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October 15–18, 2013
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Whether you're looking for a conference to attend face-to-face to connect with peers, or for an online event for team professional development, see what's upcoming.
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EDUCAUSE organizes its efforts around three IT Focus Areas
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About
EDUCAUSE
EDUCAUSE Top-10 IT Issues for 2013
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EDUCAUSE Review article (PDF version)
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Video
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EDUCAUSE Live! webinar (June 11, 2013)
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Recommended readings and EDUCAUSE resources for each of the top-ten IT issues
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Interactive graphic depicting issues trends year-to-year
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The online-only article "A Transformative Period: Is Higher Education IT Having an Identity Crisis?"
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Vice President Susan Grajek's EDUCAUSE 2013 IT Issues presentation (coming October 2013)
The EDUCAUSE IT Issues Panel
Most Issues Panel members are CIOs, other senior IT or library leaders, or faculty, selected by EDUCAUSE to reflect the composition of its membership. The group may on occasion include others with useful perspectives, such as leaders from other associations or non-IT higher education leaders. Membership in the group is by invitation only, its discussions are private except for the reports mentioned below, and individual members’ contributions are kept confidential.
Responsibilities and Process
Members of the Issues Panel have two principal responsibilities:
From time to time – no more frequently than weekly, and probably at least once a month – EDUCAUSE asks Issues Panel members to respond to specific questions. Sometimes these questions are about topics that have arisen during events or in online discussions; the goal is a quick read on how widespread or important those topics are. Sometimes the questions are about actions EDUCAUSE might take or changes it might make to existing programs. Issues Panel members agree to respond to such questions quickly, generally within 48 hours.
Once each quarter, the EDUCAUSE Vice President of Data, Research, and Analytics convenes the Issues Panel for approximately two hours. In advance of each quarterly session, EDUCAUSE asks Issues Panel members to identify the issues they believe are most important in higher-education IT practice at that point, emergent or otherwise significant. During the meeting, Issues Panel members and participating EDUCAUSE leaders discuss the issues members have listed, and agree on which seem most important. The resulting list then becomes available to the public on a web page.
Based on the quarterly discussions, EDUCAUSE may commission papers or reports, organize online webinars, conduct case studies, undertake research, or solicit relevant sessions for EDUCAUSE conferences and events. Once a year, EDUCAUSE staff review the Issues Panel's discussion of issues over the past year, and draft a Current Issues Report for review and commentary by the Issues Panel and then widespread dissemination.
