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What I Learned in Jail
"Are we going to do collage?" asked a large man in a blue jumpsuit and day-glo orange tennis shoes.
"No, I don't think we'll be doing any collage, at least not for now, Bob. Sorry."
It was the first day of my first class at the local county jail. I'd signed on as a volunteer graphic design instructor, and I knew there would be challenges. But putting a 290-pound student in a deep funk within the first five minutes of class was a bad start.
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The Importance of Doing Enterprise (and Infrastructure)
...as Oscar Wilde well might have titled an essay about campus-wide IT, had there been such a thing back then. Enterprise IT it accounts for the lion's share of campus IT staffing, expenditure, and risk. Yet it receives curiously little attention in national discussion of IT's strategic higher-education role. Perhaps that should change.
Two questions arise:
- What does "Enterprise" mean within higher-education IT?
- Why might...
A Vicious Cycle
This past week has seen considerable discussion on the EDUCAUSE CIO listserv regarding a recent CIO piece by Bryson Payne, who is soon stepping...
Republican, Democratic Platforms Take Different Approaches on Technology Issues
Now that the Republican and Democratic Conventions are completed, let’s take a look at their respective platforms on broadband, internet, and information technology policies. While the Republican Platform and the Democratic Platform both give high priority to select Internet and broadband issues, neither document recognizes the need for a comprehensive IT...
The Credentialing Contradiction at the Heart of MOOCs
Writing in the September 11, 2012, edition of Inside Higher Education, David Touve, a professor at Washington and Lee University, discusses the credentialing contradiction inherent in the massive open online course (MOOC) projects of various elite universities. He makes the compelling point that, based on the assurances given by the projects and...
Crowdsourcing: Sounds Great, but Hard to Do
Crowdsourcing! Co-creation! Curation! It seems as if everyone is trumpeting the "Cs" as the future of publishing and content. Not ones to be left behind, we’ve been thinking about using crowdsourcing to create content for EDUCAUSE Review Online. With such a creative, thoughtful, and knowledgeable community, crowdsourcing seems a great approach to collecting the "best of" any topic. Of course, the first challenge is how to narrow proposed topics to something specific...
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