The City University of New York will hold its 8th annual all-day conference devoted to instructional and information technology the first Friday in December 2009. Stressing the need to handle not just escalating change but increasing complexity, the conference will offer overviews of the University's key IT initiatives, discussions of how technology continues to change instruction, research, and administration, and a chance to hear from CUNY's faculty and IT leaders as well as to meet with vendors.

As always, the concurrent sessions will provide, in a rich array of presentations, a broad range of topics of interest to CUNY faculty, technology staff, and college administrators. Given the growing reliance on educational and administrative uses of IT by faculty, students, and staff, our increasing dependence (and interdependence) makes us especially interested in the following issues:

1. What works? How has technology not just changed but improved our instructional and administrative practices? What tests have been met? What value added? What innovations deserve to be extended and duplicated?


2. What works together? What mixtures of modes or services are available? Are we moving to the use of "mash-ups" in teaching and administration, combinations of applications that work together? How do we manage and sustain such combinations?


3. What helps us work together? What innovations allow us to be mutually supportive? What are we doing in the way of training and mentoring? How are we spreading the word to colleagues, introducing them to new methods and technologies?


4. What points to a shared direction? What changes on our horizon are most promising, most scalable and sustainable? What developments call for collaborative and strategic thinking? What changes are especially important to a multi-campus university?

Proposals should be between a paragraph and a page in length, and should include a title as well as the name and campus affiliation of each presenter. (Proposals may be made for group as well as individual presentations.) Submit a proposal using the form at http://www.dln.cuny.edu/it/proposals.html

Proposals are due by 9/15/09. Acceptances will be announced by the end of that month.

Information for last year's conference ("Instructional/Information Technology in CUNY: A Catalyst for Transformational Change") is available at http://www.centerdigitaled.com/conference.php?confid=395&past=1

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