TechTalks Event
Mobile Networking Strategies
with guest expert Mark Resmer Director of the EDUCAUSE IMS Project initiative and Associate Vice President of Information Technology Sonoma State University
December 3, 1998
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- What happens when you require your students to have notebook computers?
- What kinds of hardware, software, financial, and networking issues ensue when your campus goes mobile?
- Are your hardware and infrastructure technology levels sufficient to make this work?
- Are wireless technologies ready to use?
- Where might PDAs fit into the mix?
Those are just some of the questions our Technology Anchor Howard Strauss and Mark Resmer discussed in this CREN audiocast "TechTalk with the Experts."
Guest Expert
Mark Resmer is currently Director of the EDUCAUSE
IMS initiative and Associate Vice President of Information Technology
at Sonoma State
University. He has been active in developing strategies for
instructional applications of information technology for nearly
twenty years, and created some of the earliest tools for Internet
navigation. He has also been responsible for developing universal
access strategies in the CSU and nationally (Sonoma State was one
of the first two public institutions of higher education in the
US to require all incoming students to have assured 24-hour access
to networked personal computers). Before coming to the CSU in 1988,
he was Director of Academic Computing at Vassar College. He has
also helped to organize a number of major conferences in the area
of instructional technology, recently serving on the program committee
of the CAUSE conference, co-chairing the annual Syllabus Conference,
and being a board member for the Snowmass Seminars in Academic Computing.
You might enjoy the book, The Future Compatible Campus edited by D. G. Oblinger and S. C. Rush (Anker Press), to which Resmer contributed. His 1995 SHEEO paper with Diana Oblinger and James R. Mingle entitled Computers for All Students: A Strategy for Universal Access to Information Resources is a useful piece of background reading and can be purchased for $18 US by calling SHEEO at (303) 299 3686. It's interesting to read first the 1995 internal document outlining the proposal to implement Assured Access at Sonoma State and then read the three-years-out Executive Report from March 1998. Finally, although not available online, the article "Universal Student Access to Information Resources and Technology," by Mark Resmer in Syllabus Magazine, Vol. 10 No 6, Feb. 1997, is a good background resource.
