We Need Them and They Need Us

THIS WAS DELIVERED TO MY EMAIL THIS AFTERNOON - Do you know what a "gold mine" this info is....??

"The ten most widely read articles from last year’s online edition of EDUCAUSE Review focused on open education, Web 2.0, virtual worlds, e-books, digital libraries, analytics, and the top issues facing higher education IT.

In case you missed them in 2008:

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0
JOHN SEELY BROWN AND RICHARD P. ADLER

Top-Ten IT Issues, 2008
DEBRA H. ALLISON, PETER B. DEBLOIS, AND THE 2008 EDUCAUSE CURRENT ISSUES COMMITTEE

Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre
BRYAN ALEXANDER AND ALAN LEVINE

Virtual Worlds? "Outlook Good"
AJ KELTON ("AJ BROOKS")

E-Books in Higher Education: Nearing the End of the Era of Hype?
MARK R. NELSON

Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries
PETER BRANTLEY

A Seismic Shift in Epistemology
CHRIS DEDE

Action Analytics: Measuring and Improving Performance That Matters in Higher Education
DONALD NORRIS, LINDA BAER, JOAN LEONARD, LOUIS PUGLIESE, AND PAUL LEFRERE

Facebook 2.0
TRACY MITRANO

Higher Education as Virtual Conversation
SARAH ROBBINS-BELL ("INTELLAGIRL TULLY")"

These folks are some of the top in their respective fields and their telling us what the most read topics are/were for 2008. I think Student Services folks need to pay attention to these topics as a part of the integrating schema that will be or is affecting your campuses and will or is affect your campus student services. We are no longer in an economy where can we participate in just "our" area of expertise - student services. The business is changing. We need them and they need us - as in the IT folks, the virtual learning folks, the open source folks, the open textbook folks, the web 2.0 faculty, the web analytics assessment folks. That's the future.

Watch Change to Learn, Learn to Change. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiby3m_RyM