Educause 2009 Highlights for UCIST

Andrea Chappell, ISTUCIST meeting

27 November 2009http://www.educause.edu/E2009

Educause

~400 sessions in 2.5 days 250 vendors at the exhibition 5-6000 attendees? Down from ~8000 First time online audience (streaming) Big topics (from my view)

› Current economic down-turn› ID Mgmt› Cloud computing› Mobile› LMSes

Sessions relevant to UCIST

Centralized and Decentralized IT Notes from keynotes Online learning trends Cloud computing (private, public) Sustainable IT

Central and distributed IT – a workshop

U. of Wisconscin/Milwaukee and Cornell Central & distributed IT need to be

strategic partners for services to campus

Service layer model (instead of central/ de-central silos)› Leverage – where centralization gains

efficiencies› Edge – special services for local needs

Is IT at UW on the right path?

First, “know thyself” (campus culture, budget structure, governance, etc.)

Next, need to know what we all do (recent CTSC exercise)

Then need to know who does the same things, and why (CTSC ongoing)

Find (together) the best mix of “leverage and edge”, to build trust

Keynote: Good to Great and the Social Sectors – Jim Collins

What distinguishes good from great under similar circumstance? 5 stages of decline

1. Hubris born of success – avoided by great leadership

2. Undisciplined pursuit of more3. Denial of risk4. Grasping for salvation5. Capitulation to irrelevance and death

Advice from Collins

Set up your own governance – a personal character Board of Directors

Get young people in your face (for UW, hire co-ops)

Turn off gadgets, create whitespace to THINK

Double your question:statement ratio Start a stop-doing list

Another takeaway …

In corporations, CEOs have all power (98/100 pts). Universities have tenured faculty with “1000 pts of no”. Have to architect conditions for power by collaboration, shared interests. True leadership is when people follow even if they have freedom not to. Have not come to the conclusion that hire ed should model itself like business!

Keynote: Getting Copyright Right – Lawrence Lessig

Ecology of creativity has different business models, copyright appropriate to one may harm another.

Ecology of “Britney Spears” copyright Ecology of Science Ecology of Education

Change the law? Hopeless Change norms/practices?

Creative commons project “some rights reserved” (e.g., share, remix, but not for commercial)

Online Learning Tech Trends

Digital content innovations, like e-books, creates environment for “content as a service”

Move from inputs to outcomes: pressure from individuals (eportfolio), gov’t, institutions, for measurement

Web 2.0 (again, still) and also distributed apps and services (cloud)

Online Learning - Takeaways

Moodle and Sakai, the open systems, are accepted, respected products

IMS standards for learning application interoperability (Blackboard can talk to Moodle apps, can pull in SpACE app, ..)

Mobile going to full saturation – “so what?” or “so what’s next?”?

Central LMS versus model of Web 2.0 debate continues

Cloud computing (SaaS, HaaS, IaaS, PaaS, AaaS, etc.)

Provisioning for a wide range of IT capabilities through a combination of hardware, operating systems, applications, storage, with a rich set of customizable services.

Redefining relationship between user and provider, educational and commercial market

Public Cloud – purchase on pay per component

Private Cloud - your own in-house

Private Cloud – NC State

Virtual computing lab (2004)› Open source implementation› 4 physical data centres› Encompasses > 2000 compute engines

A new tech paradigm: control more in the hands of the user rather than “doled out” by IT (yet can be made “safe”)

New business paradigm for IT capacity planning

Still, a “miracle occurs here” step from where you are now

Public Cloud – When to use? For commodity services – where

your institution adds no value (gmail often used as e.g.)

To introduce disruptive technologies› E.g, go where the users are - iTunes, FB,

YT, Twitter (why re-invent?) For JIT computing and niche apps

Green IT (Stanford)

Three main areas to attack PCs/Office Equip

› Power mgmt (auto turn off) and phantom power reduction (Smartstrips, turns off peripherals when computer goes stand-by)

Datacenters/Server rooms – meaure PUE (power usage effectiveness)

HPC – plan to build own bldg, cloud

What you can do with data, funding, gov’t policy and sustainability office, and high concentration of interested parties

URLs to some talks

Blackboard, Moodle, and Sakai (video) LMS or Web 2.0 (slides, no video) Mobiles (no materials posted yet?) Private Cloud (no materials posted

yet?) Public Cloud (slides, no video) Sustainable IT (slides, no video)