3 legitimate reasons why faculty aren’t using OER
How will dismantling the Department of Education impact higher ed?
If the Department of Education is dissolved, higher-ed has a chance to reinvent itself and its partnerships
In this tech age, who’s your target learner?
What will university learners require in 10 years? Who will these learners be? How will they learn and what will they demand? Universities must innovate and evolve now…
Why hasn’t higher education been more disrupted?
Virtually every industry has been fundamentally changed by the rise of the Internet. However, even though we are now in a second wave of disruption with the shift…
Want to protect research data? Go multi-tiered
How many researchers have mislaid a USB hard drive and had that sinking feeling that months—or years—of work had simply evaporated? Yet, despite the risks, USB drives remain…
New Google –like search technology is curbing course dropouts
In the wake of the multimedia resources boom in campus courses across the world, sifting through hour-long recorded presentations or hundreds of pages of online text to find…
Emerging field has huge potential for college and university curricula
In the data information age, both businesses and higher-ed institutions are scrambling for those trained in making sense of big data analytics. But what are the skillsets today’s…
What does collaboration really look like?
Recently, the term “collaboration” has become higher education’s latest buzzword, with multiple conference speakers touting its importance, as well as everyone from CIOs to professors exclaiming that collaboration…
Back to campus: Top technology trends for the year ahead
It’s back to school time, and IT teams at college campuses nationwide are preparing to handle the onslaught of technology needs of faculty and students alike—but what should…
Biggest cloud challenge? Hint: It’s not the technology
Today, schools are focused on the upside of cloud deployments for everything from LMSs to SISs—and that upside can be truly significant. But even as earlier fears about…
Higher education funding needs an innovation makeover–here’s how
