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.
Leading IT Change across Campus: How to Raise Awareness, Gain Support, and Inspire Confidence
Michigan’s decision to replace its 10-year-old LMS with a cloud-based vendor product required a comprehensive change management and communication plan. This poster shares the strategies for engaging the people impacted by campus-wide change and will help you identify your own strategies for overcoming similar challenges.Outcomes: Understand the principles and benefits of a change management plan *Get tips for engaging campus partners in creating effective communications *Learn from this campus-wide management plan
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SOURCE: Educause
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Streamlining IT Procurement: Using Scoring Rubrics and Ticketing Workflows to Improve Communication and Efficiency
Being blindsided by unexpected IT procurement requests is expensive and frustrating. Procurement requestors who know what they want and have purchasing power may lack the ability to accurately assess the impact on IT and institutional requirements for accessibility, security, data, and infrastructure. We will explore how scoring rubrics and ticketing workflows support a more flexible, streamlined IT procurement process.Outcomes: Learn about the 5 key principles of streamlining IT procurements *Explore the steps involved in creating an IT procurement scoring rubric *Identify decision thresholds and workflows that best fit your organizational culture
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SOURCE: Educause
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Mean Tweets: Engaging with Students amid Service Complaints
It started with a few mean social media posts, which signaled a growing issue for our wireless service. Monitoring student perceptions and appropriately engaging with students is a key to solving service delivery issues. This session will cover how to react to negative perceptions in order to get a positive outcome for students.Outcomes: Explore social media challenges for identifying potential service delivery issues *Understand how to get resourceful feedback from students *Learn key communications strategies
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SOURCE: Educause
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Using Engagement to Transform, Reimagine, and Realign IT
Discover how institutions are focusing on engagement to transform, reimagine, and realign their IT organizations. The panel will discuss the value of engagement, provide examples, and show how engagement helps align IT with institutional needs, priorities, and strategies and is necessary to get things done at a faster pace.Outcomes: Explore engagement strategies being used by different institutions across the county *Understand why some institutions are embracing engagement *Understand the value of engagement
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SOURCE: Educause
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Improving Graduation Rates Using Business Intelligence
Improving retention and graduation rates is the goal of most universities. The problem is getting the right data in the hands of retention specialists and other key staff. In this session, we will cover a BI dashboard developed by IT and IR to provide graduation rates, academic progress, degree counts, and tracking information.Outcomes: Learn how data can improve retention and graduation rates *Identify data points to aid the decision process *Build successful BI tools through collaboration across university divisions
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SOURCE: Educause
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What’s Your Solution? Leveraging Peer Data to Inform Your Planning
You’ve seen it on the CIO list: “My institution is looking for a new solution. What are you using, and are you happy with it?” Come to this session to learn how the CIO list and the Core Data Service data and reports can complement one another to help you find out which products your peers are using. You’ll also hear about potential additions to the CDS that will make it easier to find information about technologies that your peers are evaluating, adopting, or have experience using.Outcomes: Learn how to leverage the power of CDS data to complement the CIO list and find information on solutions in use at other institutions * Hear how EDUCAUSE plans to continue to expand and upgrade its data collection for your strategic use
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SOURCE: Educause
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Women in IT
Join this lively discussion on effective practices in the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in higher education IT. Explore networking opportunities for addressing a wide range of issues affecting women IT professionals in colleges and universities, including leadership development, life balance and supporting positive work climates.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Adaptive Vendor Management Strategies
Universities face increasing challenges evaluating vendor performance on IT contracts. This panel will present strategies and perspectives on vendor management programs that unite IT, procurement, and finance to effectively and consistently manage IT service providers, evaluate performance, and realize financial optimization.Outcomes: Understand goals of a vendor management program and develop 1 –2 specific approaches for your campus *Evaluate organizational models and existing structures for partnership and improvement opportunities *Identify measurement and performance gaps in agreements to improve vendor performance
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SOURCE: Educause
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Improving Learning and Teaching with Learning Analytics: What Do Teachers Want?
This session will explore the connection between learning analytics and the improvement of learning and teaching from a teachers’ perspective. Data from a variety of sources (including a national research project, workshop series, and institutional initiatives) provide the backdrop for exploration of teachers’ use cases and business questions.Outcomes: Learn about the connection between learning analytics and the scholarship of teaching and learning *Identify teachers’ use cases for learning analytics *identify the connection between the use cases and the initiatives at your institution
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SOURCE: Educause
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Humanized Analytics: Visualizing Student Progress with Data-Driven RoadMaps
Designed to put students in charge of their own professional and personal progress, RoadMap is an online, interactive dashboard that enables students to review feedback, evaluate individual traits and skills, and visualize development of key business competencies. RoadMap is a powerful tool to help identify and close gaps, thereby projecting the path from MBA student to business leader.Outcomes: Build visually stunning, insightful dashboards in Microsoft Power BI, a free tool *Develop a framework for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing student performance data *Glean specific recommendations for developing an analytics-driven strategy or building on an existing one
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SOURCE: Educause
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