What’s hogging bandwidth on college campuses?
Bandwidth demands have been at critical levels for years on college campuses of every size, and the ubiquity of tablets has only complicated matters for higher education IT…
Surveys
5 ways mobile devices have (and haven’t) changed studying
College students now own an average of seven mobile devices, and spend nearly four hours a day interacting with their laptops, tablets, and smart phones. The bandwidth needs…
Few colleges check applicants’ social media posts
To the teenagers who plaster their boredom, distaste for physics and bodily yearnings all over the Internet while still hoping to get into a good college, here's a…
Students concerned about university spying
They’re always watching. At least that’s what the majority of students think about campus administrators when using the internet. Nearly eighty percent of college students in the U.S.…
In student affairs, social media remains a common tool
While student use of many social networking services may be down, those who work in student affairs say they are still frequently using the sites – both on…
Students want more class assignments available on mobile devices
A survey, conducted by CourseSmart and Wakefield Research, asked 500 American college students about their dependence on devices, their opinions on eTextbooks and their views toward the rising…
Study: Campuses lack mobile and BYOD policies, despite concerns
Three quarters of university chief information officers say that the importance of mobility and bring your own device (BYOD) has ... Read more
MIT researchers hoping to make cloud computing more efficient
Cloud computing can use about 20 times as much hardware as it needs to function properly, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers believe an algorithm could be…
Americans wish they had studied, networked more in college: poll
Americans wish they had studied more in college, view admissions tests as a necessary evil and would tell their children to finish their degrees rather than follow in…
Bandwidth demand straining college budgets
Half of college IT departments pay for broadband internet service in campus residential areas and don’t recover the costs, while six in 10 students said they would consider…