Online textbook for educators which explores the role of information technology organizations in higher education and the impact those organizations have on higher education. Educators and IT professionals from around the world contributed to this work.
Table of Contents for The Tower and the Cloud
- Foreword
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Higher Education and Information Technology
- The Gathering Cloud: Is This the End of the Middle?
- A Matter of Mission: Information Technology and the Future of Higher Education
- The University in the Networked Economy and Society: Challenges and Opportunities
- The Globalization of Higher Education
- Growing in Esteem: Positioning the University of Melbourne in the Global Knowledge Economy
- Higher Education and the Future of U.S. Competitiveness
- Accountability
- The Social Compact of Higher Education and Its Public
- Accountability, Demands for Information, and the Role of the Campus IT Organization
- IT Governance
- E-Research Is a Fad: Scholarship 2.0, Cyberinfrastructure, and IT Governance
- Beyond the False Dichotomy of Centralized and Decentralized IT Deployment
- From Users to Choosers: The Cloud and the Changing Shape of Enterprise Authority
- Open Information, Open Content, Open Source
- Cultural and Organizational Drivers of Open Educational Content
- Challenges and Opportunities of Open Source in Higher Education
- Who Puts the Education into Open Educational Content?
- Scholarship in a Cloudy World
- The Tower, the Cloud, and Posterity
- From the Library to the Laboratory: A New Future for the Science Librarian
- Social Networking in Higher Education
- Scholarship: The Wave of the Future in the Digital Age
- Where Is the New Learning?
- Teaching and Learning Unleashed with Web 2.0 and Open Educational Resources
- University 2.0
- The Tower, the Cloud, and the IT Leader and Workforce
- Afterword
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The Tower and The Cloud
