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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Active Learning
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Soft Power and Higher Education
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January 1, 2005
Soft power is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than through coercion or payments. Joseph Nye, who coined the term "soft power", explains why it is becoming more …
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Preserving Digital Information to Support Scholarship
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January 1, 2002
Lynch examines the numerous technical obstacles related to digital information and preservation and describes some efforts in the various arenas. He also discusses the legal, social, and political …
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Creating a Collaborative Information Technology Environment for Higher Education
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January 1, 2002
Fuchs discusses the impediments to collaboration as well as remarkable current efforts that might point the way to the future of information technology in higher education. He indicates that "…
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Forum Futures 1999
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January 1, 1999
Forum Futures 1999 is a collection of summaries of the papers presented and discussed at the Forum's 1998 Aspen Symposium. Papers explore important topics such as private college pricing polic…
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Decompilation as a "Fair Use" of Copyrighted Programs
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January 1, 1994
What does the Sega v. Accolade controversy mean to software development and protection strategies? What does the Sega v. Accolade controversy mean to s…
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The NII and the New World Trade Agreement
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January 1, 1994
In Educom Review's special report on national networking, ten experts report on policy, legislation, ethics, higher education, and the new role of government in determining our future. …
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Virtual Estate in Cyberspace
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January 1, 1994
Although commercial and noncommercial providers of network services are guided by very different goals and principles, both models must be recognized in order for the NII to deal effectively with i…
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Campus Nets for the Nineties
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January 1, 1994
Today we are on the threshold of another significant chapter as we upgrade the network from baseband to broadband technologies. Today we are on the thr…
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Convergence and Community: An Ethical Challenge
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January 1, 1994
The author talks about community members' rights to what he calls"democratic rinciple of digital convergence." That democratic principle implies that all community members have acces…
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The Blessing (or Bane) of Software Patents
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January 1, 1994
Copyright protects only against copying; patents provide protection against systems that are created independently of the patented invention. Software companies are getting the message. …

















