There is a lot of talk, particularly from politicians about choice at the moment. And the rhetoric implies that choice is always a good thing. Sometimes, it obviously is – choice of Easter cupcake from coffee shop (lemon, chocolate, strawberry); or on a less flippant level, choice about who you vote for, where you live, [...]

Day three is always a short one in order to let everyone get home on a Friday pm. Amazing the travel time of US based attendees, some had spent nearly as much time in the air as I had even though they had travelled half as far. Reckon LA is easier to get to from [...]

Found day two a bit more difficult to find sessions at first as seemed a lot more technology focused and even the learning and teaching track sessions were around things like interoperability standards etc and the leadership track ones around infrastructure etc. Anyway I persevered and got into the session at 8am to hear more [...]

Dan Roberts, LSE Always good to travel thousands of miles to see speakers from your own city LSE have been using lecture capture for a while, they have a strict policy governing the use of lecture capture

A Discussion for Current and Prospective Bloggers Kenneth C. Green – The Campus Computing Project, Scott Jaschik – Inside Higher Ed, Joshua Kim – Dartmouth College,  Eric Stoller – Inside Higher Ed Joshua: Blogging enables you to get ideas out there fast and get good comments back – benefits of crowdsourcing your ideas. Talking to each other [...]

Session about how to support women into IT careers particularly in HE. www.ncwit.org About collaboration, understanding academic positions, relationships Susan E. Metros, Associate Vice Provost/Associate CIO/Professor , University of Southern California What is a nice girl like you doing in IT? Family conflicts for women. U of California research – over 70% of women felt made [...]

Craig A. Fowler, Chief Information Officer,Anna McFadden, Director of Academic Engagement and IT Governance Western Carolina University At its core is a teaching and learning center that reports to and receives funding from both divisions. The Center was recently named one of eleven 2010 Innovators by Campus Technology Magazine. Centre offers coaching for faculty and talk [...]

Been a bit tardy writing up my thoughts as have been so busy – takes a long time to walk from one session to another So good things/good thoughts 1. Social media session was great, so good ideas and felt inspired 2. Love organisation at Educause – loads of power sockets, fab wireless, efficient registration. [...]

Perspectives of Different Campuses: Shannon Ritter, Coordinator of Auditions, Interviews, and Admissions, School of Theatre, The Pennsylvania State University, Tanya Joosten,Interim Associate Director, Learning Technology Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, AJ Kelton, Director, Emerging Instructional Tech, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Montclair State University Grr, due to stupid laptop problem I lost all my notes from [...]

Educause 10: Opening keynote – Gary Hamel, LBS My notes from the opening keynote with some of my views in [] – will blog some more thoughts later. Online education will not be inferior to f2f education in the future, as traditionally students don’t get much face time with their professors at the moment. [Yes, online [...]