EDUCAUSE | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Collaborative Technologies

Beyond Being There: A Blueprint for Advancing the Design, Development, and Evaluation of Virtual Organizations

ckeller — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:01:37 -0500

This report is based primarily on a workshop involving 42 people from academia and industry.
The goal of the workshop was to share systematic knowledge about the components, characteristics,
practices, and transformative impact of effective VOs; identify topics for future research that will
inform the ongoing design, development, and analysis of VOs for science and engineering research
and education; and create a new cross-disciplinary VO research community to conduct research across
a range of important topics. A subsequent workshop brought together more than 200 practitioners and
VO researchers to discuss how to build effective virtual organizations, and some of the material from
that workshop is represented here.

When E-Mail Is Outsourced

ckeller — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:53:49 -0600

As more colleges move to Google or Microsoft, institutions start to consider the educational implications of the shift.

Exploration Of Partnership Opportunities For Campus Collaborative Tools - Final Report

ckeller — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:58:55 -0500

Recently a diverse committee of Berkeley campus leaders met with representatives from Google and Microsoft to explore the Google Apps for Education and Microsoft Live@EDU service offerings and to determine if these vendors' offerings in the areas of mail, calendaring, and web based file sharing are a reasonable alternative to UCB running these services locally (via the current CalMail, WebFiles, and CalAgenda services).

In addition to examining the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing campus messaging services, such as email and calendaring, to one of these vendors, the committee also explored their associated collaborative tools offerings, such as collaborative writing; social bookmarking; photo, audio, and video sharing; and mapping, which may also be of considerable campus interest.

This is the report from that committee.

Working and Learning Better: Virtually Together

ckeller — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:04:36 -0500

Collaborative software creates new options for students and educators.