UberNoggin

This morning Adrian Sanner from Arizona State gave the keynote talk. Sanner is funny and brilliant. He spent the first 30 minutes or so sympathizing with the current state of technology in higher education. It felt a little long and I was eager to get on to his solutions, the plans that he was suggesting folks could follow today.
When he did get to his solutions they were good. Maybe not implementable today, but good. I think I’ve missed some ideas here so feel free to comment and fill in some of my notes:
- Outsource to others what they can do better than you: For example, use Gmail for email. They can scale better at a better price and are more stable with less effort.
- Be a concierge, not a cop: Rather than spend your time telling students what they can’t do, spend your time helping students find what they need (which should be easier to do on campus networks)

Sanner certainly served as a rallying cry but I really wish that there had been time for QandA because I would have loved to ask him what folks could go do today to start these kinds of movement on their own campuses;.

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