Higher Education Transformation

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Higher Education Transformation

Designs for Learning to Meet 21st Century Expectations - Sponsored by Zimbra

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

Colleges and universities today educate a large, diverse population of students, foster scholarship in new areas, and offer opportunities in new settings and formats, including online. Yet many fac…

Change: The Constant of Modern Times

August 10, 2005

It has been argued that there has been more change in the past 200 years than in the previous 5,000. One of today's biggest change agents is information technology. This big-picture rumination…

Creating and Sustaining Technical Innovation

August 8, 2005

By definition, sustaining innovation is not an event but rather a principle and a process. Those who sustain technological innovation over time do so by vision and commitment, and their institution…

Winds of Change: Charting the Course for Technology

April 26, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2005

Higher education finds itself in turbulent seas. This presentation will identify 10 maxims for charting the course of technology in the 21st century. The session will look at leadership, budgeting,…

Ben Shneiderman - Closing General Session Educom 1998

January 1, 1998

Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies and for Systems R…

Glenn Ricart - Diversity Hastens the Multiversity

January 1, 1997

Glenn Ricart, Director of the Computer Science Center at the University of Maryland/College Park (Currently on sabbatical and working as Program Manager, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)), …

Eli M. Noam Opening Keynote Address Educom 1997

January 1, 1997

Author of "Electronics and the Dim Future of the University," published in the October 1995 issue of Science, Eli M. Noam is professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia University …

Rethinking the Land Grant University for the Digital Age

January 1, 1999

The twentieth century has seen research and preparation of professionals at land grant universities as significant factors in making American agriculture and industry flourish. The dawn of the new …

Barry Munitz, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Speaking at the EDUCAUSE '99 General Session.

January 1, 1999

Higher education is moving from a cottage industry monopoly to a competitive knowledge industry, with new players and new rules. This session will address the roles of specialization and niche mark…

The Role of the "University" in the Knowledge Economy

January 1, 2004

Although the knowledge economy should be good news for higher education, universities now confront a variety of technical, legal, and cultural forces that threaten to relegate us to the periphery. …