Archive for March, 2010

By Prof. Hacker [This is a guest post by David Parry, assistant professor of emerging media and communications at UT-Dallas, who last posted here on the iPad.  Next week, Derek Bruff returns with a use case for WordPress as a Learning Management System.--JBJ] Given that I do so much stuff online for my classes, other [...]

Join Datatel Chief Client Officer Liz Murphy on Tuesday, May 18 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EST) for an engaging discussion about the future of higher education’s technologies — The Enterprise Education Platform. By merging administrative and academic systems, you can decrease the redundancy of data, eliminate unnecessary technology expenditures, and see a unique view of a student’s complete educational experience from recruitment to endowment.

Think about what your business is today. Write down your top 10 keywords that you think define who you are. Go in all the different search engines. Put it in and see what comes up. Go in yahoo groups and see what comes up; and then, just join whatever you can and in a crazy, very extrovert – thankfully, it’s the internet so we can be introverts and do this; just start talking and putting in and building a presence; because, as people enjoy what you’re talking about within those communities they will, in many cases, be curious and follow you to the mothership if you will. You need to reach out. You need to put tentacles out, because there is no way — otherwise, the mothership stands alone without a sign. And if you’re just a website on the internet, then that’s it. You don’t exist, yeah.

Why Education Dashboards are becoming essential in Higher Education Most educational institutions have had some sort of visual reporting tool in use for about the last 10 years. Different departments have relied on these visual reports to consolidate and view their data. Institutions that had the foresight to develop a tool internally were especially ahead [...]