for success of collaborations under consideration and define strategies to reenergize existing ones. Participants are encouraged to bring specific cases on which they would like input.

International Collaborations

drupal — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:44:02 -0500

How can institutions develop, coordinate, and sustain strategic global activities to encourage and support international engagement? This session will examine how to connect international constituents (prospective, current, and study abroad students; alumni; and professors and researchers from sister institutions) using the Internet. It will also explore how the Internet has turned institutions into international organizations that handle student recruiting and develop programs that effect global change.

IT Collaboration

drupal — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:52:01 -0500

Presentation at the Fifth Annual ECAR/HP Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives, June 28-30, 2006, Coronado, California. This presentation describes the study objectives, scope, focus, and analytical framework for ECAR's forthcoming study of IT collaboration.