Unlocking auditory-based learning, voice tech is helping students grasp material in an interactive way—and one that’s accessible and convenient, says UB guest columnist and UB Tech featured speaker Sanjay Pothen. Pothen is director of Emerson Launch, the center for entrepreneurship and innovation at Emerson College in Boston.
Sanjay Pothen, director of Emerson Launch at Emerson College, plans to demonstrate the voice skills that he and Emerson students created, during his UB Tech 2020 presentation on how to integrate voice technology into the curriculum.
Building support through research and gaining traction from the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements will help level the playing field for women leaders in higher ed IT, says UB guest columnist and UB Tech featured speaker Elizabeth Clark, who is deputy CIO at Harvard Business School.
Encourage your students to use their phones to lock into—rather than tune out—class through instructional tools, says UB guest columnist Brent Warner, who is a professor of English as a second language at Irvine Valley College and who will be co-presenting a UB Tech keynote address with Timothy VanNorman, instructional technologist at Irvine.
Leaders must understand workplace gender bias, examine their cultures and work to change inequitable practices, says UB guest columnist Amy Diehl, who is chief information technology officer at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and a featured speaker at UB Tech’s Women in Technology pre-conference.
Having the right audiovisual technology to support communication and collaboration is important for this purpose-driven space, says UB guest columnist Nick Swayne, who is a UB Tech® 2020 speaker and the founding director of JMU X-Labs at James Madison University.
Connect data with decision-making to compete and thrive—or paltry prospects and eroding enrollments will continue, says UB guest columnist and UB Tech featured speaker Jason Simon. Simon, who is associate vice president for Data, Analytics, and Institutional Research at the University of North Texas, provides strategies for getting started.
UB guest columnist and UB Tech featured speaker Damian Doyle addresses how to enable faculty and staff to easily work with data, using their preferred tools, while maintaining security. Doyle is assistant vice president of enterprise infrastructure solutions at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Retired Brig. Gen. Charles Shugg of the U.S. Air Force answers the top three questions higher ed leaders ask when addressing cybersecurity risk management on campus. A UB guest columnist and UB Tech featured speaker, Shugg is chief operating officer and partner for the Sylint Group Inc.
