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The tower and the cloud : higher education in the age of cloud computing /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EDUCAUSE (Association)
Other Authors: Katz, Richard N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Boulder, Colo.] : EDUCAUSE, [2008]
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Effect of technological innovations on > United States.
Web services.
Cloud computing.
Electronic data processing > Distributed processing.
Campus planning.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Diana G. Oblinger
  • Preface / Richard N. Katz
  • Higher Education and Information Technology
  • The Gathering cloud: is this the end of the middle? / Richard N. Katz
  • A Matter of mission: information technology and the future of higher education / Clifford A. Lynch
  • The University in the networked economy and society: challenges and opportunities / Yochai Benkler
  • The Globalization of Higher Education
  • Growing in esteem: positioning the University of Melbourne in the global knowledge economy / Glyn Davis, Linda O'Brien, and Pat McLean
  • Higher education and the future of U.S. competitiveness / David Attis
  • Accountability
  • The Social compact of higher education and its public / Larry Faulkner
  • Accountability, demands for information, and the role of the campus IT organization / Brian L. Hawkins
  • IT Governance
  • E-research is a fad: scholarship 2.0, cyberinfrastructure, and IT governance / Brad Wheeler
  • Beyond the false dichotomy of centralized and decentralized IT deployment / Jim Davis
  • From users to choosers: the cloud and the changing shape of enterprise authority / Ronald Yanosky
  • Open Information, Open Content, Open Source
  • Cultural and organizational drivers of open educational content / Malcolm Read
  • Challenges and opportunities of open source in higher education / Ira H. Fuchs
  • Who puts the education into open educational Content? / Andy Lane
  • Scholarship in a Cloudy World
  • The Tower, the cloud, and posterity / Richard N. Katz and Paul B. Gandel
  • From the library to the laboratory: a new future for the science librarian / Mary Marlino and Tamara Sumner
  • Social networking in higher education / Bryan Alexander
  • Scholarship: the wave of the future in the digital age / Paul N. Courant
  • Where is the new learning? / Kristina Woolsey
  • Teaching and learning unleashed with Web 2.0 and open educational resources / Christine Geith
  • University 2.0 / John Unsworth
  • The Tower, the cloud, and the IT leader and workforce / Philip Goldstein