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Open Source Apps, With a Vendor Assist

Built on an open source framework, SunGard's Mobile Connection allows clients to develop cross-platform apps cheaply and quickly.

Tactics for the Smart Classroom: Getting Smarter About Faculty Involvement

College IT professionals and administrators reveal their top 5 techniques for working with, rather than against, faculty members in implementing technology-enhanced learning environments.

5 E-Learning Trends for Higher Ed

To get some insights into what's on the horizon for e-learning, Campus Technology spoke with a group of academics and instructional technologists.

5 Tips for Securing IT Funding

Campus Technology offers up a handful of tactics from three Campus CIOs for funding your IT infrastructure projects this year.

10 Tips for Controlling IT Costs

Ideas for cutting costs, improving efficiency, and optimizing service delivery in the midst of never-ending budget cuts.



Taking Homegrown Products to Market

Universities are wrestling with the possibilities and pitfalls of making homegrown IT products available beyond their campuses. CT spoke with John Campbell, associate vice president for academic technologies at Purdue University (IN), about the school's decision to choose a commercial partnership over an open source approach when marketing Signals, its student-retention program.

Fostering a Culture of Evidence: Business Analytics at the Virginia Community College System

The Virginia Community College System--one of the largest in the country, with 23 colleges on 40 campuses--has leveraged business analytics to help streamline information processes, achieve cost efficiencies, encourage data and information sharing and transparency, and identify ways to offer improved service to the community. Here, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Institutional Effectiveness Catherine Finnegan talks with Campus Technology about VCCS's use of business analytics.

Industry-Funded Software Research Goes Open Source

The idea of attracting a vibrant community of developers is prompting some companies to pursue open source research.

Smartphones: Teaching Tool or Brain Candy?

As smartphones become ubiquitous, educators debate how to take advantage of their unique strengths for learning while minimizing their disruptive influence.

Internet2 Pursues Collaboration in the Cloud

Internet2's new cloud partnership hopes to kick-start collaboration and shared research across higher ed institutions nationwide--and globally.