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ECAR Working Groups bring together higher education IT leaders to address core technology challenges. Individuals at EDUCAUSE member institutions are invited to collaborate on projects that advance emerging technologies important to colleges and universities.

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ECAR Working Groups are just beginning on a number of new projects, and are looking for interested members to join them on their work.

Research Data Storage

Focuses on what services and governance might be needed as institutions increase their maturity in data management and storage support.

Transitioning to IPv6

Provides reasons schools that have yet to move to IPv6 should start planning the transition now.

Responsive Web Design

Looks at the basics of responsive web design, an approach that makes content available on a variety of devices.

Emergency Communications

Summarizes recent changes in emergency communications and the impact these will have on campus and statewide.

Big Data

Examines how campuses will support big data and work with national data centers.

 

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New Project: Mobile Data Collection in Higher Education

ECAR-MSAD will focus on both the promise and concerns of mobile data collection, specifically the emerging practice of collecting data using mobile devices and uploading that data to a server for aggregation and analysis.


New Project: Research Data Storage

ECAR-DM will provide guidance to institutions looking to move data that has been housed locally by researchers to centralized storage environments. The project will focus on services and governance that may be needed as institutions increase their maturity in data management and storage support.


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ACTI/ECAR Integration

The summer 2013 ACTI/ECAR integration brings together EDUCAUSE analysis and research efforts and enables greater support of the working groups. Read more.


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