From 0 to 100% Participation in Google 2-Step Verification in 30 Days

  In November 2016, Luther College established a new policy in which Luther faculty and staff were required to enable Google 2-Step Verification on their email accounts prior to December 1 in order to log in. We made it! We’ll also share information on Google 2-Step Verification for student and alumni accounts which had later […]

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Town Hall with an EDUCAUSE Board Member

Diane Graves, University Librarian at Trinity University, is in her second of a 4-year term on the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors. She will join the CLAC conference after returning from the summer EDUCAUSE Board meeting in Colorado. At this session, attendees can ask questions, share concerns, offer advice, and hear about current and new EDUCAUSE […]

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Social Learning Platform Facilitates Deeper Engagement in Learning

  Created with student engagement in mind, Notebowl facilitates student-centered learning by empowering students to continue discussion outside of class time. While using an LMS can resemble teaching in a straight-jacket, a social learning platform expands the possibilities for student engagement as we have only begun to experiment with the platform. In supporting an innovative […]

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Reshaping IT Services for Today’s Challenges

  Liberal Arts CIOs are challenged to lead change on their campuses in ways that demand we think creatively while getting buy-in from numerous stakeholders. Two CIOs will share real examples of how they have led significant organizational and resource shifts which required change leadership skill, team coaching, and departmental partnership. Get a glimpse at […]

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Lightning Rounds

  Winning Trust: A Modular Approach to Managing Change Melissa Cresswell, Bryn Mawr College From initial discovery to implementation, increase predictability and agility by putting together repeatable approaches for gathering input, communicating decisions, engaging stakeholders, and managing questions!   TU Life: Trinity University’s Implementation of Ellucian Mobile Ender Ergun, Trinity University This lightning talk will […]

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More Than a Rebranding: A New Name for Instructional Technology at Bucknell

  In summer 2016, Bucknell’s ITEC (Instructional Technology Enhancing the Curriculum) department changed its name to Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship. As the campus community became more adept in the basics of learning management solutions, ITEC pursued opportunities for more robust uses of technology that would enhance student engagement. ITEC shifted from a transactional service-based model […]

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IT Administrative Governance: Trinity’s Roadmap Toward Implementation

  Come join us for a brief overview of Trinity University’s introduction to IT governance, followed by a deeper dive into our implementation of IT administrative governance. We’ll discuss project submission, funding, and prioritization, and will follow with a show-and-tell of our data standards manual and website presence. Come join the discussion about all things […]

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Considering a CLAC Cyber Team: A Collaboration that Enables New Approaches to Computationally-Intensive Research

  The panel will discuss the journey of small liberal arts colleges working together to develop and submit a collaborative National Science Foundation CyberTeam grant. Over the summer of 2016, a process involving shared documents and thoughtful discussion eventually produced a nine institution proposal. The submission laid out a framework for a team of three […]

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Developing Strategies to Coordinate Virtual Reality Initiatives Across CLAC Institutions

  This panel will begin with an overview of current VR initiatives, then discuss ways to organize as CLAC members to develop next steps for increasing cross-institutional collaboration and knowledge sharing for virtual and augmented reality outside the conference circuit. Augmented and virtual reality continue to be emergent topics in educational technology. This is a […]

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Thursday Keynote

Gaming experts and gamblers know and respect him as a master Card Mechanic-Manipulator who could take down any old-west casino or wipe out any high-stakes gambler. His unparalleled skill with a deck of cards has stirred and staggered audiences throughout the world. In the fall of 2017, IFC-Sundance Selects will release DEALT, a film about […]

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