The University of Mary Washington just joined the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, a strategic arm of Educause devoted to transforming teaching and learning through the intelligent use of information technologies. It’s been just about a year since I first learned of the NLII. At that time, during a focus group at the 2003 Educause convention in Anaheim, I met one of the 2003-2004 NLII fellows, a man named Cyprien Lomas. I got to know Cyprien a little more during the NLII meeting the following January, and I saw him again at the NLII focus session on designing formal learning spaces just a couple of weeks ago. Cyprien’s a creative and interesting person and I hope to get to know him more as the years go by.

To my delight, I’ve just discovered that the NLII has a blog section and that Cyprien is one of the bloggers. He’s on the lookout for new and interesting ways of using IT in teaching and learning. Call him an intelligent agent–a most intelligent agent. I’m looking forward to benefiting from his expertise and curiosity.