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EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research

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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GartnerUnderstand IT trends and perspectives

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View Top-Ten IT Issues

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

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Assessing Your Fiscal Bandwidth

This new ECAR report provides insight into the current practices for IT cost measurement, the challenges, and gaps in information.

Data-Loss Prevention Solutions

A small set of vendors dominate a majority of enterprise DLP deployments. Learn about the challenges, content-aware solutions, and select vendors in this Gartner report.

Do Instructional Technologies Improve Learning?

This research bulletin describes UMBC's quest to answer this question....

What are your thoughts on IT risk management?

Last month ECAR polled the community to inform upcoming research. View the poll results to find out how more than 100 of your peers...

Now Publicly Available: ECAR Bulletin on Measuring IT Value

How does one measure IT value? ECAR has five recommendations.

CDS Update: New Dashboards, Survey Preparation

The April CDS Update features the new dashboards available in CDS Reporting and what's new and important to know about the 2013 survey. 

 

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.

Wondering how to measure learning innovation? See ELI's Seeking Evidence of Impact program.

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2013 Strategic Priorities

  • Connected Learning
  • Enterprise IT
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