The EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee has released the results of its ninth annual survey of information technology (IT) issues that concern higher education.

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The U.S. Office of Human Research Protections is seeking advice on whether to issue guidance or require additional training for those who serve on institutional boards that review proposals for research with human subjects. The agency posted its request, which follows criticism that some of those serving on the campus-based boards lack adequate training, in the Federal Register.

It will be a free, non-profit, K-12 educational video contest, currently under planning and development. Imagine tens of thousands of excellent short videos explaining nearly every topic taught in U.S. public schools. WatchKnow will be a free (open content), non-profit beta project, to launch probably this fall, to see whether we can create that. We will set the topics and invite teachers—and everyone—to submit videos. Videos will be rated, and, at a certain point, we'll select a winner for each topic. We'll pay the winner(s) within each topic small prize(s),

Music Business Video. Terry Prince explains how he sold 15,000 music CDs in 18 Months by playing 30 hours a month on the Santa Monica Pier.

A subject that I believe will be critical to whoever is elected: the seemingly arcane (but in truth quite fascinating and dynamic ) subject of widespread, automated releases of government data combined with new Web 2.0-based tools to turn that data into informative, illustrative visualizations.

The question is not how do ISPs recover their costs -- the question is why we keep insisting on funding our infrastructure by charging for services instead of recognizing that the infrastructure is not a profit center. It’s a means by which we create value everywhere else in society.

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The court’s order grants Viacom's request and erroneously ignores the protections of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and threatens to expose deeply private information about what videos are watched by YouTube users. The VPPA passed after a newspaper disclosed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rental records. As Congress recognized, your selection of videos to watch is deeply personal and deserves the strongest protection.

And let me make clear, at the outset of this debate, that this is not about domestic surveillance itself. We all recognize the importance of domestic surveillance ­ in an age of unprecedented threats. This is about illegal, unwarranted, unchecked domestic surveillance. And that difference—the difference between surveillance that is lawful, warranted and that which is not—is everything.