Northumbria University’s Eduserv funded research project into the usage of SharePoint within UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is drawing to a conclusion, and we are currently drafting the final report. The report will be published on Eduserv’s website early in 2010. Whlle drafing the report we came up with the following thoughts on what the future holds for SharePoint in Higher Education: Beginnings of the adoption of SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 will become available in the first half of 2010. Most HEIs will wait until a service pack has been issued before they think about upgrading to it, so it wll be 2011 before SharePoint 2010 starts to have an impact. SharePoint 2010 will bring improvements to the social computing functionality of My Sites,…