Registration / Exhibits Open

Concurrent Sessions I

The CUNY Game: How to Build an OER Role-Playing Game about CUNY History

(OER)

Games, especially role-playing games (RPGs), are becoming a significant tool in the college instructor’s pedagogical toolkit. In this panel, we will present and discuss how we are developing an OER version of this tool, complete with an open-source RPG focused on the fight for open admissions at CUNY, a methodology for developing similar OER RPGs based on the use of digitally-archived open-source data and an “advanced level” option that includes primary student research.

Hamad Sindhi, Center for Teaching and Learning

Allison Lehr Samuels, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning

Lindsey Albracht, Center for Teaching and Learning

Jessica Wagner Webster, Digital Initiative Librarian

Cheryl Smith, Professor of English and Faculty Liaison, Center for Teaching and Learning

All of Baruch College

Using the CUNY Digital History Archive in the Classroom

(Pedagogy)

The CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA) is a digital archive and portal that gives the CUNY community and the broader public online access to a range of primary materials and historical context related to the history of CUNY. This participatory presentation will explore ways faculty and graduate students across a range of humanities and social science disciplines can utilize CUNY’s history and the archive for teaching and scholarship.

Stephen Brier, Professor, The Graduate Center

Andrea Vasquez, CDHA Director, The Graduate Center

Pennee Bender, Acting Director, ASHP/CML

Chloe Smolarski, CDHA Project Coordinator, The Graduate Center

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Navigating Copyright in Zero Textbook Cost Courses

(OER)

CUNY’s move towards Zero Textbook Cost courses has emphasized OERs, but many faculty also rely on free, but not open, materials. These materials raise important and difficult questions about open education, pedagogy and copyright compliance. This panel presents perspectives on zero-cost materials from stakeholders in the OER Initiative at Baruch. We will share our responses to copyright issues that have arisen and invite the audience to discuss their experiences.

Allison Lehr Samuels, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning

Pamela Thielman, Open Educational Resources Coordinator, Center for Teaching and Learning

Laurie Hurson, Digital Pedagogy Specialist, Center for Teaching and Learning

Cheryl Smith, Associate Professor, Department of English

Elizabeth Stone, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Political Science

All of Baruch College

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Data and Dashboarding Tools to Better Understand Transfer Outcomes

(Student Support Systems)

LaGuardia Community College and Queens College are sharing data and analytic strategies to answer questions about transfer student performance. This work is related to a larger borough-wide effort among the four CUNY colleges in Queens to identify policies and practices tha t support or constrain student success. In addition to sharing example data dashboards, the presenters will address data governance, software acquisition, technical skill development and communication.

Cheryl Littman, Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, Queens College

Bart Grachan, Associate Dean for Progress and Completion, LaGuardia Community College

Michael Lipkin, Director of Institutional Research and Assessment, LaGuardia Community College

GLO Beyond Guttman: Virtual Transfer Learning Community

(Student Support Systems)

The Guttman Transfer Learning Community (GTLC) uses the Commons in a Box platform. GTLC empowers students to flourish at their senior colleges by connecting them with transfer students who share their stories navigating systems unique to their individual colleges. Students explore baccalaureate programs, providing an innovative way to support Guttman alumni beyond commencement. GTLC offers rich qualitative feedback to college leadership on the progression of transfer alumni post graduation.

Rosemarie Chan, Stella and Charles Guttman Community College Academic Advisor, Project GLEAM

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Auto-Embedding Customized Library Research Guides Into Blackboard

(Tools and Assets)

Drawing on customized information and services from multiple platforms, the Springshare LTI tool provides for both manual and automatic integration of discipline- or course-specific library resources and research support within Blackboard. We will preview three varied implementations at different CUNY campuses, demonstrate both manual and automatic integration, address benefits for students and challenges for stakeholders and showcase the implementation support available.

Linda Miles, Open Education Resources Librarian, Hostos Community College

Jennifer Poggiali, Assessment and Special Projects Librarian, Lehman College

Michelle Ehrenpreis, Electronic Resources Librarian, Lehman College

John DeLooper, Web Services and Online Learning Librarian, Lehman College

Stephen Francoeur, User Experience Librarian, Baruch College

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Creating Industry Adjuncts or TIRCs

(Innovation and Emerging Technologies)

Responding to Mayor de Blasio’s call to double the number of students graduating with bachelor’s degrees in computer science in 2017, the Tech-in-Residence Corps (TIRCs) program was established to address two challenges at CUNY: not enough faculty to accommodate the growing student body and creation of curriculum that incorporates in-demand “applied knowledge” to increase students’ job competitiveness. This talk will describe the Tech-in-Residence Corps program model.

Susan P. Imberman, University Associate Dean for Technology Education, CUNY Central and College of Staten Island

Robert J. Domanski, NYC Tech-in-Residence Corps / Manager, NYC Department of Small Business Services

Demonstration of Incorporating Computational Thinking Across All Curricula

(Pedagogy)

Computational thinking is the thought process for formulating problems and expressing their solutions using a computer. It includes recognizing repetitive sequences, abstraction of data, expressing processes in sequences of commands and more. Universities, including Carnegie-Mellon and Hofstra, mandate a course focused on computational thinking for all majors, including non-STEM. A presentation will demonstrate methods to inject computational thinking into your course.

Douglas Moody, Associate Professor

Elizabeth Milonas, Assistant Professor

Both of Computer Systems Technology, New York City College of Technology

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Developing Pre-Service Teachers’ Technological Skills

(Pedagogy)

Integrating technology in classroom instruction is an essential skill necessary for pre-service teachers. Its usage impacts the teaching and learning process. If beginning teachers are to improve their students’ academic performance and become tech-savvy, they must integrate technology if they are to adequately prepare 21st century learners for the global economy.

Dr. Kaemanje S. Thomas, Assistant Professor, Bronx Community College

Are Pre-Service Teachers Ready to Implement Technology in Support of STEM Practices?

(Pedagogy)

Pre-service teachers at Kingsborough Community College are being introduced on how to intertwine technology with content knowledge. Our focus is on how pre-service educators in K-12 need to develop an understanding of the amalgamation of technology with a high pedagogical standard. At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to develop their own strategies for introducing pre-service teachers to implement technology in support of STEM practices.

Patrice Morgan, Assistant Professor

Orit Hirsh, Office of Information Technology Services

Both of Kingsborough Community College

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Framework for Success: The State of Online Learning at CUNY Colleges

(Pedagogy)

Panelists will use several criteria from the OLC Quality Scorecard and Interregional Guidelines for the Evaluation of Distance Education as frameworks to assess institutional readiness to offer online programs. Items like institutional support, technology and infrastructure, student support, evaluation and assessment, course development and faculty training will be discussed. The panel will make suggestions for expanding online learning throughout CUNY and leave time for audience questions.

Bruce Rosenbloom, Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, City College

Judith Cahn, Director, John Jay Online, John Jay College

Carlos Guevara, Director of Educational Technology, Hostos Community College

Olena Zhadko, Director of Online Education, Lehman College

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SUM: How Tech Showcases CUNY Research

(Community and Collaboration)

SUM (sum.cuny.edu), a new CUNY website, shows how IT can connect CUNY students and faculty with each other and the public. SUM offers news stories on faculty and student research at all 25 campuses. It is an ambitious undertaking, and the designers and editors will discuss how they developed the site in partnership with CUNY Central, the challenges they encountered, their approach to content management and their success at attracting traffic.

Bonnie Eissner, Editor for Institutional Content

Erica Klein, Web Content Manager / Web Strategist

Piotr Kapela, Web Developer

Beth Harpaz, Editor for Research Content

Amanda Wicks, Multimedia Writer

All of The Graduate Center

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Digital Security: Protecting and Isolating Critical Data While Ensuring Compliance

(Tools and Assets)

Government and educational institutions are having to adapt to the demands of protecting their data, securing their environment and attracting researchers. Breaches are becoming more frequent and tools are becoming more advanced. Institutions are now having to be more proactive in addressing these threats as they strive to remain compliant and architect a solution that supports multiple regulated workloads. Learn how VMware technologies can enable a compliance-capable infrastructure for requirements like PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, CJIS, FERPA, NIST 800-171, etc.

Victor Falconieri, Account Executive, Network and Security Business Unit, VMware

Break

Concurrent Sessions II

CUNY GC’s ITP Certificate Program from the Student Perspective

(Pedagogy)

Overview of CUNY GC’s Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program from the meta-cognitive perspectives of three graduate students. We will address the challenges/opportunities, pedagogical practice and critical use of technology in education, access to and (varying) ability to use technology, program benefits offered to grad students as educators (i.e., Digital Skills Lab requirement) and how this kind of program could be used throughout CUNY to inform classroom practice.

Lauren Kehoe, Librarian / Graduate Student, MA Digital Humanities, The Graduate Center

Kahdeidra M. Martin, Mellon Humanities Alliance Graduate Teaching Fellow

Carolyn A. McDonough, Graduate Student, MA Digital Humanities First Cohort and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program / Graduate Student Researcher, New Media Lab, CUNY

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Challenges and Opportunities of the CUNY OER Initiative

(OER)

This presentation will be an overview of the OER Scale Up Initiative at CUNY. The OER Initiative saved students at CUNY $9.5 million last year, but the work is far from done. We'll highlight how CUNY has worked together to both save students money and help faculty create innovative new pedagogical strategies while trying to fill in the gaps that the burgeoning OER movement still has.

Ann Fiddler, OER Librarian, CUNY Central

Andrew McKinney, OER Coordinator, CUNY Central

Stacy Katz, Assistant Professor, Open Resources Librarian / STEM Liaison, Lehman College

Jean Amaral, Associate Professor / Open Knowledge Librarian, Borough of Manhattan Community College

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Building Data Integration and Reporting Tools to Enhance Starfish Usability

(Student Support Systems)

This presentation will demonstrate how CUNY schools that have implemented Starfish student success system can take advantage of the ARMS database, our data integration automation scripts and our BI Dashboard templates to facilitate the implementation and enhancement of their student success system.

Jeff Barnes, Deputy Chief Information Officer

Kevin Shen, Manager of Applications Development / DBA

Felix Galindo, Senior Applications Developer / DBA

Felix Cardona, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs

All of Hostos Community College

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Integrating Emerging Technologies Into the Classroom

(Innovation and Emerging Technologies)

This session will focus on how instructors and faculty members can integrate emerging technology topics and tools such as blockchain, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence into in-person and online courses. Specific approaches, examples and tactics will be provided to assist with takeaway steps based both on previously published materials, as well as the experience of the instructor.

Sean Stein Smith, Assistant Professor, Lehman College, CUNY

Blockchain In Academia: Use Cases

(Innovation and Emerging Technologies)

Blockchain technology offers the academic world a unique set of opportunities and challenges. In this session, we’ll explore a set of use cases that may be of interest to academic organizations and faculty that leverage the unique features and capabilities of blockchain. From issuing certificates on the chain to awarding tokens for accomplishments, this talk will look into where the academic world is headed when it converges with blockchain.

Jamiel Sheikh, Chief Executive Officer, Chainhaus / Adjunct Professor, New York University, Columbia and CUNY

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Vocat: Innovative Multimedia Assignments and OERs

(OER)

Vocat, an open-source multimedia uploading, embedding and annotation tool developed at Baruch College, is now available to pilot at other campuses. Funding from CUNY’s OER Initiative is supporting enhancements to make it easier for faculty to identify open media they can use on Vocat, as well as highlighting innovative assignments and lesson plans that use videos, audio and images. See how several instructors are using Vocat in new ways.

Craig Stone, Project Manager for Educational Technology, Center for Teaching and Learning

Allison Lehr Samuels, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning

Hamad Sindhi, Digital Pedagogy Specialist, Center for Teaching and Learning

Tamara Gubernat, Digital Pedagogy Specialist, Center for Teaching and Learning

Debbie Kaminer, Professor, Department of Law

Allison Hahn, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies

All of Baruch College

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Lehman 360 Relationship Hub: Everything in One Place

(Student Support Systems)

Join colleagues for a demo and discussion of Lehman 360, a holistic platform for students, faculty and staff. L360 was designed in-house and uses crowdsourcing tools to engage the community and deliver contextual, relevant data from multiple systems in a user-friendly format. We will demo the latest updates, including early alerts, student evaluations of teaching and learning and digital ID cards, among others. Lehman 360 was recognized as an “exemplar” in the 2018 NMC EDUCAUSE Horizon Report.

Ron Bergmann, Vice President for Technology and Chief Information Officer

Reine Sarmiento, Vice President for Enrollment Management / Associate Provost

José Magdaleno, Vice President for Student Affairs

Edi Ruiz, Assistant Vice President for Technology

Deira Pererya, Director of IT Application Services

Elkin Urrea, Web Application Developer

Eddie Rodriguez, Jr., Application Developer

All of Lehman College

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Technology and Collective Bargaining Issues in Higher Education

(Community and Collaboration)

This labor-management panel will explore collective bargaining and legal issues as they relate to the use of technology by faculty. Among the topics are whether faculty can be required to develop and teach online courses; compensation, training, technical support and evaluations regarding online education; intellectual property; electronic privacy; email; social media; academic freedom; and the recording of faculty by the institution or by a student.

William A. Herbert, Distinguished Lecturer and Executive Director, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Hunter College

Jamie Dangler, Vice President for Academics, United University Professions

Karen R. Stubaus, Vice President for Academic Affairs Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Fostering Student Creativity in an Online Classroom

(Pedagogy)

The goal of this discussion is to identify ways in which instructors can foster student creativity in an online classroom. It will be an opportunity to share ways in which creativity can be supported through online course design and identify the challenges it presents. Participants will share what has worked and what has not worked for them and receive feedback on ways to incorporate it into their online course design.

Nicole Kras, Assistant Professor of Human Services, Guttman Community College

Orienting Students to Online Learning: A Three-Pronged Approach

(Pedagogy)

The CUNY School of Professional Studies designed three environments to prepare students for online courses: a learning simulation for prospective students; Online Learning Essentials for ePermit and non-degree students; and New Student Orientation for undergraduate degree students. This presentation outlines these offerings, including their design and facilitation; highlights how they work as a system; and discusses revisions that capitalize on the opportunities presented by online learning.

Angela Francis, Associate Director for Academic Affairs

Jennifer Sparrow, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

Yolanda Ransom, New Student Orientation Facilitator

Michelle Gastulo, Instructional Design Assistant

All of the CUNY School of Professional Studies

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Secure and Automated Multicloud

(Tools and Assets)

The enterprise networking landscape is changing. Technology is now an integral part of organizational strategy as recent technology advancements bring many options. But which options best balance organizational strategy, user experience and the internal/external split of data, applications and infrastructure? Cloud, XaaS, virtualization and SDN offer compelling capabilities, but create operational complexity. And what about security? Multicloud models can simplify operations, but what are the implications for IT? IT typically operates in silos, but multicloud demands more coordination between teams. In this session, we will discuss the potentially profound implications multicloud has on enterprise IT organizations and operating models.

David Stevens, Multicloud Specialist, Juniper Networks

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Digital Transformation Made Easy

(Tools and Assets)

Today’s students and teachers are relying more and more on a digital environment to organize, share, search and manage content more efficiently. CUNY IT is faced with the challenge of creating user-friendly solutions to accommodate the changing business needs of its colleges. This session will showcase how CUNY colleges are using SharePoint to solve critical business challenges: digitizing existing collections of paper, creating platforms for team collaboration and transforming manual day-to-day processes into streamlined business solutions while creating an agile environment for growth. We look forward to meeting you at our session!

Mike Ratigan, Vice President of Sales, DocPoint Solutions

Break

Keynote Presentation: Monkeys, Robots and Centaurs – Learning for the Digital Age

Decades of research support the idea that more than half of the qualities that set people up for long-term success have little to do with traditional academics. At the same time, the rapid advance of technologies like AI, and looming existential threats to the environment and traditional political order, mean we are preparing students for a world that may look very different just a few years from now.

Our strategies must evolve; our values endure. The new 21st century skills include the three Cs – creativity, collaboration and communication – and weaving a MESH – Mindsets and Essential Skills and Habits – that set people up to grow and learn continuously throughout life. Science can tell us a lot about how to cultivate and measure these qualities. Schools, teachers and workplaces are starting to catch up. The work is done alongside students to increase their technological and media literacy, while also cultivating their uniquely human strengths.

Anya Kamenetz, Educational Futurist / Lead Education Reporter, NPR / Acclaimed Author

Chancellor’s Remarks and CUNY IT Awards

Adjourn Day 1

Registration / Continental Breakfast / Exhibits Open

Concurrent Sessions I

CUNY Support for Safe and Effective Use of Cloud Services

(Innovation and Emerging Technologies)

This panel presents the need for – and the risks and security issues with – cloud software and storage. Attention will be given to CUNY support and procurement procedures involved with cloud services, as well as to the newly licensed Microsoft Office 365 suite, work supported through this suite and efforts of the Cloud Advisory Group to promote the use of such services while safeguarding data through a new data security policy.

Phil Pecorino, Professor, Queensborough Community College and UFS

Brian Cohen, Vice Chancellor / University Chief Information Officer, CUNY

Ronald Bergmann, Chief Information Officer, Lehman College

Robert Berlinger, Chief Information Security Officer, CUNY CIS

Heather Leifer, CUNY Legal

Dan McCloskey, Associate Vice Chancellor, CUNY Research

Greet Van Belle, Professor, York College

Chris Stein, Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Joseph Awadjie, CUNY Student Affairs

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“But How Do Students Feel About It?” The CUNY Student ZTC Survey

(OER)

Supporters often focus on making the financial case for OER: we compare student financial need against skyrocketing textbook prices, but how do students actually feel about the OERs that are being adapted for their classrooms? We present the results from the first round of our cross-campus survey to see how CUNY students feel about OER, in terms of access, quality and how they engage with their materials.

Shawna M. Brandle, Associate Professor / Faculty Leader for OER, Kingsborough Community College

Stacy Katz, Assistant Professor, Lehman College

Student Voices on College Textbooks

(OER)

Students are rarely given the opportunity to provide feedback on college textbooks. This presentation reports on a grant-funded project to include student voices in evaluating textbooks, both OERs and commercial. The project has three goals: create a toolkit that leverages student feedback to inform educator adaptation; make the project’s resources available as an OER; and empower students to advocate for OER options in higher education.

Ian McDermott, Professor

Christopher McHale, Professor

Steven Ovadia, Professor

Sukhrob Abdushukurov, Student

All of LaGuardia Community College

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Opening Education at CUNY with Commons in A Box OpenLab

(Inclusive Accessibility)

The Graduate Center’s Commons In A Box (http://commonsinabox.org/) and City Tech’s OpenLab (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/) have partnered to create Commons In A Box OpenLab, a free software platform designed to enable others at CUNY and beyond to install and launch their own communities for open learning. After demonstrating the software, we will engage participants in discussing the benefits and challenges of using open platforms in education.

Charlie Edwards, OpenLab Co-Director, New York City College of Technology

Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, The Graduate Center

Jenna Spevack, OpenLab Co-Director / Professor of Communication Design, New York City College of Technology

Jill Belli, OpenLab Co-Director / Associate Professor of English, New York City College of Technology

Jody Rosen, OpenLab Co-Director / Associate Professor of English, New York City College of Technology

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Domestic Internationalization: Pedagogy with Virtual Collaboration

(Pedagogy)

Global societies present opportunities and challenges. Last spring, the speaker added an initiative for 160 students in her statistics course: a virtual exchange using synchronous technology to connect 1,200 students from 50 universities around the world. Students explored a global problem, collected data, discussed perspectives with their virtual partners and presented an analytical solution. Through domestic internationalization, students enhanced quantitative skills and intercultural fluency.

Schiro Withanachchi, Faculty, Queens College, CUNY

The Influence of Technology on Mathematics Anxiety in Mathematics Classroom

(Pedagogy)

This study investigated the influence of technology on students’ mathematics anxiety in the developmental mathematics classroom in an urban community college. This study concludes with a discussion on how the use of technology including WeBWork, cloud-based apps and other OERs impacts students’ mathematics anxiety and demonstrates whether technology integration in inquiry-based learning classroom supports students learning in developmental mathematics courses.

Sun Young Ban, Adjunct Lecturer

Jae Ki Lee, Associate Professor

Both of the Mathematics Department, Borough of Manhattan Community College

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Theorizing Opportunities With a CUNYFirst API

(Tools and Assets)

Explores uses of JavaScript programming to create web-based tools to sort and display CUNYFirst data using a REST API model. An example tool to support major advisement and enrollment monitoring is presented. As well, students’ research in the classroom of user experience studies of CUNYFirst and DegreeWorks tasks is presented. Students’ analysis helps to envision new user interfaces that improve a student’s understanding of their degree – and could theoretically be built with a CUNYFirst API.

Michael Branson Smith, Associate Professor of Communications Technology

Caroline Voagen Nelson, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communications Technology

Both of York College, CUNY

From “Where’s the Data?” to a Data Warehouse and Data Dashboards

(Tools and Assets)

Learn how two offices – Institutional Research and Information Systems – turned a data and technology challenge into a successful partnership. To deal with data demands, they created a data warehouse and data dashboards that automated the flow of data from extraction to dissemination and increased access to information for planning, assessment and decision-making. Presenters will discuss benefits of institutional research/information technology partnerships, describe the data warehouse and demo dashboards.

Elisa Hertz, Director, Center for College Effectiveness

John Stroud, Assistant Vice President for Technology and Information Services / Chief Information Officer

Christopher Eng, Associate Director of Information Systems

Joseph Contreras, Institutional Research Specialist in Data Analysis

All of Guttman Community College

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Simplifying the Software and Procurement Workflow

(Tools and Assets)

At College of Staten Island, software purchases require stringent guidelines for approvals, terms and conditions and budgetary constraints. The inclusion of forms needed for management, security and accessibility complicated the process. To handle this situation, including IT’s heightened role in software purchases, a workflow was developed by IT and the Purchasing Department, detailing steps needed to complete the procurement process, including automatic notifications through our KACE Systems Management Appliance.

Linda John, Director of Academic Computing

Natalya Gnyp, Finance Procurement Director

Michael D'Eredita, Information Systems Assistant

Patricia Kahn, Chief Information Officer / Assistant Vice President for Information Technology Services and High Performance Computing Center

All of College of Staten Island

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Using Blackboard: Challenges and Opportunities of Online Instruction

(Tools and Assets)

How do CUNY and Blackboard provide opportunities for students and for teaching, learning and research? In December 2018, a system upgrade will take place that will include changes to mobile access, user accessibility and new Bb tools that will enhance the user experience. A veteran panel will offer an interactive presentation. The panel includes representatives from CUNY Computing and Information Systems, as well as the CUNY Bb Steering Committee

Stephen Powers, Professor, Bronx Community College

Carlos Cruz, Instructional Design Specialist, Brooklyn College

Helen Keier, Associate Director for Learning Management Systems, John Jay Online, John Jay College

Sylvie Richards, Media and Instructional Technologist, School of Professional Studies

Albert Robinson, Associate Director, Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, Bronx Community College

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Development of a Web-Based Simulated Hospital Unit

(Pedagogy)

Simulations have been used by educators to bridge the gap between didactic and practical training. This presentation will describe the process of creating a virtual hospital unit, mimicking a general med-surg unit. In it are ten diverse patients “admitted” with various medical problems, their medical records and animated short videos of patients and family members interacting with hospital staff. Orientation and debriefing are also provided via embedded PowerPoint presentations.

Ann Gaba, Dietetic Internship Director, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Advantages and Challenges of Using Digital Imaging in Biology Labs

(Pedagogy)

The use of electronic devices in the classroom can create confusion and controversy among instructors and students. We have focused on implementing virtual microscopy (VM) in the classroom. VM facilitates student learning and enhances the instructor’s ability to teach the lab. Several VM websites are now available. The many pedagogical and practical advantages provided by VM suggest that now is the time for CUNY to consider a transition to VM.

Vyacheslav Dushenkov, Assistant Professor

Zvi Ostrin, Associate Professor

Both of Hostos Community College, CUNY

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The Next Generation Collaboration Experience

(Community and Collaboration)

Collaboration communications have completely shifted in recent years, enabling individuals to collaborate in real time regardless of location. Collaboration tools are now critical to classroom, administration and research success at many universities. However, learning new collaboration behaviors often slows adoption of these tools. Collaboration experts have looked extensively at the user experience and at research on forming habits as we build our next generation collaboration experiences. This session will discuss that research and look at the user experience that can help universities drive adoption of the tools that can unlock the promise of collaboration.

Lou Donlin, Unified Communications and Collaboration Specialist, U.S. Public Sector – NYC

Mark Stover, Collaboration Technology Solutions Architect, U.S. Public Sector

Both of Cisco Systems, Inc.

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E-Sports

(Innovation and Emerging Technologies)

Competitive video gaming has become a mainstream consumer activity – a billion dollar industry itself. There is over nine million dollars in scholarship available for students to play e-sports in college. CDW-G will discuss why colleges and universities are investing and supporting these e-sports programs and what goes into starting one on campus.

Joe McAllister, Learning Environment Advisor, CDW-G

Break

Welcome

Keynote Presentation: Digital Technologies to Enhance Classroom Pedagogy and Critical Inquiry – Lessons Learned

Stephen Brier has worked as an educational technologist at CUNY for almost four decades. He has conceived and produced a range of educational materials in a variety of analog and digital formats, including slide/tape shows, 16mm films, videos, broadcast television, CD-ROMs, digital archives and social media, all of which grew out of his work as the founding director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition, he also served for a decade in senior administrative positions in IT at The Graduate Center, as well as helped create and launch several technology-related academic programs there, including the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate program and the New Media Lab, both of which train students in using digital tools to improve the quality of teaching and learning inside classrooms and beyond.

Stephen has been a full-time faculty member at The Graduate Center since 2009, where he teaches courses on the history of public education (with a special emphasis on CUNY’s rich and largely unknown history) and on digital humanities. In his keynote presentation, he will explore CUNY’s unique, long-term engagement with digital pedagogy, which has resulted in the development of a range of pathbreaking open source tools like the CUNY Academic Commons and open educational resources like the CUNY Digital History Archive. He will discuss some of the lessons learned from his work about the most effective uses of digital technologies to enhance classroom pedagogy and critical inquiry and will reflect on the future of instructional technology at CUNY and other public universities.

Stephen Brier, Senior Academic Technology Officer / Professor, PhD Program in Urban Education / Co-Director, New Media Lab, The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY

Lunch (until 2 p.m.)

Concurrent Sessions II

The Role of VR and 360 Content in Technology Disciplines

(Innovation and Emerging Technologies)

During this panel, we will discuss the rise of VR/360 content and how it is having a growing impact on diverse fields from entertainment to marketing. As the popularity of this medium continues to expand, our panel will examine how educators can best prepare our students for opportunities in these new and emerging fields.

James Richardson, Associate Professor, LaGuardia Community College

Jeremy Couillard, Associate Professor, LaGuardia Community College

Sarada Rauch, Assistant Professor, LaGuardia Community College

Aaron Sylvan, Consulting Chief Technology Officer, Sylvan Social Technology

Jeffrey Stephens Prince, Technology Instructor, New York Board of Education

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The Smartphone as a Self-Reflection Tool for Learning: Students Video Record Themselves

(Pedagogy)

Most students use a smartphone in their daily lives, so why not use it as a learning tool? The presenter will share her experience implementing video assignments in a Fundamentals of Music course where students video record themselves playing a piece of music at the piano. Before submitting their video, they have a chance to self-assess their performance and improve it guided by a rubric provided by the instructor. Students’ videos and opinions about this formative assessment will be shared.

Laura Andel, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hostos Community College

How to Spot Fake News and Stay News Literate: A New Core Competency

(Pedagogy)

Tectonic technological changes in the news industry have led to a tsunami of news and information available online. So-called “fake news” is hard to spot and easily spreads, leading to disagreements over basic facts. The antidote to the growing challenges posed by the digital platform is news literacy. This presentation will discuss how to teach students to become more critical consumers of news, a core competency for the 21st century.

Sissel McCarthy, Director of Journalism / Distinguished Lecturer, Hunter College

Anastasiya Fatiy, HR Training Coordinator, Central Office / Office of Human Resources Management

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CUNYsmart Analytics and Student Success: Collaboration With Lehman, BCC and Institutional Research

(Student Support Systems)

CUNYsmart is an enterprise platform that supports cross-functional analytics and decision-making. Join us for a highlight of this collaborative effort across CUNY. Lehman and BCC will discuss the rollout of the Student Success Dashboard, an innovative solution that combines data from CUNYFirst, DegreeWorks and OIRA to facilitate actionable information to increase graduation rates. OIRA will present its upcoming Admissions and Enrollment Executive Dashboard. CIS will discuss CUNYsmart news and future plans.

Colin Chellman, Dean, Institutional and Policy Research, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment

Ariel Cohen, Institutional Research Database Manager, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment

Jason Cohen, CUNYsmart Program Manager, CIS

Albert Robinson, Associate Director, Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, Bronx Community College

Ediltrudys Ruiz, Assistant Vice President, IT, Lehman College

Judith Ullman, Business Intelligence Systems Manager, CIS

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Using ePortfolio as the Hosting Platform for OER Courses

(OER)

You have a great syllabus with the learning outcomes, etc. You have gathered the OER or zero-cost resources linked to the student learning outcomes . . . Now you need a virtual place to publish the course, so the students can easily access it. After a brief overview of OER with a comparison of several hosting platforms, this presentation focuses on the pedagogical advantages (i.e., creation, reflection, inquiry and discovery) of choosing the New Digication ePortfolio.

Vee Herrington, Associate Professor/ Adjunct OER Librarian

Dan Auld, Director, Learning Technologies

Ellen Sexton, Associate Professor / Librarian

All of John Jay College

Publishing Open Educational Resources With Manifold

(OER)

Manifold Scholarship, a Mellon-funded digital publishing platform developed by The CUNY Graduate Center, The University of Minnesota Press and Cast Iron Coding, helps authors create attractive multimodal publications that can be easily annotated by students and other readers. Presenters will demonstrate how CUNY faculty and staff can use Manifold to publish scholarly works and OER materials to create vibrant digital editions for the classroom and beyond.

Vee Jojo Karlin, GC Manifold Digital Fellow, The CUNY Graduate Center

Paul Hebert, English Instructor, Queens College

Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, The CUNY Graduate Center

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Advancing Student Preparedness Through University Tech Innovation Centers

(Innovation and Emerging Technologies)

This presentation will chronicle the creation of the CSI Tech Incubator and the planned construction of the CSI Makerspace which are seeding the emergence of an innovation ecosystem on Staten Island. These innovation centers are providing opportunities for students to not only advance experiential learning with applied technologies, but to also hone critical thinking and teaming competencies vital to industry. The presentation will share critical keys to success in developing these centers.

Patricia Kahn, Chief Information Officer / Assistant Vice President for Information Technology Services and High Performance Computing Center

Ken Iwama, Vice President of Economic Development, Continuing Studies and Government Relations

Mark Lewental, Director of Library and Media Technologies

All of College of Staten Island

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Getting Your College a New Website: Common Traps and How to Avoid Them

(Tools and Assets)

Thinking of developing a new website for your college? This presentation will walk you through the entire process of building a brand new website for your institution – from putting together a complete RFP and selecting the right partners to launching the site and everything in between. Non-technical in nature, this session will focus primarily on common traps your project team might fall into and how to avoid them.

Loic Audusseau, Chief Information Officer

Richard Ginsberg, Interim Assistant Vice President Marketing and Communication

Naomi Michelin, Electronic Media Manager

All of Bronx Community College

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Opening the OpenLab at City Tech: Meeting CUNY’s Challenges

(Inclusive Accessibility)

City Tech’s OpenLab, a vibrant, open digital space for teaching, learning and collaborating, recently reached two milestones: welcoming its 26,000th member and publicly releasing its software in partnership with CBOX. This presentation highlights developments in functionality (i.e., gradebook, cloning), understanding the use and impact of the platform (i.e., retrospectives, surveys) and efforts to increase membership, adoption and community engagement (i.e., via OERs, high-profile projects).

Jody R. Rosen, Associate Professor of English / OpenLab Co-Director

Jill Belli, Associate Professor of English / OpenLab Co-Director

Claire Cahen, OpenLab Digital Pedagogy Fellow

Charlie Edwards, OpenLab Co-Director

M. Genevieve Hitchings, Associate Professor of Communication Design / OpenLab Co-Director

Jesse Rice-Evans, OpenLab Digital Pedagogy Fellow

Jenna Spevack, Professor of Communication Design / OpenLab Co-Director

Alessandro Zammataro, OpenLab Digital Pedagogy Fellow

Bree Zuckerman, OpenLab Senior Instructional Technologist

All of New York City College of Technology

A Living Lab Approach to Building Technological Literacy

(Inclusive Accessibility)

Designed to engage students in their general education curriculum, the Living Lab Model of Pedagogy encompasses high impact educational practices, place-based learning, open pedagogy on the OpenLab and enhanced assessment practices. This model of pedagogy equips students for technological literacy through reflection, peer feedback, collaboration, documentation and eportfolios. Facilitators will share how they promote development and progress throughout a student’s collegiate experience.

Karen Goodlad, Assistant Professor

Anna Matthews, Associate Professor

Jason Montgomery, Assistant Professor

All of New York City College of Technology

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Laboratory Science Courses Now Taught Fully Online with Global Impact

(Pedagogy)

This session will provide a comparison of two totally online laboratory courses taught at the same time at the School of Professional Studies at CUNY. The pros and cons of providing laboratory experiences through virtual laboratories versus through “wet labs” will be highlighted, as well as use of traditional text books versus the online free text books. Students can now access these courses from all over the world.

James William Brown, Online Adjunct Professor, School of Professional Studies

Mindfulness, Teaching and Technology

(Pedagogy)

Technology has become a vital component of our everyday lives and changes the classroom environment. When we add mindfulness to the context of technology, some of the tech challenges may be mediated. Practicing mindfulness is a way to help students avoid feeling overloaded. It can also help deal with stress and emotions. This session highlights tech and mindfulness being used to improve abilities to focus and increase well-being.

R. Shane Snipes, ABD, Entrepreneurship Degree Coordinator / Faculty, Borough of Manhattan Community College

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Artificial Intelligence – Basics and Value in the Classroom and Beyond

(Innovation and Emerging Technologies)

Education institutions have a new innovation that’s widely available today – it’s artificial intelligence. Once the domain of data scientists and supercomputers, AI is part of everyday applications at an affordable cost. It’s in the classroom today and students will be using it after they graduate as part of their professional and personal lives. As the data authority for innovative technology, NetApp has been helping our education customers understand how to leverage this innovative technology. In this session, we’ll share the basics, the value to education professionals and students in the classroom and beyond.

Bob Burwell, Chief Technology Officer, State and Local Government and Education, NetApp

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Transforming the Datacenter in Education

(Tools and Assets)

Pure Storage® can provide student applications exceptional performance and dramatically simplify IT operations – all while reducing your total cost of ownership. You'll not only improve student services, you'll be able to leverage data more effectively – giving administrators actionable insight to better serve students. Colleges and universities need a storage solution that can keep pace with digital transformation and the exponential growth of data. Join Pure Storage® to find out how you can ensure end-users across campus have improved data-access performance while your IT department enjoys dramatically simplified storage management and the added benefits of modern high availability.

Nick Psaki, Principal, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Pure Storage®

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Malware’s Best Friend – The Top Threat Vector You Don’t Know

(Tools and Assets)

DNS is a critical, necessary protocol to enable online connectivity. Applications use DNS to interconnect in lieu of IP addresses. It makes our lives easy and everything runs on DNS, but therein lies the problem – given the widespread usage of DNS, protecting it has not been top of mind as the traffic needs to flow and must always work. Bad actors have identified ways to leverage DNS to connect to command control sites, as well as how to exfiltrate data via DNS. This informative session will outline the exploits of DNS and will identify ways you can prevent attacks.

Allen McNaughton, Senior Systems Engineering Manager, Infoblox

Break

Concurrent Sessions III

Open Opportunities: Promoting Student Agency Through Open Pedagogy

(Pedagogy)

In summer 2018, over 40 BMCC faculty moved their zero textbook cost (ZTC) courses from Blackboard to the CUNY Academic Commons. One of the goals of this initiative was to promote open pedagogy in OER/ZTC courses. This panel will discuss open pedagogy in the context of BMCC’s OER/ZTC initiatives, with examples of open pedagogy in speech and gender and women’s studies courses. Panelists will explore challenges encountered and successes achieved.

Jean Amaral, Open Knowledge Librarian

Gina Cherry, Director, Center for Teaching, Learning and Scholarship

Hollis Glaser, Professor, Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts

Brianne Waychoff, Associate Professor, Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts

All of Borough of Manhattan Community College

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Adopting the CUNY Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Workshop at Your Campus

(Inclusive Accessibility)

In our presentation, we will review the Accessibility and UDL Workshop, available now on Blackboard for all CUNY members. We’ll demonstrate enrolling in the site, showcase modules and available resources and discuss potential ways of recruiting participants on your campus. We will also showcase the facilitated version we created from the workshop template, including more interactive features. We'll discuss experiences and lessons learned from the first run of the workshop in October 2018.

Antonia Levy, Associate Director, Office of Faculty Development and Instructional Technology

Krystyna Michael, Instructional Technology Assistant

Both of the CUNY School of Professional Studies

Opportunities for Access: UDL and the Urban University

(Inclusive Accessibility)

UDL holds promise as a way of meeting the needs of teachers and students in our urban university by promoting an inclusive pedagogy that appreciates the significant assets of our diverse students by aligning instructional supports with student learning needs. This presentation will provide recommendations for researchers and practitioners who seek to advance UDL through technological applications in their classrooms and throughout CUNY.

Louis Olander, Doctoral Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want: UX and Library Pedagogy

(Pedagogy)

User experience (UX) testing is vital in developing effective digital learning objects, but librarians and instructional designers face challenges when adapting UX protocols for pedagogical assessment. In this presentation, we will describe the results of tests conducted at the City Tech library and provide insights into the value of failure in UX study design, how wrong data is better than no data and whether qualitative problems can have quantitative solutions.

Nora Almeida, Instruction Librarian, New York City College of Technology

Junior Tidal, Web Services Librarian, New York City College of Technology

Heather V. Hill, Instructional Technologist, Fordham University

Nonfiction Storytelling Podcasts: Production, Practice and Inquiry

(Pedagogy)

In this two-part presentation, John Jay student podcast producers will join faculty to first share perspectives on behind-the-scenes production experience founding and growing the Life Out Loud nonfiction storytelling podcast (lifeoutloudpodcast.com). Then we will share our experience with nonfiction storytelling podcasts in all varieties of college classrooms as a means by which to foster interdisciplinary research inquiry.

Christen Madrazo, Director, Writing Program and Lecturer, English

Riley Linares, Student

Rebecca Singh, Student

Karen Argueta, Student

All of John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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Innovation Chase: Digital Badges to Promote a Culture of Faculty Innovators

(Innovation and Emerging Technologies)

The Innovation Chase is a digital badges recognition system established by the Hostos Office of Educational Technology (EdTech) to motivate faculty to participate in professional development and apply innovative practices that foster a culture of excellence in teaching and learning and student success. Faculty earn badges through PD, mentoring and other initiatives offered by EdTech, CTL, Library and other units. The top innovators are recognized in bi-annual innovation celebrations.

Carlos Guevara, Director, Educational Technology and CTL

Kate Lyons, Reference Librarian and Faculty Liaison to EdTech, Library

Wilfredo Rodriguez, Coordinator, Educational Technology

All of Hostos Community College

Promoting Women’s Interest in Technology by Makerspace and Coding Project

(Innovation and Emerging Technologies)

While technological change is rapidly expanding opportunities in every discipline today, the number of women entering technical studies remains low. The gender gap in academic technology could be due to the lack of exposure to technology. Accordingly, female students rarely choose technology disciplines in academic fields. We are suggesting the opportunities to boost the women’s interest in technology disciplines through exposure to cutting-edge technologies, including 3D printing and cloud computing.

Dugwon Seo, Assistant Professor

Michael Lawrence, Lecturer

Both of Queensborough Community College

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Leveraging IoT on a Limited Budget at the College of Staten Island (CSI)

(Tools and Assets)

CSI used Internet of Things (IoT) to improve student services, based on existing challenges. System Status used open source solutions to provide information on Blackboard, ERP, email and the website. Computer Availability used statistics software to show unoccupied computers in labs and public stations at any given time. Bus Tracking used open source resources, Google maps and GIS to develop a system, tracking actual travel times between CSI and the Ferry.

Linda John, Director of Academic Computing

Mark Lewental, Director of Library and Media Technologies

Jose Colon, System Administrator for BlackBoard Transact

Patricia Kahn, Chief Information Officer / Assistant Vice President for Information Technology Services and High Performance Computing Center

All of the College of Staten Island

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Pinnacles and Pitfalls: Career Prep Technology for Students with Disabilities

(Inclusive Accessibility)

Using the Career Readiness for the New College Graduate Competencies outlined by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) as a springboard for discussion, this roundtable will invite professionals to speak about their experiences providing vocational support to students with disabilities using technology, share best practices that have resulted in successful outcomes and seek insight on how to address the concerns they have regarding the students on their individual campuses.

Kristopher Robinson, CUNY LEADS Neurodiversity Advisor

Crystal Vazquez, Associate Director of AccessABILITY Services

Marta Orellana, CUNY LEADS Plus Advisor

All of Guttman Community College

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Mapping Brooklyn: Digital Tools to Support Place-Based Learning

(Pedagogy)

Participants from a range of disciplines will discuss their experiences using geospatial mapping tools for research on, and instruction in, Brooklyn’s social history and urban development. We will confront a central challenge in using technology in undergraduate education: developing digital tools that are at once approachable and compelling, while providing sophisticated computer-based applications that have the capacity to yield new insights into topics from the humanities.

Christopher Swift (Presider), Associate Professor of Theatre

Ting Chin, Assistant Professor of Architectural Technology

Anne Leonard, Associate Professor of Information Science

Anne Leonhardt, Associate Professor of Architectural Technology / Director of Digital Technology

Sean MacDonald, Professor of Economics

Ashwin Satyanarayana, Associate Professor of Computer Systems Technology

Satyanand Singh, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Peter Spellane, Professor of Chemistry

All of New York City College of Technology

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Optimizing Technology: Communicating with Effectiveness and Efficiency

(Tools and Assets)

The City Tech Office of Assessment, Institutional Research and Effectiveness has ensured that data is readily available to administrators, faculty and students in a short time frame by developing a cost-effective, reproducible and accessible system whose framework includes the use of multiple platforms including SNAP, Tableau, TK20/Watermark and open source software. Its impact has included increased productivity, expediency in providing results and an ability to service the entire college without an increase in staffing expenditures.

Tammie L. Cumming, Director

Yongchao Zhao, Assistant Director

Isana Leshchinskaya, Research Associate

All of the Office of Assessment, Institutional Research and Effectiveness, New York City College of Technology

Implementation of Student Workflow Information Management System

(Tools and Assets)

Student recruitment is recognized as a key element in sustainability and success of an institution. In-person campus tours, open house, email announcement, print and electronic publicity are traditional recruitment methods. The success of a recruitment method is highly dependent on use of fundamental data to reach a target population. An interactive Student Workflow Information Management System has been implemented at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.

Ashish Joshi, Senior Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs

Mohit Arora, Director of Technology

Amina Alam, Recruitment and Admissions

Margaret Krudysz, Admissions

All of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

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Data, Network and Campus Security: A Discussion of Challenges and Solutions

(Tools and Assets)

This session will be an interactive discussion sharing solutions and challenges while focusing on how higher education is managing these challenges associated with protecting and integrating the incredible amounts of data that are being created every moment of every day across their institutions. During the session, we will look at how to store institutional data into secure data stores, managed through secure network connections and architectures and how IoT and security monitoring are further factoring into the overall security profile and solutions for your institution.

Jeanne Weber, Senior Higher Education Strategist, Dell EMC

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Lesson Capture, Simplifying the Recording Process

(Tools and Assets)

Many current methods of instruction rely on effective creation and delivery of video content. Building recording systems that are easy to use and procedures for managing the content are important considerations for facility designers, curriculum developers and technology administrators. This session will cover ad-hoc and automated capture applications, as well as management of access rights and content publishing for consumption on any device, anytime, anywhere.

Anthony Cortes, Director of Sales and Marketing, Education Classroom Systems, Extron

Break

End-of-Day Drawing

Conference times, agenda and speakers are subject to change.