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.
ELI Webinar: Robot Writers and the Future of Open Education
Robot reporters are already used to develop original stories that cover news, sports, and economic markets. Combining the same algorithmic approaches to sources of open content, we can now imagine a future where authors outline textbooks that are written by robots. This emerging application of artificial intelligence creates opportunities to save time and money while offering new learning experiences through open learning materials that are authored jointly by human and machine. This session will explore an automated book creation platform developed at Penn State to leverage intelligent algorithms that explore OER repositories and return relevant resources that can be combined, remixed, and reused to support specific learning goals. Information gathered from initial experiments, including student reactions, will also be discussed.
[Read More]
[Read More]
SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations
Developing and Nurturing IT/Faculty Relationships
As technology in higher education becomes increasingly more complex, the need for strong relationships between IT staff and faculty is critical in order to meet the needs of faculty, staff and students. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss perspectives, priorities and strategies for developing and maintaining strong positive cross-divisional relationships. OUTCOMES: Explore the value and challenges in developing and nurturing IT/Faculty relationships * Distinguish how differing perspectives impact relationships between IT and academics * Identify strategies that could be implemented to have a positive impact on relationships between IT and faculty
[Read More]
[Read More]
SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations
Best Practices for Meeting Needs with Technology Services
How do you meet the accessibility needs of students, faculty, and staff in the classroom and through online campus services? In this session, we will explore the importance of accessibility from two sides: the classroom (e.g., the LMS and creating accessible course content) and online campus services (e.g., the IT department’s service catalog). Topics will include guidelines and suggestions for promoting accessible course content creation; important needs and wants to consider for all campus services; industry best practices to ensure no one is left out or left behind; and how to design a service that best fits needs of all students, faculty, and staff (including users who need 508-compliant tools). The session is interactive, so come prepared to share your stories and best practices.OUTCOMES: Understand how to engage and ensure adoption of best practices * Explore ways to set realistic expectations and deliverables with students, faculties, and staff * Learn best practices from fellow organizations
[Read More]
[Read More]
SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations
Making It Stick: How to Change Culture on Campus through Collaborative Initiatives
Auburn University has established a strategic network of working groups to foster cultural change emphasizing student success, centered in learning spaces and mobile and distance learning. IT is one of many constituencies in these groups. Collaboration, open discourse, and transparent actions serve to advance Auburn’s academic mission. The carefully chosen composition of these groups creates an inclusive set of relationships between central and distributed administrators, faculty, students, IT specialists, librarians, the Office of Accessibility, and the Center for Teaching and Learning, while central leadership empowers these groups to work for the best solutions possible, including evidence-based assessments.OUTCOMES: Identify at least one group of stakeholders you have not previously considered * Plan your own network of collaborative groups * Consider the intangible value of empowering diverse groups across campus to drive change
[Read More]
[Read More]
SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations
Join the IT and Campus Partnership Evolution
Higher education institutions have long searched for the perfect desktop and lab support model for their environment. Imagine if we all agreed instead to focus our attention on developing resilient support structures that enabled the coexistence of multiple models. Join us to discover how UT Arlington is evolving strategic partnerships.OUTCOMES: Learn about the difference between three unique support models * Identify the models that represent the best fit for your institution * Retrieve electronic documents that will support your own support model evolution
[Read More]
[Read More]
SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations
IT as a Revenue Generator: Win-Win Partnerships
How can IT services generate revenue and save money between a university and a not-for-profit organization? When the University of Florida Student Affairs IT offered infrastructure as a service or “educational cloud” services to the ACUHO-I (Association of College and University Housing Officers-International), the benefits turned out to be a win-win situation. UFL is able to use funds raised to offer enhanced services to students and is more effective at serving its members—universities; it’s a mutually beneficial circle. Join us as we share the structure of the relationship and explore how the model can be used by others.OUTCOMES: Identify IT department services that can lead to revenue generation * Recognize how unconventional, win-win partnerships benefit students and operations * Understand the challenges needed to start revenue-generating services
[Read More]
[Read More]
SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations
Identifying IT Core Competencies
How we as IT professionals approach and do our work is just as important as the technical knowledge we possess. Creating high-performing teams that are knowledgeable, adaptable, and align with institutional business objectives is the responsibility of every IT leader. By identifying behavioral core competencies, IT leaders can focus on critical capabilities rather than the large “universe” of behaviors that may be desired at any given time. By identifying these core competencies, IT leaders will develop a common language that can be used to assess individual and team performance for central IT and distributed IT organizations. During this session, we will discuss specific behavioral competencies and identify desired core competencies for individual team members, managers/supervisors, and executive leadership. OUTCOMES: Understand behavioral competencies and their importance to an IT organization * Use a framework to define core competencies for individual team members, managers/supervisors, and executives * Identify the “critical differential” IT competencies
[Read More]
[Read More]
SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations
The Tools to Learn: Classroom Technology Selection
Determining what is the “right” technology and what is the best value is always a challenge when designing or updating a modern classroom. Join us to discuss the processes we used to determine what technologies were selected and how they were implemented. Change is never easy. We will discuss how faculty, facilities, and staff were involved in the selection and the requirements of the classroom technology. Learn how to make these decisions based on cost, value, reliability, and availability. We’ll also ask you to share the systems and software you provide on your campus. These reports will be grouped by type and size of organization so that participants of similar organizations can share their choices, successes, and challenges.OUTCOMES: Explore classroom technology selection processes * Recognize the importance of involving stakeholders, including faculty, in the selection process * Understand the value of various factors (cost, value, reliability, availability) and what other institutions are providing to their students
[Read More]
[Read More]
SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations
Service Catalog: An End-to-End Process Perspective
Regardless of your organization’s service catalog maturity level, establishing an end-to-end process for managing your published service catalog is critical for your organization’s success. We will explore an end-to-end process for developing and maintaining your service catalog, including lessons learned in higher education and industry best practices. This session will include an exercise to learn how to define and categorize your list of services, build a business case for catalog changes, and create a process for retiring a service. You will receive samples and templates of real-world service catalogs. OUTCOMES: Define a service and understand what services your organization offers * Develop a business case for adding new services and navigating governance * Explore strategies for sunsetting and retiring services
[Read More]
[Read More]
SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations
Being Connected: Mobile Mashup of Location + Campus Tools + Daily Activities
Connect with us as we focus on delivering timely and relevant interactions to students through a mashup of location, campus tools (e-mail, LMS, and enterprise data), and daily activities (schedule and tasks). With a glance at their mobile devices, students have immediate access to assignments and quizzes, grades and announcements, schedules and academic life, and much more, all connected through time and place. Here’s just one example. A student needs to take a quiz in one of our testing labs. As she walks by, we can check for seat availability against her calendar and electronically nudge her to stop by. OUTCOMES: Engage students using contextual and relevant data * Identify how to leverage third-party tools to integrate with existing solutions * Discover how to create mashups at your institution
[Read More]
[Read More]
SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations