Blog Juice for Educational Technology

More than 7,500 college administrators and professors have gathered in Orlando this week for the annual conference by Educause, a higher-education technology group, making it one of the largest education-technology gatherings of the year. What are the hot issues this year? Diana G. Oblinger, a vice president for the group, said that the top issue is probably disaster recovery, as colleges try to determine the lessons of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Other top issues: security, e-portfolios and other efforts to assess how well students are learning, and podcasting. Educause is itself jumping into podcasting by making many of the sessions here available to members in a form that can be downloaded to iPods or other digital music players.