Thriving in the Era of Rabid Collaboration

The majority of this speech addressed the issue of using collaboration to advance efficiency at the higher education level. From the knowledge point of view, the message that was conveyed was that Universities have a great advantage with their networking capabilities to develop and maintain new operation applications run through collaborative open source methods. Dr. Wheeler spoke about the opportunities and challenges that cloud computing and collaborative solutions development present for higher education. Below is a rough outline of Brad Wheeler's speech that I produced as I was watching the video:

Thriving in the Era of Rabid Collaboration

I. Fast digital networks

            A. high performance networking

            B. battle with commercial carriers

II. Networks enable collaboration

            A. Research networks at universities

            B. Different activities than your rivals, strategy

            C. Can higher Ed have competitive advantage

III. Collaboration as a strategy for higher ed

            A. An unnatural act

            B. Collaboration and cooperation is different

            C. Co-Laboring

                        faculty, institutions, slope of retreat, value

            D. The new normal

IV. Meta University Idea

            A. physical experience at the campus becomes more valuable over time

            B. The free shared stuff ( The Cloud)

V. Collaboration starts at home

VI. Trust is the key to IT

            A. At the Edge

            B. With Leverage

VII. IT Governance

            A. Accountability framework

            B. Matrix example

VIII. Above Campus Services