Listen to EDUCAUSE at your desk

You can listen to presentations from conferences, such as this one "Collaboration is Strategy"

Here's the blurb: As open content, "above campus" economies of scale, and cloud services shape the environment for education and research, effective collaboration becomes an essential tool for IT leaders and leading institutions. Collaboration is more than guarded partnerships or money—it requires a cohesive vision, new attitudes, principled trust, and execution to achieve valued outcomes for institutional goals. Collaborative capabilities cannot be bought; they are developed through behavior.

This session is presented by Brad Wheeler, Vice President for IT, CIO, and Professor at Indiana University.

http://www-cdn.educause.edu/sites/default/files/e09-collaborationisstrategy.mp3 - this is an audio stream, be ready to listen (or download for later enjoyment)

He recommends this article Open Content and the Emerging Global Meta-University, from 2006.

And points to Connections - cnx.org and talks about (Sukai - don't know how to spell it)

Homework:
* keep working with Educase "uncommon thinking for the common good"
* use our connections
* got to get a federated identity done - join inCommon
* do NOT use the "cloud" word - there are too many policies that still need to be worked out - "above campus services" might be another way to approach it - outsource things to Microsoft, Google, etc. like you outsource printing W-2s


side note - anyone remember buying cassette tapes from conference sessions? This technology is MUCH better.