Leadership

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Leadership

Building Organizational Capacity for Analytics

February 25, 2013

Optimizing student success is the “killer app” for analytics in higher education . Intelligent investments in optimizing student success garner wide support and have a strong, justifia…

Collaboration Enables Next-Generation Digital Learning

March 27, 2013

 By Rob Abel , Marwin Britto , Patrick Masson , and John Johnston The growing emergence of digital devices, learning platforms, and applications promises easier access to a varie…

Mentoring, Self-Awareness, and Collaboration: The 2012 EDUCAUSE Award Winners

January 28, 2013

The EDUCAUSE Awards Program, under the guidance of the EDUCAUSE Recognition Committee, brings peer endorsement and distinction to professional accomplishments in higher education information tech…

Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction

January 1, 2011

As digital tools proliferate and improve, solid instruction in the basics will eventually become “flat”—available anywhere globally—and the elements of excellent teaching that ar…

Leading Large IT Projects the Small-College Way

April 18, 2013 | A session at the Enterprise IT Leadership Conference 2013

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

Practical Project Management for Security Implementation in Enterprise Systems

April 17, 2013 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference

Security implementation is, or should be, a part of every enterprise system, not an add-on after the fact. One of the best ways to ensure effective IT security is to have a seat at the table thro…

Going Exponential – Growing the Charter Sector’s Best

January 1, 2011

The supply of seats in the nation’s best charter schools is not growing rapidly enough to serve the millions of low-income children who need better schools.  Based on lessons from the fastes…

Seizing the Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Effective Teacher

January 1, 2011

American children deserve the one ingredient we know creates stellar learning results: excellent teachers, consistently. This brief explains why every child needs excellent teachers year after …

3x for all: Extending the Reach of Education’s Best

January 1, 2009

Teacher effectiveness has the largest impact of school effects on student learning, and research indicates that top-quintile teachers produce learning gains three times (3X) that of bottom-quin…

Using Technology to Personalize Learning and Assess Students in Real-Time

October 6, 2011

This paper examines new models of instruction made possible by digital technologies.  Pilot projects from across the country are experimenting with different organizations and delivery systems…