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In Search of Certitude
Brad Wheeler
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 43, No. 3 (2008) pp. 15–16
As the second decade of the public Internet reveals a desire for immediate access to greater certitude, CIOs and other campus leaders have an opportunity to rethink how questions find answers that are good enough or quick enough for the context of...
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Open Source 2010: Reflections on 2007
Brad Wheeler
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 42, No. 1 (2007) pp. 49–52
Colleges and universities and commercial firms have demonstrated great progress in realizing the vision proffered for "Open Source 2007," and 2010 will mark even greater progress. Although much work remains in refining open source for higher...
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The Open Source Parade
Brad Wheeler
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 39, No. 5 (2004) pp. 68–69
College and university administrators everywhere are struggling with the challenges of trying to "do more with less" in terms of balancing mandates and resources. The Internet has enabled new approaches for teaching and learning, vast...
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Above-Campus Services: Shaping the Promise of Cloud Computing for Higher Education
Brad Wheeler; Shelton Waggener
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 44, No. 6 (2009) pp. 52–54
The concept of today's cloud computing may date back to 1961, when John McCarthy, retired Stanford professor and Turing Award winner, delivered a speech at MIT's Centennial. In that speech, he predicted that in the future, computing would become a ...
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The Marketecture of Community
Brad Wheeler; James L. Hilton
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 47, No. 6 (2012) pp. 66–68
Socrates argued that the unexamined life is not worth living. For the past decade, the authors--along with many colleagues, organizations, and commercial firms--have been immersed in the booming, buzzing confusion that is the community landscape of...
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Of Birkenstocks and Wingtips: Open Source Licenses
Paul B. Gandel; Brad Wheeler
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 40, No. 1 (2005) pp. 10–11
The notion of collaborating to create open source applications for higher education is rapidly gaining momentum. From course management systems to ERP financial systems, higher education institutions are working together to explore whether they can...
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Cyberinfrastructure: In Tune for the Future
James R. Bottum; James F. Davis; Peter M. Siegel; Brad Wheeler; Diana G. Oblinger
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 43, No. 4 (2008) pp. 10–12
Cyberinfrastructure permits a new kind of scholarly inquiry and education, empowering communities to innovate and to revolutionize what they do, how they do it, and who participates. (Contains 6 notes.)
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The Organization of the Organization: CIOs' Views on the Role of Central IT
Shelton M. Waggener; Rowe Theresa; Janice Rickards; Michael Hites; Dwight Fischer; John A. Bielac; Gilbert R. Gonzales; Lev S. Gonick; Brad Wheeler; Gregory A. Jackson; Brian D. Voss; Willliam F. Hogue; Richard N. Katz
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 42, No. 6 (2007) pp. 24–26
Information technology in higher education is currently undergoing a bit of an identity crisis. Although IT is known as the go-to group when an academic research, or administrative problem needs a technical solution, IT teams exist in so many places ...