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Keith Fowlkes
Why Young IT Pros Should Consider Higher Ed
May 23, 2013 09:06 AM
In the battle for tech talent, small colleges and universities have a lot to offer Gen Xers and Millennials.
Ellis Booker
Art And Computer Literacy Overcome Challenges At NYC School
May 22, 2013 12:56 PM
Many of its students are disadvantaged and living in temporary housing, but this New York City school’s computer lab is making strides.
John Barnes
Problem Of Math Educational Software Needs Solution
May 20, 2013 09:05 AM
Math instructional software has failed to teach students how to choose the best strategies to solve numbers problems. Why is that the case?
David Carr
Ed Tech, Privatization And Plunder
May 17, 2013 09:44 AM
All the reasons to be suspicious of the political-industrial conspiracy against public education and public universities.
John Barnes
The 2 Faces Of IT In Education
May 14, 2013 09:06 AM
Why IT is still more for classroom logistics than for instruction (no stupidity or wickedness required).
Wayne Brown
Where Do Higher Education CIOs Come From?
May 10, 2013 09:06 AM
Higher ed technology leaders are still most commonly hired from within academia. Take a look at some interesting demographics.
David Carr
Higher Ed CIOs Can't Ignore MOOCs Or Politics
April 30, 2013 09:11 AM
Now more than ever, a higher education CIO's job hinges on both surviving the academic politics of the institution and mastering bleeding-edge technologies.
Michael Goul
Boosting The ROI Of Your IT Degree
April 19, 2013 09:06 AM
A technology-focused master's degree can be the key to a better job.
David Carr
Edmodo: Social Collaboration For Teachers
April 09, 2013 11:37 AM
Edmodo's rapidly growing network of teachers, students and education technology publishers are helping it develop into a free learning management system.
David Carr
Hope Battles Fear Over Student Data Integration
March 26, 2013 03:06 PM
Education data might accomplish more to improve learning if we can overcome concerns about its potential misuse.
Michael Fitzgerald
Education CIO Profile: Yale's Len Peters
March 14, 2013 01:53 PM
Yale University's CIO discusses his career path, disruptive forces in education technology and more.
Keith Fowlkes
Can Colleges Tame The Bandwidth Monster?
March 13, 2013 10:45 AM
Not likely. But OpenFlow and other new networking technologies provide some hope.
Cameron Evans
Big Data's Opportunities, Responsibilities For Education
February 21, 2013 03:25 PM
Microsoft's CTO for U.S. Education outlines what he believes technology companies must do to protect students.
David Carr
The Education Lab Inside My House
February 12, 2013 09:15 AM
As the father of virtual school students, I see both the promise and the challenges of online education.
Keith Fowlkes
MOOCs: Valuable Innovation Or Grand Diversion?
February 05, 2013 11:22 AM
Massive open online courses can evolve into a phenomenal educational asset, but they're not the best educational method for most students coming out of high school.
Doug Henschen
To Avoid Nasty Surprises, Higher Ed Turns To Prediction
January 28, 2013 08:00 AM
Colleges are turning to predictive analytics for a variety of uses.
Rob Preston
InformationWeek Education: Your New Guide To Higher Education IT
January 09, 2013 12:30 PM
Even if higher education is an industry and calling like no other, it must grow and evolve with its tech-literate clientele. Or it will whither.
Keith Fowlkes
Why Tablets Will Kill Smart Boards In Classrooms
January 09, 2013 12:21 PM
Tablet computing opens a whole new world to faculty and students, a world that's within reach financially.
Jennifer Priestley
Big Data Education: 3 Steps Universities Must Take
November 15, 2012 09:06 AM
How can universities help meet the growing demand for data scientists? Consider this advice from a professor working in the trenches with tomorrow's analytics pros.
Eric Lundquist
5 Items Should Top Obama's Technology Agenda
November 07, 2012 10:18 AM
From infrastructure to tech education, here's what I want to see on the to-do list for the next four years.