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Join hosts Gerry Bayne and Colleen Luckett for the October edition of EDUCAUSE Now! This month we celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month as we talk with the National Cyber Security Alliance. EDUCAUSE Now is a monthly podcast, focusing on the intelligent use of information technology in higher education.  

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
(01:50–7:22)
The National Cyber Security Alliance kicked off October with a new student outreach initiative. We talk with Aimee Larson Kirkpatrick from the NCSA, about their strategy for this year’s theme, “Our Shared Responsibility.”

This podcast features an interview with Michael Hites, Associate Vice President of Administrative Information Technology Services (AITS) at the University of Illinois Central Administration. The session referenced in this podcast, "Time for an Upgrade of IT Governance," was given at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Enterprise Conference.

As campus technology begins to mature and stabilize, IT organizations can partner with functional areas to help them review their processes and leverage existing technology to improve information flow, increase efficiency, and allow people to focus on customers rather than chase technology. This interview with Kevin P. Lynch, CIO of Clarkson University, offers insight into the way his IT staff has reached out to other departments at the university, helping to streamline work-flow and gain efficiencies. This is often done without losing personnel or adding any new technology. He presented his session, "Process Review: Helping Others Help Themselves," at the 2009 NERCOMP Conference.

This podcast features an interview with Patricia Steele, Dean of Libraries at the University of Maryland, and Carolyn Walters, Interim Ruth Lilly Dean of Libraries at Indiana University. It was recorded at the 2009 EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference.

Join host Gerry Bayne and Colleen Luckett for the September edition of EDUCAUSE Now! This month we take a look at the adoption of social media in the classroom, the EDUCAUSE 2009 Awards, and accessibility issues for faculty and students. EDUCAUSE Now is a monthly podcast, focusing on the intelligent use of information technology in higher education.  

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The Digital Native/Digital Immigrant Myth: Implications of Social Media in Pedagogy
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What factors contribute to faculty adoption of new social media tools for teaching and learning? What are the implications of these practices for effective pedagogy? We host several higher education professionals with a focus on social media for a roundtable discussion on the subject. At the table:

If you're interested in what the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference has to offer teaching and learning professionals, this podcast will provide insight into sessions and events surrounding the teaching and learning topic areas. Julie Little, Senior Director for Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development, talks about the wide variety of opportunities at this year's conference.

EDUCAUSE 2009, November 3–6 in Denver, an unsurpassed opportunity to tap into an expansive pool of the best thinking in higher education IT. We're offering the richest member-driven program ever, keenly focused on providing you with the kind of tangible value you can take back to campus and use all year long.

Are you an IT Security professional interested in what the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference has to offer? In this podcast, Rodney Petersen, EDUCAUSE Government Relations Officer and Director of EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity Initiative, gives insight into sessions and events that will interest IT security professionals at the conference.

EDUCAUSE 2009, November 3–6 in Denver, an unsurpassed opportunity to tap into an expansive pool of the best thinking in higher education IT. We're offering the richest member-driven program ever, keenly focused on providing you with the kind of tangible value you can take back to campus and use all year long.

This podcast features a discussion recorded at the ELI 2009 Annual Conference. This roundtable conversation includes Carole Wedge, President of Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, architects and specialists in education projects, and Barbara Weaver, Senior Consultant for Faculty Relations and Innovation at Clemson University.

What makes some learning spaces robust seedbeds for interactivity, and others flat and unproductive? How do we translate design principles and best practices to enrich our campus physical and virtual learning environments? Wedge and Weaver talk about the tools and collaboration needed to design an innovative and useful learning space, which centers around a common starting point: pedagogy.

This podcast features a discussion recorded at the ELI 2009 Annual Conference. The roundtable conversation concerns assessment of student learning in the digital age. What does assessment look like in a Web 2.0 world? As new ways of expressing learning (creating YouTube videos, editing Wikipedia entries, participating in social network communities) become more prevelant and the role of faculty shifts, how do we measure student success? Can faculty form partnerships to better understand and integrate technology into teaching? Our discussion includes: