Announcements

For the Coffee Shop on AI

Hi all, Join us & our friends at Gerent for lunch on 10/10 at a beautiful rooftop terrace near the Educause convention center. 

Register at this link: https://www.gerent.com/ev/gerent-rooftop-lunch-at-educause

Also, check out the following 2 sessions at the conference.

First, "Misery Loves Company?!? Enterprise CRM Meet and Greet" - this is a casual meet and greet on Tuesday, Oct 10th from 2-2:45 at the Community Group Corner, Lobby, Level 1.  https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference/2023/agenda/how-does-this-thing-work-again-managing-change-with-your-crm-project  Second, "How Does This Thing Work Again? Managing Change with Your CRM Project" - this is a meeting session on Wednesday, Oct 11th from 1-1:45 at W192c, Level 1. This will be an interactive session discussing change management use cases and frameworks. Should be fun and engaging! https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference/2023/agenda/misery-loves-company-enterprise-constituent-relationship-management-crm-meet-and-greet

Please join us September 27th for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

Hi everyone - 

It looks like the Zoom link we used last year no longer is being managed by EDUCAUSE. Instead, we're going to meet at: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96275828248?pwd=OGw3VFBvZmppVUhFYXBxTVJoZXJKZz09

We would like to gather feedback from everyone to see what you, the community group,  want from the Student Success Analytics Community Group (SSA CG).  The SSA CG Steering Committee is dedicated to the success of this group, and we will use the results of this survey to inform the direction of the SSA CG.

Student success analytics is a broad concept. As our community has grown, the steering committee has intentionally been inclusive by not limiting the definition of student success analytics. With that in mind, as you answer the remaining questions, please think of student success analytics in your context. 

This survey is anonymous, so we thank you for your thoughtful, honest feedback.

Our group authored such articles as "A Framework for Student Success Analytics", "Discrimination in a Sea of Data: Exploring the Ethical Implications of Student Success Analytics", "A Rubric Accompanying the Student Success Analytics Framework".


If you'd like to participate in future similar projects, you'll find more information on how to do so in the survey.

This survey should not take more than 5 minutes of your time. This survey will be open until September 22.

Hello, RPAS CG members!

I'm pleased to announce that James Cistone, Ph.D., will be our guest speaker for this month this Friday, September 15, 2023 from Noon-1pm EDT. Jim will be speaking with us about "Future Drone Operations / UAS Traffic Management (UTM)".

Please submit your questions in advance as you think of them.  Feel free to add discussion items to it as well.  Here's a link to our Agenda, where we want to note, there are indications that the FAA will be postponing the enforcement of RemoteID a bit.

If you don't have access to the questions page, email Jenn Stewart (jas72@psu.edu) or Doug Willen (dwillen1@swarthmore.edu) and we'll make sure you get access. 

Looking forward to seeing all of you again! 

Doug

J. Douglas Willen, Ph.D., Part 107 Certified

Senior Academic Technologist

Swarthmore College ITS

Please join us for our September meeting, tomorrow at 1:00pm ET! Check out the Events tab for info and the link to join. 

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I invite you all to attend our first Co-Hosted Coffee Shop Chat with the Instructional Technologies (INSTTECH) Community Group! We will have 3 to 4 panelists who will discuss how AI is shaking up education, how it is impacting teaching and learning, and what each member is seeing or doing at their institution to support faculty and students.  

This meeting is for all INSTTECH CG and AI GC members. If you have new staff that could benefit from the network connections, then we invite you to pass along this invitation to any colleagues.  

Bring your lunch, coffee, tea, and ideas! We look forward to seeing you at our next Coffee Shop Chat.  

The session will be held via a Zoom link (full Zoom details available in the Community Event tab). Sessions are not recorded; however, any links or resources shared will be available afterward via the CG Library tab.

Please reach out to the CG co-chairs if you have any questions or need any accommodations. 

The Instructional Technologies (INSTTECH) Community Group (CG) and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Community Group (CG) invite you to a Virtual Coffee Shop Chat on Thursday, September 28 at 3:30 pm EST. We will have 3 to 4 panelists who will discuss how AI is shaking up education, how it's impacting teaching and learning, and what each member is seeing or doing at their institution to support faculty and students.  

The session will be held via a Zoom link (full Zoom details available in the Community Event tab). Sessions are not recorded; however, any links or resources shared will be available afterwards via the CG Library tab. 

This meeting is for all INSTTECH CG and AI GC members. If you have new staff that could benefit from the network connections, then we invite you to pass along this invitation to any colleagues.  

Bring your lunch, coffee, tea, and ideas! We look forward to seeing you at our next Coffee Shop Chat.  

Please reach out to the CG co-chairs if you have any questions or need any accommodations. 

James Madison posed a question to the group about  how to negotiate trust issues with an advancement CRM implementation. I'm sure they are not alone. Let's come together and brainstorm: Rules of engagement? Shared data? Bring your ideas and suggestions! Zoom link is below. If you email me at rj283@cornell.edu, I can add you to the calendar invite. 

Join Zoom Meeting
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Members, and non-members, are invited to join the Instructional Technologies Community Group for a casual meetup on Wednesday, October 11 from 3:00-3:45 pm (CST). More information is available on the conference webpage. 

Reminder that we have our monthly call this week on Wed.

Please send discussion topics to me or to Isaac Galvin.

Monthly calls: First Wednesday of every month at 2pm Eastern. Zoom link & agendas in the meeting notes below.

Running meeting notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bor_dE_DtN9rX_YDuEB6SkNdejmvV2ByDHkBZtUvXvc/

Please join us August 23rd for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

Dear Colleagues,

I hope this email finds you well and trust that several of you have had some opportunity to find time to relax and recuperate this summer.

This Wednesday on July 26th, at 9AM PT / 12PM ET, we will welcome Emily Meanwell (Clinical Associate Professor, Sociology), Philip Berg (System Analyst/Programmer), and Alan Walsh (Principal Analyst, Research Data Services) from Indiana University to present on "Automated Transcription for Social Science Researchers". The description of their presentation is below

Social science researchers frequently need audio recordings transcribed for analysis. However, third-party software and services often present both technical and security challenges. In this session, we will discuss the motivation and the technical implementation of the Automated Transcription Service (ATS). This simple and 100% serverless solution leverages cloud machine learning (ML) APIs and other cloud services to provide convenient and secure transcription capabilities for social scientists.

As a reminder, CCCG holds monthly meetings on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 9AM PT / 12PM ET

Where: internet2.zoom.us/j/91519802344
Calendar.ics for cloud events
Running Agenda/Notes: https://tinyurl.com/EDUCAUSE-CCCG
Wiki | Slack Workspace | EDUCAUSE Group

CCCG Co-chairs
Niranjan Davray
James Monek
Kari Robertson

Please join us July 26th for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

Please join us June 28th for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

Hello everyone-

We are continuing our 2023 Spring Conclave series with a discussion on How to Talk to Faculty Colleagues about Universal Design for Learning.

Here are the details:

• When: Friday, May 26 at 9:00 am (PT), 10:00 am (MT), 11:00 am (CT) and 12:00 pm (ET)
• Where: ZOOM - Melody Buckner's Personal Meeting Room 
• https://arizona.zoom.us/j/8270317365

Here is the Google Doc with ALL the information about the Conclave:
Conclave #26 - May 20

Our guest speaker is a friend and colleague with expertise in this area.

• Thomas J. Tobin is an author, speaker, and consultant on all facets of quality when we use technology in higher education: Universal Design for Learning (UDL), evaluating online teaching, copyright, academic integrity, and non-faculty career paths.

  Here is his website: https://thomasjtobin.com/ .
  
  

Hope you can join us!

Melody Buckner

Please join us May 24th for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

We are excited to announce the return of the Professional Pipeline Student Scholarship for the 2023 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. This scholarship is designated for students of color and individuals from demographically underrepresented populations considering a career in higher education technology. Nominate a student from your campus by August 1 for this “full ride” scholarship to the Conference!

Nominate a Student Now!

Student Scholarship Benefits

• A complimentary registration to the in-person EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois
• NEW for 2023! Complimentary hotel accommodations for three nights
• NEW for 2023! A flat-rate travel stipend to assist with transportation and incidental expenses associated with attending the conference
• $1,000 will be issued to attendees who travel farther than 100 miles to attend the conference.
• $500 will be issued to attendees who travel fewer than 100 miles to attend the conference.
• A mentor in the higher ed technology field with the opportunity to connect in person at the conference
• A special conference orientation/overview from an EDUCAUSE VIP
• An awardee breakfast or lunch with EDUCAUSE leadership
• NEW for 2023! The opportunity for resume review and personalized career coaching from an experienced professional in the field

Good afternoon all,

 We want to bring the following survey to your collective attention. The Communications Infrastructure and Applications (CIA) CG is sponsoring this survey to gather institutional financial approaches to paying for and life cycling key telecom equipment and services. The Network Management (netman) and Wireless Local Area Networking (wireless) CGs may also benefit from this data. The CIA CG steering committee and the financial working group will have full access to the data. The aggregate data will be publicly shared with the CIA CG and available for anyone to view.

 

These questions assume you are knowledgeable or have access to obtain answers around the following areas below. Thus you may need to gather information from other areas of your institution for these question topics:

 

Understanding of established annual budgets, and main source of funding; which services you have a charge back model or cost recovery funding model; equipment life cycle information, and any feedback (pro or con) for these models. 

 
The survey is now available now until end of day Monday May 15, 2023 -  CIA - Unified Communications, Networking, and Telecom Billing Practices Survey - May 2023 and should take approximately 8 minutes to complete. 

 

We will review all results at a future monthly virtual meetup.

 

Thank you.

 

--Mark Wehrle, CIA CG Team

Every month, the Small College CG meets on the 4th Wednesday at 3pm ET for an hour.

Please join us! 

DIFFERENT ZOOM ROOM for September:
https://achs.zoom.us/j/3668326861

Currently, we are asking vendors not to attend these meets ups. Please contact the CG co-leaders for any questions or comments. 

Sometimes we have an agenda that we will post to discussions, sometimes we do not and it's an open conversation.

We hope you will join us to discuss and share all things DR/BC related. 

Hello everyone! Register for the 2023 edACCESS conference on our web site. Early registration ends April 11th. Hope to see you at The Peddie School in June!

We are making changes to the ITCOMM Coffee Shop and no longer offering them monthly! Instead, they will be quarterly (seasonal) and with more formal topics. Our next Coffee Shop will be in May and on UX. Stay tuned.

Please join us March 22nd for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

Sowmya Shankar will be presenting DEI positions within central IT units.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

The next higher-ed devops meetup will be March 2nd from 2PM to 3PM eastern time.  Our meeting will be available on zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/99442464891?pwd=eFdWMWRMTzRjTWJLOENJaVBkcmN6Zz09

Hi Enterprise CRM Community Group! We are scheduling monthly calls on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 4-5 PM Eastern Time. The first few have been added as events in the Community Group, so look for them under "Upcoming Events" and plan to join! These will be participative, so come ready to discuss and bring your questions and thoughts!

Schedule is below: 

Date	Topic
March 15	Let's talk about the Job Titles and Roles in our CRM organizations. Bring your questions, comments, and job descriptions. We will create an archive of job descriptions!
April 19	Join Horizontal consulting for a discussion about preference centers and how to develop a strategy for personalization, including the concept of "composable architecture" to bring together the best technologies for whatever digital experience you are trying to achieve
May 17	Ball State University's Digital Core trains and conducts UX design. They will talk about their Digital Core group and how it functions
June 21	CANCELLED
July 19	Discourse Analytics will talk about their product that ingests LMS data to develop an archetype
August 16	VACATION
September 20	School Profile - one institution's journey with Salesforce
October 18	EDUCAUSE MEET-UP
November 15	School Profile - one institution's journey with Salesforce
December 20	HOLIDAY BREAK

The next higher-ed devops meetup will be March 2nd from 2PM to 3PM eastern time.  Our meeting will be available on zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/99442464891?pwd=eFdWMWRMTzRjTWJLOENJaVBkcmN6Zz09

Agenda
Michael B. Klein Northwestern University Library
Northwestern University Library’s Repository & Digital Curation workgroup has been developing and running cloud-hosted applications since 2016. Our initial approach was a simple “lift-and-shift” operation, moving our premises-hosted services to virtual machines hosted in Amazon EC2. We quickly migrated to some cloud-native utility services like our relational database and search index. More recently, we have started to take advantage of the scalability offered by cloud-native services such as serverless functions (AWS Lambda), serverless container infrastructure (AWS Fargate), and short-lived, large-scale batch operations.

Now we are taking the next step, translating our bespoke data processing pipeline into a series of state machines using AWS Step Functions and other cloud technologies. At each step, we have had to reevaluate our local development environment, either emulating or mocking the AWS services our applications depend on. To overcome the limitations of this approach, we have created a cloud-based development environment based on a heavily customized AWS Cloud9 environment. This has allowed each developer on our team to access the full range of AWS offerings, generating quick prototypes and iterating quickly on solutions, without the overhead or uncertainty of trying to emulate the entire stack on a laptop or local workstation, but without sacrificing the development tools we’re accustomed to. It has also led to a development platform that can be stood up and torn down quickly for easy onboarding as well as a quick “reset” of one or many existing setups. This presentation will explain our approach, how we got here, and how it’s going, as well as the surprises and challenges we have encountered along the way.

Slack Channel link: https://higher-eddevops.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-161fnj59w-GS09Y2wkO4yp5y~GqGJDpQ#/shared-invite/email

Please join us February 22nd for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

Sowmya Shankar and Tina Pappas will be presenting DEI positions within central IT units.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

Reminder that we have a new Zoom link for today's ITCOMM Coffee Shop in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion! Hope to see you there.

Topic: ITCOMM Coffee Shop

Time: Jan 17, 2023 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

        Every month on the Third Tue, until Dec 19, 2023, 12 occurrence(s)

       

Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.

Monthly: https://educause.zoom.us/meeting/tJIufu6urTkiG9aN4ULCnAVUoFSFhA3ocxfQ/ics?icsToken=98tyKuCurTItHNeXuBiFRowAA4r4KO7ztnpHjfpcskvQLwNdQzXDOcRxFLpeQ9fT

 

Join Zoom Meeting

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Please join us January 25th for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

POSTPONED to August 2023 - Sowmya Shankar and Tina Pappas will be presenting an overview on ARiA.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

Hello Everyone!
I hope you're having a wonderful holiday season.

If you had not already noticed, our group has been renamed and the group description has been updated. "Sharepoint and Microsoft 365" has become "Microsoft Tools in Education". This change reflects an expansion of the focus of this community as well. Thank you to everyone who participated in discussions on this topic. Your input was a valuable guide and provided important insight into how Microsoft tools are being used at different institutions.

The INSTTECH CG co-leaders are excited to invite you to a Virtual Coffee Shop Chat on the 4th Thursday of every month at 3:30 pm EST. More information and a Zoom link can be found in the Community Events tab.

This meeting is for all INSTTECH CG members. If you have new staff that could benefit from the network connections, then we invite you to pass along this invitation to any colleagues.  

Bring your lunch, coffee, tea, and ideas! We look forward to seeing you at our next Coffee Shop Chat.  

Please reach out to the co-chairs if you have any questions or need any accommodations 

Colleagues,

Thank you to those who have responded to our survey about our 2023 CG meetings. As Ellen and I are actively planning for some of the sessions for 2023, our first virtual meet-up will take place on January 20, 2023 at 2pm EST (11am PST).

Subsequently our monthly meetings will take place on the 3rd Friday of the month at 2pm EST (11am PST).  I hope that many of you will be able to join.

Our monthly meeting link is:

Reminder there is no December ITCOMM Coffee Shop! Happy holidays to all and we will see you on January 17th.

Reminder to join us for our monthly Roundtable Coffee Shop on Tuesday, November 15th at 2pm EST/11am PST. This month we will discuss communicating change and strategies for supporting change management processes. 

Join Zoom Meeting

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Hello Mobile Technologists,

Can you believe that it's SNOWING in Denver today?  

Come to our Annual CG meeting tomorrow 10/28 at 9:45am in meeting room 610/612.  I have prepared a JAM Board with our discussion topics, feel free to add ideas on it:  https://tinyurl.com/ymcese5x

Hello Mobile Minded Colleagues,

We have a OPEN Mobile Tech Community Meeting coming up during the Educause Annual Conference in Denver!  Friday Morning at 9:45am!

Reminder that the ITCOMM community group will have a face to face meeting in Denver during EDUCAUSE. Grab your lunch then pop on over to Meeting Room 610/612 from noon to 1pm on Wednesday, October 26.