Discusses how the National Survey of Student Engagement reveals a different way to evaluate the quality of undergraduate education--not based on institutional resources and public reputation. (EV)

Examined research strategies and resources used by students to find scarce information. Found that students followed a general strategy that started with an exploratory Web search. (EV)

Explores why the idea of outsourcing campus information technology (IT) services rouses opinions and passions best handled by informed dialogue. Discusses how to conduct this dialog, including common myths about outsourcing and useful lessons. (EV)

Asserts that only by evaluating the effectiveness of distance education programs can their use be justified and their quality improved. Discusses how to conduct formative and summative evaluations of distance education programs. (EV)

Describes how a Web-based course incorporated a protocol for self-directed student learning to foster students' self-regulation. (EV)

Asserts that distance education can succeed by not repeating the mistakes of correspondence education, discussing faculty's necessary role as mediators of content. Explores the transition to providing such mediation in online course design. (EV)

Discusses how exploiting information technology applications can increase the competitiveness of liberal arts colleges. (EV)

Describes how a concept model for incorporating information technology in the Air War College education process addressed process, planning, and relevancy problems. (EV)

Describes Follow the Sun, a computer help-desk service that takes advantage of time differences around the world to permit four universities (University of Colorado Boulder, Australia's Macquarie and Newcastle universities, and the London School of Economics) to share services and provide 24-hour support to users. (EV)

Describes why the University of Pennsylvania got out of the modem pool business and is now exploring what the emerging funding model might mean. (EV)

Describes the experience of Allegheny College in writing an information technology (IT) grant that also influenced faculty development options. Offers suggestions for planning ahead to write such "ripple effect" IT grants. (EV)

Discusses how separating undergraduate education into its two primary components--general education and the major--and then applying the perspective of a supermarket analogy leads to startling conclusions about possible transformations of the production and distribution system for higher education at the undergraduate level and for implementing…

Defines middleware, often called the "glue" that makes the elements of the cyberinfrastructure work together. Discusses how the National Science Foundation (NSF) Middleware Initiative (NMI) is consolidating expertise, software, and technology to address the critical and ubiquitous middleware issues facing research and education today. (EV)

Describes how, by focusing information technology (IT) resources on strategic goals, a growing number of higher education organizations and their leaders are creating new educational wealth and, in the process, increasing their return on investment. (EV)

Explores the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure changes on higher education. Addresses issues such as ICT hardware, networks, and leadership and skills; budgets; policy (including access to information, information privacy, information security, and ownership of faculty course materials); changes in…