features

• Data: Roads Traveled, Lessons Learned
  Kenneth C. Green, David Smallen, Karen Leach, and Brian L. Hawkins
  The directors of three widely cited and respected IT data-collection projects?the Campus Computing Project, the COSTS Project, and the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service?answer questions regarding the challenges and issues involved in the task of collecting data about campus activities.
• Next-Generation Educational Software: Why We Need It and a Research Agenda for Getting It
  Andries van Dam, Sascha Becker, and
  Rosemary Michelle Simpson
  An IT-oriented education research agenda can serve as a first step in the quest to build not only next-generation educational content and tools but also exemplary curricula in the broadest sense.
• Hitting a Moving Target: IT Strategy in a Real-Time World
  John Voloudakis
  Today?s need for faster responsiveness has brought about the "adaptive organization" strategic planning model for IT, whereby institutions focus not on planning but on sensing and responding to the changing environment in as close to real time as possible.

Book Excerpt

• Net Generation Students and Libraries
  Joan K. Lippincott
  From Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger, eds., Educating the Net Generation
  Technology has led to more modernization than transformation of the library, resulting in some major disconnects between many of today?s academic libraries and Net Gen students.

Departments

• techwatch
  Information Technology in the News
• Leadership
  All That Glitters
  Arthur Levine
• E-Content
  What Is a Data System, Anyway?
  Peter Cornillon
• IT Myths
  The Myth about Saving Money
  Brian L. Hawkins and Diana G. Oblinger
• New Horizons
  Standing on the Plateau
  Marilyn M. Lombardi
• policy@edu
  A Reinterpretation of CALEA
  Wendy Wigen
• Viewpoints
  How Is Open Source Special?
  Mitchell Kapor
• Homepage
  Asking the Right Question
  Diana G. Oblinger