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New Approaches to Higher Education IT Strategic Planning
This paper looks at causes for the shift in how institutions are approaching IT strategic planning and how IT strategic planning relates to overall institutional planning. In addition, new models and trends in IT strategic planning are identified to help guide IT organizations as they are considering their own strategic planning approach.
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SOURCE: Educause
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The Successful Security Awareness Professional: Foundational Skills and Continuing Education Strategies
In the second half of 2015, the Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) Awareness and Training Working Group conducted a survey of security awareness professionals. The research took a two-phased approach: surveying security awareness professionals (and IT communications professionals) and then leveraging the combined expertise of these professionals to provide a rich online resource list of continuing education opportunities.
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SOURCE: Educause
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The Making of a Developmental Math Emporium That Works
In fall 2014, 23 math instructors traded in their chalk for computer keyboards to launch Austin Community College’s version of emporium-style math. Classes were held in the nation’s largest computer lab, the ACCelerator, a 32,000-square-foot open space formerly home to a J.C. Penney’s store. Two years later, the ACCelerator is still thriving with developmental math courses—among many other academic endeavors—and early results suggest that students are benefiting from the experience.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Higher Education Information Security Awareness Programs
In early 2016, the SANS Institute released its second annual SANS Securing The Human report. Based on a survey of 369 information security training and awareness professionals, the research is designed to understand the state of information security training and awareness programs across various industries, including “educational services”.
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SOURCE: Educause
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7 Things You Should Read About Open Pedagogy and the Evolution of the LMS
The resources below explore the relationship between conventional learning management systems and the growing role of open pedagogy. As originally conceived, the LMS operates at a course level, but new models of teaching and learning often call for educational activity to span multiple courses and several institutions. Central to promoting those kinds of learning models is rethinking or replacing the traditional LMS.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Digital Capabilities in Higher Education, 2015
Using data from EDUCAUSE maturity and deployment indices, the Digital Capabilities in Higher Education reports from ECAR are designed provide a view into higher education’s ability to support strategic initiatives.
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SOURCE: Educause
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7 Things You Should Know About Affective Computing
The term affective computing refers to IT systems and devices designed to discern human emotions, respond to the user on the basis of what they perceive, and, in some cases, represent human emotion to users.
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SOURCE: Educause
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7 Things You Should Read About Supporting Academic Integrity in Online Environments
The resources below explore issues of academic integrity in the context of online learning and remote proctoring for exams. Following a very long tradition of in-person learning and proctored testing, the tools and opportunities of online education have raised new and sometimes troubling questions about the role of honesty in digital instruction. At the same time, a range of applications promises to provide digital testing environments that can ensure the identity of test takers and identify cheating.
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SOURCE: Educause
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A Comprehensive Approach to Enhancing Faculty Use of Mobile Technology for Teaching
Since 2012, Zayed University has been involved in the federal UAE Mobile Learning Initiative, which aims to promote the use of mobile devices for classroom teaching and learning in an effort to increase student motivation and engagement and to promote 21st-century learning by integrating relevant emerging technologies for teaching and learning in and out of the classroom.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Working Across Professional Roles to Transform Community Colleges and Broad-Access Universities
Based on case studies of six transformation-minded institutions, this article examines the importance of achieved and assigned characteristics—professional roles, responsibilities, reputation, and authority—in the institutional change process.
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SOURCE: Educause
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