Institutional Management

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Institutional Management

The Top-Ten Issues in Higher Education IT for 2013

June 11, 2013

The annual EDUCAUSE Top-Ten IT Issues , one of the most enduringly popular EDUCAUSE publications, has just been released for 2013. What are this year's top IT issues, how do they compare …

Analytics and Metaphors: Grounding Our Understanding in a Conceptual Framework

June 3, 2013

The popularity of the analytics movement in education has given rise to a large number of platforms, all of which intend to increase the probability of student success . In this webinar, Dziub…

Privacy and the Connected Campus

May 21, 2013

As students, scholars, and administrators use today’s connected online tools , they leave behind a “ data exhaust ” that can reveal a surprisingly detailed picture of individual activi…

Leading Large IT Projects the Small-College Way

May 8, 2013

Smaller colleges and universities function in distinctive environments with unique challenges and opportunities. From campus-wide mobile technology to ERP implementations, smaller instituti…

Changing the Culture of an IT Organization, Whirlwind Style

April 11, 2013

Yale’s IT organization is in transformation mode. The journey over the past 18 months has covered everything: a major reorganization; a top-to-bottom and side-to-side implementation of ITI L…

The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow

March 27, 2013

Wondering what’s new in mobiles, electronic books, learning analytics , and other emerging technology areas? Join Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative as t…

Digging into MOOC Mania: One Investor's Key Research Questions and Approach

April 4, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

MOOCs have captured the attention of millions of learners, higher education stakeholders, and the public media. Is it all simply hype or might there be something to be learned or gained from the MO…

Multiple Lessons Learned from Implementing MOOC Environments at San Jose State University

April 4, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

Provost Ellen Junn will briefly describe how SJSU partnered with two MOOC providers (edX and Udacity) to offer four courses for college credit. She'll summarize a number of significant implica…

Backgrounds and Behaviors of MOOC Participants and Implications for Faculty

April 4, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

In spring 2012, the first MIT/edX MOOC, "Circuits and Electronics" (6.002x), was open to students around the world. A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard has been analyzing data gene…

MOOCs for Credit: Current State of the Art

April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

As enrollments in MOOCs expanded dramatically in the summer of 2012, students who completed these courses began asking how they might earn academic credit that could be applied toward a degree. As …