IT Seminars

Are you involved in delivering a distance taught course or considering developing one? If so, this session is for you: find out how two University of Otago departments are using the internet, DVD-ROMs and online conferencing to deliver effective distance learning programs, and foster collaborative partnerships with overseas partner institutions. Topics covered include: * planning and course development * selecting appropriate technologies * delivering your course * collaboration - managing email, forums and synchronous communication through chat, IM and audio conferencing. The profiled case studies are using systems developed by OceanBrowser Ltd, a Dunedin elearning company, using an approach which is particularly suited for courses with complex course content requirements, or where internet access is poor or offline access is required. The principles discussed however are equally applicable to courses using mainstream systems such as Blackboard. The session will include demonstrations of the courses and software discussed, including a live demonstration of web-based audio conferencing, which combines traditional phone conferencing with internet phones. This approach allows teachers to manage an audio conference entirely from a web browser. This Seminar will be of interest to teaching staff, and anyone involved in supporting the delivery of distance courses. Who: Rodney Tamblyn, OceanBrowser Ltd When: 1pm, Thursday 4 October, Where: St. David Seminar Room 2.

Are you involved in delivering a distance taught course or considering developing one? If so, this session is for you: find out how two University of Otago departments are using the internet, DVD-ROMs and online conferencing to deliver effective distance learning programs, and foster collaborative partnerships with overseas partner institutions. Topics covered include:

* planning and course development

* selecting appropriate technologies

* delivering your course

* collaboration - managing email, forums and synchronous communication through chat, IM and audio conferencing. The profiled case studies are using systems developed by OceanBrowser Ltd, a Dunedin elearning company, using an approach which is particularly suited for courses with complex course content requirements, or where internet access is poor or offline access is required. The principles discussed however are equally applicable to courses using mainstream systems such as Blackboard.

The session will include demonstrations of the courses and software discussed, including a live demonstration of web-based audio conferencing, which combines traditional phone conferencing with internet phones. This approach allows teachers to manage an audio conference entirely from a web browser. This Seminar will be of interest to teaching staff, and anyone involved in supporting the delivery of distance courses. Who: Rodney Tamblyn, OceanBrowser Ltd

When: 1pm, Thursday 4 October, Where: St. David Seminar Room 2.

Part two of the "Health Sciences Framework - The Smart Way of being lazy" seminar. This is a technical demonstration. Who: Jesse Meek, Website and Database Developer, Health Sciences, When: 1pm Thursday 13 September, Where: Committee Room 1, Information Services Building.

Part two of the "Health Sciences Framework - The Smart Way of being lazy" seminar. This is a technical demonstration. Who: Jesse Meek, Website and Database Developer, Health Sciences, When: 1pm Thursday 13 September, Where: Committee Room 1, Information Services Building.

Following on from the last IT Seminar on Identity and Access Management, this seminar show cases the Health Sciences solution to identity, access and work flow management: nicknamed 'The Framework'. The Framework provides solutions to several points of debate arising from the last seminar, such as 'multiple identity vs. multiple role' and 'flexible business logic versus large scale management'. The Framework offers an alternative to the 'local problem ==> proprietary solution' dynamic and all its hidden pit falls. In its place, the Framework supports rapid development of local solutions for local problems. In so doing, though, the framework looses no opportunity to take advantage of and leverage off already developed solutions. Such solutions may exist within the Framework's central code library (utilised by the divisional community of developers), a proprietary technology, another university, a web service and so on. On the technical side, while the framework's own language is PHP, those solutions developed within the framework are available for use by any language on any server. In addition, any application within the framework can be run on all major databases, without recoding the application. Such features are indicative of the Framework's flexible architecture. The framework's Content Management System and Access Control List will be demonstrated from the point of view of a departmental staff member and a departmental webmaster. While there will be some references to the technical underpinnings of the development the Seminar will focus on the concepts behind the Framework, and will be suitable for both general and technical audiences. Who: Jesse Meek, Website and Database Developer, Health Sciences. When: 1pm Thursday 6 September. Where: Seminar Room, University College.

Following on from the last IT Seminar on Identity and Access Management, this seminar show cases the Health Sciences solution to identity, access and work flow management: nicknamed 'The Framework'. The Framework provides solutions to several points of debate arising from the last seminar, such as 'multiple identity vs. multiple role' and 'flexible business logic versus large scale management'. The Framework offers an alternative to the 'local problem ==> proprietary solution' dynamic and all its hidden pit falls. In its place, the Framework supports rapid development of local solutions for local problems. In so doing, though, the framework looses no opportunity to take advantage of and leverage off already developed solutions. Such solutions may exist within the Framework's central code library (utilised by the divisional community of developers), a proprietary technology, another university, a web service and so on. On the technical side, while the framework's own language is PHP, those solutions developed within the framework are available for use by any language on any server. In addition, any application within the framework can be run on all major databases, without recoding the application. Such features are indicative of the Framework's flexible architecture. The framework's Content Management System and Access Control List will be demonstrated from the point of view of a departmental staff member and a departmental webmaster. While there will be some references to the technical underpinnings of the development the Seminar will focus on the concepts behind the Framework, and will be suitable for both general and technical audiences. Who: Jesse Meek, Website and Database Developer, Health Sciences. When: 1pm Thursday 6 September. Where: Seminar Room, University College.

'Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Serving corporate and academic sectors, the company ensures the best user experience through superior quality VoIP, communications that are in-sync regardless of connection speed, broad cross-platform support, and advanced yet easy-to-use moderator tools.' This demonstration will be of particular interest to anyone interested in live video/audio/text collaboration. Date: Tuesday, 28 August Time: 9:30am-11am. Place: St David Seminar Room 1 Presenter: Greg Wood. As well as the audio/video recordings of this seminar, the online session was also recorded as an Elluminate recording, and may be accessed at the following site: http://www.tinyurl.com/ypye7e

'Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Serving corporate and academic sectors, the company ensures the best user experience through superior quality VoIP, communications that are in-sync regardless of connection speed, broad cross-platform support, and advanced yet easy-to-use moderator tools.' This demonstration will be of particular interest to anyone interested in live video/audio/text collaboration. Date: Tuesday, 28 August Time: 9:30am-11am. Place: St David Seminar Room 1 Presenter: Greg Wood. As well as the audio/video recordings of this seminar, the online session was also recorded as an Elluminate recording, and may be accessed at the following site: http://www.tinyurl.com/ypye7e

'Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Serving corporate and academic sectors, the company ensures the best user experience through superior quality VoIP, communications that are in-sync regardless of connection speed, broad cross-platform support, and advanced yet easy-to-use moderator tools.' This demonstration will be of particular interest to anyone interested in live video/audio/text collaboration.

Date: Tuesday, 28 August

Time: 9:30am-11am. Place: St David Seminar Room 1

Presenter: Greg Wood. As well as the audio/video recordings of this seminar, the online session was also recorded as an Elluminate recording, and may be accessed at the following site: http://www.tinyurl.com/ypye7e

In these increasingly connected times, the efficient and secure delivery of personalised services to all members of the University (staff, students and visitors) is fast becoming an expectation. In the near future our ability to share teaching, learning and research services and facilities with other tertiary institutions, at home and abroad, will critically depend on our ability to identify and verify electronically who we are and where we are from. Sound identity and access management is central to University meeting these expectations, and it is a hot topic for tertiary institutions around the world. This seminar will explain what identity and access management is, who is ?doing it, and what we are doing about it at Otago. Presenters: * Barbara Taylor, Library. * Jenny McDonald, HEDC. * Mark Borrie, Information Security, ITS * Neil James, IT Strategy and Policy, ITS. When: Thursday 2nd August at 1:00pm. Where: Seminar Room, University College.