International

EDUCAUSE Library Items for International

What Does BYOE Mean for IT?: IT Leader Roundtable

May 15, 2013

The bring-your-own-everything (BYOE) phenomenon continues to gain momentum as more students, faculty, and staff use personal devices and services on campus. The person who previously brou…

Assessing Your Fiscal Bandwidth: Current Practices for Measuring IT Costs in Higher Education

May 14, 2013

Accurately and consistently measuring the cost of IT in higher education is an essential part of strategic IT management, yet according to IT leaders, cost data have proven elusive. What if a…

Enterprise Content-Aware DLP Solution Comparison and Select Vendor Profiles

May 14, 2013

This Gartner report covers content-aware data-loss prevention, which has grown up and is on the verge of becoming a standard part of security architecture. A small set of vendors dominate a major…

Using Analytics at UMBC: Encouraging Student Responsibility and Identifying Effective Course Designs

April 30, 2013

Higher education invests considerable resources into technology for academic purposes, but understanding whether those instructional technologies improve learning is often a difficult questio…

Leading a Multiple Project Mobile Learning Initiative: The Approach at Boise State University

April 9, 2013

Many colleges and universities have launched wide-ranging, device-specific mobile initiatives or invested substantial resources to make services mobile friendly in a platform-neutral manner…

Is Our Software Designed for Change? Successes and Challenges in Using Service Oriented Architecture

March 11, 2013

Institutions of higher education face disruptive changes, and changes in information technology are at the heart of these disruptions. Service oriented architecture (SOA ) provides a comprehen…

Optimizing Computing Infrastructure: Weighing Factors and Identifying Solutions

March 1, 2013

So, you've identified the problem and maybe even a set of possible solutions for your IT project. How do you decide which solution will best meet the needs of your campus or IT organization?…

ACTI Data Management Glossary

February 27, 2013

The ACTI Data Management Working Group has published a Data Management Glossary that identifies common terms in data management. It is the hopes that this glossary will be a growing document …

Measuring User Satisfaction: Why It’s Important and How to Do It - Infographic

August 16, 2012

As institutions look to reduce or contain costs, CIOs, institutional leaders, and service managers are challenged to optimize service delivery based on costs, features, and quality. Evaluating se…

IT Salaries in Higher Education, 2012

February 15, 2013

IT salaries account for 39% of the IT budget . They compensate IT staff, whose performance lays the groundwork for an efficiently run institution that provides the highest quality education an…