Articles: May/June 2013
Features
The CIO: Defining a Career for the Future
IT professionals in higher education spend much of their time focusing on demand, resources, and constant change. The author argues that they need to be investing more time in assessing, advancing, and defining their own careers.
Geeks and Non-Geeks: From Contraxioms to Collaboration in Higher Education
Technical and non-technical people—geeks and non-geeks—often have disproportionately negative experiences working together. They are thus avoiding each other at the moment when they most need to collaborate.
Top-Ten IT Issues, 2013: Welcome to the Connected Age
EDUCAUSE presents the top-ten IT-related issues facing higher education institutions. In this article, members of the EDUCAUSE IT Issues Panel frame each issue with discussion and a set of strategic questions.
A Transformative Period: Is Higher Education IT Having an Identity Crisis?
The IT Issues Panel believes that higher education IT organizations are going through a period of great change and may even be in the throes of an identity crisis. They explain why.
EDUCAUSE 2012 Panel: A CIO's First Year
Early in a panel at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference, a clear consensus arose: the CIO's first year ain't easy.
Retention and Intention in Massive Open Online Courses: In Depth
Retention in MOOCs should be considered in the context of learner intent, especially given the varied backgrounds and motivations of students who choose to enroll.
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A State of Flux: Results of a Mobile Device Survey at the University of Florida
The results of a 2010–2011 survey of mobile device ownership and use are helping the University of Florida make informed decisions today about how best to allocate limited resources to maximize the impact of its mobile initiatives.
Building a Modern Computing Infrastructure at Princeton University
Over the past 10 years Princeton University developed an institutional strategy and built a high-performance computing center to meet the university's research and administrative computing needs.
Case Studies
Scaling a Higher Education Enterprise Electronic Content Management System
Texas A&M University centralized and consolidated their various electronic content management solutions into single shared service.
Reimagining Learning Tools for Qualitative Research
A powerful collaborative tool, qualQuery, helps new and experienced teams of researchers navigate the discipline-specific, complex processes involved in qualitative research.
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