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7 Things You Should Know About the Evolution of Teaching and Learning Professions
For this issue of the 7 Things, we asked a set of seven community leaders—who come from different walks of life in the community—to offer a short meditation on the evolution of the profession.
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SOURCE: Educause
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EDUCAUSE Core Data Service 2016 Almanacs
These two-page, easy-to-scan summaries distill CDS data in a variety of categories that include IT financials, staffing, and services, and many other service areas.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Higher Education IT Governance Checklist
IT governance is an essential organizational process that allows an organization to successfully realize its IT strategy. Establishing a higher education institutional IT governance program doesn’t have to be cumbersome, but the importance of thoughtful design should not be underestimated. This document provides a high-level checklist of the items to consider when creating an IT governance program.
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SOURCE: Educause
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7 Things You Should Read About Adaptive Learning
Adaptive learning has been hailed as one possible approach to bringing personalized, highly targeted education to large numbers of learners through various IT systems and tools. The term adaptive learning can refer to different things, and the resources below present a range of perspectives on the topic, as well as obstacles, opportunities, and predictions.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devices and In the Cloud
The U.S. government reported a five-fold increase in the number of electronic media searches at the border in a single year, from 4,764 in 2015 to 23,877 in 2016.1 Every one of those searches was a potential privacy violation.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Considerations for Research Data Sharing Setting the Stage for Greater Openness
In this paper we explore some of the topics that institutions and researchers should consider as they encourage and enable research data sharing.
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SOURCE: Educause
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IT Leadership in Higher Education, 2016: The Chief Information Officer
This report analyzes the skills needed to prepare for and fulfill functional roles, and is intended for aspirants, those in the roles now, and their IT managers and leaders.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Predictive Analytics in Higher Education: Five Guiding Practices for Ethical Use
Using data ethically is complex, and no magic formula exists. This ethical framework is meant to start conversations on campus. It cannot address all possible issues surrounding the use—and potential abuse—of institutional data.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Higher Education’s Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2017 Report
This 2017 report investigates strategic technologies for higher education. In this research, technologies are strategic based on the time, active attention, and priority granted to them at a given time.
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SOURCE: Educause
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Searching for a Smoking Gun, Chasing a Silver Bullet: Data Breaches in Higher Education
The EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) published its first look at data breaches in higher education in 2014. Our current research looks at whether any factors increase or decrease the likelihood of a higher education data breach. Is there a smoking gun, something found in every higher education data breach? And, conversely, is there a silver bullet—a control or controls that higher education institutions can employ to prevent data breaches?
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SOURCE: Educause
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