Faced with a conundrum, my son came to me the other day asking for help. He was attempting to register for spring semester classes, but because of a missing prerequisite, he wasn’t able to register for the math class he intended to take. Neither one …
Education
The Impact of SaaS on Education
There are several industries with a well-deserved reputation for being behind the times when it comes to technology and customer service. Higher education is chief among them. Recently, a friend of mine was telling me about his experience trying to get his transcripts from his …
What Can Cloud Infrastructure Do for Higher Education, Part 2
A college degree is more important than it’s ever been, which is why it’s not surprising that college and university enrollment continues to hover at near record levels. According to the Department of Education, a third of all 25-64 year olds in the U.S. have …
What Can Cloud Infrastructure Do for Higher Education, Part 1
The Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud technology continue to transform and improve asset and action visibility and organizational efficiency across the globe. Every industry from finance and transportation, to healthcare and education is applying and benefiting from cloud infrastructure.
According to the latest survey from …
Microsoft’s Bing for Schools: Bringing Digital Literacy Front and Center
I was intrigued to learn that over the summer, Microsoft launched “Bing for Schools,” a program designed to not only put technology into the hands of students and teachers, but to also provide lessons aligned with the Common Core State Standards for digital literacy.
First, a …
Can Collections (and Higher Learning) Keep Pace with Student Loan Debt?
While the “Great Recession” is slowly fading from memory for many of us, recent college graduates still have a monthly reminder of it in the form of student loan payments.
The current student loan debt is further intensified by lingering unemployment rates. According to statistics from …
Data Rich but Decision Making Poor? School Information System Essentials
You may be sitting on a pile of data – could be very useful data if only it was a.) easy to retrieve, b.) accurate and reliable, c.) searchable in a variety of ways and d.) quickly formatted into customized reports. If you have this …
Learning by Doing: Technology in the Flipped Classroom
Educators are familiar with the hierarchy or pyramid of learning in which if you read about a topic, you will retain 10% of what you have read; if you participate in a discussion, your retention rate increases to 50%; if you practice what you have …
Social Media as a Teaching Tool
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, FourSquare, Pinterest – it seems that every day a new form of “social media” appears on the web. Just what is social media and can you really use it in the classroom?
Social media is how people throughout the world communicate and share …
The Benefits of Cloud Computing in Education are Huge!
There was a time when, to use files (word processing files, spreadsheets, etc.) on different computers, you needed to save your files on a thumb drive or CD-ROM disk. The drive or disk then traveled around with you so that you could load your information …