Tag Archives: EDUCAUSE

What I Want from the EDUCAUSE Seminar on Edupatents

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Michael Feldstein

Seb has a good post up raising some questions for the free EDUCAUSE webinar on edupatents tomorrow at 1 PM Eastern time. I’ll add a few of my own (which in some ways are just extensions of Seb’s): What are … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on "Analytics" and Privacy

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Michael Feldstein

Last week at the IMS conference, the LTAC (Learning Technology Advisory Council) had an interesting and, I think, fruitful discussion about “analytics.” In this context, the term umbrella term covers various types of data analysis that would be useful in … Continue reading →

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Making College Textbooks More Affordable

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Jim Farmer

This is a guest blog post by Jim Farmer, Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull. On Friday, June 1st, the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance released their report “Turn … Continue reading →

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New Patent Information Center at EDUCAUSE

Posted on May 24, 2007 by Michael Feldstein

Kudos! Find it here. In particular, be sure to check out this PowerPoint presentation about the costs of patents to universities.

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The Blackboard Patent Pledge

Posted on February 2, 2007 by Michael Feldstein

I’m late to the party on the pledge news for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is a recalcitrant DNS server out there in the ether that denied me access to my new blog site for the … Continue reading →

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