EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 40, Number 6, November/December 2005

Features

• Tomorrowland: When New Technologies Get Newer
  Bonnie Neas and the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee
  Focusing on "tomorrow," the Evolving Technologies Committee looked at five technologies and trends—wireless, portals, outsourcing, gaming, and student collaboration tools—and dreamed about what may come as the new evolve into the even newer.
• There's Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education
  Gardner Campbell
  Podcasting is taking its place among the dizzying variety of grassroots media now available to everyone. Those in higher education need to understand the potential uses and value of rich media authoring, bringing podcasting into courses so that students can lift their learning to a whole new level.

• Instant Messaging: IM Online! RU?
  Robert Farmer
  With IM playing a large and growing role in the communication, interactivity, and socialization skills of today's younger generation, higher education leaders and faculty must seriously consider its application and inclusion within students' learning activities.
• E-Research: An Imperative for Strengthening Institutional Partnerships
  Linda O'Brien
  A transformation is clearly occurring in research practice, a transformation that will have a profound impact on the roles of information professionals within higher education.
• Improving Institutional Performance through IT-Enabled Innovation
  William H. Graves
  Higher education can use technology innovatively to redesign academic and administrative services for greater effectiveness and efficiency and to increase accountability—that is, to systematically and measurably improve and account for institutional performance.
• Telecommunications Reform: A High-Stakes Debate
  Mark A. Luker
  In the current telecommunications reform debate, a central theme is the Internet. Colleges and universities—major customers and also major suppliers of telecommunications and information services—have a particularly high stake in the outcome of this debate.
• Recommended Readings on the Top-Ten IT Issues
  EDUCAUSE offers a list of readings on each of the top-ten information technology issues identified by the 2005 Current Issues Survey.

Departments

• techwatch
  Information Technology in the News
• Leadership
  Two Rules for Communication
  Mark R. Hamilton
• E-Content
  Libraries: Standing at the Wrong Platform, Waiting for the Wrong Train?
  Paul B. Gandel
• IT Myths
  The Myth about Going It Alone
  Brian L. Hawkins and Diana G. Oblinger
• New Horizons
  Grid Computing
  Michael P. Cummings and Jeffrey C. Huskamp
• policy@edu
  Presidents and Campus Cybersecurity
  Joy R. Hughes and Jack Suess
• Viewpoints
  On Taking Our Own Medicine
  Jack McCredie
• Homepage
  A Pivotal Alliance
  Carole A. Barone