2006 Conference Guest Speakers



Professional Development Session I: June 12th, 8:00 AM
Making a Campus TEACH Act Compliant

Linda K. Enghagen, J.D.
Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

The TEACH Act addresses a gap in copyright law that allowed certain types of materials to be used in traditional face-to-face classrooms in ways not allowed in distance education courses. In doing so, Congress sought to preserve the balance between the interests of the owners of copyright protected works and those of users in nonprofit educational settings. The TEACH Act seeks to maintain that balance by imposing certain administrative and technological prerequisites on institutions of higher education that seek to utilize its expanded rights. This presentation will review those requirements and provide examples of what some institutions have done to comply.

Linda Enghagen is an attorney and Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She teaches Cyberlaw at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and developed a corporate training program entitled Information Technology and the Law: Software, the Internet and E-mail in conjunction with the PBS Business & Technology Network. She is a Research Specialist for Sloan-C and regularly offers online workshops for them entitled Copyright Compliance for Online Educators.

Ms. Enghagen's scholarly contributions related to intellectual property are directed to the needs of faculty members. Her publications include two books, Technology and Higher Education: Approaching the 21st Century and Fair Use Guidelines for Educators, as well as numerous articles such as Fair Use in an Electronic World and Copyright Law and Fair Use-Why Ignorance Isn't Bliss. She also authors pamphlets and brochures about copyright law such as Copyright Compliance Made Simple: Six Rules for Course Design, Educators, Technology and the Law: Common Questions/Direct Answers and Legal Literacy in the Information Age: Ten (easy to understand) Rules of Thumb.

Professional Development Session II: June 12th, 8:00 AM
Getting the Right People on the Right Projects at the Right Time

Ernie Nielsen
Managing Director of Project Management Office
Brigham Young University

From 2001 until recently, Ernie has been the Managing Director for Enterprise Project Management at Brigham Young University. Under his guidance, the processes that support effective implementation of strategic initiatives have been defined and implemented, while reducing the cost of implementation each year for the past three years. Prior to joining the CIO's team at BYU, Ernie was the founding Director of the Stanford Advanced Project Management Program at Stanford University. Ernie has assisted the development of effective project management and portfolio management processes at many global organizations in countries around the world, including Singapore, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Central American countries, Australia, New Zealand, and many companies in the United States. Ernie is the author or co-author of 14 university level texts on project management, portfolio management, IT Governance, Interpersonal Problem Solving, resource management. He is married to Sue and they have 5 children. The Nielsen family lives in Utah. Ernie recently became CIO, VP Information Technology at Brigham Young University.

During the past four years, Brigham Young University (BYU) has successfully implemented a simple, yet comprehensive process for supporting the prioritization of projects based on strategic need and resource availability. The result is a shortened budgeting process, higher satisfaction from IT customers on campus, and immediate response to the strategic needs of IT customers.

Plenary Session: June 12th, 1:40 PM
How Telecommunications Reform can Impact Your Campus: CALEA and Friends

Wendy Wigen
Policy Analyst
EDUCAUSE

While the technical aspects of converging telecommunications with the Internet are well underway, the policy questions are still being hotly debated. In particular, this presentation will give you background and updates on the status of such controversial topics as the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) and the debate over net neutrality.

Wendy Wigen is a Policy Analyst at EDUCAUSE where she covers Internet and telecommunications policy issues such as CALEA, E911, VoIP and telecom reform. She is the editor of the bi-weekly newsletter, the Washington Update, and has written several articles for EDUCAUSE Review. Wendy did her undergraduate work at the University of Puget Sound and has an MS from Syracuse University in Information Management.

Keynote Presentation: June 13th, 9:00 AM
Integrating Tradition and Technology

Diana G. Oblinger, Ph.D.
Vice President
EDUCAUSE

Information technology has catalyzed the creation of new forms of communication, self-expression, and collaboration. The distributed cognition enabled by social networking, podcasting, and videoblogging aligns well with the habits of today's learners. And, with the Web as learners' information universe, no learner is ever far from information resources. This presentation explores how well education is keeping pace with user expectations, IT capabilities, learning principles, and cultural shifts.

Dr. Diana G. Oblinger is Vice President for EDUCAUSE, responsible for the association's teaching and learning activities and the director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Adult and Community College Education at North Carolina State University.

Dr. Oblinger has held positions in business and academia. She served as the Vice President for Information Resources and the Chief Information Officer for the 16-campus University of North Carolina system where she was responsible for strategic planning and policy development for information technology as well as for collaborative programs in teaching and learning with technology, student services, and IT procurement. She was on the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia and at Michigan State University. At the University of Missouri, she served as an academic dean.

At Microsoft she served as the Executive Director of Higher Education. She also held a variety of management positions within IBM's higher education division. In addition, she was the IBM Director of the Institute for Academic Technology.

She serves on a variety of boards including the National Science Foundation's Directorate of Education and Human Resources, the National Academies Forum on Information Technology and Research Universities, and the editorial board of Open Learning. She chairs the National Visiting Committee for the National Science Digital Library project for National Science Foundation.

Oblinger is the co-author of the book What Business Wants from Higher Education and is co-editor of six books: The Learning Revolution, The Future Compatible Campus, Renewing Administration, E is for Everything, Best Practices in Student Services, and Educating the Net Generation. She is the author or co-author of dozens of monographs and articles on higher education and technology.

She holds three degrees from Iowa State University: a B.S. in Botany, an M.S. in Plant Breeding and a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Cytogenetics. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi.