An exclusive app you can’t afford to miss
The campus emergency app designed to simplify and improve students' crisis response is officially no longer higher education's best kept secret. In Case of Crisis, which eCampus News…
Innovation Corner
The technology that prevents ‘hotbeds of fraud’ in higher ed
Fraud in test taking and student loans can threaten the very existence of online colleges and universities -- a fact that hasn't been lost on chief information officers…
Game-changing technology reveals student job prospects
Everything can be quantified, measured, and analyzed, and a college student's job prospects are no different. Around 8.5 percent of recent college graduates are unemployed. Perhaps more troubling,…
The danger of passwords and PINs in online education
Authentication of web-based exams is a foundational piece of online education's legitimacy, as many in ed-tech would tell you, and passwords and personal identification numbers are falling short.…
Personalizing 1.2 million communications with students? No sweat
Almost any institution can send an eMail blast that reaches tens of thousands of perspective college students. It's the schools that can put the pivotal personal touch on…
Apps and analytics: The key to student engagement?
Bolstering engagement with students could hinge on how colleges and universities use real-time data. Insight into how, when, and even why students interact with campus technologies has become…
Innovation corner: Hitting back against data attacks
Colleges and universities have more data than ever, and with that exponential increase in sensitive information has come the prying eyes of hackers hoping to find their way…
Innovation corner: Bandwidth headaches and solutions
Higher education officials usually avoid words like "perplexing" and "intractable" when discussing campus challenges with reporters, but those words have cropped up time and again in my interviews…
Innovation corner: New freedom with online learning
The base level of technological savvy has surely risen on college campuses over the past half decade, and with that rise has come growing expectations for flexibility in…
Innovation corner: Big Data for colleges large and small
Many colleges and universities are just beginning to understand how to leverage vast amounts of data. While the definition of ... Read more