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ECAR provides research and analysis about information technology in higher education for IT professionals and higher education leaders.

 

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The EDUCAUSE Core Data Service is a benchmarking service used by colleges and universities since 2002 to inform their IT strategic planning and management.

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Updating IT professionals’ skills, BYOD, and cloud strategy top the EDUCAUSE IT Issues Panel's 2012 Top-Ten IT Issues.

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ECAR Report on E-Learning

Online courses are ubiquitous, with 80% of institutions offering at least several online courses. Learn more.

June ECAR Update

Read the June issue of ECAR Update for the latest on the new ECAR name and focus, working groups, and BYOD.

IT Security: A Common Goal with Many Approaches

This ECAR research bulletin uses CDS data to better understand how higher education institutions approach information security.

University of Florida BYOE Case Study

Available on the BYOE research hub, this new ECAR case study looks at the formal strategy the University of Florida developed for user-provisioned techologies. 

Four IT Leaders Share BYOE Experiences

This ECAR case study available on the BYOE research hub is based on an roundtable interview with four IT leaders about their BYOE experiences.

Now Publicly Available: ECAR Report on Research Computing

View the full report, infographic, maturity index, and case studies to learn about the role of IT in higher education research computing. 

 

EDUCAUSE Research Team

The EDUCAUSE Research Team, under the leadership of Susan Grajek, vice president for data, research, and analytics, provides services through ECAR and CDS. Research initiatives are guided by EDUCAUSE members, the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors, the EDUCAUSE Executive Team, and various advisory groups and expert panels.

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