The tower and the cloud
Subtitle: higher education in the age of cloud computing
By: Richard N. Katz, editor
Contributors: EDUCAUSE (Association)
Series: Professional Development Collection; Professional Development Collection
Publisher: EDUCAUSE
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Boulder, CO]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780967285399
Subjects: Higher Education; Effect of technological innovations on; Web services; Cloud computing; Electronic data processing; Distributed processing; Campus planning; Hoger onderwijs; ICT; Onderwijsvernieuwing; Informatics; Trends; Information Services; Internet; Universities
Description: "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."--Web site blurb.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Diana G. Oblinger; title: Preface  -- Richard N. Katz -- Higher Education and Information Technology; title: The Gathering cloud: is this the end of the middle?  -- Richard N. Katz; title: A Matter of mission: information technology and the future of higher education  -- Clifford A. Lynch; title: The University in the networked economy and society: challenges and opportunities  -- Yochai Benkler -- The Globalization of Higher Education; title: Growing in esteem: positioning the University of Melbourne in the global knowledge economy  -- Glyn Davis, Linda O'Brien, and Pat McLean; title: Higher education and the future of U.S. competitiveness  -- David Attis -- Accountability; title: The Social compact of higher education and its public  -- Larry Faulkner; title: Accountability, demands for information, and the role of the campus IT organization  -- Brian L. Hawkins -- IT Governance; title: E-research is a fad: scholarship 2.0, cyberinfrastructure, and IT governance  -- Brad Wheeler; title: Beyond the false dichotomy of centralized and decentralized IT deployment  -- Jim Davis; title: From users to choosers: the cloud and the changing shape of enterprise authority  -- Ronald Yanosky -- Open Information, Open Content, Open Source; title: Cultural and organizational drivers of open educational content  -- Malcolm Read; title: Challenges and opportunities of open source in higher education  -- Ira H. Fuchs; title: Who puts the education into open educational Content?  -- Andy Lane -- Scholarship in a Cloudy World; title: The Tower, the cloud, and posterity  -- Richard N. Katz and Paul B. Gandel; title: From the library to the laboratory: a new future for the science librarian  -- Mary Marlino and Tamara Sumner; title: Social networking in higher education  -- Bryan Alexander; title: Scholarship: the wave of the future in the digital age  -- Paul N. Courant; title: Where is the new learning?  -- Kristina Woolsey; title: Teaching and learning unleashed with Web 2.0 and open educational resources  -- Christine Geith; title: University 2.0  -- John Unsworth; title: The Tower, the cloud, and the IT leader and workforce -- Philip Goldstein.