EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 41, Number 4, July/August 2006

Features

• Lessons for the Future Internet: Learning from the Past
  Michael M. Roberts
  The author, long involved in Internet policy, describes a few highlights of Internet development in the past, analyzes some of the policy factors at work in that development, and suggests some avenues for academic contributions to the successful evolution of the future Internet.
• Transformations of the Research Enterprise
  Sandra Braman
  Political, economic, and intellectual developments have shaped and continue to transform the U.S. agenda for research and information technology, resulting in key computational, networking, and data challenges for tomorrow.
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  Sharing Educational Resources Worldwide: An Interview with Shimizu Yasutaka
  Diana G. Oblinger
  "I believe that spreading and integrating the learning environment by building a setup that enables the mutual sharing of the world's educational resources is vitally important to higher education in Japan—and also to higher education in nations throughout the world."
• Managing Courses, Defining Learning: What Faculty, Students, and Administrators Want
  Ali Jafari, Patricia McGee, and Colleen Carmean
  Reflecting on their recent research study, a systems designer, a pedagogist, and a learning researcher discuss the advantages and shortcomings of learning/course management systems and also what faculty, students, and administrators want from the next-generation e-learning environment.

Departments

• techwatch
  Information Technology in the News
• Leadership
  You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
  George Strawn
• E-Content
  A Post-Millennial's View of Online Courses
  Hannah Somers
• IT Myths
  The Myth about the Digital Divide
  Brian L. Hawkins and Diana G. Oblinger
• New Horizons
  The Future of Higher Education
  Morton Egol
• policy@edu
  The NPC: A Higher Priority for Networking Policy
  Jeff C. Kuhns
• Viewpoints
  Changing Assumptions in Best Practice
  Ted Dodds
• Homepage
  Globalization, Internationalization, and EDUCAUSE
  Brian L. Hawkins