EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Technology Forecasting

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The Future of the Web, Intelligent Devices, and Education

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Title:The Future of the Web, Intelligent Devices, and Education (ID: ERM0711)
Author(s):Howard Strauss (Princeton University)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

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.

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You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

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Title:You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (ID: ERM0645)
Author(s):George O. Strawn (National Science Foundation)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2006)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

The author discusses how three IT "subrevolutions" have changed higher education scholarship.

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Information Technology as a Change Agent

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Title:Information Technology as a Change Agent (ID: ERM991A)
Author(s):Diana G. Oblinger (EDUCAUSE) and Anne-Lee Verville (IBM Corporation)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (1999)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:An excerpt from the book What Business Wants from Higher Education.
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The Future (If Any) of IT

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Title:The Future (If Any) of IT (ID: ERM04612)
Author(s):M. Stuart Lynn (University of California Office of the President)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2004)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

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.

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The New Computing Revisted

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Title:The New Computing Revisted (ID: ERM0312)
Author(s):Kenneth C. Green (The Campus Computing Project)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2003)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract: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.
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Eight Things a Former Provost No longer Believes about IT

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Title:Eight Things a Former Provost No longer Believes about IT (ID: ERM0236)
Author(s):Geoffrey R. Stone (University of Chicago)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2002)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:The author lists eight items related to IT in higher education that he once believed, but now as an experienced provost, these beliefs have fallen by the wayside.
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Through a Glass, Darkly: Anticipating the Future of Technology-Enabled Education

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Title:Through a Glass, Darkly: Anticipating the Future of Technology-Enabled Education (ID: ERM0140)
Author(s):Thomas P. Hughes (University of Pennsylvania)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2001)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:This article discusses how presiding over changes in higher education requires more than a rational projection of present trends; that we must be prepared for unanticipated technological applications as well as related economic, organizational, political, and social transformations.
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Herbert A. Simon 1916-2001

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Title:Herbert A. Simon 1916-2001 (ID: ERM0131)
Author(s):John W. McCredie (University of California, Berkeley)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2001)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:An overview of Herbert A. Simon's accomplishments.
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The Steam Engine and the Computer: What Makes Technology Revolutionary

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Title:The Steam Engine and the Computer: What Makes Technology Revolutionary (ID: ERM0132)
Author(s):Herbert A. Simon (Carnegie Mellon University)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2001)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:This article was originally printed in EDUCOM Bulletin Vol. 22, no. 1 (spring 1987) pp. 2-5.

The author suggests that in the midst of the "second industrial revolution" ushered in by the computer, that perhaps we can learn some lessons from the first industrial revolution, the one triggered by the steam engine. Lessons on what we can and should do with computers and on what computers might do to and for us.

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Archimedes' Lever and Collaboration: An Interview with Ira Fuchs

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Title:Archimedes' Lever and Collaboration: An Interview with Ira Fuchs (ID: ERM0120)
Author(s):Richard N. Katz (EDUCAUSE)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2001)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:Ira Fuchs won the EDUCAUSE Excellence in Leadership Award in the year 2000. He talks about the future of higher education institutions. He discusses, that for them to sustain their comparative advantage they will have to work together in collaborative enviroments.
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