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5/23/2007

An interview with the Software Freedom Law Center's (SFLC) Eben Moglen about the future of collaboration and technology.

Survey Said ...

5/10/2007

I look forward each year to the EDUCAUSE annual Current Issues Survey Report. There is always something new and interesting, be it the ways in which the survey instrument itself has been shaped to reflect the association’s view of the field or in the results of the survey.

The American University and the Ownership of Ideas

5/9/2007

The Software Freedom Law Center's (SFLC) Eben Moglen is one of the high-powered attorneys representing the challenge to Blackboard Inc.'s patent of certain learning technologies.

IT Key to Saudi Arabia 25-Year Strategy for Higher Ed

4/23/2007

Saudi Arabia is preparing a 25-year strategy to map out its higher education system so that it can be "in tune with the country's development and job market requirements," the kingdom announced. Information technology will a central element of the plan.

Report Profiles IT Training at U.S. Universities

4/20/2007

Dublin, Ireland-based research firm Research and Markets has released a new report that tracks how various institutions of higher learning in the United States are trying to improve the computer literacy of their faculty and students.

Institutional Intelligence

4/11/2007

Fewer than 100 higher education institutions in the United States have recognized data warehousing programs. This represents an adoption rate of less than 3 percent for a discipline well into its second decade of mainstream practice.

Study: Online Degree Program Preferences

4/5/2007

What are the most popular online programs in higher education? According to a report from education consulting firm Eduventures, most students enrolled in programs online are participating in bachelor's degree programs, followed by associate degrees.

USC Innovation Institute To Incubate Arts ... and Sciences Too

4/3/2007

University of Southern California president Steven Sample outlined a strategic plan for USC's new Stevens Institute for Innovation designed to consolidate all is innovation transfer and development operations under a single hub, as well as to extend those operations across as many disciplines as possible--arts as well as sciences.

Higher Ed Combats U.S. Info Tech Decline, Says WEF

4/2/2007

The United States is falling behind European countries and Singapore in exploiting information technology, according to a report last week by the World Economic Forum. The U.S. dropped from first to seventh place in the WEF's annual "Networked Readiness Index," the Reuters news agency reported.

Invest Locally

3/28/2007

Sakai, Kuali, uPortal, Moodle, and others are taking advantage of a better way to build software through open source communities....

Baylor Names CIO, Libraries Dean from Wellesley

3/27/2007

Baylor University named Pattie Orr vice president for information technology and dean of its libraries. Orr, who is pursuing a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Massachusetts, is currently director of user services at Wellesley College.

Webinar: Expanding the Vision for Mobility

3/23/2007

Until today, the promise of converged campuswide communications has been just that--a promise. But now, at institutions such as Dartmouth College, converged communications over secure, high-performance mobility networks has arrived.

Research: Blended Versus Online Learning

3/12/2007

A report released this week by Eduventures, Sloan Consortium, and Babson College, shows a slow but steady decline in the percentage of blended courses offered by colleges and universities, while purely online courses continue to grow. At the same time, the report found that colleges and universities have not been meeting consumer demand for online course offerings.

Florida Atlantic U Adopts WebFocus for Data Management

3/7/2007

Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has implemented a data management system from Information Builders to track and analyze data across multiple departments.

The Drive to Learning Outcomes Management

3/1/2007

Leading colleges and universities are looking for new ways to demonstrate their value to stakeholders, with learning outcomes emerging as a debated and desired endpoint.

The Successful CIO: Vision, Focus, and Execution

2/28/2007

Retired this last January, John Camp was deputy CIO or CIO at Wayne State University (MI) for the last 10 years and in IT leadership positions there since 1985.

Here Comes the Unfunded Mandate for Your IT Department!

2/22/2007

Right now, "quality control" for higher education is basically left up to (a) the marketplace (sounds kind of right-wing) and (b) to nonprofit-based, "voluntary" procedures for accreditation (sounds kinda left-wing).

At U Richmond, Remote Support Cuts Costs

1/8/2007

One of the challenges of multimedia classrooms can be supporting them in an efficient, cost-effective manner. After all, each element you add to a classroom means another piece of equipment that can fail.

Technology & Campus Services: The Changing Face of Auxiliary Services

9/30/2006

Today’s Auxiliary Services department has morphed into a solution source for mobile transactions, mountains of junk mail, and a whole lot more.

Business Continuity Planning – Not Just for IT Anymore

9/27/2006

Basically, if your IT doesn’t work, you don’t have any business or learning continuity except for in the smallest and most specialized of situations.

Strategic Tech Purchasing

9/25/2006

Strategic Technology Planning >> Critical Thinking

8/29/2006

From improving service to the campus community, to enhancing server capacity for critical operations, schools learn that the best way to tackle mission-critical objectives is to do it via intelligent tech implementations.

Data-Driven Decision-Making: It’s a Catch-Up Game

7/23/2006

Two leading academic instutions facing critical data warehousing and business intelligence challenges find powerful and dynamic solutions that could be your solutions, too.

2006 Campus Technology Innovators: IT Planning