PlanIT's Visioning Team is sponsoring Technology Days, a set of strategic planning forums designed to provide the OSU academic community with expert vision on the future of technology in higher education. Current "thought leaders" from higher education and industry have been invited to Ohio State to give technology users at main and regional campuses and other community partners a broad perspective on what industry views as emerging and future technologies and how academia plans to develop and use them. Their insights should help the university craft a vision of an IT organization that encompasses technology leadership, services, and infrastructure. Panel discussions with industry, academic and campus experts will also be a feature of Technology Days. Following the presentations, users will be surveyed on how they perceive these technologies being adopted and deployed in our institutions. We also ask that you complete our online Future of Information Technology Questionnaire to help us craft a vision statement and guiding principles for our IT strategic plan.

Archived video webcasts.

May 7, 2002
140 Pfahl Hall
Advancing Distributed and Distance Education

Convener: Susan E. Metros, Deputy CIO and Executive Director Educational Technologies, Offices of the CIO, The Ohio State University

8:30 - 9:45 am Presentation: e-Learning: Evolution or Extinction?
Diana Oblinger, Adjunct Professor, North Carolina State University, Senior Fellow, EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR)

10:00 - 11:15 am Presentation: Leading and Future Trends in Higher Education Distributed Learning
Frances Himes, Senior Associate Vice President Higher Education, Macromedia

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Panel with speakers and
Margaret Kessel, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Human Nutrition, The Ohio State University

May 17, 2002
330 Schoenbaum Hall
Managing Customer and Student Relations

Convener: Mike Veres, Deputy CIO and OIT Director, Offices of the CIO, The Ohio State University

8:30 - 9:45 am Presentation: The IU Knowledge Base - Supporting IT en masse
Sue Workman, Director of Teaching and Learning, University Information Technology Services, Indiana University

10:00 - 11:15 am Presentation: E-business and Portal Applications for Higher Education
Robert Kvavik, Vice Provost and Associate Vice President, University of Minnesota

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Panel with speakers and
Martha Garland, Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Studies, The Ohio State University

May 20, 2002
140 Pfahl Hall
Building Pervasive Computing Environments

Convener: Charles Morrow-Jones, Director, OIT Enterprise Networking, Offices of the CIO, The Ohio State University

8:30 - 9:45 am Presentation: Building the High Performance Utility to Support Ubiquitous Computing
Dewitt Latimer, Executive Director, Statewide IT Infrastructure, University of Tennessee
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Fast Forward...Effective Instruction Using Pervasive Computing Technologies
Julie K. Little, Director, Innovative Technologies Center, University of Tennessee

10:00 - 11:15 am Presentation: Wireless LANS Today and Tomorrow
Bruce Alexander, Manager, Wireless Networking Business Unit, Cisco Systems

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Panel with speakers and
Bruce S. Johnson, Associate Dean for Information Services and Professor, College of Law, The Ohio State University

May 29, 2002
140 Pfahl Hall
Managing Data and Knowledge

Convener: Ilee Rhimes, Chief Information Officer, The Ohio State University

8:30 - 9:45 am Presentation: The E-volution of Higher Education
Richard Katz, Vice President, EDUCAUSE and Executive Director of EDUCAUSE Advanced Research Center (ECAR)

10:00 - 11:15 am Presentation: Bytes to Knowledge: The Long and Winding Road
Charlie Moran, Vice President, Education Industry Consulting, Blackwell Consulting

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Panel with speakers and
Joseph J. Branin, Director of Libraries, The Ohio State University

May 30, 2002
140 Pfahl Hall
Supporting High Performance Computing

Convener: Fusun Ozguner, Professor and Associate Director, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University

8:30 - 9:45 am Presentation: Clusters, Grids, and Collaborative Computing
Jay Boisseau, Director of Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas-Austin

10:00 - 11:15 am Presentation: Enabling and Shaping teraBytes and teraFlops into HPC for Research and Education
Robert A. Eades, Manager, Life Sciences Solutions, IBM Corporation

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Panel with speakers and
Wayne Carlson, Chair, Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design, The Ohio State University

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