Campus Technology Forum 2013 Track Descriptions
Track 1: IT Leadership and Institutional Change
With today’s rapidly evolving technologies, institutional pressures for accountability, and an extremely tough economy, higher education IT leaders are facing their most challenging operational environment to date. But many IT organizations are poised to increase their effectiveness and influence on campus as they develop new IT/academic partnerships and find opportunities to lead institutional change.
- Institutional Analytics/Learning Analytics
- Institutional Effectiveness, IT/Academic Partnerships
- Program Assessment/Degree Qualification
- Credentialing/New Pathways, Organizational Change/Governance
- IT Staff Development
- Industry/Community Partnerships, SaaS and Outsourcing, Funding Challenges/Grants
Track 2: Digital, Online and Mobile Learning
A broad category of tools, resources, and services under the heading of digital media is changing the face of instruction and offering new potential for the campus community. Whether you’re integrating social media in instruction, leveraging open education resources (OERs), exploring MOOCs, or documenting real-world knowledge in an ePortfolio, you are engaging in one of many new education practices enabled by digital media. Mobile devices are coming to campus, whether through formalized mobile projects and programs or as informal student communications choices. Along with these devices come high expectations for mobile learning applications and mobile services on campus. Presenters in this track will explore all types of digital media in the education environment including a range of relevant mobile applications and services on campus and consider trends and implications.
- Social Media in Instruction
- New Media Publishing/Open Education Resources
- Electronic Textbooks/Digital Content
- Digital Learning Applications
- Online and Blended Learning
- New Instructional Models and LearningPlatforms/MOOCs/ePortfolios
- Collaboration Tools/Collaborative Content Creation
- Integrating Mobile in Instruction and Developing Mobile Apps for Education
- Industry Perspectives on Mobility, iPads, GIS and Location-Aware Services
Track 3: Technology Infrastructure
Campus IT organizations today must effectively manage large-scale institutional technology programs and enterprise implementations. The institutional technology infrastructure is, in a sense, defining the institution now even more than brick-and-mortar infrastructure used to. This track gives attendees an opportunity to examine the technology infrastructure that’s now helping shape our institutions.
- Smart Classroom/Control Systems/Web Conferencing
- Flexible Learning Spaces/Collaboration Spaces/Learning Commons
- Cloud Implementations/Virtualization/Data Center
- Data Infrastructure/Big Data
- Regional and Community Network Initiatives
- Learning Management Systems