Top trends in higher-ed IT for 2004?

Trying to catch up after a hectic week or two....

I got asked by a reporter from the Chronicle of Higher Education for my opinion on what the top trends in IT in higher education will be for 2004, and what they should be paying attention to for possible stories. After confering with various colleagues around here, my list looked like this (in no significant order):

1. The penetration of open source software into higher ed (general software like Linux, Apache, Mozilla, Chandler, etc, as well as higher-ed specific stuff like OKI and Sakai).

2. how security issues are changing the face of IT in higher ed.

3. the success (or not) of legal music/video download services among
students and what that means for the copyright wars.

4. the evolution of ill-named "course management software".

5. student use of IT for self-expression (blogs, photo albums, web pages,
etc) - It's not about grades, courses, courseware, etc.

6. blurring of the boundaries between higher ed and k-12 and community colleges, enabled by IT and new edu-models (suggested by Louis Fox)

7. electronic portfolios -- their development and uses (suggested by Louis)

8. Year Of Desktop Collaboration, i.e. if/when desktop video, IM, chat
will morph and/or become usable and used on a daily basis by the masses. (suggested by Terry Gray)

9. continued practical research on IT cutting edge development at
universities that gets commercialize (Larry Dalton, Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research (http://stc-mditr.org/centout/index.php))

10. The adoption and continued development of Internet2 middleware like Shibboleth.