Connecting a Community Like Cleveland for Tikkun Olam
(An edited version of this blog entry was published in the Cleveland Jewish News. Thanks for the feedback on the first blog. Intentional community building has always been of considerable interest to...
View ArticleCollege Advice from the Technorati on Campus
The NYTimes asked nine distinguished scholars for their advice to incoming college freshmen. No arguing with many of the solicited pieces of advice including the value of great teachers, read...
View ArticleTime for Higher Education To Step Up on National Broadband Strategy
Blair Levin is a man on a mission with a major Tylenol three headache. Levin's day job these days is Executive Director of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative for the USA. He has less than 160 days to...
View Article100 Day Countdown to National Broadband Policy Looms
100 day countdown for new national broadband policy framework â whatâs it mean to Cleveland and AnyTown, USA? The sand is slipping through the hour glass and today the magic counter on...
View ArticleNew Gold Standard for Smart Connected Communities: Case Western Reserve...
The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Mandel School for Applied Social Science at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland estimates that as many as 72% of the households in...
View ArticleWi-Fi at Cleveland Airport - A Smart Connected Community Strategy
Four years ago, I wrote a blog about Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) as the gateway to Northeast Ohio. If the region's future and vision was around being a smart connected community,...
View Article2010: The Year Ahead for IT in Higher Education
What a difference a year makes. Most CIOs in higher education are turning their 2009 holiday stockings inside out looking for any extra crumbs that Kris Kringle might have left behind. For many...
View ArticleGoogle's $1b Gigabit Fiber to the Home Moon Shot
When President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "We Choose to Go to the Moon"speech at Rice University on September 12,1962 he made it clear that the goal was to inspire innovation, ignite science...
View ArticleThe Future of Higher Education
Educause Quarterly has just released an entire issue on the Future of Higher Education. I was honored to be asked by Nancy Hays, the EQ editor, to kick off a four part series on the Future of Education...
View ArticleUniversities and The National Broadband Plan
Today's lead editorial in the New York Times, along with an OpEd piece by Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler make the case for leveraging the FCC's "Connecting America" National Broadband Plan to...
View ArticleServices above the Campus and the Future of IT in Higher Education
As we return to campus this fall, the rituals of the new semester bring with it a familiarity with students moving into residence, faculty rushing to complete their syllabi for the new year, and IT...
View ArticleThe Future of Higher Education and the Roles of Faculty
The current issue of the Educause Quarterly includes my third OpEd piece on the Future of Education. This one focuses on the roles of faculty in networked education, global research challenges, and...
View ArticleThe Future of IT Leadership on Campus
This past year, I've written four columns for Educause Quarterly on the Future of Higher Education. The first column dealt with the Future of Education and the different and evolving needs of learners....
View Article2011: The Year Ahead in IT
2011: The Year Ahead in IT (as published in the Jan 3 edition of Inside Higher Education) Itâs difficult to make sense of changes and dynamics beyond our control. There are seismic shifts under way...
View ArticleCase Western Reserve University Joins Gig.U
Why is Case Western Reserve University supporting Gig.U? Universities have a critical role to play in the R&D efforts of our nation. Some of that R&D is in support of basic science and other...
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