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10 tips for success with analytics, information management, and reporting projects
Launching information management, reporting, and analytics systems can be difficult. Sustaining them – and creating enthusiastic users – is even trickier.…
Prevention through information: Promoting social norms awareness with digital signage
A small liberal arts college located in the heart of the Finger Lakes in Upstate New York, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS) are home to one of the most…
Four steps to admissions superstardom with Google AdWords
With the growth of non-traditional students, campuses must tailor their communication to each audience. A strategy that enrolls adults must differ from one that enrolls high school students.…
MOOCs can set an online example in educating women
There's a large implication to MOOCs that U.S. universities so far have missed: the ability to export gender equality and powerful female role models to the rest of the world.…
Driven to distraction: How to help wired students learn to focus
Today's digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans. Here's one way to fight back.…
Technology helps schools meet strategic goals
For campus leaders, thinking strategically involves asking questions like: How can we build the brand of the university? How can we bring in research dollars, woo donors, and attract more…
How ‘collaborative learning’ is transforming higher education
At Duke University, business school students use a state-of-the-art “virtual lecture hall” to have conversations with CEOs and fellow students from around the world. At Harvard, physics students learn from…
Tech helps faculty, students interact ‘in much richer ways’
Collaborative learning isn’t new, but technology is giving it a new spin and is making it easier to exchange ideas and complete group projects—regardless of where students or instructors happen…
A new ‘gold standard’ in higher education?
Education in our digital age has the potential to offer something we, as students, have been hard pressed to achieve in the past: a real voice and a sense of…
Making college more accessible—and affordable—for all Americans
Earning a postsecondary degree or credential is no longer just a pathway to opportunity for a talented few; rather, it is a prerequisite for the growing jobs of the new…