I found myself drawn to observations of the sweeping changes in information technology. Depending on your own journey, different voices will speak to you more directly. As Jennifer Sparrow noted, access to internet resources "changed who has access to knowledge and how we can leverage it to create curiosity in our learners." Many members' contemplations are personal in nature, since our sense of the past is persistently defined by the events that affected us most powerfully. With a wide variety of nominations, the internet was nevertheless the clear winner. The reflections begin with "15-in-20," the fifteen most significant developments in the past twenty years. To capture personal perspectives, we asked our members four questions, and in " Twenty Years: EDUCAUSE and Higher Education IT" we share these remembrances, predictions, and insights from across our community. As we celebrate the first twenty years of EDUCAUSE and also look ahead in this issue of EDUCAUSE Review, we offer multiple opportunities for readers to revel in our collective history and future from unique and varying points of view. Two people can look back over the same history and see it completely differently, noting different trends and milestones and drawing different conclusions from the very same landmarks. Anniversaries are subjective experiences. My son measured his birthdays differently, with pencil lines on his closet wall to mark, year after year, his ever-increasing height. Like many other youngest siblings, when I had a birthday as a kid, I always wanted to be older than I was, actively chasing after the impossible dream of catching up to my siblings. Credit: Dragon Images/Shutterstock, © 2018
As we celebrate the first twenty years of EDUCAUSE and consider the next two decades ahead, we offer multiple opportunities for readers to revel in our collective history and future from unique and varying points of view.