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McRobbie, Michael A. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2012
As a university president who was also the institution's vice president for information technology and CIO for ten years, the author is often asked: "What do you now think about technology? From your point of view as a president, what are the major issues in information technology today? What has changed in your thinking?" So in his…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Technology, Institutional Mission, Educational Finance
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Ward, David – EDUCAUSE Review, 2013
David Ward, Interim Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2011 to 2013, and Chancellor from 1993 to 2000, describes the changes coming to higher education. He reports that the second half of the twentieth century was a time of great creativity in the kinds of public policies that were put into place for higher education in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainability, Strategic Planning, Educational Change
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Katz, Richard N. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2010
Information technologies have empowered the individual and are unleashing a torrent of change, one that will reshape nearly all of institutions. To secure the place of the traditional scholarly enterprise, the author argues that leaders must rethink a number of the fundamentals behind the higher education institution. He discusses the impact of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Technology, Science and Society, Context Effect
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Parry, David – EDUCAUSE Review, 2011
While recognizing that digital access is not evenly distributed in the United States, which is to say nothing of the global distribution, one can safely say that this transformation is already here; people are already at the moment in which the ability to use social media, and particularly social media as amplified through the power of the mobile…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Multiple Literacies, Access to Information, Spatial Ability
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Rossini, Carolina – EDUCAUSE Review, 2010
The change brought about in the networked information environment is deep and structural, in a way that has the potential to empower cultures left out of the Industrial Revolution. Thus, the author stresses that it is fundamental for individuals to understand, from a developing nation's perspective, how the Internet changes the capacity of…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Internet, Influence of Technology, Technological Advancement
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Katz, Richard N. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2010
On February 9 and 10, 2010, fifty leaders from colleges, universities, corporations, professional associations, and state networks met in Tempe, Arizona, to discuss cloud computing and the impending shift in the mix of where infrastructure, applications, and services are sourced. This group identified a set of actions that colleges and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Interdisciplinary Approach, Internet, Computer Software