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• Lessig at Educause

  
  cac.ophony.org — Authority: 119
  Below is Lawrence Lessig’s keynote at last week’s Educause 2009: “It’s About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright.”  This 60 minute presentation is well worth the time of anyone who’s interested how antiquated copyright laws are impacting ecologies of freedom, access, education, and science in the ...
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• Google Wave makes the conference rounds

  
  RodeWorks — Authority: 127
  The Google Wave team makes some conference visits, aiming at corporations at Enterprise 2.0 and the educational market at Educause . Google seems to have created a cool tool, and is now trying to figure out what it is good for.  It will be interesting to see if it changes much as it comes out in a more general ...
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• “EDUCAUSE Should Model Open Learning”

  
  TechTicker — Authority: 119
  NB: This post was originally intended just for Posterous and initially came through as more of an off-hand comment than a more considered post. I didn’t realise that the bookmarklet would autopost it to other sources as well, so I’m editing this to add an additional bit of background on the article. In a post ...
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• A grand social experiment and then home

  
  From a Distance... — Authority: 463
  The last session of EDCAUSE was another keynote given by Brenda Gourley who was Vice-Chancellor of the Open University until her recent retirement. It was a fascinating history of the OU, which was founded 40 years ago by Harold Wilsons Labour government - with Harold Wilson writing the original paper which ...
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• Report on Info Tech trends in Higher Ed

  
  RodeWorks — Authority: 127
  For the seventh year Educause has conducted a s urvey on IT trends in higher educational institutions .  This year’s report is out, and a couple of things caught my eye: We are cautioned not to succumb to a temptation to use the report to “keep up with the Joneses”  and use the report as a justification ...
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• Looking into the future

  
  From a Distance... — Authority: 463
  During the EDUCAUSE conference I went to a couple of sessions given by CIOs about their experiences and their views on the future role of CIOs and the changing nature of technology. The first concentrated on the role, and how the scope and complexity of IT now spans the scope and complexity of the institution as a ...
  4 days ago

• Hurricanes and a giant blue bear

  
  From a Distance... — Authority: 463
  As Chair of the University Business Continuity Operations Group, Im always interested to hear other peoples experiences of dealing with incidents. In recent years Ive been to presentations on how Universities coped after hurricane Katrina, floods, and forest fires. This year it was the turn of the hurricane. Yesterday ...
  6 days ago

• Criminalising our children in the copyright war

  
  From a Distance... — Authority: 463
  Theres not many people can make an hour long keynote presentation on copyright both interesting and informative, but Larry Lessig can. To a packed auditorium Professor Lessig spoke passionately about his belief that the copyright laws are wrong. They were put together at a time when it was never envisaged that ...
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• Purdue University Transforms Teaching and Learning Environment

  
  Virtual Graffiti — Authority: 148
  Cisco and Verizon Business announced today that Purdue University is deploying a pervasive, campus-wide, high-performance wireless network to enhance the collaborative learning experience for students. This transformative deployment will help drive student success and create tomorrows leaders by enabling Purdues ...
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• Educause 2009 - Day Two

  
  Professional Development — Authority: 120
  I could go in chronological order in this post, but that would require me to “bury the lead” and talk about Lawrence Lessig’s presentation in the middle of the post! Lessig is a rock star in my world and it seems only right that when writing about a copyright guru I “steal” his bio from his website! “ ...
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• Blackboard/Moodle/Sakai Session Recording Now Available

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  By far the most popular session at EDUCAUSE (at least so far) this discussion on the relative merits of two open source and one commercial learning management system (LMS) is a great listen, especially as they begin to talk about the future, the claim that "the LMS is dead" (or so it has been reported in some of the ...
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• Flex Momentum in Higher Education

  
  Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer — Authority: 410
  Since this week is Educause I thought it would be a good time to talk about some of the momentum we’ve been having with Flex in higher education. I came from the higher education side of the industry so it’s really great to see Flex do well. It’s major props to our education teams and Terry Ryan , who has ...
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• CNET: IBM helps students put their heads in the cloud, LotusLive

  
  Lotus Knows Web 2.0 & SMB — Authority: 112
  This was one of the major topic of discussion from Lotus Knows ideaJam this past summer.  How do you get Students to be interested in IBM Lotus techonology? Simple, make it relevant to their needs. Yesterday, IBM announced a program designed to help educators and students pursue cloud-computing initiatives and ...
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• Twitter - The Mile High Debate

  
  From a Distance... — Authority: 463
  The next session was also a debate - on the usefulness (or otherwise) of Twitter. Very well attended sessions - standing room only, and about 40 people in the room actively twittering and others following the debate on line and contributing. We had our own hashtag and tweets were projected on the screen. It was a ...
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• Cloud computing - Hope or Hype?

  
  From a Distance... — Authority: 463
  One of the session types at Educause is "Point/Counterpoint" where two peolpe present opposing sides of a debate. This morning I went to a "Cloud Computing - Hope or Hype" session. Ill summarise the arguments on both sides: Hope Its inevitable. Its the way the industry is going. It gives us new economies of scale ...
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• Educause 2009 - Day One

  
  Professional Development — Authority: 120
  After spending the better part of a day traveling and with only 14% power left on my iPhone (I never like to get below 20%) and with only six minutes before the close of registration on Tuesday night, I checked in at the Educause 2009 registration station and collected my conference materials! For those of you who may ...
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• Good to Great

  
  From a Distance... — Authority: 463
  Opening keynote this morning was by Jim Collins , author of the best selling book Good to Great . It was in a huge auditorium - theres about 8000 delegates here I think - and like all American conferences, started at 8am! Very well attended, and a good start to the conference - hes an excellent speaker. He talked ...
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• EDUCAUSE Joins Identity Management Federation: InCommon

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  EDUCAUSE has elected to join the InCommon identity federation. "In an identity federation like InCommon, participating identity providers (such as colleges and universities) and resource providers (like EDUCAUSE) agree on a set of shared policies, processes, and technology standards." A precursor to this is seen in ...
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• Blackboard is Buzzing at EDUCAUSE

  
  Blackboard Blogs — Authority: 112
  EDUCAUSE officially kicked-off its national conference yesterday in Denver, and we’ve seen some great enthusiasm from clients and the community. The booth (#423) was packed with attendees who wanted to hear more about the newest platform, Blackboard Mobile .   Attendees were very excited about the addition of ...
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• Google roadmap and marching bands

  
  From a Distance... — Authority: 463
  Went to the Google Customer Advisory Board this morning - a session where Google told us about their road map, and got feedback from their customers. Mainly US Universities there, and we will need to work with Google to get something similar in the UK. Very interesting session - they have 6.3million active users of ...
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