July 20th, 2010
Edublogger Review
A "mash-up" of postings from nine engaging educational
and e-learning bloggers.
Lost Illusions
Source: http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2010/07/lost-illusions.html
By Dean Dad on July 20th, 2010
I’m working with a colleague who’s going through the shock
that hits every new dean the first time she has to deal with
someone being a colossal jerk.
It brought back memories.
In a perfect world, people who move into administration have
established themselves as credible, hardworking, intelligent
people in their earlier roles. (Admittedly, this doesn’t always
happen, but bear with me.) They’ve earned respect by being
conscientious and productive, and at some level they expect
that others will be conscientious and productive, too. And most
of the time, that’s mostly true.
But sooner or later, someone who thinks of the new dean as
goodhearted but basically irrelevant will try to take advantage
of her good nature. And the new dean will discover that appeals
to the better angels of one’s nature don’t always work.
My colleague, bless her, is having trouble believing that the
high road won’t prevail. She’s a dedicated traveler of it, and
has always succeeded with it. But she has new responsibilities
now, and some of the people for whom she’s responsible
simply don’t share her high-mindedness. Worse, they read it
as exploitable naivete, which it can be. So she’s finding herself
painted into a corner in which her options are increasingly
distasteful.
I went through the same thing. It’s a painful process.
In a way, it’s a variation on the good student who becomes a
teacher, only to discover that she has no idea how students
without her own gifts actually learn. Suddenly, some of the
teacherly behaviors that had previously seemed inexplicable
make sense. As a student, she found them redundant or
pedantic, but as a teacher she finds that not all students are
just younger versions of her.
In this case, someone who has been blessed with a great work
ethic and the respect of her erstwhile colleagues has inherited
a turkey farm. She’s such a non-turkey herself that she doesn’t
quite know what to do.
Overheated union rhetoric notwithstanding, many
administrators take these jobs because we honestly want to
help the institutions run better. We try to be fair, and we work
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hard to walk the walk. If that’s your outlook, then being pushed
into a situation in which you have to be the bad guy can be
really draining. You don’t want to do it, you try not to do it,
but you finally run out of excuses. Invariably, the first time you
actually play the heavy, you get monstrous pushback. You get
accused of procedural irregularities, of discrimination against
whatever category the person can claim, and of a personal
vendetta. The hurtfulness of the accusations is real, even if the
content isn’t. But you learn, slowly, not to take it personally,
and to let the process play itself out. You learn how to interpret
certain behaviors. Cornered animals attack. It’s what they do.
If you’re lucky, you’re able (both personally and
organizationally) to compartmentalize, and not to let the
poisons you have to use in one area seep into others. You learn
not to jump to extremes, or to react to your lost illusions by
swinging too far in the other direction. In a sense, you cherish
the illusions all the more out of recognition of their painful
fragility.
But once you’ve gone through it, you can’t un-know it.
My colleague will make her peace with it; she’s bright and
dedicated, and she’s in the right. But it’s taking a toll on her, in
much the same way it did on me years ago. It just comes with
the territory.
xWeb?
Source: http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/07/19/xweb/
By gsiemens on July 20th, 2010
Carrying on with the discussion of web 3.0 and web eXtended
, I’ve posted a f ew thoughts on the xWeb : “xWeb is the
utilization of smart, structured data drawn from our physical
and virtual interactions and identities to extend our capacity
to be known by others and by systems.”
BP Trying To Buy Up
Academic Scientists In The
Gulf Area
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/07/bp-trying-to-buy-
up-academic-scientists-in-the-gulf-area.html
By StevenB on July 20th, 2010
For the last few weeks, BP has been offering signing
bonuses and lucrative pay to prominent scientists from public
universities around the Gulf Coast to aid its defense against
spill litigation. For the last few weeks, BP has been offering
signing bonuses and lucrative pay to prominent scientists from
public universities around the Gulf Coast to aid its defense
against spill litigation. A copy of a contract offered to scientists
by BP prohibits the scientists from publishing their research,
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sharing it with other scientists or speaking about the data that
they collect for at least the next three years. Read more at: Moncton 2010 IAAF World Jr
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/07/ Championships
bp_buys_up_gulf_scientists_for.html Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52906
July 20th, 2010

Summary of Recent IDM

Listserv Discussion: Password
Policy Resources
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209161
By vvogel on July 20th, 2010

Are you trying to create a standard, university-wide password

policy that establishes minimum requirements for: password
complexity, password history, password account lockout,
and password minimum length? A recent post to the
Identity Management Discussion Group listserv (http://
www.educause.edu/groups/idm) asked other institutions to
share their basic/minimum password standards or their
established password policies. Below are links to institutional
policies, as well as some recommended reading on the subject.
• Cornell University Password Policy (stated in
University Policy 5.8, Authentication to IT
Resources): http://www.dfa.cornell.edu/dfa/treasurer/
policyoffice/policies/volumes/informationtech/
authentication.cfm
• Penn State Password Policy: http://its.psu.edu/
password/policy.html (the author noted that some
things that are not mentioned in the policy - for example,
they keep a history of three passwords, and they do not
do account lockouts)
• University of Alaska (http://www.alaska.edu/oit/iam/)
has a target of meeting LoA 2 in the NIST Password
Entropy calculation. For central authentication, they
adjust as needed.
• University of Hawaii Secure Passwords Practices: http://
www.hawaii.edu/bwiki/x/LCE (the author noted two
things: 1) The inclusion of password history and aging
created a lot of discussion and is not part of the
baseline set of practices. 2) While their Secure Passwords
Practices provide a baseline set of practices, for a subset
of the community they will likely need stricter practices
in order to assert InCommon Bronze and Silver as
needed.)
• University of Oregon Password Policy: http://
it.uoregon.edu/help/duckid/(they do not implement
account lockouts except on the self-service password
reset interface - to prevent brute forcing security
questions)
• University of South Dakota Password
Policy: http://www.usd.edu/technology/upload/USD-
ITS_Password_Policy.pdf
• University of South Florida Password Policy: http://
it.usf.edu/services/netid#restrictions
We had a grand opening ceremony tonight for the IAAF
World Jr. Track and Field Championship in Moncton. I'll be
attending all week, so expect lots of photos. Stephen Downes
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Online Courses Are Catching
On With Traditional Students
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/07/online-courses-are-
catching-on-with-traditional-students.html
By StevenB on July 20th, 2010
Count Moses Casarez as a convert to the fastest-growing trend
in higher education. Casarez, a freshman at the University
of Houston, intended to take a summer math class the old-
fashioned way. He'd go to class and take notes as instructor
Maria Gonzales Rojas covered the material. Which he did,
except that Gonzales was in Bolivia for a family emergency and
taught the class through an online video conferencing system
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and e-mail. But he said he may do it again, joining the more
than one of every four college students who take classes online.
That number is likely to grow as schools try to educate more
students with less money. Read more at:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/
metropolitan/7112203.html
Cloud Challenges
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209160
By drupal on July 20th, 2010
Having your head in the clouds used to signal impracticality.
Today, having your head in the clouds means properly
abstracting what you do from where you do it, gaining
economies of scale and standardization: "outsourcing on
steroids," if you will. But challenges lie ahead. We in higher
education IT must connect robustly, identify users, protect
data and services, regulate access, and balance load�all
without having control and while working with others who
are perhaps differently motivated. How do we meet these
challenges?
Opening doors
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52905
July 20th, 2010
Brian Lamb has it exactly right - but is anyone (in
power) listening? "Given the crises in economics and the
environment, and the many challenges we face in modern
society, it seems perverse to hoard knowledge in any form. We
have an urgent need to harness all the ingenuity and expertise
that we can, and higher education must show leadership in this
respect," he argues. Steve Wheeler , Learning with 'e's , July
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Transfer Students End Up
Sleeping In Their Cars
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/07/transfer-students-
end-up-sleeping-in-their-cars.html
By StevenB on July 20th, 2010
This is the story for a few students who have transferred
from community colleges to four-year schools. It's an extreme
version of the story but not an unrepresentative one. They
sometimes sleep in their cars, not because they can't afford
to stay on campus—even though some of them can't—but
because they did not have a mentor or a network to guide them
through on-campus housing selections once they successfully
transferred. since they were once a community college
student, there's a 20 percent chance that they spend anywhere
from six to twenty hours per week commuting to and from
classes. What's the point in driving an hour, two hours or three
hours home when you have class at 8 AM? Read more at:
http://www.thenation.com/article/37434/actually-getting-
there-only-half-battle
EDUCAUSE 2010 Online
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209159
By drupal on July 20th, 2010
We're testing the wheels on a new display for our program
this year. We'll be adding more features leading up to the
conference, but in the meantime we want your feedback! Use
the "Feedback" button at the bottom of each page to let us
know what you think.
xWeb
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52904
July 20th, 2010
I think we've decided it's called xWeb - "the utilization of
smart, structured data drawn from our physical and virtual
interactions and identities to extend our capacity to be known
by others and by systems." Rita Kop posted today on the
extended web , saying "The combination of all four would lead
to Web X.0 (Steve) or Web X (Stephen). I myself actually
prefer the full name ‘the eXtended web' as it tells us a little
more about its possibilities for learning, and George rightly
asks for the lift of the debate from semantic games towards
what this Xweb (;-)) means for education and learning."
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CampusEAI Consortium
Announces myCampus
Enterprise Edition
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209121
By Hollie Rybak on July 20th, 2010
CampusEAI Consortium Announces myCampus Enterprise
Edition
Improved performance and scalability for large academic
institutions
June 10, 2010 - CampusEAI Consortium today announced
the availablity of the myCampus Enterprise Edition, a
version of the popular myCampus Web 2.0 portal that
is designed for large institutions, university systems and
existing myCampus users with requirements for additional
performance, scalability, availability and redundancy.
Similar to the myCampus Standard Edition, the Enterprise
Edition provides single sign-on access to everything from
academic information to social networking for prospective
students, current students, faculty and staff, student
organizations, university administration, and alumni, and is
the "one-stop-shop" for everything related to the university
experience.
The myCampus Enterprise Edition features a load-balanced
multi-node architecture and provides the following benefits:
Scalability
Virtually unlimited scalability is achieved through clustering
of myCampus portal and back-end database. Through
advanced load-balancing and active/passive techniques,
myCampus Enterprise Edition can be deployed on a very large
number of servers, in order to manage a very large number
of concurrently running processes and a very large number of
transactions per minute.
High-Availablity
myCampus Enterprise Edition also relies on multi-node, load-
balanced myCampus portal, Web server, CAS server, and an
external database for the persistence of transactional process
instances. As a result, when deployed against a properly-
configured clustered database such as mySQL Cluster,
myCampus Enterprise Edition does not expose any single
point of failure, and dynamic failover is handled both for
process execution and process persistence.
myCampus Enterprise Edition should be considered by:
• Institutions with over 10,000 FTE
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• Institutions that use myCampus as the single and only
point-of-access to all enterprise applications
• Institutions that use myCampus Web Content
Management System to power their public website
• Institutions that use myCampus Standard Edition that
need to increase scalability and high-availability
Institutions that use myCampus Enterprise Edition include:
• University of Adelaide
• University of Arizona
• Louisiana State University
For further information on myCampus Enterprise Edition,
members can contact their account manager. Non-members
seeking further information can contact Hollie Rybak at
hollie_rybak@campuseai.org or visit the CampusEAI website
www.CampusEAI.org.
About CampusEAI Consortium
CampusEAI Consortium is a global information technology
services and consulting provider focused on helping its
members implement enterprise IT solutions cost-effectively
and timely. More than 260 members belong to the CampusEAI
Consortium, including University of Arizona, Albany State
University, Curry College, University of Maine at Farmington,
University of North Carolina Wilmington, Staffordshire
University and The Australian National University. For more
information, visit www.CampusEAI.org.
About myCampus
myCampus, the most widely deployed campus portal and
web content management solution in higher education,
provides prospective students, students, faculty and staff,
and alumni with single sign-on access to their academic and
social information. For more information on myCampus, visit
www.CampusEAI.org/mycampus-campus-portal.
Searching for India's Hole in
the Wall
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52903
July 20th, 2010
More evidence from Hole-In-The-Wall about what people
constantly tell me is impossible - children learning on their
own. "The contrast here was for me pretty stark: One the one
hand, you had two computers set up outside which received
minimal maintenance, and which anyone could use from 9-5
each day. There was no direction on how to use this equipment,
but that didn't stop kids from figuring it out via trial and error
(or, more often, from other kids). On the other hand, you had a
dozen computers locked up in a school just a short walk away,
gathering dust for lack of 'qualified teachers' to use them, and
direct their use." Michael Trucano , World bank , July 19, 2010
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ECAR Study on IT Funding in
Higher Education
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209117
By fyfthgeer on July 20th, 2010
The latest EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research
study, examines how the economic recession is impacting
information technology (IT) organizations and operations in
higher education. The study was designed to address the
following questions:
• How have IT funding levels been affected by the
recession among respondent institutions?
• What strategies did institutions follow to reduce their IT
costs?
• Where have IT costs and expenditures been reduced, and
how were those reductions accomplished?
• Are the budget reductions that have been taken
sustainable, or were they the byproduct of a series of one-
time actions?
• To what extent did institutions attempt to leverage the
recession to substantially change the way IT services are
delivered and managed? Were those efforts successful?
• How have the impacts of cuts in IT funding impacted
the capacity of colleges and universities to sustain
their technology and meet their institutions' strategic
technology goals?
Both the key findings and roadmap are open to all.
The study was conducted using a variety of research
methodologies, including a literature review to further our
understanding of higher education's present and future
financial outlook and the methods organizations have
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employed to reduce their IT costs; a quantitative web-
based survey of EDUCAUSE member institutions that was
completed by 319 institutions (83.4% of respondents were
the institution's chief information officer or equivalent);
qualitative interviews with 20 IT leaders to deepen our
understanding of survey findings in critical areas; and an
online, real-time Delphi process that solicited the opinions
of a panel of experts on how the recession has impacted IT
organizations and the potential of technology to transform
higher education's future costs and revenues.
The eLearning Salary Gender
Gap
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52902
July 20th, 2010
*sigh* It's a brand-new field, so why is there already a gender
gap in e-learning; why are women paid less? It makes no sense,
and you certainly cannot write it up mas 'historical factors'.
"There continues to be a consistent gender gap in pay between
men and women. On average, men are paid 14.5% more than
women. This gap is most notable in part-time employee pay,
where women receive an average hourly rate that is 49.4%
lower than the rate men receive, while working a comparable
number of hours." Cammy Bean , Cammy Bean's Learning
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different ways to keep the dialogue going and your thoughts
Redesigning the EDUCAUSE on what you want to see in the next version of CDS.
Core Data Service
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209114
By updegrove on July 20th, 2010
6 Crucial Social Media Tips for
Greetings, and welcome to a new blog on the redesign of Traditional Media
the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS). Introduced in Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52901
December 2002, CDS provides an annual survey on campus July 20th, 2010
centralized ("core") information technology environments The funny thing about these social media tips for media is that
and practices, together with an interactive database service, they are exactly what they want to do. Well, except for maybe
through which participants in CDS can access data from the self-promotion. And the tracking (which audiences don't
other institutions. CDS is used by over 900 campuses for want). Still, it's an interesting list:
benchmarking and support of IT planning and management. - Share content
More info on CDS can be found at the Core Data Service - Curate conversations
website. - Engage audiences
Earlier this year, EDUCAUSE launched a project to update and - Promote your presence
redesign CDS. Goals of the redesign include modernizing the - Customize the experience
question set, making the data service both more powerful and - Track everything
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evolved into an independent consortium. My consulting work make sure it makes sense.
has taken me to over 100 colleges and universities in the U.S.
and abroad. More on me.
CampusEAI Consortium Hosts
In the coming weeks, I will share information about how
we've obtained member feedback about the CDS, what we've myCampus Users Conference
learned, and where the redesign is heading, and solicit your
feedback on the progress of the redesign. We look forward
2010
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209113
to your continuing engagement as we bring the redesign to
By Hollie Rybak on July 20th, 2010
fruition.
CampusEAI Consortium Hosts myCampus Users Conference
2010
For the Core Data Service (CDS) redesign project to be
successful, EDUCAUSE wants to keep you, our members, Conference provided attendees with training on features,
well-informed. We also want to provide you with a forums to share ideas and best practices and roadmap for
convenient feedback channel. This blog on the CDS redesign myCampus 7.0
process, written by Core Data Consultant Dan Updegrove, June 9, 2010 - More than 100 attendees from around the
is meant to do both. We welcome your comments on both world gathered at the myCampus Users Conference 2010 in
Cleveland, Ohio to hear from fellow members and CampusEAI
experts on how to futher their knowledge of the myCampus
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portal system and to provide feedback and development
recommendations for future versions of the portal.
During the three-day conference, which was held from June
2-4, 2010, myCampus users attended sessions on a variety of
topics, including:
• Extending myCampus to prospective students, parents,
alumni and donors.
• Use of myCampus Web Content Management for portal,
intranet and WWW
• Serving departments and student organizations through
myCampus Community feature
• Configuring ePortfolio functionality in myCampus
• Improved performance and availability of myCampus
Enterprise Edition
• Benefits of Enterprise CAS and Identity and Access
Management services
In addition to educational sessions and presentation from
enthusiastic members and professional experts from the
CampusEAI Consortium, conference attendees were also
included in open-forum sessions regarding the future of the
myCampus portal and what features and upgrades members
were most interested in seeing and working with in upcoming
editions.
"I enjoyed finally being able to meet CampusEAI staff
with whom I've been communicating for months and the
capacity to learn new material, including best practices
and how other schools are actively using the portal, from
CampusEAI staff and participants," said Carlos Cartagena,
Vice President of Information Technology at Cochise College.
"The presentations I attended were awesome and in a
couple days I learned quite a bit of new information and best
practices."
"I enjoyed the family-style ambiance of the conference,
the openness and willingness to listen to the members'
concerns and needs," said Luis E. Gonzalez, Vice President
of Technology and Chief Technology Officer of the Ana G.
Mendez University System.
"I most enjoyed networking with peers, meeting the staff
at CampusEAI, and the openness of the Consortium," said
Valarie Craig, Manager of IT Advancement at the University
of Southern Mississippi. "While technology is our business, in
the end, it is all about the people."
"I found that there was ample opportunity through the
conference for sharing preferences and wish list items," said
Sarah Alpert, Project Manager at Touro College. "There was a
clear interest on the part of CampusEAI to hear what members
are interested in seeing."
"I did gain a better high level understanding of myCampus
components and workflow," said Joshua Slaven, Web
Specialist at Columbus State Community College. "Seeing
other members' implementations was very useful."
"We are thrilled with the success of the recent myCampus
Users Conference," said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of the
CampusEAI Consortium. "Not only did this event allow us to
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have wonderful face-to-face conversations with our members
from around the world, but it also brought our member
community closer together, and provided open forums for
users to express praise and feedback as well as to have
questions and concerns heard and addressed."
For more information on the CampusEAI Consortium,
myCampus, or upcoming regional myCampus User
Conferences, members can contact their account manager.
Non-members seeking further information can contact
Hollie Rybak at hollie_rybak@campuseai.org or visit the
CampusEAI website www.CampusEAI.org.
About CampusEAI Consortium
CampusEAI Consortium is a global information technology
services and consulting provider focused on helping its
members implement enterprise IT solutions, cost effectively
and timely. More than 260 members belong to the
CampusEAI Consortium, including University of Arizona,
Albany State University, Curry College, University of Maine
at Farmington, North Carolina University Wilmington,
Staffordshire University and The Australian National
University. For more informaiton, visit www.campuseai.org
About myCampus
myCampus, the most widely deployed campus portal and web
content management solution in higher education, provides
prospective students, students, faculty and staff, and alumni
with single sign-on access to thier academic and social
information. For more informaiton on myCampus, visit
www.campuseai.org/mycampus-campus-portal.
The Context of Character: Are
the Links in Your Blog Posts
for Sale?
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52900
July 20th, 2010
Vicki A. Davis asks, "Could bloggers you know be selling out
on the sly?" the answer, of course, is probably yes (but, just for
the record, not on this blog). "This raises a huge question and
thus the point for my pontificating openly. If I'm getting these
solicitations you can bet the ruler in your desk drawer that
other educational bloggers are getting them too!" Yup. Davis
calls for a code of conduct - but again, as I've said in the past,
the code isn't needed by the people who would follow it, and is
simply evaded by those who don't. There is no real solution but
to be attentive. And don't gang up on the blogger who identifies
the corporate link - this has happened to me in the past and
wasn't very nice. Victoria A. Davis , Cool Cat Teacher Blog ,
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About Technology: Results Building Bridges with Moodle:
from the 2010 ECAR Student Connecting an Institution
Study Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209099
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Session Type: Enterprise Information Systems and Services
The speakers will present the key findings of the seventh
Deploying an open-source enterprise LMS requires myriad
annual ECAR Study of Undergraduates and Information
decisions to meet the needs of different units with varied
Technology, 2010, including student use of social networking
goals. A collaboratively run LMS governance structure
and web-based tools and Internet-capable handheld devices.
has allowed us to achieve a workable balance between the
central authority responsible for maintaining the system
PLE2010 Conference – what and the desires of the larger community.

did we achieve Speakers

Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52899 Senior Coordinator, Learning Technologies, DELTA
July 20th, 2010
North Carolina State University
Graham Attwell summarizes what was achieved at the recent
pLE conference: Associate Vice Provost for Instructional Support Services
- "we seemed to have moved beyond the stage of defining a North Carolina State University
PLE by what it is not i.e. not a VLE"
Director of Information & Instructional Technology, CNR
- "One controversial issue was how far it was possible to
provide an institutional PLE." North Carolina State University
- "the innovation in appropriating technologies for pedagogic Dir., Academic & Admin Technology, College of Agriculture
innovation." & Life Sciences
- "disappointment was that the major focus for PLE
development and implementation for the vast majority of North Carolina State University
participants was for learners within schools and universities."
I can relate to this last. I feel, despite the postential of the • 2 reads
PLE to change education, that discourse is constantly dragged
back into more traditional educational modes. Part of this Bookmark/Search this page with:
is inescapable, as for the most part it is educators that are
interested in PLEs. But at least a part of it is a failue to imagine
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This is a link to a summary of my contribution to the
Digital Economy Strategy consultation process. The document
summarizes an interview conducted by Human Resources and
Skills Development Canada and was submitted to Industry
Canada. In this contribution I consider the implications of the
fact that "the only thing holding the public education system
together is the assessment and credential system that creates
a monopoly on education." I observe that "we do not have the
resources to provide education to all members of society in the
way that we do it now, through universities and public sector
funding." Stephen Downes and Various Authors , Stephen's
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IT Governance:
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Developed at NTU (U.K.) and
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Nottingham Trent University and University of Sao Paulo have
been implementing IT governance based on different models.
In this presentation, we will overview what we have been
doing in our universities, discuss how the same problem can
be approached in different ways, present the models we have
used, and give a practical assessment of what has worked and
why.
The Recruitment, Retention,
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The EDUCAUSE Women in IT Constituent Group supports
the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in
higher education IT. This group brings you this panel session
to discuss the challenges facing women and how to overcome
them, as well as how to leverage resources to help women
achieve parity with men in higher education IT.
VoIP: Implementing Scalable,
Flexible, and Cost-Effective
Solutions at Emory and Penn
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209094
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Penn and Emory have taken different approaches to VoIP
deployments for thousands of users. Emory has implemented
a commercial VoIP solution, while Penn has chosen an open-
source approach. Both options have proven to be successful.
In this timely session, we will compare and contrast these two
approaches and experiences.
Saving Money and Energy by
Ditching PCs
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Facing costly PC refresh cycles that eat through IT budgets
and valuable maintenance and support resources, universities
are ditching PCs and instead deploying virtual desktops. Learn
how the University of Michigan and Rockhurst University have
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saved time, money, and energy with a desktop virtualization
strategy.
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Universal Design for Learning has become an integral

component of academic life at Colorado State University by
strategically aligning the UDL message with areas of interest
Publishing Lectures to
for university stakeholders and adopting broad definitions YouTube: When Faculty Cut
of "accessibility" and "diversity." This session will highlight
multiple approaches used to institutionalize UDL at a research Out Central IT
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university.
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What happens when faculty decide to bypass both

Adopting Portfolios at Virginia administration and central IT and publish their lecture
Tech and University of recordings directly to their own YouTube channel? Is the
future of lecture capture a platform to feed open learning and
Michigan faculty self-publishing, or will captured lectures continue to
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209091 remain in silos behind authentication?
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Session Type: Teaching and Learning TechQual, Budgets,

Portfolio leaders from Virginia Tech and the University and Improving Service
of Michigan will discuss the strategies and challenges of
incorporating portfolios at the institutional level through Management
courses, programs, and colleges/schools. The discussion Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209088
will include issues of scalability as well as demonstrate By drupal on July 20th, 2010
different models of portfolios, student involvement, and This presentation looks at how Furman University used
training and support. TechQual surveys to measure how our community's
perceptions of service quality changes as we implemented ITIL
Speakers service management best practices. It includes a discussion of
Technical Lead, MPortfolio selected service management techniques and how TechQual
results helped inform the university's technology planning and
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
budgeting processes.
Project Manager
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Creating Tools for the Mobile
Director of Emerging Technologies and New Ventures
Virginia Tech
Campus
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209089
Associate Director, Center for Instructional Dev. and By drupal on July 20th, 2010
Educational Research
The North Carolina State University Libraries Mobile site
Virginia Tech offers a model for providing engaging, targeted services to
Director, ePortfolio Initiatives students' mobile devices. This session will offer suggestions
for planning, developing, and implementing a mobile strategy,
Virginia Tech including applications and web-based services.
Other Contributor(s) for this Session Include:

• Teggin Mae Summers, Virginia Tech Applying Research to

Practice: What Really Works in
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Antiphishing Training
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Thin Clients: The Hidden

By drupal on July 20th, 2010

Carnegie Mellon University's Information Security Office

collaborated with researchers from CyLab Usable Privacy and
Security Laboratory (CUPS) to study why faculty, staff, and
students fall for phishing scams and how best to educate
them about phishing. The study's design and conclusions will
be presented along with the status of the resulting phishing
awareness program.
Improving Processes Through
the Use of Lean
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209086
By drupal on July 20th, 2010
Weapon for the Budget Battle
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209083
By drupal on July 20th, 2010
Colorado State University has successfully leveraged thin
clients to increase services to students, faculty, and staff
despite declining budgets. This presentation will cover the
basics of thin clients and how to set up a thin environment, as
well as offer an in-depth look into the cost models and green
features of thin clients.
It Takes a Community:

Several individuals at St. Cloud State University have been Strategic Campus Technology
trained in lean process improvement. Following the training,
they have been assigned lean projects designed to improve
Partnerships to Advance
processes. The presenter will discuss lean and its implications Teaching and Learning
in higher education and review a case study involving online Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209081
parking services. By drupal on July 20th, 2010

Moving away from a time where every "good idea" is

Identity, Privacy, and Security: implemented to making difficult choices about the "best
project" to advance teaching and learning required building
Washington Update and community through strategic partnerships. There is never a
Implications for Campus Policy shortage of good ideas; it's how you transform them into great
ideas, considering limited resources. That is the key!
and Practice
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209085
By drupal on July 20th, 2010

Some Obama administration initiatives are exploring the

privacy and civil liberties implications of various Internet
technologies and information practices, and the White
House is developing a National Strategy for Secure
Online Transactions . The FTC, FCC, and NTIA have held
workshops and requested comments on topics ranging from
fair information practices to identity management. Congress
has debated several bills designed to protect consumer
privacy, safeguard data, and establish a national standard for
security breach notifications. This session will overview the
latest developments in Washington with a panel of campus
privacy and security experts who will discuss the practical
impact.

Current Issues TBD

Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/209084
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