September is a busy month for everyone in Higher Ed, especially those in the IT department. Now that the fall semester is underway and everyone is settling back into their routines, it’s a good time to look at what you might have missed from the greater Higher Ed IT community. Let us save you time out of your busy schedule with our list of the must-read Higher Ed IT articles from this past month.
The Cloud’s Impact on Budget Strategies
The adoption of cloud solutions may seem nearly ubiquitous in Higher Ed, but some smaller institutions have been slow to migrate at least in part because of a variety of budget and infrastructure-related complications. J. Keith Fowlkes, the CIO of Centre College, and John Rathje, the CIO of University of Arkansas at Little Rock, explain how their institutions go about evaluating cloud-based solutions and how they navigate around the problems of integration and budgeting. Learn more about how cloud implementations can affect universities’ budget strategies with Educause Review’s full article.
Diversity & Technology in Higher Ed
Higher Ed’s average student population is becoming increasingly more diverse. Black, Hispanic, and Asian student enrollment is expected to rise, as well as the average age of students, which poses challenges for university IT departments in how they correctly engage with and adapt to the needs of their new students. Learn more about how IT can adapt to an evolving user base in EdTech Magazine’s full article.
Change Management Best Practices
While change management applies to much more than just Higher Ed IT, proper change management is essential to running a successful IT department. eCampus News has brought together six experts to explore what it means to manage change and share their best practices to ensure successful change management in Higher Ed. Learn more about what they had to say in eCampus News’ full article.
The Future of Collaboration Spaces
A learning environment is more than just the sum of a university’s’ policies, pedagogical strategies and campus culture; the physical space of a classroom and the technology utilized within that space affect the quality of a student’s learning environment as well. The potential that mobile devices and audio visual technologies present for enhanced learning spaces should not be ignored. Learn more about collaboration spaces in Campus Technology’s full article.
Navigating Budgets & Relationships as CIO
Budget restraints are one of Higher Ed IT’s top issues in 2016, according to Educause’ annual report. Often, CIO’s need to present IT initiatives as business cases in order to properly navigate their budgets, but many find that expressing the value that IT may present for users is a more effective way to greenlight projects. Learn more about other CIO’s experiences with navigating tight budgets in CIO Dive’s full article.
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