Jay Cross II

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Last August, President Bush signed into law the 1,200-page Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008, termed by one Senator "a well-intentioned contraption of unnecessary rules and regulations that waste time and money that ought to be spent on students and improving quality." (For the source of that quote and additional HEOA background and references, see On Making Sausage in EDUCAUSE Review.)

Several sections of the HEOA deal with unauthorized file-sharing on campus networks, imposing 3 general requirements on all U.S. colleges and universities:

It has been widely suggested, and in some respects accepted, that a so-called Net Generation of students is passing through our universities. Born roughly between 1980 and 1994 these students have been characterised as being technologically savvy, having grown up in an age where computers, mobile phones and the Internet are part of
mainstream culture and society. A number of commentators have even suggested that educators - whom they label 'digital immigrants' - need to radically adjust their teaching and learning strategies to accommodate their 'digital native' students, predominantly by adopting and capitalising on the affordances of emerging technologies.
This project explored the notion of the Net Generation in higher education to gain a better understanding of:

• students' and teachers' current technological experiences and preferences (in the Investigation stage of the project); and
• a range of issues associated with the implementation of emerging technologies in local learning and teaching contexts (in the Implementation stage of the project).

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The basic foundation of any program to bring ubiquitous broadband to the United States rests on the definitions of three key terms: broadband, unserved, and underserved.  The importance of the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) released July 1 could be measured by those participating in the announcement including Vice President Biden, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, and Commerce Secretary Locke. But the longterm impact of the NOFA may reside in these three key definitions that have been the subject of much debate.

 

This week I am on vacation with my family, and unfortunately the Internet connection at the Historic Powhatan Resort here in Williamsburg, VA hasn’t been working consistently since I arrived on Saturday. It looks like I’m going to have to postpone the final post in my series on using Virtual Worlds in Education until next weekend. In the meanwhile, here’s a few insightful and informative YouTube videos about using SL for educational purposes ... [Please click here to continue reading the full post on EmergingEdTech.com, where I blog regularly about the use of Internet technologies in education. Thanks!]

Enjoy your Holiday weekend after reading the 120 page Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and the Broadband Initiatives Program released today, July 1, as promised. If you are one of the many higher education related entities that are planning on submitting a proposal under either of these programs, you can find the complete document at the Broadband USA website along with a helpful fact sheet and a schedule of ten workshops. Online registration is available for the workshops and they are scheduled around the country starting July 7 in Washington, DC and ending July 24 in Los Angeles.

EDUCAUSE will be issuing a full analysis of the Notice as soon as possible.

Today the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Commerce unveiled guidelines for the broadband grant program made possible by the economic stimulus. According to the official Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), interested parties must submit completed applications between July 14 and August 14, 2009. The 120-page NOFA will ultimately be published in the Federal Register. This is expected to be the first of three rounds.

For more information, visit the EDUCAUSE Resource Center: National Broadband Policy.

In 2005 the University of Notre Dame suffered a serious incident that brought information security into the campus spotlight. In response, the university partnered with a Big Four consulting firm to conduct a comprehensive IT risk assessment. Three years later, they're almost done with a four-year risk management program.

In this free July 8 EDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar, Information Security from the Ground Up, presenter David Seidl, Information Security Program Manager, University of Notre Dame, will discuss the reasons for the program, how it was designed, what went into it, and how they have succeeded, as well as what was learned during this ground-up security redesign.

When building a system, we meticulously take into account the current and near-future needs of its business processes. However, it's often difficult to foresee demands that surface along with shifting customer demands. As a result, the value of the system services diminishes at each encounter because the system is unable to meet newly emerged requirements. To effectively address such difficulties, we have developed an integrated metamodel to continuously capture dynamic system behavior while the system is running and to trigger any necessary changes back into the system state.

The University of Memphis has implemented Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) to provide students, faculty, and staff access to software anywhere, anytime in addition to leveraging some of the benefits of software usage reporting. The presentation will go through the phased implementation of the solution and the lessons learned along the way.

The Career of the IT Security Officer in Higher Education reports the result of a study designed to understand and document the attributes and responsibilities of the relatively new role of information security officer in higher education. The study employed multiple research strategies, including a literature review, an analysis of 59 job announcements and descriptions, 311 responses to a web-based quantitative survey, and qualitative interviews with individuals who answered the survey and agreed to be contacted for additional information. As a result of broad interest in this topic, the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) is delighted to make this research available online to everyone now.

The Career of the IT Security Officer in Higher Education reports the result of a study designed to understand and document the attributes and responsibilities of the relatively new role of information security officer in higher education. The study employed multiple research strategies, including a literature review, an analysis of 59 job announcements and descriptions, 311 responses to a web-based quantitative survey, and qualitative interviews with individuals who answered the survey and agreed to be contacted for additional information. As a result of broad interest in this topic, the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) is delighted to make this research available online to everyone now.

Many access management issues can be categorized into groups with similar characteristics. This helps organize the problem space and assign terms for future discussion. In this session, we will hear an overview of a set of proposed categories and what challenges/use cases each represents.

Georgetown University Domain Name Request guidelines.

In 2005 the University of Notre Dame suffered a serious incident that brought information security into the campus spotlight. In response, the university partnered with a Big Four consulting firm to conduct a comprehensive IT risk assessment. Three years later, they're almost done with a four-year risk management program.

In this free July 8 EDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar, Information Security from the Ground Up, presenter David Seidl, information security program manager, University of Notre Dame, will discuss the reasons for the program, how it was designed, what went into it, and how they have succeeded, as well as what was learned during this ground-up security redesign.

The student e-mail plan calls for a UI assigned e-mail address for all degree-seeking and most non-degree students. The UI assigned e-mail address will not change during the student's career at UI. The e-mail address will be easily available for faculty to communicate with students, students to communicate with faculty, as well as to communicate for administrative functions, such as registration, financial aid, and student accounts.

To get us started with understanding identity services requirements, representatives from the Kuali Projects will provide overviews of their key challenges relating to identity and access management.

Users’ expectations of information search changed dramatically in the wake of Google and continue to evolve. Some studies point to a slow, but steady disintermediation of the library from the research process. Yet, libraries have a powerful competitive advantage in the quality, breadth and authority of their content – an advantage recognized and valued by users, especially in the academic library. This four-part series explores how libraries are taking back their role as the starting point for research by focusing on the user experience and supporting it with innovative technology. The opening learning session in the series – Understanding the Next-Gen User – brings together Joan Lippincott and Alison Head, leaders in research on next-gen research habits, for an insightful exploration into the needs and expectations of students and how libraries can respond in ways they respect and understand.