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Category Archives: Professional Development
2017 MIDAS Symposium happens Oct. 11
Please join the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) for our annual symposium on Wednesday, October 11, titled “A Data-Driven World: Potentials and Pitfalls.” We’re welcoming an exciting group of speakers to Ann Arbor this year, including several eminent women working in the field of data science. The keynote address will be delivered by Cathy O’Neil, author of… Read More »
U-M participation with HDI
Lisa Callihan (LSA IT customer experience manager) and Michael Morabito (Secure-24 client services manager) presented at the Help Desk Institute (HDI) local chapter meeting on September 14 in Southfield, MI. Their presentation, “Creating the Ideal Customer Service Experience,” was an interactive experience with two industry experts discussing the importance of building a customer service philosophy and culture. They… Read More »
Want to improve cross-team collaboration?
Cross-team collaboration is essential — uniting experts from a variety of teams and departments leads to deeper insights, fresher perspectives, and faster innovations. Open to all Michigan IT community members, two upcoming workshops share helpful tools and techniques to improve collaboration: Competing Values in the Workplace (HITS 1000) This workshop explores how the interplay among our competing values… Read More »
Learn how HITS does agile on Sept. 19
Michigan IT’s Agile Community of Practice will host a special presentation by U-M Health Information Technology & Services (HITS) on September 19 at Arbor Lakes. All are welcome to attend.
HITS supports researchers with tech tools
Over 4,000 faculty, students, and staff attended this year’s Researchpalooza on August 16, 2017, many of whom visited the Health Information Technology & Services (HITS) booth. The HITS Research Applications and Advanced Computing team shared a broad range of technological tools that enable research at the enterprise and individual levels with efficiency and security. Central biorepository—annotated, accredited biospecimen… Read More »
MiVideo symposium offers insights and knowledge sharing
More than 60 MiVideo administrators from 28 U-M departments, schools, and campuses attended the second annual MiVideo Administrator Symposium in July, hosted by the ITS Teaching and Learning Group. Powered by Kaltura, MiVideo is U-M’s cloud-based media streaming and content management service used by faculty, students, and staff to organize, catalog, share, search, and publish multimedia content. MiVideo… Read More »
ITS offers cloud computing training
ITS is pleased to announce training for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. These day-long sessions will provide an overview as well as hands-on opportunities to explore these cloud based computing platforms. You will be able to get help with your specific use case, leveraging these platforms. Learn and apply knowledge to the work/research you… Read More »
U-M presents at Canvas InstructureCon
Representatives from the U-M Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses attended the InstructureCon conference for Canvas users and administrators. The annual conference was held July 24-27 at the Keystone Ski Resort in Keystone, Colorado. ITS conference attendees John Johnston, Pushyami Gundala, and Dan Burgess presented sessions on managing the challenges of the growing educational technology ecosphere around Canvas, supporting large… Read More »
Michigan Medicine CIO looks back in time for answers to today’s dilemmas
A majority of U.S. hospitals and health systems implemented electronic health records (EHR) over the last decade, thanks in large part to federal government incentive programs. But not everyone is happy about it. According to a 2016 Survey by Deloitte, seven out of 10 U.S. physicians believe EHRs reduce their productivity. In a talk titled, “Solving the EHR… Read More »
SUMIT 2017
Mark your calendars for SUMIT_2017, the 13th annual cyber security conference on Thursday, October 19. Security at University of Michigan IT (SUMIT) is the university’s flagship event for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. SUMIT is an exciting opportunity to hear recognized experts discuss the latest technical, legal, policy, and operational trends, threats, and tools in cybersecurity and privacy. This… Read More »
IMS Hackathon August 17-18
As part of its Quarterly Meeting & Technical Congress being held at U-M, the IMS Global Learning Consortium will host a hackathon focused on “Building the IMS Ecosystem.” Developers, programmers, engineers, UI designers, and any educational technologists are invited to participate. Improve your skills and knowledge working with the latest versions of IMS Global standards like LTI, Content-Item Message,… Read More »
Michigan IT Symposium: Call for proposals
Proposals for conference sessions are now being accepted for the Michigan IT Symposium. Apply by Friday, August 18, with a brief application on the CIO website.
Watch: UMSI hosts virtual reality CoP
Michigan IT’s AR/VR Community of Practice meeting was hosted at UMSI July 12 with a wireless demo courtesy of DreamGate VR.
2017 Michigan IT Symposium: Save the date!
The Michigan IT Symposium is an annual event aimed at creating connections between Michigan IT community members while showcasing the innovation occurring across all U-M campuses. This year’s event will take place November 20-21, 2017 at the Michigan League. Mark your calendar! Planning for this year’s event is underway and the call for submissions will go out shortly. If you’d like… Read More »
IT innovation group to explore interfaces, drones
IT Innovation at Lunch, a professional interest group open to the Michigan IT community, hosts monthly presentations and tours about key topics.
Register for free diversity, equity, and inclusion courses
Courses to support U-M’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative are available now at no cost to teams or departments. Many of the courses are located at the Administrative Services Building in Learning and Professional Development (LPD). Browse the courses below and talk to your supervisor about registering—space is limited. Learn more and see upcoming sessions at hr.umich.edu/diversity. Business… Read More »
Visit the Michigan IT booth at MStaff200
The Bicentennial IT Historic Timeline showcases the rich history of technology innovation at U-M.
Upcoming teach-outs address how tech affects our lives
Two of the four new teach-outs scheduled for August and September will focus on technological advances that have changed the way we live: The evolution of the Internet and impact on our lives and society. Privacy and identity in a Big Data era. President Mark Schlissel launched the series in March as part of an Academic Innovation Initiative.… Read More »
Free Microsoft Azure workshop July 12
U-M College of Engineering, in partnership with the M Cloud and the Microsoft Azure Education teams, will hold a free, hands-on, cloud computing workshop July 12. Register today to learn about Azure cloud services and how they can help provide more efficiency for dev/test, production, and backup of your applications and services. Whether your focus is big data, big… Read More »