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Trend Watch 2016: Which IT Trends Is Higher Education Responding To?
EDUCAUSE is in its second year of identifying the influence of major trends on the IT strategy of colleges and universities. This year’s Trend Watch list included 29 trends in the management and delivery of IT services, personal devices and personalized environments, data and analytics, teaching and learning, security and risk, and the Internet of Things
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SOURCE: Educause
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Next-Generation Medical Education: Facilitating Student-Centered Learning Environments
In October 2014, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine launched an initiative called ’Cane Academy to flip the classroom by replacing traditional didactic sessions with short “Khan-style videos” accompanied by learning objectives, self-assessment questions, and supplemental content.
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SOURCE: Educause
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2015 Study of Faculty and Information Technology Report
This second year of the faculty technology study is situated in the middle of what is surely one of the most dynamic decades in the history of higher education. Colleges and universities are monitoring or actively participating in some remarkable tectonic changes, including new technologies, new models for teaching and learning, and even new institutional models. With the 2015 annual EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues list, we said that we are at an inflection point and that deploying technologies in appropriate ways can make significant differences for our students and for us. This year’s faculty technology study shows these activities well under way.
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SOURCE: Educause
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7 Things You Should Know About Virtualized Desktops
A virtualized desktop is an operating system and application software that run on a remote server and can be delivered in real time to a local computing device such as a laptop anywhere an Internet connection is available.
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SOURCE: Educause
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7 Things You Should Read About Change Management
The pace and breadth of innovation require colleges and universities to take a thorough approach to modifying longstanding models and practices in higher education. The consequences of failed initiatives can be substantial, and otherwise well-laid plans can be undone if the human and cultural aspects of an organization are not adequately considered.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Higher Education IT Salary Report, 2016
In ECAR’s report The Higher Education IT Workforce Landscape, 2016, we briefly explored the topic of higher education IT salaries. We conducted bivariate analyses to help identify factors that may be associated with salary levels, finding that such factors may vary considerably across managerial levels. In this report, we expand on the previous analyses and offer a deeper exploration into the factors that shape the salaries of CIOs, managers, and nonmanagerial staff in higher education IT departments.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Improving Access to the National Computational Infrastructure: The Role of Regional Organizations
In October 2015, an NSF-funded meeting brought together representatives from campuses, regional research and education networking organizations, and national computational facilities to discuss current limitations to expanding access to advanced CI resources and to identify ways to better coordinate their efforts.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS): State of the Literature
This paper examines the current state of the literature on Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS), an increasingly popular approach to technology-mediated advising reform.
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SOURCE: Educause
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7 Things You Should Know About Change Management
“Change management” refers to the business practices and procedures that address the human and cultural aspects of organizational change. Change management runs concurrently with the programmatic change that it complements, and the process can range from a relatively informal approach to a highly structured framework.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Realising the European Open Science Cloud
This Report recommends to close discussions about the ‘perceived need’ of a science cloud and to take immediate action on the EOSC in close concert with Member States, building on existing capacity and expertise.
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SOURCE: Educause
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