Opinion
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Clayton Christensen describes characteristics of traditional companies that have fallen prey to a disruptive innovation. I always felt that higher education fits to a T his picture of an industry that has a high probability of suffering a major disruption. I thought it useful to introduce a blogroll on some companies, institutions, think tanks, etc. that seem to me to be doing interesting things that might well turn out to be disruptive for various aspects higher education, and/or sustaining for others.
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Digital technology is radically transforming the way that a lot of different industries communicate with their customers, and for the business leaders who recognize the potential of a growing trend that has yet to become common, it is great for the bottom line.
Events
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Lead Story
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What started as a hobby is now a fast-growing web entity, and the subject of today's morning keynote address, "The Open Source Revolution That's Rocking the Campus."
Dries Buytaert creator and project lead for the open-source Drupal content management system will discuss the rise of Drupal and what it is doing for schools, and his vision for the future of technology and open-source in education.
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Also in This Issue
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By Kristen Domonell
A group of 53 college and university executives from IT to planning gathered Monday to kick off EduComm 2011 at the inaugural New Learning Space (NLS) Summit. The all-day lecture and roundtable event, sponsored by AMX with content partner Thorburn Associates, focused on the topics of innovations in automation and control, sustainability and the green movement, creating a safe and secure campus, and connecting with content capture and VOD in distance learning.
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In the News
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Sonic Foundry, the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting, lecture capture and knowledge management, today announced the company will once again use the Mediasite platform to webcast all sessions of EduComm 2011, held this week in Orlando.
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Experts say technology is what has shaped this year's graduating high-school and college seniors, both part of the Millennial Generation.
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Buffalo State College continued the makeover of its Elmwood Avenue campus with today’s ceremonial groundbreaking for a $38 million technology building.
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Charlie Sheen's meltdown took many forms: a cocaine-fueled rampage in a New York hotel room, an erratic radio rant, a vulgar one-man comedy tour. But his biggest contribution to current culture may have been more subtle. With a simple Twitter phrase, #winning, known in the parlance of social media as a hashtag, Mr. Sheen underscored one of the newest ways technology has changed how we communicate.
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