EDUCAUSE | Collaboration and EDUCAUSE Review Articles

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.

Intellectual Fusion

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

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?

Conference Connections: Rewiring the Circuit

elilly — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:37:46 -0600

Increased openness, two-way dialogue, and blurred distinctions between experts and amateurs have combined with numerous technology tools for dialogue, personal expression, networking, and community formation to “remake” conferences, influencing not only how attendees participate in but also how organizers host conferences today.

The nanoHUB: Community and Collaboration

ckeller — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:22:54 -0500

nanoHUB is an online portal for nanotechnology researchers, instructors, and students created by Purdue University and the National Science Foundation. It uses cyberinfrastructure to provide access to scientific tools for research, demonstration, and collaboration, as well as instructional materials. Users can run experiments, review research, or download lectures. nanoHUB is a virtual toolkit as well as a community where students and faculty contribute to the science of nanotechnology.

Winds of Change: Charting the Course for IT in the Twenty-First Century

ckeller — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:58:26 -0500

Campus IT leaders are responsible for providing a view of the technology changes that are coming over the horizon and a vision of where the “ship” of IT should be headed. The retiring EDUCAUSE president offers ten nautical maxims for charting this course for higher education IT.

Having Your Cake and Eating It: The e-Framework’s Service-Oriented Approach to IT in Higher Education

ckeller — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:49:23 -0500

The international e-Framework for Education and Research is helping the research and education world take advantage of the opportunities offered by the service-oriented approach.

The Content of Collaboration

drupal — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:20:32 -0500

The author discusses the delicate balance of creating collaborative relationships between faculty, librarians and IT staff. One such Fellowship effort is sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). In attracting recent Ph.D.s who believe that there are opportunities to develop meaningful linkages between disciplinary scholarship, libraries, archives, and evolving digital tools, the program brings scholars with both teaching and digital experience into the academic library so that they may serve as a bridge between librarians, faculty, and IT professionals.

Collaboration on ICT in Dutch Higher Education:

drupal — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:04:29 -0500

Under the direction of SURF, the higher education institutions in the Netherlands are working on a collaborative strategy for the application of information and communications technology (ICT) to meet the needs of individual users.

Open for Change

drupal — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:19:39 -0600

The author discusses the use of open source in the context of advancing learning in both secondary and higher education.

The Second Enlightenment Project

drupal — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:23:17 -0500

Faust discusses the use of images, moving images and sound in learning and project based learning.

The Myth about Going It Alone

drupal — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:00:01 -0500

The authors discuss the IT support and service needs of higher education institutions and whether the model of self-reliance is still the best option.

A Legacy of Collaboration

drupal — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:45:33 -0500

As the fiftieth and final conference was held in May of 2005, Cynthia Golden reflects on the history of CUMREC and it's contribution to higher education in the United States.

The Open Source Congress

drupal — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:37:40 -0500

As a way to establish common grounds and define central platforms for college and university administrative systems, this article proposes the establishment of an Open Source Congress, comprised of functional and technical leaders from the higher educational environment.

We’ve Got to Work Collaboratively!

drupal — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:26:06 -0600

The author discusses how collaboration with other colleges and universities may be the best strategy for campuses to deal with decreasing IT budgets.

E Pluribus Unum

drupal — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:59:49 -0600

The author discusses the need for universities to come together when working with vendors, so that the higher education community can get a higher quality product without wasting too much time and money.

The Muscles, Aches, and Pains of Open Source

drupal — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:41:21 -0500

The author discusses the options of using software applications developed by established companies versus the collaborative open source route.

Information Access in the Digital Era

drupal — Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:33:04 -0500

The higher education community faces a critical task: developing a plan for making all scholarly and research publications universally available on the Internet in perpetuity.

Collaborations Great and Small

drupal — Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:11:01 -0500

Colleges and universities must work to overcome the formidable barriers to successful interinstitutional collaboration in the IT field.