Higher Ed Tech Trends

Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 03:54PM
williamgarrity in Future, HigherEd

"6 Higher Ed Tech Trends To Watch in 2013," by Bridget McCrea in Campus Technology -- 

Here are six areas that every IT pro in higher education should keep an eye on during the coming year.

With every corner of the higher education space impacted by technology in one way or another, keeping up with the latest and greatest products, tools, applications, and equipment is no easy feat. To help, Campus Technology picked the brains of several university CIOs to get their take on the key IT trends that will take hold in higher education during the coming year. Here are six important areas that IT professionals in the space should keep an eye on in 2013. 

See the link for details -- the six trends are  

1. More sophisticated use of big data. 
2. More agile change via technology -- for example, more real-time curricular change based on student performance. 
3. BYOD killing campus networks. Everyone has multiple gadgets, and they're all using the network. 
4. Device-agnostic campus computing -- for example, deploy virtual desktops. 
5. Mobile apps. 
6. Social media. 

Compliments to this piece at the "Future" tag. 

 

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