Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences, Collaborative Technologies, and EDUCAUSE2007

Three years ago, INHOLLAND university launched a learning scenario that required the latest in electronic communication and collaboration tools. The new digital campus that was built is being redesigned now using Windows Vista and SharePoint 2007. What did we learn during the past three years, and what do we hope to achieve now?

HumaniTech links humanities and technology by combining the perspectives and skills of faculty and staff from both humanities and campus-wide resources to work across disciplines and lines that often divide the research university: research/teaching, central/local control, faculty/staff, traditionalists/innovators. HumaniTech focuses on collaboration where IT is essential to these bridge-building efforts rather than a goal in itself.

This session will discuss Northwestern University's recent investigation to determine which external vendor might be suitable to provide e-mail and other student collaboration services for our student community. The process included vendor review and hours of working through the institutional process to arrive at an acceptable conclusion.