EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 41, Number 6, November/December 2006

Features

• A Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies
  Tracy Mitrano
  Four factors of the Internet—technology, the market, the law, and social norms—offer a means to analyze the legal, policy, and educational considerations associated with the use of social networking technologies by today's college and university students.
• Bring Data: A New Role for Information Technology after the Spellings Commission
  Kenneth C. Green
  In the wake of the Spellings Commission report, college and university IT leaders need to bring their IT resources and expertise?bring data?to the critical planning and policy discussions about institutional assessment and outcomes that affect all sectors of U.S. higher education.
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  The Life of "Internet Colleges": Policies, Problems, and Prospects of Online Higher Education in China
  Yong Zhao, Gaoming Zhang, Ning Li
  An examination of the relatively short history of "Internet Colleges" in China offers a glimpse of the larger aspects and potential of online higher education in the country and also reveals many of the problems involved in institutionalizing online education in an established system.

Book Excerpt

• The Psychology of Learning Environments
  Ken A. Graetz
  From Diana G. Oblinger, ed., Learning Spaces
  As we build the future classrooms that will facilitate usability, engagement, collaboration, and learning, we would do well to remember what it was about learning environments that enchanted us and commit ourselves to preserving, restoring, and creating those experiences for our own students.

Departments

• techwatch
  Information Technology in the News
• Leadership
  Leading Change: An Exploratory Process
  Carole Wedge
• E-Content
  Scholarly Reputations: Who's Got Buzz?
  Paul Kobulnicky
• IT Myths
  The Myth about No Significant Difference
  Diana G. Oblinger and Brian L. Hawkins
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• New Horizons
  New Media and New Literacies: Perspectives on Change
  Carol R. Holder
• policy@edu
  Toward a U.S. Data-Retention Standard for ISPs
  Rodney Petersen
• Viewpoints
  Shame On Us
  Polley Ann McClure
• Homepage
  Planning for the Brain Drain
  Cynthia Golden