Ryan Gjerde

Sponsors: LIS
Location: Dahl Centennial Union – Mott Room
Registration: Unlimited – please sign up if you plan to attend.

Presenter: Alex Castellarnau, Senior Program Leader, IDEO

This online session is part of the 2012 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Fall Focus Session, “Emerging Technologies, Innovation, and Academic Transformation.” Focus Session events are geared towards faculty members, administrators, librarians, learning technologists, and IT professionals. Visit http://www.educause.edu/eli/events/eli-fall-focus-session for more information on the series.

Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room

Information technology plays a fundamental and growing role in enabling education and research, yet the CIO’s role in leading that evolution for colleges and universities is far from clear. As a former CIO, vice president for research, and provost and current university president, Michael McRobbie will share his insights on the leadership opportunities and responsibilities for CIOs and their critical role in reshaping institutions.

Presenter:
Michael A.

Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room

In the Netherlands, higher education institutions are jointly seeking to optimize the preconditions to facilitate promising IT initiatives by determining successful approaches through measurable improvements. We have invested in building an infrastructure for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and professionalization. Shared evaluation adds a new aspect to this innovation community. Like reverse engineering, innovators can define-at the start of a project or program-the relevant qualitative and quantitative factors to measure during and after.

Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room

Professional development in best practices for online teaching is essential to ensuring the success of new online instructors. In this session, learn the 12 essential attributes of faculty professional development programs informed by adult learning theory. Hear how they were implemented through an action research process and see them illustrated through Bay Path College’s unique three-tiered approach to online faculty development that includes a comprehensive orientation, mentoring, and ongoing support.

Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room

Susan Grajek – EDUCAUSE Research: In early 2011, EDUCAUSE consolidated its research and data efforts into a single area: EDUCAUSE Data, Research, and Analytics.

Location: Olin 348

As institutions face increasing challenges concerning efficiency and effectiveness, substantive collaborative relationships become essential. An area with enormous potential that supports both institutional effectiveness and the needs of learners is library/IT collaboration.

Location: Olin 348

In this session, we’ll discuss the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project’s latest findings about how people (especially young adults) use mobile devices, including smartphones and tablet computers (iPads). We’ll explore how the mobile revolution has combined with the social networking revolution to produce new kinds of learning and knowledge-sharing environments and the challenges and opportunities this presents to colleges and teachers. Technology has enabled students to become different kinds of learners.

Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room

Join colleagues in a discussion of ideas, issues, and innovations in professional development. How do you motivate your staff to learn new and different skills, both technical and managerial? What makes training “good”? What are your challenges, and how have you overcome them? Share and learn at this interactive session. The Professional Development/Staff Management Constituency Group focuses on all issues concerning recruiting, training, and managing staff.

Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room

As capabilities advance and demands increase, colleges and universities continue doing more with technology in more areas. This raises concerns about the extent to which institutions consider and meet accessibility requirements so that all members of the institutional community, including those with disabilities, benefit equally from what technology has to offer.

Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room

Purdue University offers students and faculty a series of mobile applications designed for use both in and out of the classroom. Learn how a collection of focused mobile tools can be broadly implemented by a variety of courses to enable student collaboration and assessment.

Presenter:
Kyle D. Bowen
Director, Informatics
Purdue University

This session is part of the EDUCAUSE 2011 Online conference, being sponsored locally by LIS.