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The Tower and The CloudA New EDUCAUSE e-Book The emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is empowering individuals. People can now discover and consume information resources and services globally from their homes. Further, new social computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and edification of information on the Internet. Empowerment of the individual—or consumerization—is reducing the individual's reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new and emerging virtual ones. Second, ubiquitous access to high-speed networks along with network standards, open standards and content, and techniques for virtualizing hardware, software, and services is making it possible to leverage scale economies in unprecedented ways. What appears to be emerging is industrial-scale computing—a standardized infrastructure for delivering computing power, network bandwidth, data storage and protection, and services. Consumerization and industrialization beg the question "Is this the end of the middle?"; that is, what will be the role of "enterprise" IT in the future? Indeed, the bigger question is what will become of all of our intermediating institutions? This volume examines the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education.
Table of Contents©2008 EDUCAUSE ISBN 978-0-9672853-9-9 Higher Education and Information TechnologyThe Globalization of Higher EducationGrowing in Esteem: Positioning the University of Melbourne in the Global Knowledge Economy AccountabilityAccountability, Demands for Information, and the Role of the Campus IT Organization IT GovernanceOpen Information, Open Content, Open SourceScholarship in a Cloudy WorldCopyright InformationAuthors retain the copyright to their intellectual content, with EDUCAUSE owning the copyright to the collected publication. Permission is granted to copy or disseminate the document, either in print or electronic format, if the following conditions are met:
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