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November, 2007

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New Models for IT Partnership
By Thomas Warger
Many IT units have greatly improved their cooperation with physical plant departments in recent years, so that few new buildings are designed or renovated without inclusion of network infrastructure. How many more potential partnerships are there?

Quotes of the Month
Faculty learning to use technology; opennes and privacy in social networks and online learning

Newsbriefs
Colleagues Committed to Redesign; EDUCAUSE Joins Calls for Open Internet Hearings; New Results from teh Core Data Service

Remember the Language Lab?
By Thomas Warger
Yes, it still exists. The language lab has become a specialized computer lab. A few still have audio cassette players. Almost all now have computers at every station, serving as the main controller of media and player of software provided largely by textbook publishers. Some of these labs are almost museums of instructional technology, with everything from phonographs to Web cams. A few are still intensively used by language courses, but most have retreated to occasional and casual use.

High Anxiety for the Academic CIO
By Thomas Warger
Several relentless trends are crunching the comfort zone of the academic CIO. Legal, audit, and procedural requirements for the handling of institutional data are growing stricter. The strategic value of IT has increased faster than most colleges and universities have truly understood. Cultural values of special sensitivity in the academic world have been disturbed by information technology.

Why Are Simulations Not More Popular?
By Thomas Warger
Simulations and games are among the oldest computing applications. Their representation of complex behaviors and opportunities for interaction have seemed a natural support for educational purposes. But that potential has only been realized in limited settings.

Edutech Reponds
Responding to Requests for Streamed Media; Supporting Differnt Users of Instructional Technology; Project Scope; Staffing Computer Labs