Open scholarly content will become more commonplace in higher education in the next year as online universities and textbook companies organize and harness the internet’s mass of educational material, according to a report that predicts campus technology advances within the next five years.
The 2009 EDUCAUSE higher-education technology conference in Denver Nov. 3-6 saw campus IT administrators present ways to preserve technology budgets during an economic downturn that has devastated many institutions’ operating budgets and endowments, while several vendors emphasized the value of moving campus IT to cloud computing. Key words: Educause 2009, education technology, school technology, distance learning education, online education programs, campus technology
Colleges should consider accrediting web-based programs offered at free or low-cost online schools, making higher education more widely available to populations with little access to post-secondary classes, a former official from the United Kingdom’s Open University told a gathering of technology advocates Nov. 6. Key words: The Open University, education technology, school technology, online courses, Educause, Brenda Gourley
Stanford law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig told a gathering of campus technology chiefs Nov. 5 that restrictive copyright laws are “destructive of science and education,” because academia has adopted a copyright model that largely mimics that of the entertainment industry.
Key words: Lawrence Lessig, educause, copytight law, reform laws, education technology
George O. Strawn has seen higher-education technology grow exponentially since the late 1960s, so a future campus that operates entirely on cloud computing where students have access to PCs that execute a trillion instructions per second does not seem far-fetched to him.
Key words: education technology, higher education, cloud computing, George Strawn, National Science Foundation, Educause
Replacing Pepperdine University’s computer labs with low-cost PCs would have cost almost $25,000, so campus technology officials turned to virtualized computing, connecting many PCs to a single computer and saving nearly $18,000.
Key words: virtual PC, virtualization technology, Educause, Pepperdine University, education technology, cost savings
