• Report on Info Tech trends in Higher Ed

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    For the seventh year Educause has conducted a survey on IT trends in higher educational institutions.  This year’s report is out, and a couple of things caught my eye:

    • We are cautioned not to succumb to a temptation to use the report to “keep up with the Joneses”  and use the report as a justification that more IT is better IT.  Rather the focus needs to be on evaluating effective outcomes of technology investment, such as enabling better research or making administrative systems less expensive to operate.  “..there is a clear and pressing need for higher education to focus on outcome goals…”
    • The number of institutions considering the discontinuation of student email accounts has risen sharply in 2008, up to 22% in the doctoral group.
    • The use of open source course management systems is up over 30% in the BA-level group.  Use of these systems use by faculty is highest in the associate and doctoral-level groups, at just under 40% of all faculty.

    There is a wealth of other data in there, covering everything from the title of the top technology person, to staffing levels, to the number of computers per student FTE.  Plenty of good stuff for those who care about this kind of thing!

    The Wired Campus – Are College E-Mail Addresses on the Way Out? – The Chronicle of Higher Education

    If the last four years are any indication, college-student e-mail addresses may soon be a thing of the past.

    EDUCAUSE – Core Data Survey

    EDUCAUSE Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2008 Summary Report summarizes much of the data collected through the 2008 EDUCAUSE core data survey about campus information technology (IT) environments at colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad.

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    In my day job I serve as Information Technology Director for the Yale School of Drama. Otherwise I garden, play guitar, build stuff out of wood, take photos, play around with technology and have been blogging since 2003.

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