Communication Technologies

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Communication Technologies

Living with Disruption: News from the Frontlines

March 9, 2010 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010

Universities today find themselves confronted by a variety of disruptive forces that challenge traditional models of education and scholarly inquiry. At the heart of that disruption are the informa…

Good Communication: The Other Social Network for Successful IT Organizations

October 30, 2009

© 2009 Lisa Trubitt and Jeff Overholtzer. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses…

A Costing Model for Project-Based Information and Communication Technology Systems

July 30, 2009

By Brian Stewart and Dave Hrenewich A lack of accurate information on costs for information and communications technologies hampers effective decision making on ICT proposals. Havin…

Improving Team Communications with Internet Tools

April 15, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2009

The Kualil Student (http://student.kuali.org/) project has numerous teams with members scattered across the United States and Canada. The geographic diversity is a great, but it raises a variety of…

The Revolution No One Noticed: Mobile Phones and Multimobile Services in Higher Education

March 26, 2009

By Alan Livingston Mobile phone usage among students is virtually universal, presenting an opportunity for higher education to pursue. Higher education, however, has failed to notic…

Keeping Track of Students, and Staying in Touch

August 15, 2008

A start-up company from a former Blackboard executive is positioning itself to help colleges boost retention with communication tools ... and lots of data. …

Seminar 03F - Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts: Personal Authoring Technologies Enrich Communication and Expression for You and Your Students PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.

October 23, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

Personal authoring technologies have made it easier than ever for instructors and students to contribute their thoughts, experiences, and opinions to a global discourse. In addition, these technolo…

UC Berkeley Emergency People Locator System

August 31, 2007

The UC Berkeley People Locator is a web-based contact system to provide information to members of the UC Berkeley community and to their families and friends in the event of an emergency affectin…

Colleges Testing Google Apps

August 30, 2007

U.S. universities are signing for the free Google Apps hosted software suite--but aren't abandoning Microsoft apps just yet. U.S. universiti…

7 Things You Should Know About Cyberinfrastructure

August 20, 2007

Cyberinfrastructure is not a new technology, per se, or merely a better, faster Internet. While cyberinfrastructure brings together high-performance computing, remote sensors, large data sets, mi…