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Eric DenBraber, Assistant Director - Housing IT, University of Colorado BoulderRobert Dixon, Director of Information Technology - Housing & Dining Services, University of Colorado BoulderAlfred Roberts, Assistant Director of IT, University of Colorado Boulder

Learn about the details of a successful virtual desktop deployment at CU-Boulder's Housing & Dining department with dozens of critical business database systems across 500 staff workstations. VDI can now change the future of business computing , offering the benefits of sustainability, IT administration, security, mobility, and ROI on hardware, software, and labor.

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Kyle Bowen,  Director of Informatics, Purdue UniversityEvery student makes the choice for how and where learning will take place. Increasingly, students are turning to mobile devices for accessing their learning content. To enable faculty to build mobile-ready content from a variety of different media, Purdue developed Jetpack, a mobile learning application that offers an alternative to texts, course packs, and class handouts.

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Melissa Woo, Vice Provost for IS and CIO, University of Oregon

Mentoring has evolved beyond the traditional long-term, one-on-one style. There are many different mentoring styles, and each can be leveraged effectively to assist in one's professional development. This session will cover different mentoring styles that can be used during the different steps in the journey toward that first CIO position.

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Robert Bramucci, Vice Chancellor, Technology and Learning Services, South Orange County Community College DistrictJim Gaston, Director of IT - Academic Systems, South Orange County Community College DistrictStudents flock to online services like Amazon, Pandora, and Netflix that offer personalized recommendations, a stark contrast from the "one size fits all" services in higher education. In this session, we will present Sherpa, a recommendation engine for courses, information, and services that utilizes both human and machine intelligence.

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Speaker: Clay Shirky, Faculty, New York University

For half a millennium, paper has been at the center of the academic enterprise, not just conceptually but architecturally, with many campuses arranged with the library at their center. Now, though, the core academic functions of collaboration, publication, dissemination, and argument are being virtualized. This change challenges many organizational and cultural assumptions, and moves the role of information and communication technology from a support function into the center of the academic enterprise.

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Joanne M. Kossuth, Vice President for Operations and CIO, Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringAnn Kovalchick, Chief Information Officer, Drake UniversityBruce Maas, CIO and Vice Provost for Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-MadisonBrian D. Voss, Vice President & CIO, University of MarylandWhether you're a new or seasoned CIO, the first year on campus is spent figuring out buildings, systems, and people. Every first year presents a balancing act between maintaining the status quo and implementing significant change. Building a strategy, a team, and an IT environment of the future is often pitted against resolving (quickly!) age-old challenges and dealing with the ever-present crises that arise—all establish the credibility and trust needed to achieve strategic change. So how does a CIO survive this first year? By being flexible, adaptable, and responsive—and by keeping an eye on the strategic goals from Day 1.

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Emerging trends in higher education require fundamental changes in our IT organizations. Without the right strategy and approach, attempts at organizational change could return unintended results that negatively impact an organization for years. This session will present how evidence-based approaches can be used to facilitate and focus positive organizational change.

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Thomas Cavanagh, Assistant Vice President of Distributed Learning, University of Central FloridaCarie Page, Manager, Community Engagement, Next Generation Learning Challenges, EDUCAUSEAlexandra M. Pickett, Associate Director, SUNY Learning Network, SUNY System AdministrationEncouraging pedagogical innovation at your institution can be a delicate balancing act that requires a nuanced understanding of faculty needs and a spirit of collaboration, good communication, and shared goals. But how can you support that transformation at institutions outside your own walls, when each has its own distinct faculty and academic culture? Join two recent NGLC grantees, the University of Central Florida and the SUNY Learning Network, to learn how they are using innovative approaches, open resources, and online tools to support course transformation across vast networks.

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Keith Bailey, Assistant Dean, Online Learning & Director, e-Learning Institute, The Pennsylvania State UniversityCole W. Camplese, Sr. Director, Teaching & Learning w/Technology, The Pennsylvania State UniversitySusan E. Metros, Associate Vice Provost, Associate CIO, and Professor, University of Southern CaliforniaThis session will compare and contrast two very different models for building and delivering online learning programs. Penn State maintains a highly decentralized e-learning ecosystem where academic colleges partner with the Penn State World Campus to design, develop, and deliver program-level courses. USC decided to outsource the development, marketing, and delivery of the majority of its fully online, Internet-delivered degrees to select vendor partners.

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Speaker: Peter Smith, Senior Vice President, Academic Strategies and Development, Kaplan University Corporate Office

Information technology is having a profound impact on our ability to support improved persistence, attainment, and completion for adult learners. Improved metrics, reduced time to and cost of degrees, and better assessments are permanent changes in the education landscape. IT also has changed the meaning of completion from a fixed objective in time to a repeating cycle with multiple "end points" in the learner's life. I will analyze this new meaning of completion and its implications for workplace education, accreditation, financial aid, and the academic calendar as well as the higher education economic model.

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