Loyola University Chicago includes several campuses with different academic programs, complicating institutional efforts to align technology planning and investment across the various programs.
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These almanacs summarize Core Data Service trend data from the 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 surveys for a subset of responding institutions. The almanacs enable a quick assessment of the state of IT financials, staffing, and services, and other key IT service areas in higher education.
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Since 2014, EDUCAUSE has examined higher education’s top strategic technology priorities. This year, in addition to reviewing the overall list of strategic technologies, EDUCAUSE will publish nine separate reports examining in detail the technology domains we asked about and reviewing each domain’s component technologies and the trends associated with those technologies. This report covers the eight technologies and the single trend included in the mobile domain.
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Colleges and universities increasingly provide central convening spaces where innovation, learning, ideation, and business creation all converge. These centers typically include physical environments for co-working, often including offices, makerspaces, and lab facilities. Services might include access to conference facilities as well as free Wi-Fi and printing. These centers provide a fertile environment where many of higher education’s interests converge, and they can serve as both classroom and laboratory for the development of business and workplace skills.
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Continued improvement of online curricula and instruction can strengthen the quality of these courses and hence the educational opportunities for the most in-need populations.
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The 2017 ELI Focus Session was held April 19 and 20 to explore current issues in instructional design, collectively seeking ways to best support our institutions.
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CBE allows learners to move at their own pace, spending as much or as little time on each topic as necessary to demonstrate mastery. CBE challenges longstanding models of education while offering the possibility of improved student learning, shorter time to degree, and more transparency for employers.
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This paper outlines a practical framework for capacity building to develop institutional digital humanities support for IT staff, librarians, administrators, and faculty with administrative responsibilities.
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Design thinking is an approach to solving problems that focuses on end users and their experiences with a product or service. It challenges traditional models of design by using a core set of principles, such as embracing ambiguity and failure, cultivating empathy for users, and being willing to iterate through creative options. The resources below explore design thinking as a concept and its application in the context of higher education.
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The 2016 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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