Third, a greater emphasis on engagement. We're launching our "teaching and learning challenges [2009] ", working from the ground up to identify the issues closest to our members, put these to a membership vote, and then address them with case studies that become shared solutions. It's about people coming together to answer their own questions.

Did you read the National Science Foundation task force report on cyberlearning, released this past summer?

I was on the committee that wrote it. The dovetail beautifully with what we're doing. We have an emphasis on teaching and learning. Educause has been very active in immersive cyberlearning technology and its application, in projects like NanoHub, well before the report was written. [ is an online collection of Web-based simulation tools to learn about and simulate nanotechnology devices.] We've shown you really can use the technologies to do very significant things.

In Educause, a lot of the challenges [we focus on] are around getting the campus to work together on these things. We deal with the infrastructure, with the organization, with funding, with relationships, with learning and pedagogy, and how you assess [cyberlearning] efforts. The NSF cyberlearning report is closely aligned with what Educause is doing and where we're going. We'll be adding a full-time person to focus on this.

Would you like to be freshman again, today?