EDUCAUSE | EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Trends and Visions

If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist, Would We Have to Invent It?

drupal — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:20:59 -0600

The author provides a glimpse into the future without academic libraries and how that will affect the students and faculty.

The Future of the Web, Intelligent Devices, and Education

drupal — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:35:26 -0600

In this article, first published in 1999, the author looked to past trends in hardware, software, networking, and education, presciently extrapolated where these trends were going and what their broad implications might be for higher education, and predicted some still-to-be-realized models for the future.

Visual Literacy: An Institutional Imperative

drupal — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:55:23 -0500

Higher education institutions can take steps to embrace visual literacy within their core values and curricula to build visually dynamic communities.

Information Technology as a Change Agent

drupal — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:47:02 -0500

An excerpt from the book What Business Wants from Higher Education.

The Future (If Any) of IT

drupal — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:57:42 -0500

The author responds to the following three previous articles, Nicholas Carr's "IT Doesn't Matter," a May 2003 Harvard Business Review article, Jack McCredie's, November/December 2003 EDUCAUSE Review article, and A May/June 2004 follow-up EDUCAUSE Review Viewpoints column by Richard Van Horn.

The New Computing Revisted

drupal — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:07:01 -0600

A review of a mid-1980's article on the "New Computing" reflects on those IT planning and instructional questions that continue to confront campuses today, on how these issues have evolved, and on the additional IT challenges that have emerged over the years.

The Intellectual Supermarket

drupal — Fri, 05 Jul 2002 10:54:06 -0500

Comparing higher education with a supermarket yields an analogy that offers insights for exploring an innovative model of undergraduate education and for implementing related technology strategies.

Bits and Atoms: An Interview with Neil Gershenfeld

drupal — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:32:35 -0600

Richard N. Katz, Vice President of EDUCAUSE, talks with Dr. Gershenfeld about his ideas on education, some of his past projects, and his current work and interests.

Excerpt from "A University for the 21st Century"

drupal — Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:05:14 -0600

An Excerpt from the book "A University for the 21st Century". The book discusses the university as a knowledge server and what types of participation from students to multi-vendors is involved for the university to survive in the 21st century.

Remaking the Academy: Twenty-First-Century Challenges to Higher Education in the Age of Information

drupal — Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:47:33 -0600

Higher education around the world must undergo a dramatic makeover if it expects to educate a workforce in this period of profound transition. This article postulates that institutions that can continually change and keep up with the needs of a transforming economy, will survive, and those that can not or will not change will become irrelevant.