{"id":365,"date":"2008-10-28T19:26:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T00:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2008\/10\/28\/tower-and-cloud\/"},"modified":"2008-10-28T19:26:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T00:26:50","slug":"tower-and-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2008\/10\/28\/tower-and-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower and Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually look to Educause for good summaries of where we’ve been rather than for information on what’s coming up. Here’s one that may prove to be an exception. Just published:
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\nThe Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing<\/a>, Richard N. Katz, ed.
\nThe first article I read, as might be expected given his connections to the TEI<\/a>, is by John Unsworth titled “University 2.0.” Don’t let the rather pedestrian title fool you. Unsworth always has something of interest to offer and this article is no exception. In it he describes, among other things, a system that mashes bibliographic information with LDAP (personal and departmental information) to generate a system that tracks faculty and subject publications. Who’s doing what at the university? Who, in different departments, is working on similar topics and might want to collaborate?
\nHis main interest in the projects mentioned in the article is in reducing the “information friction” that impedes the sharing of institutional information, or, as he says “What we need more than big science or big servers are good ideas about interesting things that faculty, staff, and students could do with the information produced in, by, and about universities.” That is, not university-wide “content management” but smart content sharing and distribution.
\nI hope the other articles are as timely and though-provoking. Here’s the bulk of the TOC:
\nThe Gathering Cloud: Is This the End of the Middle
\nby Richard N. Katz
\nA Matter of Mission: Information Technology and the Future of Higher Education
\nby Clifford A. Lynch
\nThe University in the Networked Economy and Society: Challenges and Opportunities
\nby Yochai Benkler
\nGrowing in Esteem: Positioning the University of Melbourne in the Global Knowledge Economy
\nby Glyn Davis, Linda O\u2019Brien, and Pat McLean
\nHigher Education and the Future of U.S. Competitiveness
\nby David Attis
\nThe Social Compact of Higher Education and Its Public
\nby Larry Faulkner
\nAccountability, Demands for Information, and the Role of the Campus IT Organization
\nby Brian L. Hawkins
\nE-Research Is a Fad: Scholarship 2.0, Cyberinfrastructure, and IT Governance
\nby Brad Wheeler
\nBeyond the False Dichotomy of Centralized and Decentralized IT Deployment
\nby Jim Davis
\nFrom Users to Choosers: The Cloud and the Changing Shape of Enterprise Authority
\nby Ronald Yanosky
\nCultural and Organizational Drivers of Open Educational Content
\nby Malcolm Read
\nChallenges and Opportunities of Open Source in Higher Education
\nby Ira H. Fuchs
\nWho Puts the Education into Open Educational Content?
\nby Andy Lane
\nThe Tower, the Cloud, and Posterity
\nby Richard N. Katz and Paul B. Gandel
\nFrom the Library to the Laboratory: A New Future for the Science Librarian
\nby Mary Marlino and Tamara Sumner
\nSocial Networking in Higher Education
\nby Bryan Alexander
\nScholarship: The Wave of the Future in the Digital Age
\nby Paul N. Courant
\nWhere Is the New Learning?
\nby Kristina Woolsey
\nTeaching and Learning Unleashed with Web 2.0 and Open Educational Resources
\nby Christine Geith
\nUniversity 2.0
\nby John Unsworth
\nThe Tower, the Cloud, and the IT Leader and Workforce
\nby Philip Goldstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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