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.

The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report has convinced most climate scientists that humankind is changing the earth's climate. A review of recently observed 20th-century climate change will be presented and compared with climate model simulations, which will be described and extended into this century and beyond. If we shift globally from a fossil fuel–based energy strategy to other sources, computer simulations can show future climate change. Finally, scientific uncertainties and societal impacts will be discussed, along with an analysis of policy options including possibly geoengineering the climate system. The issue of environmental justice will also be addressed.

"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.

This session reports on two initiatives from the National Science Foundation's DataNet Program. DataNet Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) represents a new virtual organization that will enable new science and knowledge creation through universal access to data about life on earth and the environment that sustains it. The Data Conservancy (DC) embraces a shared vision: data curation is not an end, but rather a means to collect, organize, validate, and preserve data to address the grand research challenges that face society.

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?

The quotation marks around the title word indicate the increasing sense of irony of the term associated with academic publishing. Other terms that qualify for the ironic grammatical tag include "press," "warehouse," "library," and "repository." Academic environment is a term also fast approaching a status qualifying for quotation marks. This presentation will explore the emergence of irony in traditional vocabularies associated with academic publishing, delve into the discrepancy between surface and emergent meaning, and examine the ontological implications for the future of scholarly communication.

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.

The role of the CIO has changed dramatically from leader of the central IT organization to key player at the executive level. Complying with federal and state regulations, securing critical infrastructure and data, and managing the new application of technologies (in facilities and safety, for example) and large-scale application projects mean that the CIO must provide critical risk-management leadership for the institution. Simultaneously, unprecedented opportunities for strategic applications for IT are arising with the significant changes in institutional mission wrought by economic turmoil, globalization, and shifting demographics. Join us to hear how today's CIOs are handling these challenges.

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.

The UK Access Management Federation is the largest education and research federation in the world, potentially serving every school, college, and higher education institution in the United Kingdom. Others addressing similar challenges can hear about the lessons learned in addressing the policy, strategy, and operational challenges required to meet the needs of such a wide membership. There still remain many fresh challenges, including encouraging service provider participation and interfederation with other U.K. and international organizations.

In this talk, Lawrence Lessig will review the progress of the "open access" movement in education. He will make a call for educators to finally resolve this issue in a way that enables the potential of technology for education.

It's been a breathtaking ride, watching computers and their networks change from curiosities to ubiquitous technologies over the last five decades. Moreover, George Strawn will suggest that, over the next five decades, IT developments will be even more breathtaking and more disruptive to higher education as we have known it.
WINNER: 2009 EDUCAUSE Leadership Award. Award sponsored by SunGard Higher Education, An EDUCAUSE Platinum 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.

“The future has already arrived; it just isn't evenly distributed.” —William Gibson
William Gibson's quote accurately sums up the state of federated identity management systems, an approach to the seamless and secure use of resources hosted on campus, in the cloud, or at partner’s site. It’s coming to an institution near you. This session will discuss the rise of federated identity and the challenges that still remain in connecting us all together.
WINNER: 2009 EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award. Award sponsored by SunGard Higher Education, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner.

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.

A significant contributor to rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is the information technology and communications industry itself. As campus researchers increasingly employ computational and cyberinfrastructure technologies, these tools are coming into question due to their growing contributions to GHG emissions. Consequently, some universities and R&E networks are exploring new CI architectures that will both benefit research and reduce associated GHG emissions. Optical high-speed research networks and distributed zero-carbon CI data centers with network virtualization, web services, and grids are critical to this emerging architecture. This session will review trends and spotlight projects that offer hope for averting a cybercarbon crisis.

As Duke University extends its reach as a global "campus," long-standing assumptions about academic "community" and physical presence are evolving. From Durham to New Delhi, Singapore to St. Petersburg, the combination of infrastructure technologies with existing and emerging collaboration tools—telepresence, video podcasting, blogs, LMS—are central to supporting a global campus strategy. These technologies will help to facilitate the growth and coherence of our community by extending educational opportunities across distances and cultures.

How might cloud computing, however it is defined, change the services and economics of IT at our institutions? The transition of IT services and responsibilities for infrastructure, functions, and support from institutions to either larger-scale enterprises or consumer providers is important and under way. Agility, personalization, and convenience are strong motivations. What kinds of enterprise activities lend themselves well to extramural sourcing? What risks are involved, and how do we act to mitigate them? Join us as this panel explores the impact of cloud computing.

This talk will trace the history and modus operandi of The Open University in the United Kingdom, placing it in the context of trends in higher education across the world. The pressures arising from demographic change and widening participation challenge both traditional systems and the assumptions on which they were based. Add an economic crisis and the seismic shifts prompted by technology, and it seems that traditional systems will be seriously disrupted. Drawing on experience as president of two universities, one in South Africa and another in the United Kingdom, Brenda Gourley will share lessons for leadership and management.