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What does it take to address the 2013 top-10 IT issues and be a CIO? Grit.

Grit, it seems, may be as essential as intelligence. People with grit persevere. They have a passion for their goal. They invest effort, in spite of setbacks, to accomplish long-term goals — goals they believe are worth having. A person with grit approaches accomplishment as a marathon; their advantage is stamina. Excellence and achievement take time. New skills must be developed.

“Everyone should have an opportunity to participate in higher education.”

With those words, Michael K. Young, President of the University of Washington, opens a new video from his institution’s AccessComputing Project, IT Accessibility: What Campus Leaders Have to Say. Developed with support from the National Science Foundation, this video presents university presidents, chief information officers, and other higher education leaders who stress the importance to higher education of accessibility for persons with disabilities, and of having campus technology environments that support it.

Ever wonder what you can really do with wikis that bring educational value? Listen to how educators are using wikis to enhance learning in EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition #6.

And, if you have listened to other EDUCAUSE Pocket Editions, you'll notice that we've modified the approach in this version. Originally designed to appeal to a young audience, the current version retains a lighthearted approach but is intended to appeal to a more mature audience. Let us know which approach you prefer.

If you are interested in an engaging explanation of wikipedia, listen to EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition #5. Learn how anyone who is interested can contribute to this living, online encyclopedia that is a product of group editing. (Did you know that the Oxford English dictionary was originally a group editing project?)

Hands-free, portable, informative, and engaging—that’s the EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition. If you’re too busy to read about new technologies, listen to Pocket Edition instead. Just download the Pocket Edition audio file to your computer or MP3 player and listen to it at your leisure. Or use podcasting to automatically download new Pocket Editions on hot topics such as podcasting or wikis as they’re posted. Whether you’re on your way to work, at the gym, or in your office, you’ll find EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition fits your busy lifestyle.

Whether you call them clickers, personal response systems, or even remote controls, these devices have the potential to engage learners and increase interaction. In EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition #4 you will learn about clickers, how they work, and how they are being put in practice to increase engagement and interaction.

Hands-free, portable, informative, and engaging—that’s the EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition. If you’re too busy to read about new technologies, listen to Pocket Edition instead. Just download the Pocket Edition audio file to your computer or MP3 player and listen to it at your leisure. Or use podcasting to automatically download new Pocket Editions on hot topics such as podcasting or wikis as they’re posted. Whether you’re on your way to work, at the gym, or in your office, you’ll find EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition fits your busy lifestyle. 

Podcasting has become popular, but if you are wondering what its educational value is, listen to EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition #3: Podcasting in the Classroom. This edition explores how podcasts are being used by faculty to enhance students' educational experience. Along the way, many are finding unique value to this alternative media format.

Hands-free, portable, informative, and engaging—that’s the EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition. If you’re too busy to read about new technologies, listen to Pocket Edition instead. Just download the Pocket Edition audio file to your computer or MP3 player and listen to it at your leisure. Or use podcasting to automatically download new Pocket Editions on hot topics such as podcasting or wikis as they’re posted. Whether you’re on your way to work, at the gym, or in your office, you’ll find EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition fits your busy lifestyle. 

Invasion of the iPods, the first in EDUCAUSE’s new Pocket Edition audio series, discusses the MP3 player phenomenon and its increasing impact on higher education. Through interviews with students, faculty, and administrators involved in Duke University’s iPod project, this EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition highlights the features and functionality of MP3 players, as well as their current and potential academic applications. Listen to Invasion of the iPods to get a brief, engaging overview of a technology that’s sweeping campuses nationwide—and possibly your own.

Hands-free, portable, informative, and engaging—that’s the EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition. If you’re too busy to read about new technologies, listen to the Pocket Edition instead. Just download the Pocket Edition audio file to your computer or MP3 player and listen to it at your leisure. Or use podcasting to automatically download new Pocket Editions on hot topics such as podcasting or wikis as they’re posted. Whether you’re on your way to work, at the gym, or at your office, you’ll find EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition fits your busy lifestyle.

To provide additional context for the ELI 2005 Fall Focus Session, I spoke with Dr. Ken Graetz, Director of E-Learning atWinonaStateUniversity . Dr. Graetz has a background in social psychology, with research interests in team and group dynamics, social cognition, and computer-supported collaborative work.

Graetz discusses the impact the learning environment has on the way people think and feel. He also describes way in which the current generation of students truly views virtual spaces as places and the implications that has for teaching and learning.

Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), joined me for an interview to supplement our recent focus session on informal learning spaces. Joan has held positions in a number of libraries, so I wanted to get her views about the role of libraries and information commons as informal learning spaces. I also asked Joan to explore how we might adjust these spaces to take advantage of what we know about students and how they learn.