November 4, 2005

Disaster Recovery and Podcasting Top Agenda at Annual Educause Meeting

By BROCK READ and JEFFREY R. YOUNG

More than 7,500 college administrators and professors from 41 countries gathered here in October for the annual conference of Educause, a higher-education-technology group.

Diana G. Oblinger, a vice president of Educause, said the most-discussed issue was disaster recovery, as colleges study the lessons of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Other top issues: security, e-portfolios and similar efforts to assess how well students are learning, and podcasting.

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