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7 Things You Should Know About Online Video Platforms
An online video platform (OVP) is a cloud-based solution for the storage, management, and delivery of digital video. Similar to YouTube, an OVP serves as a central repository for content, but unlike commercial services, OVPs provides fine-grained access control to content owners, which satisfies legal and regulatory requirements for higher education institutions.
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SOURCE: Educause
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The Higher Education CPO Primer, Part 1: A Welcome Kit for Chief Privacy Officers in Higher Education
The Higher Education Chief Privacy Officers Working Group has created this resource to serve as a welcome kit for CPOs in higher education. The CPO Primer (part one) is intended to provide an overview and introductory body of knowledge to help new CPOs (or those new to higher education) better understand their job and the challenges unique to colleges and universities. The main audience for this document is a CPO or person with primary institutional responsibility for privacy.
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SOURCE: Educause
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IT Considerations in Implementing Preferred Name Policies
This document lists some IT and policy questions that must be considered in implementing processes within IT systems to support a student’s gender identity, such as preferred name, preferred gender specification, and preferred pronoun (collectively referred to as “preferred name” in this resource).
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SOURCE: Educause
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Analytics: Digital Capabilities in Higher Education, 2015
Maturity indices measure the capability to deliver IT services and applications in a given area. Deployment indices measure stages of deployment for specific technologies and services, which are aggregated to track progress by area. The maturity and deployment indices are based on contributions to the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service. Analytics is an issue of relevance and enduring strategic importance to higher education. This report examines the status of college and university maturity and deployment in analytics.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Cloud on the Horizon
This paper is the seventh and final installment in a series on Preparing the IT Organization for the Cloud from the ECAR Cloud Working Group.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Facilities Management Systems: A 2015 Enterprise Application Market Higher Education Report
The 2015 Enterprise Application Market reports from the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research use data from the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) to better understand how higher education institutions approach various information systems.
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SOURCE: Educause
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How to Manage and Defend Your Security Budget
Many boards now have a clear focus on information security risks. This is not always reflected across the broader organization. Security and risk management professionals must manage and defend security budgets to meet stakeholder expectations of protection.
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SOURCE: Educause
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E-Learning: 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. This report focuses on E-Learning.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Blending Human Intelligence and Analytics for Student Success
Undergraduate retention and completion rates are the subject of national interest, and questions of cost, value, and quality remain the focus of public debate. Colleges and universities have long relied on human-intelligence networks made up of faculty, professional advisors, other administrators, and students themselves to find the best balance of challenge and support for individualized learning and to monitor student progress.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Research Computing Facilitators: The Missing Human Link in Needs-Based Research Cyberinfrastructure
A comprehensive set of dedicated human activities is required to fully support and proactively accelerate scholarly discovery via research computing services, in what is a novel supplement to existing research computing staffing structures: the Research Computing Facilitator.
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SOURCE: Educause
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