CSU Directors of Academic Technology

University of California Directors

Directors California Community Colleges

Salon I

Salon II

Salon III

What Students Really Want! Help Us Find Success

What you will learn from this session

1. A broader understanding of student activism
2. Student thoughts on electronic transcripts, the clicker initiative, campus apps, and online learning initiatives
3. Components of the student initiated CSU technology strategic plan

Michael Quibuyen, Vice President of University Affairs, California State Student Association

Sydni Powell, Technology Officer, California State Student Association

How to Open a Textbook: An Introduction to Open Educational Resources

What you will learn in this session

1. What are the motivations to use OER?
2. What are the challenges to using OER?
3. How can you learn more about OER?

CSU Affordable Learning Solutions

What you will learn in this session

1. Raising OER awareness at your campus
2. Engaging your campus in OER use
3. Ways your faculty can author OER

James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons

Gerry Hanley, Senior Director, Academic Technology Services, CSU Chancellor's Office

Brett Christie, Academic Technology Services, CSU Chancellor's Office

General Sessions

Lecture Catch-and-Release: How Lecture Capture Can Free Students And Faculty To Swim Against The Traditional Lecture

What you will learn in this session

1. How lecture capture can enable a continuum of on-ground and on-line instructional models
2. How students can use lecture capture to accommodate their different learning styles, competencies, and schedules
3. How faculty can leverage lecture capture to reclaim the face-to-face student experience, create new opportunities for student engagement, and recover lost time to dedicate to teaching, service and research

East Bay Replay - CSUEB's Jump Into Lecture Capture

What you will learn in this session

1. Faculty response and issues with lecture capture
2. Usefulness of LMS (Blackboard) integration
3. Issues remaining to be resolved

Maggie Beers, Director of Academic Technology, San Francisco State University

Terry Smith, Faculty Support Coordinator, CSU East Bay

What you will learn in this session

1. Determining effective and ineffective technology usage through student and faculty behavior
2. Applying user behavior to inform decision making
3. Considerations for launching an analytics initiative

John Whitmer, Associate Director, CSU LMS Project, Chancellor's Office/ CSU Chico

Kathy Fernandes, Director, CSU LMS Project, Chancellor's Office / Director of Academic Technology, CSU Chico

Scott Kodai, Manager of Distributed Learning Technologies and Classroom Technology Support, CSU Chico

Open Space/Birds of a Feather:

Distance Education Leadership Challenges

Led by Andrea Henne, Dean, Online and Distributed Learning, SDCCD

Learner Analytics

Led by John Whitmer,
Associate Director, CSU LMSS Project CSU CO/CSU Chico

Sports Bar or Learning Research Studio? You decide!

Led by James Frazee,
Director of Instructional Technology Services, SDSU

Workouts on Location-Taking Faculty Development to the Faculty

Led by Ida Jones,
Professor and Special Assistance to the Senior Academic Technology Officer, CSU Fresno

Open Source Integrations & Collaborations

Led by Andrew Roderick,
Technology Development Manager, Academic Technology, SF State/CSU Chancellor's Office

General Sessions

Progress Report: A Test Kitchen for Promoting Active Learning Classrooms

What you will learn in this session

1. The value in creating and managing an active classroom environment
2. UC Berkeley's approach to studying and tracking the users of the space
3. A strategy for using these experiences to promote institutional change

Living Learning Spaces at Stanford: New Technologies for Structured Liberal Education

What you will learn in this session

1. Best practices for enabling active learning and collaborative pedagogies
2. How learning spaces flexibly address needs of teachers, learners, residential staff, and late-night student residents
3. How learning spaces can be simple, practical, and scalable

CSUMB Tech Rent

What you will learn in this session

1. TechRent operational environment at CSUMB
2. Safeguards for equipment retention
3. Gotcha's and Ah-hah's

Brenda Farmer, Senior Learning Environment Designer, UC Berkeley

Owen McGrath, Manager, Technical Operations, UC Berkeley

Richard Holeton, Director, Academic Computing Services, Stanford University

Beth McCullough, Senior Learning Spaces Strategist, Academic Computing Services, Stanford University

Arlene Krebs, Director, WeTEC, CSU Monterey Bay

Marc Oehlman, Director, Center for Academic Technologies, CSU Monterey Bay

General Sessions

Faculty Perceptions of Online Student Engagement: California Community Colleges and the California State University

What you will learn in this session

1. Perceptions of online faculty members regarding what constitutes online student engagement
2. Recommendations for shifting the mental models of online teaching faculty toward enhanced engagement
3. The potential role for academic analytics in California's higher education system

Online Student Self-Assessment Surveys, Are They Informative for Students in Enrolling in Online Classes?

What you will learn in this session

1. Ideas for developing an online readiness tool
2. Rationale for providing students with an online readiness tool and other support resources to be successful in the online environment
3. Identify technology skill competencies and learning style characteristics of successful online learners

In-House Online Teaching Certification Program at College of Sequoias: Using Educational Technology to Engage Full-Time and Adjunct Faculty in Learning about Teaching

What you will learn in this session

1. How the program works (e.g., who gets to take the class, how certification is awarded)
2. The curriculum
3. What participants learned in the program

Jory Hadsell, Distance Education Coordinator, Sacramento City College / Los Rios CCD

Tracy Kent, CSU Sacramento

Ashley Skylar, Associate Professor, Faculty Associate, Faculty Technology Center, CSU Northridge

Glenn Pillsbury, Instructional Designer, Learning Services, CSU Stanislaus

Deborah L. Nolan, Distance Education and Faculty Enrichment Coordinator, College of the Sequoias

General Sessions

Streaming Sports at CLU

What you will learn in this session

1. Getting the community and alumni involved in CLU sports
2. Learn about the technology used to support the streaming process
3. Provide insights into the number of resources involved in producing a four camera live shoot

Securing The Vendor: Evaluating Systems & Services Before You Buy

What you will learn in this session

1. Baseline security assessment of products and services before you buy
2. Warning signs that merit further investigation
3. Working with your vendor to re-mediate concerns

Virtual Desktops ... a case study and advice from the UCLA Library

What you will learn in this session

1. Are virtual desktops a realistic possibility in my environment?
2. Affordability and budget of virtual desktops
3. What client end points might work for me (thin, thick, or zero clients)?

UCLA and the Collaborative Hosting of Moodle

What you will learn in this session

1. About the organizational structure that helped UCLA evolve from having ~25 LMS systems on campus to under 5
2. Cost, benefits and lessons learned in making the collaborative host of a large system work.
3. How CCLE goes about the planning and decision making process

David Grannis, Director of Educational Technology, Adjunct Faculty Communications Dept., California Lutheran College

Alex Keller & Mike Regan, Systems Administrators, Academic Technology, SF State

Cindy Kimmick, Virtual Technology Implementation Manager, UCLA

Curtis Fornadley, CCLE Coordinator, UCLA

Campus Tours

• Depart JW Marriott (2:00)
• University of San Francisco (2:30-3:30)
• University of California San Francisco (4:00-5:00)
• Return to JW Marriott (5:30)

Featured Plenary

Open Market for Ideas: How Open Source is Helping Change Educational Technology Options and Opportunities

What you will learn in this session

1. How new constellations of needs, products, funding, and procurement are changing educational technology projects and environments
2. How to look beyond established client-vendor and do-it-yourself approaches through new models for evaluating, adopting, implementing, and maintaining systems
3. How educational technology organizations and vendors can work together

Mara Hancock, Director of Educational Technologies, UC Berkeley

Nate Angell, Sakai Product Manager, rSmart

General Sessions

Connecting the Dots: Faculty Institutes...Partnerships...Communities of Practice

What you will learn in this session

1. How to develop a model for faculty institutes
2. The benefits of forming faculty partnerships
3. How communities of practice can form from faculty institutes

Lightning Rounds

Better Networking Using Google Plus

What you will learn in this session

1. Problems which make year-round networking difficult for California Instructional Technology staff
2. Characteristics of Google Plus
3. Ways of using Google Plus

Social Media for Professional Growth

What you will learn in this session

1. An overview of social media technologies and how to use social media in educational contexts
2. See examples of tools such as Facebook, Twitter, diigo, blogs, and Google docs
3. Opportunity to build personal learning network

Building Bridges to Medicine of the Future: Bringing iPads into the Medical School Curriculum

What you will learn in this session

1. Steps required to prepare students, faculty and staff for an iPad curriculum
2. Most useful iPad resources for medical students
3. Why early adoption of a digital curriculum teaches medical students to take advantage of the large network of digital resources available and creates an opportunity/bridge to become better physicians of the future

Bruce Horn, Classroom Operations Manager, UC Santa Cruz

Jim Julius, Faculty Director, Online Education, MiraCosta College

Warren Wiechmann, Faculty Director, Instructional Technologies, UC Irvine School of Medicine