Ed-Tech Leadership
Best practices in higher-education technology use: August 2012
Students at the University of Wisconsin now can earn college degrees based on competency, not credits; Ohio State is revamping its classroom technology to meet students’ digital demands; two West…
Top higher-education technology news: August 2012
eLearning programs have gotten a reprieve from a controversial federal rule that some people viewed as too heavy-handed; a new resource helps ed-tech leaders understand the various standards for ensuring…
Big rewards, less job security for college leaders
Helicopter parents, impatient trustees, overworked professors, entitled athletics boosters and deeply partisan lawmakers with little cash to spare. It's enough to make people wonder why anyone would want the job…
The U-Va. mess: Sign of the (bad) times
The debacle at the University of Virginia over the secretive ousting of the school’s first female president is more than a tale about how one school’s governing board can blunder.…
College-bound students flock to universities’ mobile websites
A surge in the percentage of recent high school graduates who use smart phones to research colleges and universities could turn campus web development on its head.…
Schools get help with big internet protocol change
A trove of advice, tips, and hints for switching to the internet’s newest protocol, known as IPv6, is available for schools and colleges that haven’t completed the network alterations and…
Campus survives the ‘iPad jitters’
Putting Apple iPads in the hands of every student and professor on a PC-based campus required some convincing, but a year later, Seton Hill University officials said the tablet program…
IT outsourcing: When it makes sense … and when it doesn’t
Cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), and “managed” or “hosted” services: These are terms that today’s campus IT chiefs surely are familiar with. But do these ed-tech models make…
eCampus of the Month: Abilene Christian University
Abilene Christian University, long a leading advocate for the use of web-ready mobile devices in higher education, is taking its tech savvy to K-12 schools, where students are becoming familiar…
How to lead change successfully in uncertain times
Author and motivational speaker Simon T. Bailey has some advice for how campus leaders can thrive in an era marked by rapid change and disruptive technologies: Focus on people, process,…