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Conference Tracks
Track
1: Emerging and Future Educational Technology
Track
2: Teaching and Learning
Track
3: Student and Community Services
Track
4: Leadership and Organizational Development
Track
5: Enterprisewide Systems and Infrastructures
Track
6: Workforce Partnerships and Collaborations
Track
7: Math, Science, Allied Health, and Vocational Education
Track
1:
Emerging and Future Educational Technology
Each year, Track One focuses on an emerging technology
believed to be of particular interest to educators. For the 2005
CIT, the special focus for Track One is Gaming and Simulations
and Their Implications for Community Colleges. As increasing
numbers of faculty members use games and simulations to support
learning and more and more community colleges create gaming and
simulations academic programs, what are the pros and cons educators
should consider? Proposals targeted toward this focus area should
encourage an exchange of ideas about how community colleges can
anticipate and meet future educational, training, and organizational
needs related to gaming and simulations.
Although gaming and simulations are the special focus of the 2005
CIT,
other proposal topics
related to the use of information technology at community and
technical colleges were strongly encouraged.
Track
2:
Teaching and Learning
This track focuses on innovative technology applications for
teaching and learning. Topics include:
- Examining the
role and function of educational technology in the 21st Century
- Examining the
impact of technology on research
- Evaluating the
impact of technology on student learning
- Using computer-assisted
and multimedia instruction
- Integrating
broadband services into instruction
- Using software
in the health occupations classroom
- Using technology
to promote interactivity in asynchronous learning
- Using technology
for assessment and evaluation
- Using multimedia
computers in health occupations education
- Building instructional
communities on the Web
- Using technology
to support the acquisition of higher-order skills by students
- Implementing
technology-based course management systems
- Creating and
supporting new opportunities for electronic books
- Integrating
Web-based information into instruction
- Integrating
the increasingly global marketplace into instruction
Also included in
this track are:
- The Librarian's
role in the electronic age
- The management,
support, and upgrading of libraries/LRCs in the networked environment
- The assessment
of libraries/LRCs in support of campus missions
- The availability
of library resources and support to off-campus courses and distant
students
- The role of
libraries/LRCs in information literacy
Track
3:
Student and Community Services
Giving
special attention to the critical role of student services in addressing
diverse and rapidly changing student needs, this track covers the
range of ways technology is being used to deliver student services
effectively and efficiently. Included in the track are innovative
applications for:
- Recruitment
- Admissions
- Registration
- Enrollment management
- Orientation
- Retention
- Counseling
- Advisement
- Assessment
- Placement
- Tutoring
- Course articulation
information
- Grade checks
- Official transcripts
- Financial aid
- Help desks
- Adaptive and
assistive technologies
- Reducing inequities
in access to information technology and the Internet
Track
4:
Leadership and Organizational Development
This track focuses on leadership and management topics related
to integrating information technology into institutions of higher
education, including:
- Selecting and
developing IT faculty/staff
- Implementing
IT faculty/staff incentive systems
- Planning for
IT-related disasters and emergencies
- Encouraging
faculty use of technology and providing support systems
- Managing software
licensing agreements
- Marketing your
college using multimedia technology
- Implementing
executive information systems
- Increasing staff
involvement and support for initiatives related to technology
- Measuring and
leveraging technology investments
- Addressing leasing
as a cost-effective alternative
- Planning and
funding technology initiatives
- Leading for
instructional quality control and accreditation
- Effectively
dealing with competition from the business sector
- Creating effective
academic and technological organizational structures
- Evaluating the
effect of technology on the college and its students
- Policy and legal
issues (i.e., intellectual property, plagiarism, privacy) related
to the use of information technology in higher education
Track
5:
Enterprisewide Systems and Infrastructures
The critical and constantly evolving systems that underlie information
technology applications and services, effective means for managing
IT infrastructures, and high-end administrative systems using Web
technologies are the focus of this track. Topics include developing,
implementing, and maintaining technology systems used throughout
colleges including:
- New security
and controls
- Kiosk systems
- Video systems
- Information
management systems
- Telephone systems
- Network applications
- Mobile and wireless
computing
- Broadband access
- Smart classrooms
- Enterprisewide
software
- e-Commerce solutions
- e-Learning initiatives
(e.g., online student support systems, portal design and support,
and course management software)
Track
6:
Workforce Partnerships and Collaborations
As institutions
of higher education enter a new century, they continue to build
creative technology-based linkages with a wide range of partners-other
institutions of higher education, public schools, community and
government organizations, businesses and industries, state and local
workforce systems, as well as organizations in other countries.
Included in this track is the latest information on how educational
institutions are preparing technologically literate students for
success in an ever-changing technological workplace.
- Partnerships
involving joint investigations
- Opportunities
for technology-related industrial training and education
- Cooperative
models for developing instructional materials and articulation
- agreements related
to technology
- Joint efforts
between colleges and school districts to integrate the use of
- the Internet
in K-12 education
- Collaborative
staff development
- Strategic alliances
that expose students to the applications of technology
- Partnerships
dedicated to introducing students to nontraditional careers
- Partnerships
that provide electronically-linked collaborative classes
- Alliances formed
to develop joint educational technology policy directives and
seek educational technology funding
- Partnerships
to bring digital opportunities and programs to families left behind
by the technology revolution
Track
7:
Math, Science, Allied Health, and Vocational Education
Given special
consideration will be proposals that explore how the internet and
related information and communication technologies are being used to
support and improve learning and student achievement in vocational,
technical, and physical education. This track also aims to
facilitate the dialogue among mathematicians, scientists, health
care professionals, engineers, and technologists in academia and
industry who use computer technology in scientific and engineering
research and education programs at all levels.
Topics include:
- Promoting the
exchange of information among scientists, mathematicians, and
engineers
- Developing and
using computers and other scientific methods and technologies
for research and education
- Activities designed
to increase the participation of women and minorities and others
underrepresented in math, science, allied health, and technology
- Providing skill
standards, internships, and educational programs that prepare
skilled technicians to work in math, science, allied health, and
biotechnology careers
Identifying methods for recruiting and retaining underrepresented
minorities
- Linking community
college math, science, allied health, and technology programs
to high schools and baccalaureate institutions
- Strengthening
basic math and science critical thinking skills
- Increasing work-based
math, science, allied health, and technology learning opportunities
for students
- Professional
development activities for faculty and staff in math, science,
allied health, and technology programs
- Legal, ethical,
and social issues impacting math, science, allied health, and
technology programs
- Math, science,
allied health, and technology projects that prepare students for
careers in industry, business, and government
- Using visualization
and symbolic and numerical computation to aid student learning
of mathematics
- Determining
how educational technologies are transforming science, technology,
engineering, allied health, and mathematics education
- Using computers
to develop students' mathematical understanding and problem solving
skills
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