About the Conference

Conference 6.0 will address the broad interests and concerns of the New Jersey Higher Education community, K-12, research institutes, hospitals and other nonprofit partners, and provide opportunities for you to explore innovations in educational and administrative technologies with your colleagues.

At a time when national economy is at a crisis level, opportunities for faculty/professional staff development are curbed. IT budgets are cut or on hold. NJEDge.Net is ready to step up and investigate course management systems, videoconferencing, help desk issues, identity management, backbone and system upgrades and other means to achieve economies of scale across the academic enterprise.

Conference 6.0 "Building a Community through Collaboration, bit by bytes" is the antidote! For 2½ days faculty, professional staff, librarians, institutional researchers, CIOs and executive administrators will see best practices, emerging technologies, vendor exhibits, and other opportunities for faculty development in an atmosphere that fosters collaboration.
 
The Early Bird Special ends September 25.  
http://njedge.net/conference2009/  Click on Registration.  When registering please enter this code for your discount:  5s3k20c1  The discount will appear at the end of the registration process.
 
At this year’s conference we are lucky to have speakers who want to frame their presentation to your questions.  They are all renowned scholars.  So please register and send your questions to conference@njedge.net.
 
*      Warren Aborgast and Scott Carlson whose Chronicle’s Tech Therapy podcast is very popular will answer your questions and shape their presentation on the subjects which are priority for you.  
*      Alex McCormick, director of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), will discuss how student evaluation can improve their chances of success and help your institution on setting benchmarks.  He wants to know your concern as a community college or a 4 year institution.
*      Ira Fuchs, Vice President for Research in Information Technology for the Mellon Foundation is speaking on “Ten years of software collaboration, what have we wrought?”  How ubiquitous is computing on your campus?
 
Register early and let us know what you want to know from these experts.
 
www.njedge.net/conference2009
 e-mail:  conference@njedge.net