EDUCAUSE | EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Cyberinfrastructure

Repositories, Cyberinfrastructure, and the Humanities

ckeller — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:18:21 -0500

A 2006 report, funded by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, called for the creation of a cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences.1 Before designing such a cyberinfastructure, however, we need to consider the avenues of intellectual activity to be supported. Humanists, like all academics, want to enhance the collective understanding of their subject. But humanists are not producing scientific knowledge to address the problem of climate change or to eradicate dreaded diseases. Humanists have a particular obligation: to enhance the intellectual life of humanity as a whole.

The Institutional Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure and E-Research

ckeller — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:06:29 -0500

How does the campus cyberinfrastructure challenge differ from the national cyberinfrastructure challenge, recognizing that investments in these areas should be not just complementary but mutually reinforcing?

Cyberinfrastructure: Changing a Cottage Industry

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:32:22 -0500

Drawn from a recent ECAR research study, this article addresses the importance of five CI technologies to various academic areas in research and in teaching and learning at present and how survey respondents think the importance of these technologies might change in the near future.

Cyberinfrastructure: In Tune for the Future

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:20:55 -0500

Cyberinfrastructure permits a new kind of scholarly inquiry and education, empowering communities to innovate and to revolutionize what they do, how they do it, and who participates.

EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 43, Number 4, July/August 2008

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:01:02 -0500

This is the entire issue of EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 43, Number 4, July/August 2008.

Making Research and Education Cyberinfrastructure Real

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:25:51 -0500

Providing an evolving foundation for 21st-century research and education, cyberinfrastructure is both a focus for invention and an accelerator of innovation, linked through a trajectory that begins with design and evolves to broad-based use.

Realizing the Promise of Cyberinfrastructure

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:38:29 -0500

The author advocates continued leadership and investment in developing and maintaining cyberinfrastructure.

Things to Do While Waiting for the Future to Happen: Building Cyberinfrastructure for the Liberal Arts

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:29:26 -0500

What is the current thinking about cyberinfrastructure for the liberal arts, what models for transinstitutional collaboration and institution building are emerging, and what steps can campuses take to move this agenda forward?

Trail-Blazing the Cyberinfrastructure Road

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:36:03 -0500

The co-chairs of the EDUCAUSE Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CCI) Working Group provide background on the group and its acitivities in the area of higher education cyberinfrastructure.

The nanoHUB: Community and Collaboration

ckeller — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:22:54 -0500

nanoHUB is an online portal for nanotechnology researchers, instructors, and students created by Purdue University and the National Science Foundation. It uses cyberinfrastructure to provide access to scientific tools for research, demonstration, and collaboration, as well as instructional materials. Users can run experiments, review research, or download lectures. nanoHUB is a virtual toolkit as well as a community where students and faculty contribute to the science of nanotechnology.