Interesting preconferences (Enterprise Computing & Information Systems)

I have selected five interesting preconferences that have to do with our theme. Here they are:

1. Click for the Detailed Agenda of Seminar 01A of a morning preconference 1A on the needs of our new students.
2. Another interesting one is on Aligning IT Planning with New Learners. Check out the Detailed Agenda for this preconference.
3. The third interesting preconference is on the role of IT leadership. Check out the Detailed Agenda and speaker of this pre-conference (separate registration and fee are required).
4. Seminar 03P is called EnableIT: Landing a Successful ERP Solution at a University. The details are here: Agenda.
5. There is a very interesting hands-on workshop in the afternoon with a new piece of software for course management. This sounds very promising. Check out the Detailed Conference Agenda.

TALL: mapping VLE's on ELF

ELF has a very comprehensive website, which is located on www.elframework.org. It is sometimes hard to find the real gems in there. But i found something very interesting.
The Oxford University conducted the TALL Desk Study whereby they actually conducted a mapping of existing VLE's on the JISC E-Learning Framework. I haven't had the time to read it all, but it sounds very interesting as a preparation for our Edutrip. Recommended reading!

If not open source, then Shibboleth

Auricle is a very nice example of a weblog on learning technologies in Higher Education. Auricle is edited by Derek Morrison, Director of the e-learning@Bath team. Auricle is called a "private collaborative Weblog (blog) (..) as a mechanism for communicating interesting information or problems and resolutions amongst the team."
In this recent post on Shibboleth they highlight very clearly why this new technology is so much needed.

EDUCAUSE Community Blogs

Educause (the organisation that is) is also into webblogs. Just click EDUCAUSE Community Blogs and there you go.
I must tell you that this is still in beta. All in all there are 560 posts at the time of writing.

Full program not yet available

The full program for the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference is not available yet on the website. I will put a post on this weblog as soon as it is available.

Digitale Universiteit uses Creative Commons!

And now for something completely different!
The Digitale Universiteit uses a Creative Commons license. See Digitale Universiteit - Creative Commons for the details (Dutch). Would this also be an approriate license for our activities within the Edutrip?

Who should read this blog

The EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference will be held in Orlando (Florida). You can be part of it! See the link on the righthand side (>>>Edutrip) for more details in Dutch.
This blog is meant for the people interested in the theme for which I am appointed Eduguide. The theme is "Enterprise Computing & Information Systems".