EDUCAUSE | Library Items

Collaboration Tools

ckeller — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:21:16 -0500

Students use technology in natural ways that allow them to do what they want: communicate with anyone they want, in the time and space that suits them best. Easily accessible and user-friendly, collaboration tools allow students to explore, share, engage, and connect with people and content in meaningful ways that help them learn. By relying on the familiar ways students use these tools, faculty can enable new forms of communication and engagement in the classroom, permitting extensions and variations of the informal interactions already occurring in classrooms and hallways, and creating new frontiers for collaboration across geographic boundaries.

Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California

ckeller — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:53:43 -0500

Would-be reformers are trying to beat the high cost -- and, they say, the dumbing down -- of college materials by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost online texts.

Secrecy claims on copyright treaty

ckeller — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:13:46 -0500

The Bush administration's plans for a copyright treaty, dubbed "Hollywood's Christmas list" by privacy advocates, may be disrupted as protests over "secret negotiations" emerge in participating nations, including Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

Data Classification Standards

ckeller — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:59:08 -0500

The purpose of this policy is to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Pima Community College data.

e-Learning and Instructional Support Learning Management Systems Policy

ckeller — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:06:04 -0500

Oakland University's LMS policy on support and users of Moodle and other online learning management software.

Information Security Governance: Standardizing the Practice of Information Security

ckeller — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:05:37 -0500

This ECAR research bulletin discusses the trend to use a variety of risk assessment frameworks and standards to create an information security program that is sufficiently comprehensive for colleges and universities. These standards include the Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (CobiT) IT control framework, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service management framework, and the set of information control objectives now commonly referred to as ISO 27001. In specific, the process of implementing this framework at Georgia State University (GSU) is discussed. In addition, the bulletin provides a rationale for an information security governance framework that enables executives to see the degree to which their information security programs are effective in assessing and mitigating risks, protecting confidential data, aligning goals with institutional academic and business objectives, and continuously improving over time.

Citation for this work: Clark, Tammy L., and Toby D. Sitko “Information Security Governance: Standardizing the Practice of Information Security” (Research Bulletin, Issue 17). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2008, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

Data Classification Toolkit

ckeller — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:22:29 -0500

The Data Classification Toolkit is a compilation of resources pertaining to data classification in higher education. Although data classification is just one component of a comprehensive program to protect data, it is an important foundation. This Toolkit consolidates resources from the EDUCAUSE web site as well as from other sources, and organizes them into four basic steps.

Copyright protection and the new stakeholders in online distance education: The Play’s the Thing

ckeller — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:33:46 -0500

This paper analyses the university as an Internet intermediary in the current climate of online distance education, classifies the stakeholders associated with the university in Web course management, and explores the need for an “Instructional Design Copyright Law”. The situation is likened to a theatrical production, with front-of-house preparations, backstage operations, and tragic characters.

Keeping Track of Students, and Staying in Touch

ckeller — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:19:37 -0500

A start-up company from a former Blackboard executive is positioning itself to help colleges boost retention with communication tools ... and lots of data.

Educational Technology: Matching the Solution to the Problem

ckeller — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:22:25 -0500

What research tells us about learning and how that can and should be used to guide the design and use of educational technology. This was the Keynote session from the 2008 Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference (COLTT).