News 10-02-2001
Syllabus Fall2001 Boston Area Conference:Early Bird Registration Deadline Extended
Dear Subscriber,
As disturbing and distracting as the events of the past weeks have been, Syllabus
readers continue their commitment to acquiring and sharing the technical knowledge
and insights that will make them more effective as educators, administrators,
and IT professionals within their respective colleges and universities.
Enthusiasm for Syllabus fall2001 remains high, and registration is advancing
at a pace that exceeds last year's. We hope that all members of the Syllabus
community who are so inclined will join us in Danvers (just north of Boston)
from November 29 - December 2. To that end, we're extending the early bird deadline,
which offers a 15% discount, an additional two weeks, through Sunday, October
14.
If you've already registered, we're looking forward to seeing you there. If
you've been undecided -- or just preoccupied -- please use this extension as
an opportunity to make your plans at the reduced rate. Registration is available
online at www.syllabus.com.
For registration questions, call 541) 346-3537 or (800) 280-6218.
With Best Regards,
Mary Grush
Editor and Conference Program Director
Mark Sande
Publisher
UW-Stout, Campaq Sign $25 Million Freshman Notebook Initiative
The University of Wisconsin-Stout and Compaq Computer Corp. last week signed
a $25 million, seven-year deal that will give all freshman beginning in the
Fall 2002 the latest Compaq enterprise-class notebook computer. Students will
also be provided wireless access to the Internet and the UW-Stout computer network
throughout the campus. Wisconsin Gov. Scott McCallum, who attended the signing
ceremony, said the pact will help attract high paying jobs as well as "keep
our best and brightest in Wisconsin where they belong." Many UW-Stout faculty
will redesign courses to take advantage of laptops, officals said.
For more information, visit http://www.uwstout.edu.
Stanford Rolls Out Personalized Online Services
Stanford has extended the use of a customer relationship managment application
to provide personalized online content at its business school to communities
throughout the university, said Blue Martini Software, Inc., which developed
the CRM suite. The new community portals will provide centralized access to
Stanford services and use the university's directory and authentication system
to provide a single sign-on. Based on a user's status, Stanford will be able
to configure and display targeted information. Users will be able to personalize
content, as well as the look-and-feel of their individual sites. Stanford may
enable collaborative browsing between multiple users, text-based chat, or a
campaign function that will enable Stanford to proactively reach students, faculty,
staff and alumni with personalized emails or direct mail.
For more information visit http://www.bluemartini.com.
Harvard B-School Expands Business Courses Via the Web
Harvard Business School Publishing said last week it would use the Internet
to make available its electronic learning programs in best management and business
practices to corporate groups and enterprises. HBSP said more than 1.5 million
people already use its 15 e-learning modules in three topic areas of leadership,
strategy and general management. HBSP will now offer support for companies that
wanted to make the modules available to company groups via the Internet.
For more information, contact Nancy O'Leary at Harvard Business School Publishing
http://[email protected].
Web Platform Delivers Campuswide-Class Calendar
A Salt Lake City software company is marketing what it calls the first fully
integrated web-based calender server for higher education. By integrating with
student information systems, the Campus Pipeline Enterprise Calendar enables
personal, academic, and extra-curricular calendars to be merged. The application
provides centralized access to campus information, services and communities.
The system extends campus-wide such groupware fuctions as group calendars and
scheduling, event notification, group address books, and task lists.
For more information, visit http://www.campuspipeline.com.
U. Washington to Develop Content for Virtual High Schools
The University of Washington is teaming with educational platform developer
Apex Learning to create 10 new online courses for high schools. The courses,
to include full-year chemistry, intermediate algebra, pre-calculus, introduction
to American literature, U.S. history and earth sciences, and one semester geography,
Internet, sociology and psychology courses, "will be redesigned to include
more self-directed quizzes, animations and other innovations, which will eventually
also be useful to university-level students," said Dave Szatmary, vice
provost for UW Educational Outreach. UW invests in high school online curriculum
development to help ease the transition of high school students to the university
level, he added. UW curently offers 11 distance learning degrees, 24 online
certification programs and more than 300 courses with nearly 10,000 enrollments
each year.
For more information, visit http://www.apexlearning.com.
Duke B-School and Teradata Team on CRM Course
Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Teradata, a division of NCR
Corp. that markets database analytic tools, are collaborating to hold an executive
education program in customer relationship management (CRM). The program, to
be held Nov. 19-20, will be taught by Martha Rogers, an adjunct professor and
co-founder of Peppers and Rogers, a CRM consultancy, and Julie Edell, associate
professor of marketing at Fuqua. Peter Heffring, president of the Teradata CRM
division, will be a guest lecturer on the program.
For more information, visit http://www.ee.fuqua.duke.edu.
ASU Begins Pilot of Online Procurement System
American Management Systems said last week that Arizona State University (ASU)
had launched a pilot of the company's online procurement system, dubbed "buysense,"
which has been tailored for the higher ed and state and local government markets.
AMS claims buysense is the first hosted, scalable, multi-jurisdictional, online
marketplace for the public sector commodity market. The system plugs into ASU's
existing AMS Advantage financial software system to manage between 100,000 and
150,000 procurement transactions. It allows the university's 2,500 authorized
buyers from their desktop computers to search online catalogs and order pre-negotiated
goods and serivces, including office, scientific, and maintenance supplies.
For more information, visit http://www.buysense.com.
CoursePacks Bring Current Events into the Classroom
XanEdu, a division of higher education publisher ProQuest Information and Learning,
announced an online course module providing students collections of copyright-cleared
news and feature articles to update their studies. The company said its TopicPacks
will help fill the gap between when a textbook was published and the present
by providing access to focused, contemporary readings. The TopicPacks, which
target subjects in education, composition, developmental reading, marketing
and management, include exercises and links to web sites. TopicPacks are available
for a limited time, and at less than $10 are priced to be affordable to students.
For more information, visit: http://xanedu.com/topic/education.
Korean Universities Seek Help for Bandwidth Hunger
Twenty-seven Korean universities, including Seoul National University and the
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, have added new networking
software to accelerate content distrubution across their networks. To help manage
rapidly increasing traffic loads brought on by streaming media and other sources
of rich content, the universities are using networking software from Inktomi
Inc. The software helps optimize busy networks by decentralizing the distribution
of content across the network and eliminate the originating server backhaul.
Sunghoon Sung, a network manager at KAIST, said the school had 6,800 nodes and
heavy Web traffic. The Inktomi software helped the university lower its overall
bandwidth requirements.
For more information, visit, http//www.inktomi.com.
Online Library Adds Princeton Press to List
Questia Media, Inc., which bills itself as the world's largest online library,
said last week that Princeton University Press, an independent publisher connected
with Princeton University, has joined its list of publishing partners. The company
expects to digitize and add to its collection more than 2,500 scholarly books
in humanities and social sciences from the Princeton collection over the next
five years. Questia Media, Inc., founded in 1998, launched an online library
with search and writing tools to help students write better papers faster. The
company provides access to the full-text of a large collection of books, and
tools including highlighter, markup, automatic footnotes and a bibliography
builder.
For more information, visit http//www.questia.com.
Don't Miss These Upcoming Events from 101communications
TDWI Seminar Series 2001
Minneapolis, MN - October 1-5
San Francisco, CA - October 22-26
FOR MORE INFO, VISIT:
http://www.dw-institute.com/seminars2001
XML One & Web Services One
September 30-October 4
San Jose, CA
http://www.xmlconference.com/sanjose/index.asp
Integration Solutions
October 24-26
http://www.integration-sols.co.uk/
The premiere conference and exhibition to bring together the developer community.
Syllabus fall2001 "Next Steps: Moving Forward with Campus IT"
November 29-December 2
Danvers, MA.
Online registration available: http://www.syllabus.com
