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Identity Management in Higher Education, 2011—Slide Presentation: June 1, 2011

This slide presentation illuminates findings from the ECAR 2011 research of identity management (IdM) practices in higher education . This slide deck can be adapted for presentations within…
The Gap between Hype and Reality: December 4, 2008

Presentation at the 2008 EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) Symposium, December 4, 2008, in Boca Raton, Florida, by Burton Group Vice President and Research Director Anne Thomas Manes. I…
Should We Work in the Cloud? The Pros and Cons of Software as a Service: December 6, 2007

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR Symposium, December 5-7, 2007, in Boca Raton, Florida. Within the past year, SaaS-based office solutions from Adobe, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce.com…
Facebook Use on Campus: A Social Capital Perspective on Social Network Sites: December 7, 2007

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR Symposium, December 5-7, 2007, in Boca Raton, Florida. This talk reviews scholarship on social networking sites, focusing on the use of Facebook among underg…
Analyzing & Improving Online Communities: December 7, 2007

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR Symposium, December 5-7, 2007, in Boca Raton, Florida. Successful online communities must be able to attract and retain a core of active participants. In thi…
The Social Web: December 6, 2007

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR Symposium, December 5-7, 2007, in Boca Raton, Florida. The social web is reflecting a radical change in the nature of publishing: the who, what, why, and how…
Human Futures for Technology and Education: June 12, 2007

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR/HP Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives, June 11-13, 2007, Boulder, Colorado. In January 2007, Michael Wesch released a video on the history o…
Life Online: When Everyone Connects to Everyone and Everything Connects to Everything: December 8, 2005

Presentation at the December 2005 ECAR Symposium in Carefree, Arizona. Ubiquitous computing and communications technology are changing the social and educational worlds of students. The talk pars…
Providing Your Faculty Global Access to the Instruments of Scientific Discovery: November 16, 2004

Presentation at the November 2004 ECAR Symposium. In the past 20 years, we have seen the establishment of the global Internet and the Web. We are now seeing the emergence of universal grid infras…
Open Source Software: Risks and Rewards: November 16, 2004

Presentation at the November 2004 ECAR Symposium. Open-source software (OSS) is not a fad—it is here to stay. While OSS provides additional choices and may lower software development and deploy…

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