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.
Cloud-Adoption Strategies: Using the Cloud to Enable the Future University
At UMUC, we are looking to create operational efficiencies while increasing service levels to our students, faculty, and staff. The story of our #cloudfirst journey touches on foundational technology, leveraging technology for a competitive advantage and the human side of this transition.Outcomes: Understand not only the technology but also the human impacts of a cloud migration *Define the steps necessary for making a successful migration to the cloud *Understand the benefits and risks of migrating to the cloud
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SOURCE: Educause
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Diversity in IT
We are increasingly multicultural and serve communities where demographics (race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age) continue to change the workplace. Join us for open dialogue on issues of collaboration and support, career coaching, and diversity advocacy. Potential topics in clude hiring, inclusion/exclusion, mentoring, training/education, social cohesion/relationships, and pay equity.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Communications Toolkit Workshop: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Meaningful Messages That Support Your IT Change
You don’t need a full-time communications resource on your project team to get the right message to the right people at the right time. University of Michigan’s IT group supported three major IT changes using communication toolkits with campus partners. Learn how they did it and how you can too!Outcomes: Learn the principles and benefits of creating and using communications toolkits *Develop a communications toolkit outline for your campus initiative *Understand how to engage campus partners in creating effective communications
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SOURCE: Educause
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Accessible UX: Creating an Elegant and Accessible User Experience
Common sense approaches to web and mobile usability have persisted for some time but accessible usability has fallen far short. While the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provides a framework for accessible design, designers and developers often understand little about what persons with disabilities find intuitive and therefore add the required ingredients but frequently leave the user with an inelegant UX.Outcomes: Understand and be able to articulate the current state of the web and mobile usability *Extend web and mobile usability to WCAG *Evaluate accessible Web and Mobile designs and identify how the UX can be made elegant
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SOURCE: Educause
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It Takes a Village: Curating Local Digital Content
The full life-cycle approach of the Bates Digital Campus (www.bates.edu/digital-campus/), supported by archivists, librarians, and instructional technologists, seeks to create more cohesive development, presentation, and dissemination frameworks to make digital scholarship available for many audiences. Members of the Bates Digital Campus will present a case study of the successful implementation of digital scholarship methods and content in a liberal arts environment.Outcomes: Learn how the unique nature of the liberal arts environment lends itself to advancing digital scholarship and preservation *Recognize the power of institutional partnerships across the life cycle of digital scholarship *Determine which facets of a particular partnership model could work in your institutional context
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SOURCE: Educause
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Leading Transformation within Higher Education during a Period of Major Disruption
What are the leadership capabilities, characteristics, and capacity required as the headwinds facing higher education and research institutions continue unabated? Forbes.com called higher education ground zero for disruption. Moody’s predicts the tripling of college closures in coming years. In the digital economy, no institution is immune, and boards and leaders should be planning today how to transform themselves. The next generation of institutional leadership needs to stay true to mission while competing in a different market and maintain values while discarding ineffective practices, all while dealing with an increasing slough of unfunded mandates, the new “digital native” customer, intensified scrutiny to justify higher ed value, and more. Those leaders who can create and implement successful strategies that include strong digital solutions are best positioned for success.Outcomes: Understand the capabilities, characteristics, and capacity of next-gen leadership, given market trends and transformation * Understand the systems that leaders must influence and modernize for institutional success * Understand the opportunities and barriers to achieving next-gen leadership
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SOURCE: Educause
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SEM07P-User Experience Is for Everyone: Identify Users’ Needs to Create Better Product and Service Experiences (separate registration is required)
Whether you’re creating a website, an event, or a new service, you want it to be useful for your audience. In this seminar, you’ll gain hands-on experience with user experience (UX) research and modeling techniques that will help surface needs prior to building so you can reduce risk later on.Outcomes: Describe and gain a basic understanding of various UX techniques * Apply a few broadly applicable UX research and analysis techniques * Select UX research and analysis techniques appropriate for your project
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SOURCE: Educause
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SEM03P-Preparing for That IT Strategic Planning Project: A Data-Driven Approach (separate registration is required)
Preparation is key to successful strategic planning that involves the many constituencies in your university. This workshop will provide practical approaches to collecting, organizing, and presenting the qualitative and quantitative data most important to the strategic planning process-data that will gain strategic alignment while incorporating information on educational trends and positioning “critical success factors” for a strategic plan.Outcomes: Understand what data is important to different constituencies in creating an IT strategic plan * Learn practical approaches to collecting, organizing, and presenting that data * Be prepared to use these techniques to prepare your own strategic planning projects
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SOURCE: Educause
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SEM10P-Active Teaching and Learning Spaces: Design, Technology, Outcomes, and Support (separate registration is required)
Many colleges have developed or are in the process of developing active teaching and learning classrooms and/or student group study spaces supporting project-based or flipped methodologies of teaching and learning. This seminar will cover insight and best practices from a few different campuses on design, implementation, faculty engagement, technology, ongoing support, and student outcomes.Outcomes: Understand the various types of active teaching and learning spaces and how they apply * Obtain ideas and tips on project planning, costs, design, technologies, support, and faculty engagement * Gain insight on effective pedagogical uses and outcomes
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SOURCE: Educause
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SEM04P-Conceptual Frameworks for Teaching with Technology: Media Theory and Classroom Practice (separate registration is required)
Often in technological pedagogy we find ourselves tasked with integrating new networks, tools, and systems into the curriculum before we have had adequate time to examine their role in the larger ecosystem of higher education. This seminar will present strategies for the “on field” analysis and evaluation of emerging media tools through the direct application of richly thoughtful conceptual frameworks.Outcomes: Deploy theoretical models to inform practical deployment of technological pedagogy * Assess emerging media tools through your position in the larger emerging media framework * Develop theoretical arguments for the deployment of emerging media tools in pedagogical use
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SOURCE: Educause
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