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Webinars & Presentations

Webinars and other forms of presentations can be a great way to gain familiarity with a new topic or brush up on a skill that you haven’t used in a while. These presentations cover a variety of topics, from security to project management, and come from various sources around the web.
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Industry and Campus Webinar | Demystifying Third-Party Vendor Risk in Higher Ed

This webinar will focus on how to identify what companies make up your vendor pool and how to evaluate and classify the risk those vendors present. In addition to classifying vendors into functional risk areas, we will discuss best practices in creating your third-party vendor risk program.
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SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations

Published on June 15, 2017

Makerspaces, Virtual Reality, The Internet of Things et alia Stories

This session was presented at the CNI Fall 2016 Project Briefings.
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SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations

Published on June 7, 2017

ELI Webinar | AMA Innovations in Medical Education Webinar Series | Transforming Education: Leading Innovations in Health Professions Education

Health care delivery is changing at an unprecedented pace due to advances in technology, an aging population, the increasing burden of chronic diseases, and health care costs. Medical education, which underwent its last major transformation over a hundred years ago, needs to change so the next generation of physicians is prepared to take care of today’s and future patients in a constantly changing environment. The American Medical Association (AMA) Accelerating Changes in Medical Education Consortium schools have been developing educational innovations to prepare students for the practice of tomorrow. The AMA Innovations in Medical Education Webinar Series goal is to help disseminate the work of the AMA Consortium schools to physicians and health care profession educators across the country so innovations can be adapted in their own teaching. The learners targeted are educators at medical schools and other health professions school, especially those involved in interprofessional education.
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SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations

Published on June 5, 2017

HEISC Webinar : From Art to Science: How Risk Can Transform Your Information Security Program

IT and information security risk are a fact of life in modern colleges and universities. Learn how to leverage a risk-based model to improve the maturity of your information security program versus using a technology or compliance centric approach. Our three speakers will provide a better understanding of the risk management process and discuss how risk can help information security support innovation, teaching, and collaboration in higher ed.
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SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations

Published on May 30, 2017

ELive! Webinar | Leveraging IoT Technologies to Solve Campus Security and Safety Challenges

Increasing concerns about campus safety and active shooters require new approaches to security and surveillance. Join us to hear how Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are providing colleges with new abilities to monitor campus environments for gunshot, enable sight and smell detection, and provide actionable data in real time.
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SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations

Published on May 25, 2017

Documenting the Now Supporting Scholarly Use and Preservation of Social Media Content

This session was presented at the CNI Fall 2016 Project Briefings.
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SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations

Published on May 10, 2017

After the Harvest: Preservation, Access, and Research Services for the 2016 End of Term Web Archive

This session was presented at the CNI Fall 2016 Project Briefings.
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SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations

Published on May 10, 2017

The Cost of Open Access to Journals: Pay It Forward Project Findings

This session was presented at the CNI Fall 2016 Project Briefings.
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SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations

Published on May 10, 2017

Data Security and Privacy Agreements for Managing Vendor Risk

Selecting trustworthy and reliable vendors is essential for an institution’s mission. Nevertheless, it remains an enormous challenge to coordinate an expeditious interdisciplinary review of the vendor’s offer and then respond with an effective effort to make the agreement fair and clear. In 2016, the University of Washington launched an interdisciplinary initiative, led by the office of the CISO, to use a flexible pro forma Data Security and Privacy Agreement and an analytic rubric to communicate expectations to vendors. This session reviews the DSPA initial and the practical benefits that have been realized. This is a topic specific/intermediate level session.Outcomes: Gain perspective on the challenge of educational IT procurement * Understand the design of a flexible interdisciplinary solution * Explore the practical benefits of the solution through a hands-on review and tour
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SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations

Published on May 3, 2017

Is Security Awareness Training Working?

Most security experts agree that one of the most important safeguards is a user base that undergoes regular information security awareness training. The traditional approach of computer-based awareness training (“click and quiz”) has been in use for many years. One major problem with this approach is that many users simply click through the material as fast as they can, take the quiz, and don’t really learn anything. This presentation will look at the available research on the effectiveness of traditional security awareness training and explore the question, Is this working? This is a topic specific/intermediate level session.Outcomes: Learn about the effectiveness of traditional information security awareness training * Engage in live polling and voting * Take away ideas to change or form information security awareness programs at local organizations
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SOURCE: Educause
Webinars & Presentations

Published on May 3, 2017
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