I don't have nearly enough time to read the hundreds of blogs and tweets that make up this compilation Hacking the Academy  - gathered in one week of net surfing. If nothing else, it demonstrates the thoughtful engagement with a variety of academic issues that is enabled and encouraged by low cost publication capability of the net.

I did scan the ed tech articles and a blog post caught my attention

• "There must be a close working relationship between CUNY’s information technology shops and instructional technologists, and they must respect each others’ concerns and interests.  But they must be separate.  When information technologists choose instructional technology solutions, you may get something like BlackBoard, and a community that feels as though the only relationship to technology should be a client-service one.   When instructional technologists administer servers, you may get something like less-than-ideal load times, plugins that expose vulnerabilities, and a system that bursts at the seams when you scale." (from cac.ophony.org blog - see intereting responses to this blog post)

This is of course, the issue that we are always struggling with on the Landing, as we attempt to birth this innovation, while at the same time passing it over to CS for long term support. One can contrast the Landing speed of innovation, support levels, contribution back to the community and likely other varaibles  with that of CS supported Moodle Project.

Food for thought....

Terry