IT Effectiveness

EDUCAUSE Library Items for IT Effectiveness

The Future is Bright: Reflections on Innovations 2013

March 19, 2013

  More than 3,600 administrators and faculty from the nation’s most creative community colleges came together in Dallas March 10 to 13 for the 15 th annual Innovations Conference of the …

Building Blocks for College Completion: Blended Learning

December 11, 2012

Ten projects funded by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) in the initiative’s first round of investment in 2011, known as Wave I, sought to scale the adoption of blended learning model…

ITSM Governance: Moving Ahead and Staying on the Rails

March 13, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

Perhaps the only thing more challenging than starting a service management initiative is keeping it going. After implementing some ITIL processes, how do you maintain momentum, build on successes, …

We Hear You: Transforming Student Feedback into Improved IT Services

March 12, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

Are the technology resources your organization provides to students meeting their educational needs and enhancing their academic success? This session will highlight ways to gather students' f…

Cultivating a Culture of Creativity and Innovation: Learning from Jazz Improvisation - Sponsored by Acquia

March 12, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

Today's world involves change at an unprecedented pace. Managing creativity and innovation is becoming the most important responsibility for leaders in this new century. Leaders must build t…

Improvisation and Innovation: Rhetoric and Reality - Sponsored by Tuition Management Systems

March 13, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

We are unlikely to achieve the kind of institutional agility we desire—openness to new ideas, responsiveness to a changing world—if we persist in addressing questions of innovation, improvisa…

Kicking Up Dust in Austin at SXSWedu

March 8, 2013

By, Van L. Davis, Ph.D., Director of Special Projects, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board This week, NGLC headed off to SXSWedu in sunny Austin, Texas. Only in its third year, this …

Napster, Udacity, and the Academy

November 12, 2012

Clay Shirky provides a thoughtful discussion in this blog on MOOCs and its early stages of possible disruption of higher education. Clay Shirky p…

Flipped Session: Working Successfully with Emerging Technologies and Innovations

February 13, 2013 | A session at the West/Southwest Regional Conference

Continuously innovating and transforming our current practices is critical to keep pace with teaching and learning as it evolves. While there is no shortage of candidate innovations, the process …

Aligning IT with Institutional Strategy: Learning to Think in a New Language

March 19, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Aligning technology with institutional strategy is about technologists learning to think and act in the language of the institution's success. That means they need to understand how to measure…