Collaborative Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Collaborative Learning

Demystifying the Cloud for Policymakers

January 23, 2013

Adopters of cloud technologies recognize that it requires business decisions, risk management, and policy choices.  At the Annual State of the Net Conference , EDUCAUSE Policy attempted to de…

What You Read in 2012

January 22, 2013

What was big in 2012? Clearly analytics, massive open online courses (MOOCs), and open education all spent some time in the spotlight this past year. Other areas of interest to our readers includ…

Privacy and Security are High on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Agenda for the New Congress

January 18, 2013

On January 16, 2013, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, set out the agenda of the Judiciary Committee in the 113th Congress with updates to key legisla…

Why MOOCs are like Farmville

January 18, 2013

Another day, another report from one of the thought leaders on higher education. This time it is from Moody’s , which proclaims the death of the traditional model of higher education . Wh…

Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models, #1: Modular Courses

January 15, 2013

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a series from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). Each post highlights a distinguishing design characteristic of NGLC’s recently funded Brea…

Copyright Reform in the U.K. Will Impact Education, Research, and Accessibility

January 15, 2013

It will soon become legal in the U.K. to copy music from a CD to an iPod, show copyrighted texts on an interactive whiteboard, and use copyrighted works in a parody.  Until now, these have been …

National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding Released

January 9, 2013

The White House has released a new National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding intended to strike the proper balance between sharing information with those who need it to keep …

EDUCAUSE Policy: 2012 in Review

January 9, 2013

In a year where the political scene was dominated by a national presidential election and efforts to avert the fiscal cliff, what is probably most notable about Internet policy is the inaction of…

Distance Ed Regulation Commission’s Work Continues

January 8, 2013

As highlighted before the holidays, in both a blog post and an EDUCAUSE Live! online presentation , the Commission on Regulation of Postsecondary Distance Education , chartered by t…

Senate Passes Video Privacy Protection Act Amendment

January 4, 2013

As 2012 drew to a close, the Senate passed an amendment to the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) ( H.R. 6671 ) that will make it easier for users to share their online video viewing activitie…