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EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 31, Number 3, 2008EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 31, Number 3, 2008VIEWPOINTS Overcoming the Fear of Gaming: A Strategy for Incorporating Games into Teaching and Learning The effective use of games in academia requires a critical approach to the medium and a willingness to let go of the learning process and harness its outcomes Foreign Language Faculty in the Age of Web 2.0 Technological skills and understanding how to employ Web 2.0 tools to successfully support pedagogy are vital for foreign language faculty today CURRENT ISSUES Security Metrics: A Solution in Search of a Problem The multifaceted aspects of security programs become clearer with the creation and collection of appropriate metrics Do Emergency Text Messaging Systems Put Students in More Danger? The rush to use text messaging as an emergency notification system fails to consider the weaknesses and potential hazards of this solution FEATURE ARTICLES Assessing Learning and Scholarly Technologies: Lessons from an Institutional Survey Surveying the university community taught us about the importance of the process as well as the survey results Faculty Development Programming: If We Build It, Will They Come? A faculty development survey analyzed what faculty want and need to be successful teaching online Collaborative Development: A New Culture Affects an Old Organization Using a collaborative model for developing IT projects delivered high-quality results with collateral benefits to the organization Moving to Moodle: Reflections Two Years Later Adopting an open source learning management system combined benefits and challenges, with lessons for change management PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Information Sharing for IT Security Professionals Developing a network of professional contacts creates an effective support system for information sharing Growing the Next Generation of Leaders Aspiring IT leaders can take specific steps to develop their skills and help their colleagues grow GOOD IDEAS Leveraging Technology and Human Systems in an Emergency Saint Peter’s College responded to a bomb threat and evacuated the campus safely and efficiently thanks to close integration of human systems with IT Directing Traffic: Managing Internet Bandwidth Fairly Using open source software to build a traffic management system gave our campus network neutrality, low costs, and low maintenance for managing bandwidth Student Input in College Decision Making Students—often the largest group of users of institutional services—can be a pivotal voice in campus technology decisions involving outsourcing RESEARCH IN BRIEF Online Social Media in Crisis Events Investigation of recent disasters reveals use of online social media as an emergent, significant, and often accurate form of public participation and back channel communication DEPARTMENTS EDUCAUSE News Recommended Reading |
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