features

• Digital Game-Based Learning: It's Not Just the Digital Natives Who Are Restless
  Richard Van Eck
  With the widespread public interest in games as learning tools, DGBL proponents now need to explain why games are engaging and effective and how those principles can be leveraged to best integrate games into the learning process.
• Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?
  Bryan Alexander
  Web 1.0 has demonstrated immense powers for connecting learners, teachers, and materials. How much more broadly will this connective matrix grow under the impact of the openness, ease of entry, and social nature of Web 2.0?
• Advancing Scholarship and Intellectual Productivity: An Interview with Clifford A. Lynch (Part 1)
  Brian L. Hawkins
  "Informatics support has some elements of IT knowledge, some elements of library and information science expertise, and some elements of data management skills. . . . This calls for a team approach including both libraries and IT organizations but also going beyond both at some level."
• The Future for Higher Education: Sunrise or Perfect Storm?
  James Hilton
  The technology-driven disruptions of the knowledge economy offer higher education an enormous opportunity to remake ourselves—this time around collaboration, exploration, and engagement with the wider world.

departments

• techwatch
  Information Technology in the News
• Leadership
  Beyond the Rhetoric: A Midterm Appraisal
  Leo I. Higdon Jr.
• E-Content
  Institutional Repositories: An Opportunity for CIO Campus Impact
  Marilu Goodyear and Richard Fyffe
• IT Myths
  The Myth about Student Competency
  Diana G. Oblinger and Brian L. Hawkins
• New Horizons
  The Sea Change Before Us
  Larry Johnson
• policy@edu
  InCommon: Toward Building a Global University
  Tracy Mitrano
• Viewpoints
  What Would Ozymandias Think about Disaster Planning?
  Brian D. Voss
• Homepage
  A Change in Perspective
  Diana G. Oblinger