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Averting a Digital Katrina: Sustaining Trust in the Research Infrastructure

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:40:53 -0500

The author argues that there is a critical need for "long-term management and preservation of the digital information, together with mechanisms and policies that encourage people to discover and use it, check references, replicate experiments, and build on each other’s results—whether or not the actual products look like the contemporary journal article."

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.

Games for Higher Education: 2008

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:44:38 -0500

Learning via computer games: the very idea can seem surreal or outrageous. Yet for the past five years, a movement has been afoot to examine how digital games work as pedagogical devices. Starting with the publication in 2003 of James Paul Gee’s landmark What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, faculty, technologists, and librarians have been exploring how we can learn from and also teach within computer games. This column will survey what this movement has discovered.

Innovation, Gambling, and a Love of Wisdom

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:43:07 -0500

The following excerpt is based on an interview conducted by Gerry Bayne, EDUCAUSE multimedia producer, at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) 2008 Annual Meeting held in San Antonio, Texas, in January 2008. To listen to the full podcast, go to http://connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/eliinconversationgardnerc/46176.

Intellectual Fusion

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:50:22 -0500

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.

Moving beyond the EDUCAUSE Policy Conference

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:53:25 -0500

The author discusses the evolution of the EDUCAUSE Policy conference and program.

Observations from above the Trenches

elilly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:51:56 -0500