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2012 CDS Executive Summary Report

January 24, 2013

This report summarizes results from the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) survey. Using a matched set of 616 CDS 2011 and CDS 2012 participating institutions, this year’s report is a detaile…

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…

EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference: Executive Summaries of Selected Sessions

October 30, 2012

Highlights from selected general and featured sessions at the 2011 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. Highlights from selected general and featured sessions a…

What Campus Leaders Need to Know About MOOCs

December 20, 2012

MOOCs (massive open online courses) are courses delivered over the web to potentially thousands of students at a time. In a MOOC, lectures are typically “canned,” quizzes and testing ar…

Analytics 3-Day Sprint - Summary

August 20, 2012

This brief summarizes the main themes from the EDUCAUSE Analytics Sprint, held July 24–26, 2012. Presenters and participants exchanged ideas and information via webinars, online conversations, …

Understanding and Managing the Risks of Analytics in Higher Education: A Guide

June 29, 2012

This guide provides an introduction to the major risk categories faced by a higher education institution considering investments in time, energy, and money in analytics work . Under the ri…

Findings of the Expert Panel on Analytics

May 2, 2012

Analytics is of increasing relevance to higher education because of the role it can play in accountability, efficiency, and continuous improvement as well as its potential impact on ever…

IT-Based Transformation in Higher Education: Possibilities and Prospects

March 19, 2012

If information technologies are to transform higher education, we must exploit opportunities and address problems. At the same time, transformed higher education cannot neglect important dimensi…

Mobile Computing 5-Day Sprint—Summary

June 3, 2011

This EDUCAUSE brief summarizes the main themes from the EDUCAUSE Mobile Computing 5-Day Sprint, held April 25–29, 2011. This learning experience brought together presenters and hundreds of par…

What Campus Leaders Need to Know About Cloud Computing

April 14, 2011

This EDUCAUSE Executive Briefing explains "What Campus Leaders Need to Know About Cloud Computing".  Cloud computing is a computing model in which technology resources are delivered o…