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Top-10 IT Issues, Policy Implications, and Managing Risk
June 24, 2013 | Rodney Petersen
The 2013 Top-10 IT Issues list reflects the most current and pressing topics in higher education technology. The issues will likely come as no surprise to you, and are topics that EDUCAUSE has been focusing on in its programs this past year and beyond. Topics such as “improving student...

Major Provosts Embrace Online Learning
June 19, 2013 | Jarret Cummings
The real, near-term impact of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) trend has begun to emerge. In response to the rapidly growing awareness and acceptance of online learning that MOOCs have generated among policy-makers and the general public, senior leaders of traditional colleges and universities...

Universities and Libraries Offer a Plan for Public Access to Research
June 11, 2013 | Joan Cheverie
The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have collaborated to offer a plan to expand public access to research.  The plan, called Shared Access to Research Ecosystem (SHARE), is...

WCET Testimony on Proposed Distance Ed. Federal Regulations
June 11, 2013 | Jarret Cummings
As previously reported, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently revived the regulatory process it began last summer to address financial aid fraud concerns related to distance education and expanded it to resurrect the department’s previously overturned distance education state...

The HathiTrust Case and Appeal: Fair Use and Technology
June 11, 2013 | Joan Cheverie
In October 2012, Judge Harold Baer of the U.S. District Court in New York ruled in favor of the HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) and its university partners in a copyright infringement suit brought by the Authors Guild (AG) and other groups. In his ruling the judge dismissed the AG’s...
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