12th Annual Information Technologies Workshop
Anticipating the Future of Information Technologies
Held March 29-31, 2001
Hilton Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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program for CIC's 2001 Information Technologies Workshop. (
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Introduction
Anticipating the Future of Information Technologies
Even though computing is now ubiquitous on campus, as elsewhere, the pace
of technological change creates ongoing needs for colleges to make informed
choices about technology. This Information Technologies Workshop, now
in its 12th year, is designed to enable institutional leaders to:
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take the greatest advantage of today’s tools,
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develop strategies for managing costs and financing information technology
(IT), and
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anticipate the future and its implications for decisions that need
to be made today.
The workshop will assist those individuals charged with making decisions
about the range of institutional uses of technology to enhance student
learning, provide services for students both on and off campus, support
faculty members as they develop new competencies, and improve campus information
systems.
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Workshop Content
The Workshop will include multiple sessions on each of the following
topics:
Effective Practices at Independent Colleges and Universities:
Learning from the successes of other independent institutions has in the
past been a hallmark of the Information Technologies Workshop. Representatives
from independent institutions will share their successes in collaboration,
ubiquitous computing, effective use of student employees, distance learning,
digital student portfolios, and faculty development. Breakfast roundtable
discussions will enable additional sharing.
Costs, Financing, and Return on Investment (ROI): Several sessions
will consider cost comparisons across campuses; alternative strategies
for financing IT investments; improving ROI through redesign of business,
service, and work-flow processes; and use of “intelligent” learning
software.
Course Management Systems: Sessions will focus on ways to select
a system and to improve student learning using these systems.
Course Management and Administrative Systems Companies: Major
providers of course management and administrative computing systems have
been invited to share their companies’ visions of the future and
the concrete steps they are taking to get there.
National Framework for Collaboration on Faculty Development: CIC,
in collaboration with the Foundation for Independent Higher Education,
is establishing a national framework for collaborative faculty development.
These organizations are also collaborating with the National Association
of Independent Colleges and Universities on the MERLOT Project, which
is building an electronic library of effective resources for improving
learning in the disciplines.
Additional sessions will focus on future directions in distance learning,
wireless technologies of all types, web portals, and Tek.Xam (a certificate
program enabling liberal arts graduates to demonstrate competence in using
digital technologies).
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Who Should Attend
Chief academic officers, faculty development officers, information technology
professionals, librarians, faculty members, chief business officers, and
others will find the workshop relevant. The workshop is designed so that
campus teams—perhaps including an academic officer, chief information
officer, IT staff, and faculty leaders—will reap the greatest benefits.
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Workshop Cost
$250 for the first person
$225 for each additional person
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Workshop Format
The format of the workshop will include invited panels of independent
college and university representatives, presentations by national leaders
in IT, a course management and administrative systems vendor track, and
topic roundtable discussions.
Speakers:
Keynote Presentation
Diana G. Oblinger, senior fellow of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research
and a faculty member in the business school at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously she served as vice president for information
resources and chief information officer for the 16-campus University of
North Carolina System and as IBM’s Director of the Institute for
Academic Technology.
Closing Session
Edward J. Barboni, CIC senior advisor and independent consultant, heads
up CIC’s information technologies projects and for more than a decade
has worked with nearly 100 independent colleges to help them improve learning,
teaching, management, and decision making through the cost-effective use
of digital technologies.
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Co-Sponsors
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC)
is an association of 500 independent, liberal arts colleges and universities.
Working with college presidents, chief academic officers, administrators,
and faculty members, CIC provides services that help member institutions
enhance educational programs, improve administrative and financial performance,
and increase institutional visibility.
EDUCAUSE is an international association
whose mission is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher
education through the introduction, use, and management of information
resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research,
and institutional management.
Consortium for Computing in Undergraduate
Education(C-CUE) is a regional association of colleges and universities
committed to developing and expanding the appropriate use of computing
and other information technologies in undergraduate education.
Workshop Resources
For materials from Robert E. Griffin, CERMUSA, St. Francis University,
presentation on "Strategies for Online Development", Click
Here (This is
a PDF file. In order to view properly, the minimum software requirement
is version 4.0. Adobe Acrobat is available for free from the Adobe
Web site.)
For Linda Ehley's Power Point Presentation on Alverno College's "The
Diagnostic Digital Portfolio" Click
Here (This is
a PDF file. In order to view properly, the minimum software requirement
is version 4.0. Adobe Acrobat is available for free from the Adobe
Web site.)
For presentation materials from Edward Nelley, Blackboard Inc., on
Course Management Systems (CMS), Click Here
(This is a PDF
file. In order to view properly, the minimum software requirement is version
4.0. Adobe Acrobat is available for free from the Adobe
Web site.)
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