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Higher-ed must not accept "good enough": In recent years Education IT (especially K-12 Ed Tech) has faced flat or shrinking budgets while schools have struggled with NCLB, unfunded mandates, and uninformed administrators unwilling to challenge citizen school boards with even less knowledge about the needs of educators in the twenty-first century. At the root of this...; Tags: Faculty, Tool, Productivity, Marc Wagner; Blog posts 2007-11-25
Giving students (and faculty) the tools they will use: Last Spring, I wrote Giving educators the tools that they want and need and now I think it is time for a bit of a refresher. That original article was about engaging faculty and students in the deliberations of Education IT. But as I look back on that piece I see...; Tags: Information Technology, Student, Faculty, Tool, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Marc Wagner; Blog posts 2007-11-12
You brought them along, kicking and screaming ... now what?: If you've been supporting faculty in a university IT setting for any time at all, you've found it necessary to drag some of them, kicking and screaming, into the information age while others have been on the leading edge (some would say 'bleeding edge') from the start, always challenging you and...; Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, Higher Ed, Information Systems; Blog posts 2007-06-18
When faculty say 'NO' to UNIX/Linux: Well, sooner or later, it was bound to happen. We are in the process of retiring our last two instructional UNIX/Linux labs. And guess what? Nobody seems to care! In fact, the faculty who have been using those labs for instruction have asked us to give...; Tags: Open Source, K-12, Higher Ed, Education Technology, Classroom Tech; Blog posts 2007-05-08
School's out (or almost out) ... time to go to work!: In K-12, Education IT will soon have a couple of months off before planning for fall begins. Not so for colleges and universities. Overall better funding means that university IT departments often have some year-end money left over. If not, July 1 marks the beginning of a...; Tags: Education Technology; Blog posts 2007-04-29

Do we really need those new printers?: This morning my colleague, Chris Dawson, wrote a rather amusing piece entitled "But my printer is out of ink…". Its kind of a twenty-first century version of the kinds of excuses kids use for not getting their assignments done. It brought to mind a piece I wrote last...; Tags: Education Technology; Blog posts 2007-04-16
What they want, what they need: Education IT has come a long way since the first personal computers appeared on the scene. People forget that the IBM PC wasn't the first personal computer available to the general public -- not even close! The Apple II pre-dated the IBM PC by four years and was just one of several available...; Tags: Ed Tech, faculty; Blog posts 2006-11-01
Buy a server, save a tree: If you work in higher-ed, or even high-school Ed-Tech, your printing budget may already be under assault and your faculty and students screaming at you to buy one more printer to handle the extra printing volume that hits you at the beginning of every semester. Well don't buy that...; Tags: faculty, printer; Blog posts 2006-09-04
Help for adjunct faculty: Adjunct faculty often get hired at the last minute and have to somehow pull together lesson plans at the last minute. A new website has been recently launched to assist with classroom preparation, reports Inside Higher Ed. AdjunctImpact, a classroom preparation program for adjuncts, provides assistance with everything from what...; Tags: faculty, adjunct; Blog posts 2006-06-13
For freshmen at U.Penn, blogs are recommended writing: Members of the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts and Sciences class of 2010 will be receiving more than a tour of the campus this year. They'll be asked to fill out their own personal "academic blog" questionnaire, reports Inside Higher Ed. The online journal entries will focus on students'...; Tags: blog; Blog posts 2006-06-12
Protecting copyright in an academic environment: Since its inception, copyright law has always recognized a certain amount of flexibility not only for purposes of teaching but also for purposes of comment and criticism and for news reporting. Since the 1970's, a "fair use" doctrine has been codified into U.S. Copyright law to include not only reproduction...; Tags: reproduction; Blog posts 2006-02-27
Recruitment and Development of Online Adjunct Instructors: Adjunct faculty is used heavily in the community college setting. Community colleges are market-sensitive, and strive to serve the community. With the advent of distance learning, community colleges now serve a global community. Distance learning managers will frequently recruit faculty from the institutional full time faculty pool. However, with recent...; Tags: University Of West Georgia, Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; White papers
Distance Education: Facing the Faculty Challenge: For a variety of reasons, faculty resist efforts to force them into distance learning. They resist individually or as a whole, often seeking the guidance of union representatives. While individual faculty members may have individual reasons to resist participating in the latest wave of distance education, there are several reasons...; Tags: Distance Education, University Of West Georgia, Faculty, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
Danish Engineering Students Gain Competitive Edge With Industry-Standard ERP Tools: The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark is based on multiple sites. It caters for 2,200 students, more than 300 of whom are from overseas. Teaching is in Danish and English. The faculty is committed to ensuring its graduates are equipped to work in real-world settings. It...; Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Corp., Faculty, Service Management, Business Structures, Productivity, Strategy, Finance, Management; Case studies

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Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week: During Microsoft's annual Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, the company will finally show off semi-publicly the spherical Surface computer that has been rumored for the past few months. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Multi-touch, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Virtualization in Education: When it comes to desktop computing in Education, flexibility is key. Availability of computers in classrooms, offices, labs, dorm rooms, and throughout campus is expected. Students, faculty and staff want to be able to access their own data, securely, from all of these locations. This white paper discusses how virtualization...; Tags: Education, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2008-07-14
Colgate University Students Connect Anywhere, Anytime on Campus or Around Town: Colgate, one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the country wanted to provide students and faculty with wireless access for a range of mobile devices both on and off campus and reliable solution in harsh, cold environments. As a solution the outdoor wireless network was constructed using Tropos MetroMesh...; Tags: Colgate University, Tropos Networks, Wi-Fi, Wireless; Case studies 2008-07-01
U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in future: U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in futureIn other news...IBM, AMD, Intel, Boeing..announce job cutsThese "shortage of engineer" articles are starting to smell fishy when balanced against job cuts and outsourcing news from the same companies that complain about shortages.Why not just cut...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Brother-In-Law, U.S. tech sector job, sector job, U.S. Tech, job, strong growth, H1B; Discussion threads 2008-06-26
Stanford University data breach leaks sensitive information of approximately 62,000 employees: A data breach resulting from a stolen laptop has leaked sensitive information including Social Security Numbers of approximately 62,000 as reported by Stanford University former and current Standford University employees. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a site devoted to the collection of data breach information, reports this number as 72,000, and I'm...; Tags: Sensitive Information, Stanford University, Data, Information, Stanford, Laptop Computer, Kroll, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-06-23
The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?: The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?Netbooks and SmartphonesThose keyboards on the smartphones are just too small for me to use effectively. I'll take a netbook and a cheap cellphone.RE: The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tI still see netbooks and smartphones as...; Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Notebooks, Handhelds, Netbooks, Laptop cannibalization, cannibalization, Smartphone, laptop computer; Discussion threads 2008-06-03