EDUCAUSE Live!

National Broadband: Policies and Opportunities for Higher Education

February 12, 2010 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT)

Steve Midgley
Director of Education
FCC

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Steve Midgley, and the topic will be "National Broadband: Policies and Opportunities for Higher Education"

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) was signed into law on February 17, 2009. The broadband initiatives funded in the act ($7.2 billion) are intended to accelerate broadband deployment across the United States. The Recovery Act authorizes the FCC to create a National Broadband Plan that seeks to ensure that all people of the United States have access to broadband capability and establishes benchmarks for meeting that goal.

Steve Midgley heads the FCC's Education team working on the National Broadband Plan. He will introduce the broadband plan and some of the areas his team has been investigating, including online content; distance learning; standards, transparency, and interoperability; and educational broadband infrastructure.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• Broadband Access and Pricing
• Economic Stimulus
• Federal Funding for IT
• National Broadband Policy
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! seminars

Additional Resources

• Workshop: Education - Broadband.gov

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