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Lee Badman
When Colleges Use Twitter As Help Desk
Education IT leaders, your users are turning to Twitter to complain about the campus network and IT services. Are you responding effectively?
John Barnes
As IQs Fall, Can Gamification Help?
Have years of abstract testing robbed us of our ability to use common sense? We might regain our practical thinking skills via an unlikely avenue:...
Keith Fowlkes
Why Young IT Pros Should Consider Higher Ed
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
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
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
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
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?
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
Now more than ever, a higher education CIO's job hinges on both surviving the academic politics of the institution and mastering bleeding-edge...
Michael Goul
Boosting The ROI Of Your IT Degree
A technology-focused master's degree can be the key to a better job.
David Carr
Edmodo: Social Collaboration For Teachers
Edmodo's rapidly growing network of teachers, students and education technology publishers are helping it develop into a free learning management...
David Carr
Hope Battles Fear Over Student Data Integration
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
Yale University's CIO discusses his career path, disruptive forces in education technology and more.
Keith Fowlkes
Can Colleges Tame The Bandwidth Monster?
Not likely. But OpenFlow and other new networking technologies provide some hope.
Cameron Evans
Big Data's Opportunities, Responsibilities For Education
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
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?
Massive open online courses can evolve into a phenomenal educational asset, but they're not the best educational method for most students coming...
Doug Henschen
To Avoid Nasty Surprises, Higher Ed Turns To Prediction
Colleges are turning to predictive analytics for a variety of uses.
Rob Preston
InformationWeek Education: Your New Guide To Higher Education IT
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
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
How can universities help meet the growing demand for data scientists? Consider this advice from a professor working in the trenches with...
Eric Lundquist
5 Items Should Top Obama's Technology Agenda
From infrastructure to tech education, here's what I want to see on the to-do list for the next four years.
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