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7 Things You Should Know About Blockchain
Blockchain, which is best known as the foundation of Bitcoin, is a technology that functions as a public, distributed, unchangeable ledger. Blockchain stores information in bundles of records, called blocks, stored across multiple computers.
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7 Things You Should Read About Interactive Video
Educators increasingly use video content in teaching and learning activities—the amount of available video is expanding rapidly, and rich media have been shown to increase engagement and retention. A growing range of applications and services allows users to add interactive features to existing video or create video that includes questions, branching, game elements, and other enhancements. The resources below explore some of those tools and their effects on higher education teaching and learning.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Demonstrating Value Through IT Service Management in Higher Education
This paper explores the motivations for why higher education IT organizations are moving to ITSM and shares examples of how ITSM has been applied in higher education IT organizations.
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SOURCE: Educause
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A Shift in Focus: Preparing for a Service-Centric Future
Higher education thought leaders from information technology, business operations, and finance met in May 2016 to discuss the changing nature of higher education IT, the forces behind the changes, and how they can collaborate to prepare their colleges and universities for a future more focused on the provision of services than on the technology and applications behind those services.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Privacy In the Age of Analytics Report of a CNI Executive Roundtable
The move to digital information systems has allowed student data to become more visible and centralized. Technological mediation has also brought a range of third parties into data collection and analysis processes. Often data is being collected and retained without the knowledge of the individuals whose data and activities are being tracked. This report discusses these data privacy issues in regards to student analytics activities.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Schrödinger’s Cat: How ERP Is Both Dead and Alive
Gartner analysts are routinely asked if ERP is dead or if it is alive and relevant; the evolutionary nature of applications means it’s both. CIOs must understand this paradox in order to guide their investments through the period of transition from where postmodern ERP is today to where it is going.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2015-16
The objective of this study is to better understand the process by which faculty members select the educational materials that they employ in their courses.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Business Intelligence Reporting and Data Warehouse Systems: A 2015 Enterprise Application Market Higher Education Report
The 2015 Enterprise Application Market reports from the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) used 2015 data collected in the 2016 EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) survey to better understand how higher education institutions approach various information systems.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Report of a CNI-ARL Workshop: Planning a Digital Scholarship Center 2016
The event, convened by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), was designed to assist institutions in the planning or early implementation stages of a DSC..
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CDS Spotlight: Information Security
This research bulletin uses data from Modules 1 and 7 of the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service to examine the current state of information security in higher education.
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SOURCE: Educause
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