EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 43, Number 2, March/April 2008

Features

• Conference Connections: Rewiring the Circuit
  George Siemens, Peter Tittenberger, and Terry Anderson
  Increased openness, two-way dialogue, and blurred distinctions between experts and amateurs have combined with numerous technology tools for dialogue, personal expression, networking, and community formation to “remake” conferences, influencing not only how attendees participate in but also how organizers host conferences today.
• Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries
  Peter Brantley
  Libraries are successful to the extent that they can bridge communities and can leverage the diversity of the quest, the research, and the discovery. By building bridges among various sectors, libraries will be able to define themselves in the next generation.
• E-Books in Higher Education: Nearing the End of the Era of Hype?
  Mark R. Nelson
  What is the reality with respect to e-books? Will e-books finally take off? After nearly two decades of talking about how e-books are right around the corner, have we finally reached the corner?
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  Open to Change: An Interview with Leaders of the Open University
  Richard N. Katz
  “The movement toward open content forces us to really think about what value it is we bring to students who enroll at the Open University. I think that we are getting to that tipping point—rethinking the underlying pedagogy with which we have conventionally delivered distance education and open learning.”

Departments

• Leadership
  The Global STEM Imperative
  Karen A. Holbrook
• E-Content
  The Academic Archives of the Future
  Richard J. Cox
• PodcastIT
  On People, the Death of Privacy, and Data Pollution
  Bruce Schneier
• New Horizons
  RIAs: Rich Learning for Higher Education
  Ryan Stewart
• policy@edu
  Get Me Out of the Middle!
  Kent Wada
• Viewpoints
  Facebook 2.0
  Tracy Mitrano
• Homepage
  IT: Doing Things for People
  Diana G. Oblinger