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EDUCAUSE Live! August 22, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

The Strategic Impacts of New Technologies on Higher Education: Ithaka's Research Program

Special Guest

Roger C. Schonfeld View Event ArchivesRoger C. Schonfeld
Manager of Research
Ithaka

Roger Schonfeld leads the research group at Ithaka, where he analyzes the impacts of new technologies on higher education to help the community respond strategically. His recent work has focused on the transition to an electronic-only environment for scholarly resources, faculty attitudes and research patterns in this emerging environment, and the history and future of preservation and book survivability. He currently serves on the NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.

Previously, Schonfeld was a research associate at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen, principally performing statistical and financial analysis. He also wrote JSTOR: A History, which examines business models for the shift to an online environment for scholarly texts by focusing on how JSTOR developed into a self-sustaining, not-for-profit organization. He has a BA in English literature from Yale University.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Roger Schonfeld, and the topic will be "The Strategic Impacts of New Technologies on Higher Education: Ithaka's Research Program."

Ithaka's research group studies how new technologies are affecting higher education and how colleges and universities can best manage these changes in four discrete program areas: providing academia with the policy basis needed to transition effectively and responsibly away from print collections and toward increasingly electronic-only collections; helping information-services organizations meet the needs of scholars by understanding their changing attitudes and practices; improving the community's understanding of how new information resources drive teaching and learning practices; and analyzing strategies for the most effective possible dissemination of knowledge from colleges and universities to researchers, students, and other learners. This presentation will review these areas of work and highlight some key findings, encouraging discussion about these and other key strategic issues facing higher education.

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