The tower and the cloud : higher education in the age of cloud computing / Richard N. Katz, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katz, Richard N.

EDUCAUSE (Association)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on.

United States.

Web services.

Cloud computing.

Electronic data processing--Distributed processing.

Electronic data processing.

Campus planning.

Physical Description:

xxi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Boulder, CO] : EDUCAUSE, [2008]

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780967285399

0967285399

OCLC:

265381796