Why Unizin? Digital Education at Cloud Scale

Wednesday, October 01 | 5:30PM–6:20PM | Meeting Room W205B/C
Session Type: Professional Development

The Unizin Consortium is a university-owned, cloud-scale operator for digital education much like Internet2 has been for the network. It is bringing together library, IT, and academic communities within and across campuses to shape the digital learning ecosystem for content, software platforms, and learner analytics. This session will present different campus motivations for choosing Unizin as well as a look inside Unizin.


OUTCOMES: Understand what Unizin means for all of higher education * Understand the motivations for creating Unizin and the capital investments by differing founders * Be able to describe Unizin's goals for content, software platforms, and learner analytics at scale

Presenters

  • Patrick Burns

    CIO for the CSU System, Colorado State University
  • Elias Eldayrie

    Vice President & Chief Information Officer, University of Florida
  • James Hilton

    Dean of Libraries; Vice Provost for Digital Educat, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  • Anastasia Morrone

    Dean, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Brad Wheeler

    James H. Rudy Professor of Information Systems, Indiana University

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