By Joshua Kim. What do you think the big company news and announcements will be at EDUCAUSE 2013?
My edtech company crystal ball is telling me a few things to look for at EDUCAUSE:
Prediction 1:  Some Sort of Rollup in the Media Management / Presentation Capture Space
The presentation / lecture capture and media management space continues to be fragmented and immature. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Like almost all of the ideas below, the title for this post has been shameless ripped off from the ideas that I've been getting from various folks that I've been chatting with at EDUCAUSE.  
The question that I've been asking everyone is: "So what is the big story at EDUCAUSE this year?". 
One of my colleagues, a card carrying member of our edtech tribe and an academic professional with a large and challenging set of technology leadership responsibilities, suggested the calm before the storm analogy to describe EDUCAUSE 2013. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Time once again to share our big takeaways from EDUCAUSE.
What is your gut reaction to our shared experience in Anaheim?
Maybe Casey Green and his 2013 Campus Computing Survey has taken up residence in your consciousness. (You have not gone to EDUCAUSE until you have experienced Casey presenting his survey results).
Or perhaps you (like me) go lost on the exhibitors (vendor) floor, disoriented while walking each aisle in an unsuccessful attempt to find the exit. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Coming into EDUCAUSE 2013 I have 2 big questions rambling around my brain:
What Are the Long-Term Economic Prospects of Existing Colleges and Universities?
What Leadership Role Should EdTech Professionals Play in Addressing the Postsecondary Economic Problems?
Money is much on my mind. Read more...

By Matt Reed. I’ve been at the NACCE (National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship) conference in Charlotte, North Carolina for the last couple of days.  It has been a remarkable and remarkably packed set of discussions, but I’ve been particularly struck by what I see as two different ideas of what “leadership” means in the context of making community colleges more entrepreneurial. To be fair, both “leadership” and “entrepreneurial” are subject to different definitions.  For now, I’ll just define the latter as “taking initiative” and call it good.  That could mean revenue-generating enterprises, or it could mean improving the quality of things that colleges already do. Read more...

By Matt Reed.At NACCE I briefly got into a colloquy with a very young, very self-assured investor who asserted confidently that “young people” don’t care a whit about institutions or tradition, and that they will desert public higher ed en masse as soon as a better deal comes along, which is already happening. I suggested that what he called “young people” in fact reflected an elite, well-resourced slice of young people, and that hollowing out more universalist institutions on their whim would amount to abandoning everybody else. I still believe that, but I think I’m honing in on why we kept talking past each other. Read more...

By Matt Reed. It’s no secret that I’ve been a fan of Kay McClenney for a long time. She puts together brilliant panels, encapsulates the obvious in useful and valuable ways (“students don’t do optional”), and bases her findings on wide-ranging empirical research. She even wrote the introduction to my book, which I considered a genuine honor. That said, a quote of hers last week landed funny and deserves a response. In an article about the gap between what community colleges know they should do, and what they have done, McClenney notes that colleges are “piloting ourselves to death” and need to focus on scaling up. Read more...