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- The Role of IT in Campus Sustainability Efforts
- As the impact of worldwide carbon emissions comes into sharper focus, college and university sustainability efforts are increasingly turning green, focusing on ways to use resources more efficiently, consume less, and reduce campus carbon footprints. Yet, despite the direct impact of IT on institutional carbon levels and the potential for...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The Role of IT in Campus Security and Emergency Management
- Vulnerabilities on the campuses of nation's colleges and universities have come into sharp focus in recent years, dominating headlines with what seems like increasing frequency and greater consequence. Brought together by a common purpose to explore proactive approaches to emergency management and a desire to learn about emerging technologies on...
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Disaster Recovery: A Multi-Institutional Collaboration at the University of California System
- The joint UCOP-UCSD project has been a win-win for the two locations and for the UC system as a whole. It created a model for a cost-effective, internal DR solution that addresses UCOP's and UCSD's immediate needs and provides a model from which other UC campuses can benefit. The rules...
- White papers 2007-10-03
- The Myth About Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- On most campuses, central systems that manage functions like payroll, human resources, development, and registration are backed up every night. So are course management systems, mail servers, and other key systems that run the campus IT infrastructure. Having well-managed processes that include full and incremental backups of data and that...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Wireless Networking
- It is believed that wireless networking will change our campuses. Today, there are already several campuses with fully developed wireless infrastructures and many more campuses with significant and growing wireless networks. Wireless networking is evolving. This paper will give a snapshot of the situation, particularly as it applies to universities,...
- White papers 2001-10-05
- The Data Warehouse: 2 Years Later... Lessons Learned
- A data warehouse is often the first client/server application that institutions attempt. Some of those lessons include: learning new technologies, understanding warehousing concepts, integrating data, designing the warehouse, marketing the idea, finding resources, establishing "officialness" of data, evaluating impact on Data Administration, defining data, making a production system, prioritizing...
- White papers 1994-12-02
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- News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Moodlerooms announces joule platform at EDUCAUSE
- Moodlerooms announced today that many of the features that users either built themselves or found via third parties for Moodle are integrated into the company's new joule platform. by Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Deluxe Service on a Lean Budget: Lower Costs While Raising the Bar on Your Institution's Performance
- Recent issues of Campus Technology, University Business, and the Educause Review sport prominent articles about doing more with less. The Educause association's current issues committee put "Funding IT" in first place on its 2009 Top-Ten Issues list, a spot it's held six times in ten years. It's no wonder: declining...
- White papers 2009-09-14
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P
- Although George Bush is expected to sign the Higher Education Act, reauthorized by both the House and Senate, provisions requiring academic institutions to police peer-to-peer traffic on campus has many colleges nervous. According to Ars Technica, the act does not contain any penalties for colleges that don't prevent copyright...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Follow up on .edu blogs
- Last week, I posted a blog on the Pickering Institute's efforts to sell blogs with a .edu top level domain ("Shut down pi.edu"). Yesterday, Ars Technica posted a new article with some updates and additional information on the demise of the $50 .edu blogs. As the Ars article...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- College Opportunity and Affordability Act passes...Napster anyone?
- The College Opportunity and Affordability Act is a largely benign bill passed by the US House of Representatives Thursday that funds student financial aid, among many other pieces of higher education in the States. As Ars Technica points out, though, COAA makes a host of...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Schools self-policing P2P just fine
- Ars Technica featured a great piece on informal research conducted at Brandeis University on college efforts to address copyright and file-sharing issues. As IT administrators at Brandeis were developing their own set of policies related to this issue, they surveyed 79 members of the RESNET-L and Educause SECURITY mailing...
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Rich Internet applications in education
- I just got back from speaking at Educause, the big education conference that is being held in Seattle this year. I came from the .edu background so I'm familiar with the issues and adoption of RIAs in the vertical. This year they seem to have taken on even greater significance...
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Leaving Education IT to clueless politicians
- Well, theyre at it again! The proposed new law is called "The Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act of 2007 (H.R. 1689)" and it would provide Department of Education funding for anti-piracy software. (See Bill would free colleges to buy anti-piracy software.) Sound good? Well,...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Report: Despite risks, school must embrace online communities
- Public schools in the U.S., traditionally under-funded and slow to embrace innovative ideas, will be facing particular challenges as emerging technologies play a larger role in students lives, reports eSchool News. The "Horizon Report" recently issued by the New Media Consortium and the nonprofit group Educause, predicts that...
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Blackboard promised not to sue universities
- Blackboard Inc., the makers of proprietary software for "e-learning" systems is backing down from prosecuting patents against users of open source online classroom technology, reports Linux Insider. Blackboard promised to make a legally binding promise not to sue universities. There is one caveat, however. Blackboard may litigate against universities...
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Cal State will soon demand technological literacy
- California State Universities have writing and English language proficiency tests, and soon they will have a technological literacy test. Inside Higher Ed reports that many students, despite their comfort with all things Internet and iPod, may not have the necessary skills to operate successfully in the ever-changing information landscape. ...
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
- Surveys 101: Guarantee privacy when asking about illegal activity
- The Government Accountability Office was asked by Congress recently to send out a survey investigating illegal file sharing on colleges campuses. Unfortunately, the survey did not guarantee anonymity and colleges probably aren't lining up to take the survey, reports Inside Higher Ed. The questionaire was sent out to more...
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Should universites change teaching to accomodate a generation raised on mobile technology?
- The professor was teaching in a computer lab and saw one of his students sending e-mail messages to someone during the lecture. The professor told him to pay attention. "I'm listening," the student said. "Well, I would like you to turn and look at me," the...
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
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