Begun in 1990, the Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of computing, eLearning, and information technology in U.S. higher education. This session will present the results of the 2009 Campus Computing Survey, including new data on P2P policies, open-source deployment, IT security issues, strategic and financial planning for IT, instructional integration of IT, campus IT standards, learning management systems, and outsourced IT services.

"Cloud computing" is the buzzword today. What is reality, and what is merely hype? Does this paradigm offer great promise or extreme peril to the core mission of the academy? Two academic IT leaders will debate the pros and cons of moving mission-critical services to the cloud.

The economic downturn and society-wide changes catalyzed by information technology (disintermediation, consumerization, and so forth) are causing many colleges and universities to question what the future of higher education in the digital age will be. Many historic challenges persist, such as cost, access, retention, and graduation rates. The digital age offers new opportunities (for example, online learning) as well as threats (for example, competition from other providers). IT is a tool that can help address these challenges, but it may also change how we frame the future. This presentation will explore common themes emerging worldwide, including cloud computing, identity management, analytics, and open educational resources.

Join in the Twitter debate with a no-holds-barred exploration of the issues. Engage and prepare to be challenged on both sides. Use Twitter while at the session, and analyze in real time whether this is wasteful self-indulgence or a useful medium. Can't make it to the session? Watch the tweet stream or actively tweet and judge for yourself whether Twitter is folly or function.

The networked economy has created a new kind of organizational form: the "platform." Platforms resist traditional command-and-control leadership models, depending instead on "wiki-way leadership." Can we align our organizations and leadership with the new realities of the platform? Can universities be retrofitted to be platforms? Or do we need new institutions?

Representatives of several learning management system options (Blackboard, Moodle, and Sakai) will discuss the pros and cons of adopting proprietary versus open-source solutions. Issues addressed will include total cost of ownership, licensing, options for application hosting and technical support, and how new features find their way into a product.

Decision making within IT governance and project management is commonly driven by hierarchical, centralized, and rigid processes. Agile Methods, focusing on openness, transparency, self-organization, collaboration, and incremental development, deliver continuous innovation and lower costs while managing organizational expectations. This session will introduce Agile Methods implemented at Penn State and SUNY Delhi.

Green initiatives create a conundrum for campuses. IT is both a major consumer and an enabler of initiatives to reduce energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions. Should we postpone green IT initiatives until our budgets improve? How do we balance current financial pressures against the long-term good of society?

Imagine encouraging critical thinking, sparking creativity, and infusing fun in your course by mixing, mashing, and sharing maps. Web 2.0 empowers students to use and create maps in new and exciting ways. Join us as we share tips for using maps and geographic data to empower 21st-century research.

Have you added services without adding staff or support? Is your help desk staff overly stressed trying to keep up with phone calls and e-mail? Find out how Pima Community College and Arizona State University eased the burden for help desk staff by collaborating with an outside partner.

Research libraries expand or renovate their facilities about every decade. With physical collections still growing, this cycle consumes capital investment capacity. Wouldn't we (and our users) be better off if our universities instead invested capital funds in new technologies? Do we need costly library buildings in the "heart of the university," and what purpose do they serve?

Many colleges and universities are seeking ways to foster and sustain innovation, particularly in teaching and learning, in an era of severe financial limitations. Through the Top Teaching and Learning Challenges project (http://www.educause.edu/eli/challenges), the EDUCAUSE community has begun sharing various strategies and potential solutions to address the issue, five of which have been selected for this practical session. Panelists will present an overview of their programs, identified stakeholders, outcomes, and budget information (if applicable), to be followed by an opportunity for participants to review the solutions and strategies with each presenter in a small group.

This session will compare and contrast approaches in the use of learning management technologies in higher education: an enterprise model where a learning management system is centrally provided versus a consumer model where faculty are encouraged to use a wide variety of available Web 2.0 tools (blogs, Facebook, Twitter). Two presenters with expertise on both sides of the issue will discuss the relative merits of each model. They will also illuminate a shared challenge: the "humanware" (people helping people) investments that support the use of these technologies by faculty on campus are critical to their success.

How does an educational institution prioritize where to provide educational technology when there are over 320 classrooms located in some 50 buildings? When should that technology be refreshed? When should additions to "standardized" technology be made and implemented? This session will discuss lessons learned

Three universities signed a memorandum of understanding to prepare and respond to large-scale cyberthreats. This presentation will discuss the opportunities that present themselves when one institution is able to expand its staff through partnerships with other institutions. We will share the processes we defined to create a repeatable agreed-upon framework.