In this week’s IT news, to better harness the tech innovations ripe for higher ed’s use toward its own reinvention, Penn State’s EdTech Network is leveraging the University’s size and broad research strengths to be a driver for myriad successes—and they’re asking other institutions and admin to join. Also, an online state-based data tool could be the way students of the near future choose their college; and startup Fidelis launches a new social feature to their community platform for college and universities.

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