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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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An Appetite for Creative Destruction: Should the Role of Senior Academic Technology Officer Be Modeled on a CIO or a CTO?
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Shurville, Simon; Browne, Tom; Whitaker, Marian – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: This paper seeks to examine the emerging role of the Senior Academic Technology Officer (SATO) in higher education. It aims to consider two existing templates for this professional role derived from mainstream information management and information technology: the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Information Management
Accommodating the Newfound Strategic Importance of Educational Technologists within Higher Education: A Critical Literature Review
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Shurville, Simon; Browne, Tom; Whitaker, Marian – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: Educational technologists make significant contributions to the development, organisational embedding and service provision of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environments, which are key enablers for mass access to flexible higher education (HE). Given the increasing centrality of this role, it is advocated that institutions…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Human Resources, Literature Reviews
The Quantitative Crunch: The Impact of Bibliometric Research Quality Assessment Exercises on Academic Development at Small Conferences
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Henderson, Michael; Shurville, Simon; Fernstrom, Ken – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: Small and specialist inter-disciplinary conferences, particularly those relating to technology enhanced learning such as International Conference on Information and Communications Technology in Education, provide valuable opportunities for academics and academic-related/professional staff to report upon their research and development…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Conference Papers, Foreign Countries
Educational and Institutional Flexibility of Australian Educational Software
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Shurville, Simon; O'Grady, Thomas; Mayall, Peter – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2008
Purpose: This paper aims to provide context for papers in this special issue on Australasian e-learning. The paper aims to examine the background to Australian flexible and transnational education and to evaluate the educational and intuitional flexibility of three typical products of the Australian educational software industry.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Computer Software, Industry
Managing In-House Development of a Campus-Wide Information System
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Shurville, Simon; Williams, John – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: To show how a combination of hard and soft project and change management methodologies guided successful in-house development of a campus-wide information system. Design/methodology/approach: A case study of the methodologies and management structures that guided the development is presented. Findings: Applying a combination of the…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Systems Development, Management Information Systems, Governance