EDUCAUSE | Podcasts

This podcast features session audio from the EDUCAUSE 2013 Annual Meeting. The speaker is Vice President for IT and CIO for Indiana Univesrity, Brad Wheeler. What curves will reshape colleges and universities, and how do campus leaders know when to accelerate, brake, or try to bend a curve itself? These increasingly nonlinear times present extraordinary opportunities for campus leaders, and a candid reflection on our successes and “lessons” can provide essential insights as we shape our future.

This podcast features a session from the EDUCAUSE 2013 Annual Meeting.  Speakers include: Paula Brossard, IT infrastructure project manager, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Wendy Luljak, senior IT communications strategist, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee    

This podcast features an interview with representatives of the three winning EDUCAUSE Breakthrough Models Academy teams, we explore challenges and opportunities around designing new models that will support higher education in becoming increasingly accessible, relevant, flexible, and sustainable. More information about the winning projects and the Breakthrough Models Academy can be found at http://www.educause.edu/educause-institute/breakthrough-models-academy/breakthrough-models-academy-team-projects.    Speakers: ●      Philip Neufeld, Senior Director, Service Management, Technology Services, California State University, Fresno

Bryan Alexander is Senior Fellow for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and founder of Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC. In this interivew with ELI Associate Director Veronica Diaz, Alexander discusses wearable computing.

Data stewardship and governance are complex topics in higher education. Notre Dame has built a five-pillar program: Quality and Consistency; Policies and Standards; Security and Privacy; Compliance and Retention; and Archiving. In this podcast, Beth Warner talks with Senior Director for IT Service Delivery at the University of Notre Dame, Mike Chapple. He talks about the strategies and best practices for effective data governance. 

The MOOC phenomenon may have wide-reaching implications for the future of teaching, learning and data. In this podcast Bryan Alexander, founder of Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC and senior fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), shares his view of how MOOCs can and will affect the future of higher education.

  Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is an open specification from the IMS Global Learning Consortium designed to enable plug-and-play integration of educational applications into a campus platform, such as an LMS. In this podcast with Alisa Cooper, faculty member at Glendale Community College, we discuss how LTI works, implications for privacy, and how it supports customized learning environments.  

In this podcast, OCLC Research Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt and Sara Snyder from the Smithsonian Libraries talk about their presentation, "Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?".

Ian Dolphin is Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation. In this conversation with John Bucher, CTO for Oberlin College, Dolphin discusses the foundation's products and the benefits of community source.

Sigrun Eckelmann is Program Director for Academic Libraries & Information Systems at the German Research Foundation (DFG). In this interview she described the programs she works with at DFC, the factors driving Germany's funding of research, and her work with Virual Research Environments (VRGs).

Fran Berman is the Edward G. Hamilton Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Chris Greer is the associate director of the IT Lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In this conversation, they discuss the Research Data Alliance. The RDA vision is “research data exchange for everyone” and its mission is to “use voluntary cooperation and consensus to run an open, global research data infrastructure.”

David S. H. Rosenthal is Chief Scientist for the LOCKSS Program at Stanford University. In this conversation he discusses the pricing and surprising challenges of outsourcing long-term data storage. You can follow his discussions and research by visiting his blog. This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2012 Fall Membership Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

Carly Strasser is data curation specialist at the UC Curation Center. John Kunze is a preservation technologist for the California Digital Library. In this conversation they highlight three new data-centric developments that support scientists throughout the research data life cycle: the DMPTool, DataUp, and DataONE.

Anita de Waard is Vice President for Research Data Collaborations at Elsevier. In 2011 she joined with researchers, publishers, and digital scholars in various fields to create Force 11, a community contemplating and creating for the future of research communications and e-scholarship. In this interview she shares her thoughts on the current state of digital publishing and the formation of Force 11.

Sarah Morrow is a privacy officer for the Pennsylvania State University. In this podcast conversation she talks about the relationship between privacy and institutional interests.