Sunday, February 1, 2009
Envisioning and planning transinstitutional work in the age of the cloud
Google Apps for Education. Moodle. Kuali. Rapidly declining bandwidth costs, increasingly enterprise-ready cloud computing platforms, and maturing open source tools are changing the landscape of possibility. Many of our institutions already benefit from consortial projects to purchase or support information services, and collaborative projects are possible now on a scale not imaginable even a few years ago. In this highly interactive and action-oriented session, we engage the audience in a series of brainstorming and analytical exercises intended to serve as springboards for next generation projects. The adventure begins now.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The Challenge and The List
Conversations around the possibilities of finding intersections where liberal arts colleges might collaborate in deep and sustainable ways abound. As we survey the landscape of changing economic, political and social paradigms, the drivers for those conversations become increasingly evident. We want to identify, evaluate, and encourage further planning for potential collaborative efforts and to start defining a process by which these might come to pass.
Some of the ideas circulated in the initial planning for this session include:
1. shared ERP (very complicated but potentially huge)
2. shared collection development processes (also complicated, obviously)
3. shared data storage (via the cloud)
4. shared virtualized applications servers (also via the cloud)
5. shared subject-experts for reference and collection development and software support
6. shared digitization infrastructure
7. shared digital open access publishing platforms
8. shared help desk operation and support
9. shared policy development that lends strength thru multiple adoptions
10. shared cyberinfrastructure planning and support
We've loaded this list of 10 into a website at http://doteducloudward.uservoice.com/ where we would like those attending the NITLE Summit (and others who might care about such things) to vote on which of these they think have the best chance of actually happening.
At the session, we'll break out into smaller groups to discuss how to move forward on the top ideas.
Some of the ideas circulated in the initial planning for this session include:
1. shared ERP (very complicated but potentially huge)
2. shared collection development processes (also complicated, obviously)
3. shared data storage (via the cloud)
4. shared virtualized applications servers (also via the cloud)
5. shared subject-experts for reference and collection development and software support
6. shared digitization infrastructure
7. shared digital open access publishing platforms
8. shared help desk operation and support
9. shared policy development that lends strength thru multiple adoptions
10. shared cyberinfrastructure planning and support
We've loaded this list of 10 into a website at http://doteducloudward.uservoice.com/ where we would like those attending the NITLE Summit (and others who might care about such things) to vote on which of these they think have the best chance of actually happening.
At the session, we'll break out into smaller groups to discuss how to move forward on the top ideas.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)