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The first day of the conference covered the relevant history and traditions of universities, move through the current state of play, and focus on the emerging landscape of universities, articulating both their changing role in society, the significant challenges these institutions are facing for the future and, more specifically, their role vis a vis the increasing commons of knowledge facilitated by the Internet. This day provided intellectual scaffolding for the primary ideas and tracks explored. The opening keynote, focused on "Universities as Knowledge Institutions", laid the foundation for integrative plenaries on university responsibilities on day 2. The three track sessions, "Digital Natives", "Information Infrastructure", and "Physical/Spatial Infrastructure", explored the pressing questions universities face in these areas, and provided the basis for working groups on subsequent days.

The second day attempted cross-sectional reorientation, by examining universities’ emerging responsibilities as ‘horizontal’ themes, especially as they intersect with future challenges described in the first day’s ‘vertical’ tracks.  The day begun with interactive breakout sessions exploring each of the priority areas (or verticals) covered the previous day. The balance of the day concentrated on “the Civic Role of Universities” (Universities as Civic Actors or Institutions), “Educating Students” (Universities as Platforms for Learning), and Research (Universities as Knowledge Creators). These plenary sessions served to contextualize the tracks within broader institutional roles, offering provocations and driving us toward innovative and holistic responses.

The third day consciously combined the three tracks and the cross-sectional issues with an orientation towards solutions and next steps. The day begun with a high level keynote intended to inform, provoke and energize the participants for the integration of the substance and the generation of actionable insights. This was accomplished in the final working session of the tracks and in the final roundtable session envisioning potential futures.[09jul10]

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For centuries, college student were educated by listening to their professor read aloud selected books taken from the university library ("lesson" comes, in fact, from "lectio", La

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A speculation about what happens when the old idea of "media" as a fixed channel goes away and is replaced by cloudy ideas of "ubiquity" and "augmented reality."

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Since late 2007 COMMUNIA, the European thematic network on the digital public domain (http://communia-project.eu), a project funded by the European Union, has been bringing together key stakeholders t

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This session will seek to address questions around trends towards commercialization of knowledge at universities and knowledge institutions, and the impact those trends have on knowledge generation.

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