EDUCAUSE announces a new study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009. This year's study includes a special focus on student ownership and use of Internet-capable handheld devices. The full study and more is publicly available to all. See full story in the EDUCAUSE site.
The University of Texas system has agreed to join a growing number of institutions in the InCommon Federation, an organization that makes academic services easily accessible with one username and password per user. See full story in Wired Campus
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, announced a new nonprofit group last week to promote the study of "Web science," arguing that his creation deserves its own specific research focus. See full story in Wired Campus
The Division of Financial Affairs and CIT's Integrated Web Services worked with a high level of collaboration to renew DFA's enormous web presence at a reasonable cost. Read more
What started as a debate over whether brick-and-mortar libraries would survive much further into the 21st century turned into an existential discussion on the definition of libraries at the 2009 Educause Conference. See full story in Inside Higher Ed
EDUCAUSE debates merits of cloud computing. See full story in INSIDE HIGHER ED newsletter.
