The
emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two
powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is
empowering individuals. People can now discover and consume information
resources and services globally from their homes. Further, new social
computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and
edification of information on the Internet. Empowerment of the
individual -- or consumerization -- is reducing the individual's
reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new
and emerging virtual ones. Second, ubiquitous access to high-speed
networks along with network standards, open standards and content, and
techniques for virtualizing hardware, software, and services is making
it possible to leverage scale economies in unprecedented ways. What
appears to be emerging is industrial-scale computing -- a standardized
infrastructure for delivering computing power, network bandwidth, data
storage and protection, and services. Comsumerization and
industrialization beg the question "Is this the end of the middle?";
that is, what will be the role of "enterprise" IT in the future?
Indeed, the bigger question is what will become of all of our
intermediating institutions? This volume examines the impact of IT on
higher education and on the IT organization in higher education. iLibrarian blog
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Table of Contents
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Foreword
by Diana G. Oblinger
Preface
by Richard N. Katz
Higher Education and Information Technology
The Gathering Cloud: Is This the End of the Middle
by Richard N. Katz
A Matter of Mission: Information Technology and the Future of Higher Education
by Clifford A. Lynch
The University in the Networked Economy and Society: Challenges and Opportunities
by Yochai Benkler
The Globalization of Higher Education
Growing in Esteem: Positioning the University of Melbourne in the Global Knowledge Economy
by Glyn Davis, Linda O’Brien, and Pat McLean
Higher Education and the Future of U.S. Competitiveness
by David Attis
Accountability
The Social Compact of Higher Education and Its Public
by Larry Faulkner
Accountability, Demands for Information, and the Role of the Campus IT Organization
by Brian L. Hawkins
IT Governance
E-Research Is a Fad: Scholarship 2.0, Cyberinfrastructure, and IT Governance
by Brad Wheeler
Beyond the False Dichotomy of Centralized and Decentralized IT Deployment
by Jim Davis
From Users to Choosers: The Cloud and the Changing Shape of Enterprise Authority
by Ronald Yanosky
Open Information, Open Content, Open Source
Cultural and Organizational Drivers of Open Educational Content
by Malcolm Read
Challenges and Opportunities of Open Source in Higher Education
by Ira H. Fuchs
Who Puts the Education into Open Educational Content?
by Andy Lane
Scholarship in a Cloudy World
The Tower, the Cloud, and Posterity
by Richard N. Katz and Paul B. Gandel
From the Library to the Laboratory: A New Future for the Science Librarian
by Mary Marlino and Tamara Sumner
Social Networking in Higher Education
by Bryan Alexander
Scholarship: The Wave of the Future in the Digital Age
by Paul N. Courant
Where Is the New Learning?
by Kristina Woolsey
Teaching and Learning Unleashed with Web 2.0 and Open Educational Resources
by Christine Geith
University 2.0
by John Unsworth
The Tower, the Cloud, and the IT Leader and Workforce
by Philip Goldstein