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October 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

This presentation will introduce the concept of macro solutions : collaborative solutions that adopt a larger-scale perspective to achieve a more efficient and cost-effective nationwide system o…

The Virtual Burnham Initiative as a Collaborative Project of, by, and for the Community

March 18, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2008

Led by Lake Forest College, Chicago-area academic, cultural, and civic institutions are developing VBI, the Virtual Burnham Initiative, with 3D models re-creating the 1909 Plan of Chicago housed on…

Engineering a Public Affairs Project

October 26, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

This session will describe a collaboration between two very different academic disciplines at Princeton University, the University Channel and CoBlitz, to deliver recordings of public events in aca…

An Initiative to Share Digital Repository Services for Liberal Arts Colleges

October 25, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

In January 2007, 13 geographically separated liberal arts colleges joined with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Longsight Group on an initiative for share…

Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper

October 26, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

The structure of the traditional term paper can limit its educational value. To make the assignment more meaningful, students published their papers in Wikipedia. This session will examine how publ…

The Use of Rich-Media Resources for Scholarly Communication

February 5, 2007

The ResearchChannel is an intellectual community that acts as a technology test bed and innovator for new methods to globally distribute scholarly research. Network, computing, and content-creation…

What They Need, When They Need It: Implementing a Statewide System for Sharing Library Resources

January 18, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2007

The University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions library consortium implemented OCLC's ILLiad system on eight campuses to enhance consortial sharing of articles and other material…

Experience TeamSpot: “Walk Up" Technology for Informal Learning Spaces

January 31, 2006 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2006

TeamSpot helps accelerate collaboration when teams use digital resources. Deployed at a growing number of academic institutions around the world, TeamSpot allows laptop and Tablet PC users to int…

Expanding Cyber Communities

January 30, 2006 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2006

Information technologies provide us with tools to work together at greater distances and with more partners than ever before. But have we changed the intellectual communities in which we work? Th…

The DPubS Development Project: Building an Open Source Electronic Publishing System

October 19, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference

The DPubS development project, a partnership between libraries at Cornell and Penn State, aims to provide libraries, university presses, and other independent publishers with an open-source online …