Presented by: Don McCabe, Professor of Organization Management at Rutgers University
Kimberly M. Bonner, Esq., University of Maryland University College
Presented by: Matthew Conforth, Director of Educational Technologies, Passaic Valley Regional High School
John O’Brien, Assistant Director for Academic Technology, Montclair State University
Anthony DePrince, Technology Operations Coordinator, Educational Technology Training Center, Camden County Technical Schools
Presented by:
Renee Cicchino, Teaching, Learning and Technology Center at Seton Hall University
Danielle Mirliss, Teaching, Learning and Technology Center at Seton Hall University
Benjamin Harwood, Teaching, Learning and Technology Center at Seton Hall University
Synopsis: Seton Hall University has been involved in the planning, design and implementation of large course redesign projects for over three years. Current initiatives include Oral Communication, Introduction to Psychology and Developmental Math. These projects utilize Blackboard to develop and deliver “enhanced” or “blended” courses, allowing for the creation of flexible learning environments. The benefits of these courses include increased feedback and communication between students and faculty, resources that address multiple learning styles and activities that promote self-directed learning. The presentation will address lessons learned from these projects from the instructional design, faculty, and student perspective.
Concurrent Session I : eLearning : Instructional Design
Presented by: Wendiann Sethi, Seton Hall University
Synopsis: The Center of Developmental Mathematics at Seton Hall University has embarked on the journey to redesign their program from a traditional lecture based class to a computer-mediated laboratory using MyMathLab. The structured self-paced classes in Prealgebra and Beginning Algebra will be fully implemented Fall 2005 with the goal of creating a series of courses which facilitate the students to master these algebraic and arithmetic skills necessary to succeed in college level Mathematics.
Concurrent Session I : eLearning : Instructional Design
Presented by: Thomas Valasek, Raritan Valley Community College
Holly Smythe, Raritan Valley Community College
Synopsis: This presentation will focus on stratefies for building community in an online course, using inventive approaches that foster learner-to-learner, learner-to-content, and learner-to-instructor interaction and collaboration. "The American Film," a WebCT Exemplary Course for 2005, will serve as a model. The presentation will also highlight criteria used to evaluate "Interaction and Collaboration" in the WebCT Exemplary Course Project nomination rubric.
Concurrent Session II : eLearning : Exemplary NJ WebCT Course
Presented by: Debbie Kell, Mercer County Community College
Kenneth Ronkowitz, NJIT
Synopsis: Abstract Training new online instructors requires teaching technical skills such as using a learning management system (LMS). But, there is also the need to examine best practices in pedagogical topics such as learning styles, academic integrity and authentic assessment. NJIT has developed an intensive 3-day eLearning institute for its faculty. As part of the collaborative faculty development efforts of NJEDge.Net, Mercer County Community College was able to participate in NJIT’s institute and then adapt this training model to the special needs of its own campus community. This session will look at effective ways to use training adaptations at other universities, community colleges and in K-12 districts.
Concurrent Session III : eLearning : Faculty and Students
Presented by: Andrew Tatusko, Seton Hall University
Keith Adams, Seton Hall University
Stephen M. O'Brien, Seton Hall University
Synopsis: The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a game in which students are posed with a problem that requires them to make ethically-based rational decisions in the conditions of an algorithm. We have developed a learning object that is unique compared to other prisoner’s dilemma game simulations in its integration of rich media and assessment components, and in the linking of strategies of game theory to real-world scenarios. Moreover, a two-person version of the game was developed for student-to-student interaction. The game was created with the input of two humanities faculty and MERLOT Fellows along with two instructional designers and a programmer.
Concurrent Session III : eLearning : Faculty and Students
Presented by: David Middleton, TLTC, Seton Hall University
Paul Fisher, TLTC, Seton Hall University
Heidi Trotta, TLTC, Seton Hall University
Synopsis: Many institutions have adopted electronic portfolios to assess and demonstrate student learning. Seton Hall University has built an application that automates electronic portfolio development for its students, while collecting critical information necessary for accreditation. Through a bridge between Blackboard and an external database, students in Seton Hall’s College of Education and Human Services are able to demonstrate their achievement of NCATE standards in an electronic portfolio, while presenting their development as Seton Hall students and professional educators. This presentation will demonstrate this system and address the development questions faced throughout the process as well as the critical next steps.
Presented by: Laura Byham-Gray, PhD, RD, UMDNJ-SHRP
Judy Washington, UMDNJ-NJMS
Linda Boyd, UMDNJ-NJMS
Synopsis: The web-based course modules to teach the methods and techniques of evidence-based practice (EBP) using didactic instruction and clinical case studies/scenarios. The modules contain the principles and techniques of EBP inclusive of: writing answerable/searchable clinical questions, searching the literature and resources effectively, as well as selecting the best resources for the clinical questions posed, critical evaluation of original research articles, with special emphasis on the domains of diagnosis/screening, prognosis, therapy and harm, application of research findings to practice, and evaluation of patient and practitioner outcomes.
Concurrent Session IV : eLearning : Health Professions
Customizing Existing Computerized Clinical Case Simulations to Meet the Instructional Needs of Health Related Professions Students
Series: NJEDge.Net Annual Conference 2005
Presented by: Barbara Gladson, PhD, UMDNJ-SHRP
Laura Barrett, UMDNJ
Julie Veloz, UMDNJ
Synopsis: The presenter is among twenty-three faculty members recruited from all of the schools of UMDNJ to participate in the creation of an interdisciplinary clinical case simulation on diabetes, to be used throughout the University. The faculty is utilizing the Diagnostic Reasoning software program of the DxR Development Group, Inc. (http://www.dxrgroup.com/) as the authoring system. While cases can be developed from the beginning, participants are editing an existing diabetes case to better meet their students’ instructional needs. The presenter has adapted the case significantly to not only provide alternate content, but also to better address the learning objectives of her students. Her experience is a model for the effectiveness and efficiency of editing existing case software, rather than creating new cases from the beginning.
Concurrent Session IV : eLearning : Health Professions
Presented by: Marta Deyrup, Seton Hall University
Paul Fisher, Seton Hall University
Synopsis: This presentation outlines the steps being taken to digitize the entire print run of the Chesterton Review (1974-), a publication, which is housed and edited at Seton Hall. The presenters, after looking at both open access and commercial e-publishing models, including MIT's Dspace and the Berkeley Electronic Press, developed an in-house publishing model that is inexpensive and achievable with a limited IT and Library staff. The discussion will include timetable and project management, the database structure and design interface, and strategies used to establish an e-publishing model in a university environment.
Presented by: Suchita Choksi, Montclair State University
Patricia Kahn, Montclair State University
Courtney Volpe, Montclair State University
Synopsis: Montclair State University’s face to face workshops offered to our campus community are experiencing low enrollment due to our faculties and staff’s coursework, committee obligations, and administrative activities. This presentation demonstrates a distance-learning community exhibiting emerging technologies, instructional design and pedagogical strategies, simplifying administrative tasks within a self-paced atmosphere.
Presented by: Matthew Conforth, Passaic Valley Regional High School and NJEdge
Synopsis: Perspectives from high school students and faculty on innovative uses of videoconferencing.
Projects to be discussed:
Science in Cinema
Around the World
Global Nomads visits to New Orleans, Iraq, Tsunami, HIV Awareness in Hong Kong
The NJEDge.Net K-20 Initiative is looking for content experts to work on K-20 collaborative projects.
Please email pvmconforth@yahoo.com or obrienj@mail.montclair.edu.
Presented by: Jacqueline Fesq, Raritan Valley Community College
Synopsis: Last year, RVCC merged its separate, academic learning labs into one department called the Academic Success Center. All tutoring in Math, English, ESL, and other subjects is now done from one central location. As a result of this merger, the need for effective, consistent, and ongoing tutor training became an issue. As part of an inhouse faculty fellowship, I was given time last fall to develop an online course using WebCT for the purpose of training our tutors. In this presentation, I will take you into the course to observe the different aspects of the course, both general and subject-specific. I will also discuss the results of our spring pilot with 18 of our current tutors.
Presented by: Leslie Maltz, IT Planning and Standards, Columbia University
Synopsis: With limited budgets and growing demands for services and opportunities for the deployment of technologies, it has become increasingly difficult to support existing services and while planning to deploy and integrate new technologies. Now, more than ever, universities face the challenge of having to identify and prioritize support for existing strategies while preparing for new strategies, services, and technologies. We will explore some of the emerging or evolving technologies that appear to be gaining traction and the demands they will place on already stressed IT organizations.
Policy Issues and Institutional Strategic Planning : Concurrent Session I
Presented by: Dr. Robert B. Kvavik, University of Minnesota
Synopsis: What are the information technology uses and skills of undergraduate students, how does their use of these technologies contribute to their undergraduate experience, and how does IT add to their learning? Answers to these questions are provided by 18,039 students at 63 higher education institutions in their responses to surveys for the 2005 ECAR study. Comparisons are also made between ECAR 2004 and 2005 study results.
Policy Issues and Institutional Strategic Planning : Concurrent Session III
Presented by:
Gil Santaliz, 4 Connections LLC
Greg Palmer, MAGPI and University of Pennsylvania
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Bob Williams, Monmouth County New Jersey
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Hunter Newby, Telex, Carrier Hotel facility at 60 Hudson Street, New York ppt
Policy Issues and Institutional Strategic Planning : Concurrent Session IV
Presented by: Steve Handfinger, CIO, Burlington County College
Chip Stoll, CIO, Ocean County College
Peter Teklinski, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Facilitator: Susan G. Bowen, CIO Camden County College
Synopsis: This session will feature a panel discussion regarding VoIP implementations at three colleges in New Jersey, detailing three different vendor solutions including Cisco, 3Com and Avaya. Panelists will discuss particulars about their specific Voip projects and focus on lessons learned from these implementations.
Synopsis: A campus network can be described as an enterprise network with mostly hostile users. P2P, IM, objectionable content, MP3s, copyright violation, denial-of-service attacks, and students with lots of free time present unique network challenges on campus. Learn how your institution can promote the free exchange of ideas while still providing a secure, stable, and resilient network with assured access for all students and faculty.
Presented by: Ronald Jantz, Data Librarian, Alexander Library, Rutgers University
Synopsis: Fedora is one of several highly functional open source frameworks or platforms that are now available to those who want to rapidly build an institutional repository or digital library. This presentation will discuss Rutgers University Libraries’ (RUL) experience with developing capabilities on the FEDORA platform. Our objective is to develop an integrated, highly functional, open-source system that can be used as a digital library or institutional repository. This talk will cover some of the highlights of the RUL architecture including the collection model and supporting services for workflow, collection and preservation. The multi-portal architecture will be illustrated by showing how major projects such as the New Jersey Digital Highway, Institute of Jazz Studies Oral Histories, and the RU Repository use the same basic architecture and underlying repository.
Presented by: Kevin Walsh, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Synopsis: Intended solely for organizations in which individuals use different identity information (user names) to access different information resources. Showcases a successful process of identity and access management centralization implemented so as not to inconvenience users, nor subjugate departmental sovereignty, nor intrude upon system administration security concerns. Benefits include greater user satisfaction, improved overall systems security, and a greater sense of community between disjointed user populations. A homegrown solution is highlighted and commercial solutions are noted.
Presented by: Harold Wortman, Sr. Manager of IT Professional Services at Verizon
Synopsis: iobi Enterprise is a new, powerful hosted software application that integrates your telephony and data services to enable mobility, improve response time, and increase employee productivity. With iobi Enterprise, employees can better manage all their communications services from a robust set of user interfaces that incorporate availability, mobility, presence (user control), and device preference. From a PC, any Web-enabled browser, or through a voice portal, employees can access their existing voice and data communications anytime, in real-time, at the right time.
Presented by: Len Snell, Verizon
Stephen R. Kovac, Services/Solutions department of Verizon Information Technologies LLC (Verizon IT)
Synopsis: Verizon is presently a technology provider of the custom telecommunications infrastructure for the NJEDge.Net data and video backbone. The remote backup and restore service will leverage this backbone more effectively by adding services over your existing infrastructure that will benefit all NJEDge.Net members. With Verizon Information Technologies LLC (Verizon IT) as your provider, your educational institutions will be able to grow their core services with minimal concern for their remote data backup services. Your Verizon IT account management team will be responsible for the availability of your remote backup and restore service, and will oversee the support that your end users receive.
Synopsis: Learn how New Jersey colleges are adding a collaborative element to their Blackboard and WebCT courses with Horizon Wimba. This presentation will demonstrate how methods of face-to-face communication and interaction can be nearly replicated online by Horizon Wimba's Live Classroom, and it will also address how languages can be taught online using the one-of-a-kind Wimba Voice Tools. Further, it will show you how you can get the most out of your course management systems by allowing faculty to use Horizon Wimba's Course Genie to easily transform their Word documents into Blackoard- and WebCT-ready HTML pages. This presentation will particularly benefit those already teaching an online course and wish to add meaningful and engaging instructor-student interactions.
Presented by: Dr.Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Stanford Visiting Scholar and Cisco Systems' IBSG Global Education Expert
Synopsis: Today's technology trends in teaching applications and the transformation from a predominantly teacher centric to a more student centric learning atmosphere.
Presented by: Matt Blythe, Product Management, Cisco Systems
Synopsis: This two hour session will provide an introduction to 10Gbs, low latency InfiniBand technology as a data center server fabric and discuss its applicability for high performance clustering, grid computing, and for server virtualization. As an introduction to InfiniBand technology, this session will first compare and contrast InfiniBand with other standard and proprietary server interconnect technologies. The goal is a basic understanding of where InfiniBand fits in with other network technology. The session will next focus on applications that can leverage InfiniBand. The session will explore the protocols that can run on top of InfiniBand (including IP, MPI, Sockets (SDP), Storage (SRP), and UDAPL), and will discuss the pros and cons of each. For each protocol, we will highlight common applications that have shown tremendous performance gains using InfiniBand. Next the session will look beyond InfiniBand’s pure performance advantages and will explore its capabilities as a foundation for data center virtualization, grid, and utility computing environments providing a unifying server fabric with virtualization capabilities allowing all servers connected to the fabric to share common pools of I/O and storage resources. This part of the session will look at the economic benefits of data center consolidation and grid computing afforded by InfiniBand. Customer case studies will be presented for both grid computing and server virtualization.
Presented by: David Moss, Northeast Regional Director for TANDBERG
Synopsis: This presentation will address network design concepts and examples of how to address real-world IP video deployments including network and infrastructure requirements. We will outline network concepts that are core to deploying IP video applications in both intra and inter organizational deployments.
