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Working Together: Multi-Institutional Efforts to Develop and Deliver Technology Services (Non-Collaborators): November 14, 2006

This November 2006 survey is for higher education institutions that indicated in an ECAR screening survey of September 2006 that they have not engaged in a major IT collaboration within the past …
Working Together: Multi-Institutional Efforts to Develop and Deliver Technology Services (Collaborators): November 14, 2006

This November 2006 survey is for higher education institutions that indicated in an ECAR screening survey of September 2006 that they are involved in one or more significant multi-institutional c…
Working Together: Multi-Institutional Efforts to Develop and Deliver Technology Services: September 11, 2006

This September 2006 screening survey seeks to understand how higher education institutions collaborate to develop and deliver essential technology services. Before tackling a topic this broad, EC…
What Do Researchers Need? Higher Education IT from the Researcher’s Perspective: August 17, 2006

Research methods, research subjects, the composition of research teams, and collaborative practices have all been affected in ways that are important to those who manage research and information …
Using Social Software to Enhance IT Operations: July 3, 2007

This research bulletin offers representative examples of social software in action within IT organizations at three institutions -- Duke University; the University of California, San Diego; and t…
The Virtual University in America: Lessons from Research and Experience: January 20, 2004

This bulletin examines selected findings from a national study of virtual college and university (VCU) consortia published by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) and the Western…
The Virginia Alliance for Secure Computing and Networking (VA SCAN): A Statewide Collaborative IT Security Resource: October 17, 2006

This case study examines ways in which the Virginia Alliance for Secure Computing and Networking (VA SCAN) provides a blueprint for higher education institutions interested in collaboratively pro…
The University in a Networked Economy and Society: June 12, 2007

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR/HP Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives, June 11-13, 2007, Boulder, Colorado. When Yochai Benkler's book, The Wealth of Networks: How Soc…
The Technical and Societal Implications of Networking: A Personal Perspective: July 15, 2005

Presentation at the Fourth Annual ECAR/HP Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives, July 13-15, 2005, New Castle Island, New Hampshire. As early as 1996, Farber advised us about the in…
The Soft Side of SaaS: Implications for IT in Higher Education: May 3, 2011

This ECAR research bulletin provides an understanding of how the evolution of software as a service (SaaS) will impact the relationships and roles of business and IT organizations in our college…

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