The process

1. Pick topics for issue
I'm proposing that we focus our efforts on three large topics: space, information/technology, and policy/practice . We can haggle over whether or not those are the right topics, and what the right set of sub-topics ought to be. (The actual sub-topics can be driven both by our original ideas, and by the ideas/contributions of the editors and contributors of each issue.)


2. Recruit editors for issues
I propose three linked issues: space, information/technology, and policy/practice, and for each of these issues, we'll need to find an editor to help select pieces, refine the topics, and (once the material is produced), synthesize/write an introduction.


3. Develop content for issue
Once we've settled upon the topics for the issue, we'll need to find pieces that we want to include. Ideally we would pick only pieces that are in the public domain, published under a creative commons license, or otherwise open available. For those that aren't, we'll either just provide a citation or try to negotiate rights to reproduce.




4. Linking the issues
Once the three issues are complete, we'll want to create and promote linkages and conversation among the various pieces. We'll encourage the authors of all of the pieces, and the respondents, to read and react as subsequent issues come on-line. We'll also want to find someone bold enough to attempt to synthesize all of the materials in all three of the issues.

Practice/Policy

We organize our spaces, our information, and our technology in support of a set of evolving educational and scholarly practices, and in the context of our institutional policies and structures. All of this takes place in a social environment, with an ever-changing cast of characters. How might some of our practices, our policies, and our institutional structures change given the changes in space/information/technology on the one hand, and in the demographics of the people working at our schools?

1. the course
2. the lecture
3. the seminar
4. the lab
   
5. tenure
6. the college
7. the academic department
   
8. the curriculum
9. liberal education
10. reading
11. writing
12. assessment
13. copyright and intellectual property
    

Who might we convince to be the editor for this issue? Is this the right list of topics? What's too broad? What's missing? Who might we convince to either write or respond for area? (Should it be broken out into two sections: practice and policy?)

Information/Technology

With the advent of the web, in the past ten years we've seen an ever-accelerating set of new approaches to scholarly communication, to providing access to resources, for organizing and visualizing nearly all types of information. What does the future hold for the various types of information and information management tools that we rely on to teach, learn, do research, and publish our research?

1. the monograph
2. the textbook
   
3. the journal article
4. the encyclopedia /reference
   
5. maps
6. video
7. audio
   
8. the course management system
9. the library catalog
10. educational games
11. virtual worlds
    
12. the web
13. data visulization
14. enterprise technology
    

Who might we recruit to lead this effort? Who can we ask to write on these topics? Are the topics too broad? Too specific? What's missing?

Space

Residential colleges pour millions and millions of dollars into facilities, with the idea that the physical space where education takes place matters. How might our ideas about space change, and how might we design new spaces, or renovate existing spaces, given the changes in information/technology on the one hand, and pedagogy/practice on the other?

1. The library
2. The lecture hall
3. The computer lab
4. The seminar room
5. The reference desk
6. The museum
7. the dorm
   
8. the science lab

Who might be a good editor for this topic? Who might be good contributors and/or respondents? What other spaces might we add to the list? How else might we frame the question of 'the future of space on campus' ?