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Effect” NLS Summit A group of 53 college And university executives from it to planning came together for the inaugural new learning space (nls) summit. the all-day lecture and roundtable event, sponsored by Amx with content partner thorburn Associates, focused on the topics of innovations in automation and control, sustainability and the green movement, creating a safe and secure campus, and connecting with content capture and vod in distance learning. one of the liveliest discussions stemmed from a sustainability lecture led by Amx director of technical sales michael carter. “the greenest building we can build is the one that doesn’t get built,” said carter. the question posed was how to make those that already exist more efficient. carter, who has vast experience in the green arena, educated attendees about two new standards that are in the works, pointing out that leed has become fairly standard practice for new learning spaces. one is the international green construction code (igcc), which will mandate reporting energy usage and which carter said is likely to become law. Another is the infocomm step program, which he said is “like leed for Av.” michael peveler, vice president of education at Amx, pointed out some of the many ways to create a safe and secure campus, and said access control and theft prevention are good places to start. “discouraging theft discourages other negative behaviors,” he said. While most attendees agreed they had a long way to go in fully utilizing Av for security purposes, some shared their successes, like the ability to take over all campus displays in the event of an emergency, which peveler said is something all campuses should aim for. –Kristen Domonell The largest EduComm exhibit hall to date introduced attendees to more than 40 higher ed technology and service providers. A broad range of breakout topics, from learning technologies to social media, sometimes resulted in standing (or, in this case, sitting) room only sessions. topics from online learning and smart classroom design, to best practices in recruitment, social media, and learning assessment. “One session, for example, was by some folks from Seton Hill [Pa.] called ‘We All Have iPads, Now What?.’ ” Davis says. “We’re a small private university. What they did seemed very scalable to us.” Another was a session called “Unleashing Your Inner Spielberg,” tries) indicates that by 2015, tools and automation will eliminate 25 percent of it labor hours. today, goldworm said, “70 percent of it dollars are spent just keeping the lights on”—that is, on operations/maintenance tasks. As the number of hours required to get the job done is reduced, the skill level of the it administrator goes up and hopefully the delivery gets better. use of the cloud is now what cios report may make or break a career. “in studies we’ve done, [cios] tell us their success and failure is really dependent on how well they do this,” she said. universitybusiness.com by Brian Klaas of the Johns Hopkins (Md.) Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology. “That session has inspired us to create a formal studio on campus where teachers could do a professional podcast or lecture capture,” says Davis. “We found that information invaluable.” The group continues to meet to discuss solutions based on the breakout sessions. “It was a wonderful experience all around and really got the grey matter ticking with some great ideas,” he says. “We are still actively conducting what we call EduComm Debriefs to sort through it all. It had a lasting effect on us.” —Tim Goral (Full disclosure: Life University won a promotion for the school that sent the most people to EduComm. They spent a free evening at EPCOT.) infrastructure, she said. “make sure that as you move down this path—if you’re going to do desktop virtualization, get your desktop guys to talk to the server guys, and to talk to the storage guys ... because if they’re not talking to each other you are bound to run into those issues where you’re not going to solve your storage problem—you’re going to fail,” goldworm cautioned. “this is the most important time to get your silo organizations working together if you want to succeed.” —Melissa Ezarik September 2011 | 55 goldworm noted several campus cloud possibilities, some already popular. she sees the top cloud candidates as email, calendaring, word processing, personal storage, and admissions. With security seen as the biggest barrier to cloud adoption, email’s popularity as a cloud application is interesting, she said. Web systems and portals for student records, registration, financial management, and bursar’s functions in the cloud should also be considered. What’s the key to advancing virtualization? A well-managed, optimized, automated virtual http://www.universitybusiness.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - September 2011

University Business - September 2011
Contents
Editor's Note
College Index
Ad Index
Behind the News
Viewpoint
Financial Aid
Money Matters
Internet Technology
Shared Governance
Acknowledging Achievement
Looking Back
Spotlight on Procurement
EduComm 2011
End Note

University Business - September 2011