2004 Annual Conference
Digital Expectations: New Tools, New Rules
June 16-18, 2004, Portland, OR
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Wednesday, June 16
Board Member Agenda, by invitation only.
Thursday, June 17
8:00 - 9:00 am | Breakfast (Tom McCall Lobby)
9:15 - 9:30 am | Welcome
Russell Poulin, Chair, NWACC Conference Committee
9:30 - 10:30 am | Keynote - The Next Generation Learner (PDF)
Diana Oblinger, Vice President, EDUCAUSE
For the past decade, pundits have talked about how information technology has changed how we work, live and learn. At the same time, learners have changed. The learning styles, attitudes and approaches of today’s high school students differ from those of 18-22 year old college students. Those of adult learners are different, yet again.
An essential component of creating effective learning environments is understanding learners. The purpose of this presentation is to describe some of what we know about “the next generation learner” and ponder the implications for education.
Some useful links:
The Next-Generation Student
Unlocking the Potential of Gaming Technology
10:30 - 11:00 am | Break (Tom McCall Lobby)
11:00 - noon | Copyright Issues & P2P: Methods of reduction of unauthorized P2P traffic as illustrated by case studies such as that of Icarus at the University of Florida and elsewhere
Barry Robinson, Senior Counsel for Corporate Affairs, RIAA
Noon - 1:00 pm | Lunch: Lower Bar & Deck
1:30 - 2:30 pm | Asset Management: Grounds for Collaboration
Scott Siddall, Director of Instructional Technology, Denison University
Each profession approaches the cataloguing, storage and retrieval of non-print materials from different perspectives. Librarians have been planning and implementing digital libraries for years, and they know the value and cost of good cataloguing data. Information technologists may view digital asset management as largely a digitization and database activity. Our faculties can identify research and teaching collections that reside in drawers, slide trays, jars and in some cases, in folders on hard drives. In the past five years or so, the term digital asset management has crept into our vocabulary as a result of the release of useful software applications that streamline these management processes, yet it seems that no one group has staked out the digital asset management turf. This is a good thing, for it lays the groundwork for collaboration. In this presentation, we'll consider some of these perspectives, the methods and applications of digital asset management and review two case studies.
Content of this talk available at http://siddall.info/talks/nwacc04/
2:30 - 3:00 pm | Break (Tom McCall Lobby)
3:00 - 4:00 pm | E-Portfolios
Tom Lewis, Director of Ed-Tech Development, Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies, University of Washington
The University of Washington is developing a cross-unit, collaborative culture where online portfolios are used both within the classroom curriculum and for activities such as service learning, self-reflection, academic planning, and career planning. During this session, Tom Lewis will describe and demonstrate several notable projects that use Catalyst Portfolio to integrate students' university experiences, bridging the gap between classroom, community, and career. He will also discuss two challenges we have faced in a portfolio culture:
1) How to help students, faculty, and administrators understand the value of creating and using e-portfolios? Said another way, once you build it, how do you get students to like it and see the relevance.
2) What are the tools, resources, scaffolding mechanisms and support structures that make the portfolio process more engaging and rewarding?
The content of this talk is available at http://portfolio.washington.edu/goodwork/nwacc-2004-e-portfolio-presentation
http://portfolio.washington.edu/goodwork/nlii-2004
http://catalyst.washington.edu/tools/ppp.html
4:15 - 5:15 pm | Birds of a Feather discussion (Tom McCall Room)
4:15 - 5:30 pm | CIO Round-Table (Eliot/Marquam Rooms) The difficulties and resource demands associated with responding to DMCA notices and possible solutions.
Barry Robinson, Senior Counsel for Corporate Affairs, RIAA
This session will discuss current issues and developments associated with the problem of unauthorized P2P file sharing on campus networks.
1. Safely Crossing the Legal Thicket
Legal liabilities and responsibilities of institutions and members of the campus community – a discussion of the findings of the White Paper commissioned by the higher education community.
2. Different Strokes-Finding Other Solutions
Highlights drawn from the recent study of effective campus policies and practices addressing unauthorized P2P use sponsored by the higher education community.
3. Turning Down the Heat
A discussion of the resource demands and difficulties encountered when responding to DMCA notices from copyright holders - and possible solutions.
5:45 - 7:00 pm | Reception (Tom McCall Room)
7:00 pm | Dinner on Your Own
Friday, June 18
7:30 - 8:30 am | Breakfast (Tom McCall Lobby)
8:30 - 9:30 am | The Future of Open Source
Mitchell Baker, President, Mozilla Foundation
Open source software has moved from being a technical oddity to part of the mainstream computing landscape. The open source "community" is evolving in response, as we move to second and third generation projects, and as existing projects adjust to the new environment.
Open source software includes a diverse set of participants with different goals and motivations. This diversity makes a complete understanding of the current situation difficult, and predictions of a single "future" highly suspect. Nevertheless, there are distinct trends in the world of open source software which provide strong indicators of what we can expect to see.
Mitchell will speak to trends visible today in the world of open source, discuss which of these look likely to continue and which are in need of adjustment. Topics include the scope, type and project management of open source projects and the growing diversity of the open source ecology.
9:30 - 9:45 am | Break (Tom McCall Lobby)
9:45 - 10:45 am | National LambdaRail... So Exactly How Many Networks Does My Campus Need?
Tracy Futhey, CIO, Duke University
We’re all card-carrying members of the original (aka Al Gore’s) Internet. On top of that, many of us also belong to and push traffic across Internet2. If one was good, two must be not only better, but also enough. Enter National LambdaRail, the latest network that is being pursued by a consortium of research universities, member organizations and private sector technology companies. At a time all of our universities are facing tight budgets and growing demands from our campus constituencies, what has compelled a dozen or so universities to not only lobby for this new vision but also put some serious capital into building the first of its kind, higher-education-owned national optical network? Why did this project come about? How is this radical new network being deployed? When is NLR going to be complete (and when is it coming to a PoP near me)? And what have we learned through NLR about broad scale collaboration within higher education?
The slides of this talk are available at http://www.duke.edu/
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10:45 - 11:00 am | Break (Tom McCall Lobby)
11:00 - 12 noon | Doing Business Digitally: The E-Volution of Higher Education
Richard Katz, Vice President, EDUCAUSE
The business of higher education is dominantly a craft, evolving from a rather illustrious medieval European tradition. The craft legacy of higher education remains near the center of so-called academic culture, making it difficult for many colleges and universities to fully partake of radical transformation that networks and computing are enabling in other sectors of society and the economy. This talk will explore the historical inter-relationship between higher educations dominant technologies, methods, and markets as a springboard to a discussion of the key areas of focus that will enable higher education to do business electronically in the future.
The content of this talk is available at: http://www.educause.edu/ecar/research/doclistep.asp
Noon | Conference ends