Features


Tuning the Wireless

CT examines the 6 biggest challenges to improving wireless service on campus--and learns how three schools are forging solutions.

Connecting the Dots in DAS

With the use of smartphones soaring, distributed antenna systems (DAS) offer schools a way to improve cellular service, even in the most problematic corners of campus.

Masters of All They Survey

A web-based survey tool is helping IT shops monitor their performance on campus--and gauge the expectations and desires of their constituents.

Putting Admissions Data to Work

The smart use of business intelligence has turned around graduate admissions at Wayne State University.

Community Colleges Leverage Predictive Analytics

With today's emphasis on student success and retention, along with more restrictive funding that's increasingly performance-based, community colleges are sharpening their strategic decision making and gearing up their toolboxes with predictive analytics.



Taking Your School Into the Cloud? Keep it Simple

Embarking on an enterprise-wide move to the cloud can prepare an institution for the demands of tomorrow's campus, but take the time to lay the groundwork.

Creating Tech Programs Industry Wants

With the demand for STEM skills growing, community colleges play a key role in preparing students for local industry needs. CT looks at three ways schools are training the next generation of tech employees.

Rewriting the Journal

With faculty balking at the high price of traditional academic journals, can other digital publishing options get traction?

PAR Framework Project Eyes Student Data Through a 'Multi-Institutional Lens'

WCET, the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, has been awarded $2.56 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to validate and extend the PAR Framework Project, ongoing research into the use of predictive analytics on a large-scale federated database to support decision making that removes barriers to student success.

The Intersection of Digital Literacy and Social Media

This is how two hot concepts in higher education can be blended to beat the status quo and get educators and students on the same page with digital literacy.