Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

[Boulder, CO] : EDUCAUSE, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Katz, Richard N.
• EDUCAUSE (Association)

Description

xxi, 273 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Campus planning
• Web services
• Electronic data processing > Distributed processing
• Education, Higher > Effect of technological innovations on > United States
• Cloud computing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN

• 9780967285399
• 0967285399

LCCN

99931981997

OCLC

• ocn265381796
• 265381796
• SCSB-5446266

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries