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Managing the Services Lifecycle

ckeller — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:39:48 -0500

In the spring of 2008, students from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University (IU) and the Jenkins Graduate School of Management at North Carolina State University (NCSU) “virtually” came together, using a variety of Web 2.0 tools and the virtual world Second Life, to learn about managing the services lifecycle and to apply what they learned to two corporate-sponsored projects.

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.

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?

Sharing Educational Resources Worldwide: An Interview with Shimizu Yasutaka

drupal — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:21:14 -0500

"I believe that spreading and integrating the learning environment by building a setup that enables the mutual sharing of the world's educational resources is vitally important to higher education in Japan—and also to higher education in nations throughout the world."

Browsing Library Collections: From the Shelf to the Online Catalog

drupal — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:32:29 -0500

Experiments are underway to provide library users with a browsable, electronic Table of Contents for books that are shared in a distributed collection environment.

In Praise of Sharing

drupal — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:46:31 -0500

The author discusses the transformation on the college campus from the free exchange of ideas to the growing movement to lock down those ideas as "property".

Standing on the Plateau

drupal — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:52:29 -0600

The author discusses the Croquet Project, which is a combination of open source computer software and network architecture that supports deep collaboration and resource sharing among large numbers of users. Such collaboration is carried out within the context of a large-scale distributed information system. The software and architecture define a framework for delivering a scalable, persistent, and extensible interface to network delivered resources.

A Revolution in Knowledge Sharing

drupal — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:50:27 -0500

Using technologies that are already developed or that will be deployed over the next five years, best practices in knowledge sharing not only are diffusing rapidly but will be substantially reinvented in all settings: educational institutions, corporations, government organizations, associations, and nonprofits.