The association provides networking and other platforms for higher education IT professionals to generate and find content on best practices and to engage their peers.
Examples include professional development opportunities, print and electronic publications, including e-books and the magazine Educause Review (ISSN 1945-709X),[1] strategic policy advocacy, teaching and learning initiatives, applied research, special interest discussion groups, awards for leadership, and a resource center for IT professionals, such as Campus Privacy Officers, in higher education.
The current membership of Educause comprises more than 2,300 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 300 corporations, with 16,500 active members.
It was a free three-time-a-week electronically distributed summary of technology news extracted from the mainstream media that was first released to a circulation of less than 100 in 1992.
It was originally written by John Gehl and Suzanne Douglas, who left in April 1999[3] to devote their full attention to their company which publishes a daily newsletter similar to Edupage.