EDU Odyssey Opens Portal to a New Universe of Ideas
The Educause 2001 Conference is your portal to the future, an opening in time and space to a new world of ideas and energy.
The new millennium holds great promise for higher education as new developments in information technology continue to transform all aspects of our work.
Join us at the Indianapolis Convention Center and RCA Dome in Indianapolis on October 28-31 for Educause 2001: An EDU Odyssey. Explore new landscapes, test new solutions, strike out in new directions, and expand your universe.
Featured Speakers
Running concurrently with track sessions are presentations by these distinguished Featured Speakers. These sessions will cover key issues in higher education today.
* Managing Transformation- John C. Hitt, President of the University of Central Florida
* The Road to Distance Learning May be Closer than You Think - Polley Ann McClure, Vice President, Information Technologies, Cornell University
* IT Security in Higher Education - Michael A. McRobbie, CIO at Indiana University
* Preparing for the Future: Predictions, Practice, and Pragmatism - Diana G. Oblinger, Senior Fellow for EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research
* Making Soup Without Liquid: Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues Affecting Technology Decisions in Higher Education - Marjorie Hodges Shaw, Director Emeritus, Computer Policy & Law Program, Cornell University
* IT Leadership in the 21st Century: The Ultimate Oxymoron or the Ultimate Challenge? - J. Gary Augustson, Vice Provost for Information Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
* The Institutional Web: A Lens to Living and Learning - Carl W. Jacobson, Director, MIS, University of Delaware
* The Next Killer App: And You Thought Administrative Computing Was Expensive! - Carl F. Berger, Director, Advanced Academic Technology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
* Building Consensus on a Campus Technology Strategy - Robert B. Kvavik, Associate Vice President and Executive Officer, University of Minnesota
General Session Speakers
Our general session speakers for Educause 2001 will be Sally Ride, astronaut and the first American woman in space, Neil Gershenfeld, director of The Physics And Media Group, MIT Media Lab, and John Seely Brown, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Chief Innovation Officer of 12 Entrepreneuring. Photos and links to their biographies are on the program page. Other conference information will be posted as it becomes available. Please check back.
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