HigherEdCamp Philly
HigherEdCamp Philly is scheduled for Friday, July 23, 2010, at the Wharton School's Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania's campus. The event will focus on technology impacting higher education. It is inspired by BarCampPhilly held in November 2008.
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Details
- When: Friday, July 23, 2010
- Where: University of Pennsylvania campus
- Join us for the second year of the First HigherEdCamp in Philadelphia
- In planning mode - looking for your input!
- email info@higheredphilly.com if you are interested in participating or sponsoring
Interesting Links:
Sponsors:
- Looking for sponsors now - this could be you!
Proposed Agenda:
- 8am ...
- 9am ...
- ... Session slot schedules/lunch/breaks etc...
Planners
Volunteers
- Add yourself if you are interested in volunteering
Participants (aka Campers)
Proposed Sessions
- put your ideas for this year here...
HigherEdCamp Philly 2009
HigherEdCamp Philly is scheduled for Saturday, June 6, 2009, at the Wharton School's Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania's campus. The event will focus on technology impacting higher education. It is inspired by BarCampPhilly held in November 2008.
Get Involved
Details
- When: Saturday June 6, 2009
- Where: University of Pennsylvania campus
- First HigherEdCamp in Philadelphia
- In planning mode - looking for your input!
- email info@higheredphilly.com if you are interested in participating or sponsoring
Interesting Links:
Sponsors:
- Looking for sponsors now - this could be you!
Proposed Agenda:
- 8am ...
- 9am ...
- ... Session slot schedules/lunch/breaks etc...
Planners
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
Proposed Sessions
- Publishing changes. Going from paper textbooks to digital copy.
- Virtual Worlds in higher ed
- Communicating with students. How can faculty/admin reach students? Social media, SMS, web.
- Distance learning: What works? What doesn't? Creating communities remotely.
- Online collaboration tools. Discuss platforms and approaches to drawing in users.
- What does a classroom look like in the year 2020?
- Is .edu IT dead? Students and faculty come to school with their own phones, email, and cloud web services. What is left to provide them?
- MapReduce clusters using open-source Hadoop on Elastic MapReduce.
- Making use of Amazon Web Services (EC2, SimpleDB, S3, CloudFront, SQS).
- Increasing website/application performance with memcached.
- Making use of numerous online service APIs (Google, Facebook, NYTimes, Calais).
- How hard is it to setup something like MIT's OpenCourseWare?
- Bang for the buck: services, software and strategies with proven ROI for alumni relations/advancement
- Data Integration - bridging the divide between the greybeards and SAAS via web services, middleware and lots of meetings
- Enterprise Service Buses: has their time come?
- Adobe Cocomo - developing real-time social apps for education and alumni engagement
- CRM : worth implementing?
- Working across silos (political and data)
- Data mining for donors
- Upending the model - rallying around affinity instead of locale (another alumni relations topic)
- Staying on top of new technologies to stay one step ahead of students
- Unlimited dreams, limited budgets: How to predict which services to offer
- Unlimited dreams, limited time: How to pick which (program, new technique, skill) to learn next
- Excellent Customer Service (or how to speak to them in English)
- Assessing impact: how to we measure the impact of technology deployed in the classroom? How do we prove what's successful?
- Designing and deploying learning games
- Millennials/digital natives: who are they and what do they want from the edu IT department? Maybe we should invite some of them and ask!
- Virtual presence in higher ed