9:00 - 9:15   

INTRODUCTION      
Ed Brewster, President, Grays Harbor College

ITV

9:15 - 10:30

PANEL DISCUSSION 
Bill Bonaudi, President, Big Bend Community College
Rich Cummins, President, Columbia Basin College
Jim Walton, President, Centralia College
Chris Reykdal, Deputy Executive Director, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Moderator: Ed Brewster, President, Grays Harbor College

In these bad budget times, we are all looking for the potential of making large reductions in our costs. Given this environment, we need to look at using technology to operate more efficiently. The panel will discuss the following topics:

• State of the State regarding budget
  
• How can we utilize technology to save money
  
• How do we change our business practices to operate more efficiently
  
• How do we  share program content more easily

ITV

10:30 -11:00

“NETWORKING” time on Elluminate

Elluminate

11:15 - 12:15

KEYNOTE: Strategic Technology Plan: Rethinking Technology, Digital Knowledge, and Turf in Challenging Budget Times    
Cable Green, eLearning Director, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Cable Green will discuss how the mix of participatory “web 2.0” digital technologies, open educational resources (including textbooks), creative commons licensing, cloud computing, and strategic technology plan principles will fundamentally change how Washington’s Community and Technical Colleges create learning environments. Please come ready to openly challenge and contribute to Cable's provocative notions of how higher education needs to transform to properly prepare 21st century learners.

Elluminate

12:15 - 12:30

12:30 - 1:15

GENERAL SESSION:  Open Textbooks - A Path to Decreased Costs and Increased Value    
Eric Frank, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Flat World Knowledge

Public institutions have a mission to provide high quality, affordable education.  The skyrocketing cost of textbooks, now approaching the cost of tuition and fees for many students, has become an obstacle to that mission.  This session will:

• Present a former publishing industry “insiders’ view” on how we arrived at the textbook affordability crisis
• Define “open textbooks”
• Show how open textbooks can reduce out-of-pocket costs for students (and institutions in some cases)
• Demonstrate how open textbooks can improve the quality of instruction while reducing costs

Elluminate

1:15 - 2:05

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

A. Strategic Sharing: How Your College Can Share Course Content, Enrollments and Programs
Connie Broughton, Assistant Director, eLearning, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Washington State community and technical colleges have some unique and powerful ways to share course content, enrollments and full programs.  Find out some of the ways you can maximize your college efforts and increase access to learning opportunities for your students--even as you cut your budgets.

B. How to Support Effective Communication with Staff, Students and Prospective Students using Web Channels
Dan Small, Associate Vice President, External Relations, Tacoma Community College
Dale Stowell, Director of Marketing, Communication and Outreach, Tacoma Community College

Blogs, intranets, Web chat and electronic publications can be effective channels to communicate with and educate staff, students and prospective students. Learn how Tacoma Community College has built and integrated electronic tools to help better support effective multi-channel communication. 

Elluminate

2:05 - 2:20

BREAK

2:20 - 3:00

CLOSING SESSION: Implications of Governmental/Educational Reform
Charlie Earl, Executive Director, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

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