Webinars and other forms of presentations can be a great way to gain familiarity with a new topic or brush up on a skill that you haven’t used in a while. These presentations cover a variety of topics, from security to project management, and come from various sources around the web.
Creating Innovative Curriculum: Using Technology to Design and Deliver a Robust CBE Program
In this session, members of the Curriculum and Assessment Development team at College for America at SNHU will describe the competency-based education development process at CfA and detail how technology innovations play an essential role in the design and delivery of project-based curriculum.Outcomes: Describe the competency-based degree programs offered by an institution of higher education *Learn how project-based curriculum is created and delivered in an exclusively online model *Apply learned technologies and methods to instructional design challenges at your institution
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SOURCE: Educause
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Low-Threshold Application Streaming Video Server
A low-threshold application (LTA) is a teaching/learning application of information technology that is reliable, accessible, easy to learn, nonintimidating, and (incrementally) inexpensive. We will present a low-cost, low-threshold streaming video server, built from a combination of open-source and commercial tools: Wowza Streaming Engine, JW Player, FFmpeg, and CumulusClips.Outcomes: Explore the components and attributes of a low-threshold application *Identify the development and support costs associated with a mixed open-source/commercial product application *Decide if this approach to developing enterprise academic systems and applications is right for your institution
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SOURCE: Educause
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Unleashing the Minions: Putting an IT Strategic Plan to Work
Implementing an IT strategic plan means translating strategies into actionable initiatives. We selected six initial implementation initiatives from our campus-wide IT strategic plan and formed cross-division implementation teams to move these initiatives forward. We will share our process in involving the campus in the initiative selection and implementation.Outcomes: Learn how to collaborate with partners across “traditional” organizational boundaries to implement initiatives *Identify actionable strategies for pulling together large groups of campus constituents *Understand how to structure initiative implementation teams for success
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SOURCE: Educause
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The Transformational Role of Partnership
The IT Partnership team is key to achieving our department’s goal of playing more of a strategic and leading transformational role at Butler University in the future. We’ll share why our team was formed, key takeaways from our progress so far, and next steps.Outcomes: Learn how partnership roles can enhance IT’s relationships *Learn about processes and tools for engaging clients *Identify challenges of implementing consulting-oriented practices in IT
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SOURCE: Educause
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Mobile Design for Online Courses
You work hard on your courses so students will have the best educational experience, but what happens when they log in with their mobile device? This poster session will help you design your online courses for mobile devices. We will include tips to optimize content, increase communication, understand compatible features, and maximize engagement.Outcomes: Identify common issues with mobile content in online courses *Understand the student’s perspective while accessing online courses from a mobile device *Identify online content and strategies to increase communication and display content on mobile devices
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SOURCE: Educause
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Libraries and the Future of Higher Education
Libraries and librarians have a crucial role to play in creating a more open, more connected, more equitable future for higher education. The speaker will describe some of the ways MIT envisions libraries as being leaders in solving some of the key global challenges facing higher education and scholarly communication.Outcomes: Understand the unique expertise, values, and resources libraries and librarians have to contribute to creating a more open, connected, and equitable future for higher ed * Understand the kinds of global challenges in higher ed and scholarly communication that libraries and librarians are especially well suited to help solve * Identify specific ways to partner with libraries and librarians to tackle big challenges in higher ed and scholarly communication
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SOURCE: Educause
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Foil FUD: Using Data to Understand and Improve Information Security and Risk Management Practices
A favorite on the EDUCAUSE annual Top 10 IT Issues list, information security has appeared 13 times since 2000 and occupies the number 1 spot in 2016. A backdrop of constant threats, fast-changing technologies, and heightened expectations from our users means that developing holistic and agile approaches to information security is essential to reducing higher education’s exposure to security threats. Learn how institutions assess the strength and maturity of their information security and risk management programs to eliminate fear, uncertainty, and doubt (F.U.D.) and improve information security and risk management practices.Outcomes: Identify benchmarks of IT’s capability to deliver information security and IT risk management * Understand how to elevate information security and IT risk management discussions strategically * Share infosec and risk tips, techniques, and tools
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SOURCE: Educause
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Creating a Customer-Focused University
Students expect universities to provide the same high level of service they receive from every company they do business with. If expectations aren’t met, many are willing to leave. Learn how University of Maryland University College is enhancing its student experience to increase satisfaction, save money, and reduce attrition.Outcomes: Learn to identify customer experience improvement opportunities *Learn to use research tools to measure student satisfaction *Identify methods to document and share customer opportunities for improvement
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SOURCE: Educause
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Four Cornerstones to Transforming an IT Organization to Meet Current and Future Challenges
Today’s IT organization must be able to respond to current and future challenges facing IT and higher education. Learn how one institution transformed their IT operation by focusing on the four cornerstones of people, governance, strategy, and services, and created an innovative new organization and strategic plan in the process.Outcomes: Understand a strategy for transforming an IT organization *Think of different ways to structure IT *Upon completion, participants will be knowledgeable of a framework for developing an IT Strategic Plan
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SOURCE: Educause
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Achieving Success for Technology Refresh Investment through Shared Governance
In this session, you will learn how a shared governance structure, using interest-based problem-solving, can be effectively leveraged to guide the decision-making process for managing millions of dollars of technology assets. You will learn how conflict can be managed while raising awareness and commitment from both management and end users, which in turn helps out IT.Outcomes: Understand how to work a major policy through the institution using governance *Raise awareness of IT needs in the institution *Minimize risks and understand the impact of decisions
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SOURCE: Educause
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