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EDUCAUSE Connect is a highly interactive, action-driven professional development experience. Here you'll choose a learning track and join a cohort of peers to find workable solutions, build your professional network, and examine the tactical and strategic perspectives of key higher education IT issues. For two and a half days, you'll take part in career development activities with peers to intentionally solve, network, and grow together.

At EDUCAUSE 2014 you will... Discover solutions by exploring the 250+ exhibiting companies that provide innovative products and services for your institution. Engage in interactive sessions, special topic discussions, and compelling lightning rounds as part of a robust, member-driven program. Focus on content that's important and relevant to you-sort the program by over-arching content domains, topical themes, or specific speakers. Network with peers from around the world who share similar interests and challenges-excellent resources for ideas and experience.

The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is the premier gathering for higher education IT professionals. It provides content and exploration of today's toughest technology issues facing campuses around the world, and convenes some of the brightest minds in the community. When colleagues from around the world converge with some of the most innovative corporate solution providers, you have an event that creates invaluable networking opportunities and professional development.

"Learning analytics (LA) is the collection and analysis of data associated with student learning. The analysis of this data, coming from a variety of sources like the LMS, the library, and the student information system, helps us observe and understand learning behaviors in order to enable appropriate interventions. The reports that an LA application generates can be helpful for instructors (regarding student activities and progress), for students (regarding their progress), and for administrators (regarding course and degree completion data). LA applications help instructors monitor student progress, students evaluate their own performance, and administrators track course and degree completion. Although still emergent, learning analytics is a rapidly expanding area of research and a practice worthy of exploration."

The Leading Change Institute, successor to the Frye Leadership Institute, engages leaders who seek to further develop their skills for the benefit of higher education. The Institute explores higher education challenges, empowering librarians and information technologists to initiate conversations and take action on issues of importance not just to their individual institutions, but to the entire higher education community. Higher education requires leaders, particularly in the information sector, who can inspire, advocate, and advance needed change. The Leading Change Institute's curriculum is based on three guiding principles: Participants learn how to be part of a collaborative community that takes leadership on critical issues. Participants develop the skills to build public will, set an agenda for change, and advocate for needed change. Participants learn by doing through engagement with real-world issues. Through a seminar approach, Institute participants will focus on specific issues as they seek to develop new kinds of thinking to foster collective action. They will deconstruct the issues, craft arguments to re-conceptualize what is happening in higher education, and catalyze action through collaborative projects. Further information about the Leading Change Institute may be found on the What is the Program? page. The missions of CLIR and EDUCAUSE reinforce the importance of partnership, learning, and collaboration reflected across the Leading Change Institute experience.