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
If professors record their lectures and put them online, will students still come to class? Or, does students’ likelihood of skipping class have no correlation with whether a professor decides to capture her lecture and post it the Web. See full story in Inside Higher Ed
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
Academic advisers at the Pennsylvania State University’s online campus are now required to be available for meetings with students in the virtual world every week. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Microblogging in the classroom discussed at EDUCAUSE. See full story in INSIDE HIGHER ED newsletter.
On Sunday, November 1, New York became the 14th state to enforce a ban on texting while driving. A driver text messaging is 23 times more likely to get in a crash than a non-distracted driver. See full story in ithacajourna.com
