Campus Technology

Leading in a New IT Environment
Ken Klingenstein, Director, Internet2 Middleware and Security

Join the renowned Ken Klingenstein as he walks you through a world of new challenges: internationalization, managing privacy, accommodating large scale distributed learning communities, and the automation of intuitive concepts, just for starters! What kinds of campus infrastructures and tools will allow consistent campus implementations to support inter-institutional collaborations? How can you be the IT leader with the vision and confidence to secure what you need for this next generation of collaboration and global learning? A leader in national networking for the past 20 years, Ken is hailed for his candid (and entertaining) observations about networking challenges and IT leadership issues. This fascinating keynote from our Internet2 “insider” will dramatically change the way you lead your IT organization.

Leading Change in eLearning: How to Succeed Amid Endless Challenge

For the nation’s institutions of higher education, the academic, operational, business, funding, and support challenges in online and distance learning have come like a barrage in recent years. With the rapid growth of eLearning populations and segments, and the dizzying pace of advances in collaboration technologies, mobile devices, ‘smart classroom’ tools, and now, immersive teaching technologies and gaming, the challenges only expand logarithmically. Join our panelists as they dissect recent eLearning successes and failures, and discuss what campus IT leaders will need to know in order to take eLearning to the next level.

Panelists:
Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Phillip D.Long, Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise, MIT
Joel Smith, CIO, Carnegie Mellon University

Climbing Mount Everest: Your Personal Guides to IT Leadership

Just what every conference attendee dreams of: The plenary session designed to solve your problems, answer your questions, and let you know that you are not alone! We’ve invited the most innovative, outspoken IT leaders we know to guide you through the crags and crevasses of your life as campus IT guru. And we’ll be equipping you and your attendee peers with personal response system (PRS) devices, so that you can compare notes and reactions, even cast your vote on the hottest issues. This kind of IT “roadmap” consulting is worth its weight in gold, so come to the Mount with your questions in hand, and don’t miss this closing session.

Panelists:
Amelia A. Tynan, CIO, Tufts University
Annie Stunden, CIO (retired), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ron Bleed, Vice Chancellor Emeritus, Maricopa Community Colleges