Education Consulting

NACUBO Annual Meeting Tampa, July 9–12, 2011 The Call for Presentations is now open! You’re invited!  Here is your chance to submit a proposal to present new approaches relevant to business officers at colleges and universities. This is an opportunity for you to showcase your solutions, strategies, and initiate provocative discussions to 1,500 business officers. NACUBO’s 2011 Annual [...]

Today, Barnes & Noble announced its next move, launching NookStudy, a software solution that gives students access to eTextbooks and other digital content and organizational tools for learning. The company also launched a textbook rental service. Barnes & Noble claims it is now the first and only major online retailer giving college students textbooks in new, used, rental, and digital formats.

LinkedIn Stephen Gilfus has sent you a message. Date: 8/03/2010 Subject: LinkedIn Group: Gilfus Education Group I am a member of this group, and I think you would enjoy it too. -Stephen  Go to Group

—– In an effort to track the eTextbook marketplace the Gilfus education Group will be providing continuous updates -—— Barnes & Noble announces NOOKstudy eTextbook college program Regular readers know that the Barnes & Noble Nook is my preferred ebook reader device for a number of reasons I have written about in various articles. One [...]

Why Peak Performance Technologies Our firm was founded on the vision of helping public sector customers accomplish their most significant institutional goals through teamwork, leadership, and modern project management. Today, Peak Performance Technologies is in our third year of providing services and support to Public Sector and Higher Education institutions in a number of strategic [...]

Academic Analytics is the term for business intelligence used in an academic setting. There is an increasing distinction made between academic analytics and traditional BI because of the unique type of information that university administrators require for decision making. – Wikipedia Why Academic Analytics By leveraging technology, skills, and process improvements to bring data and [...]

Research Planning and Review Committee The ACRL Research, Planning and Review Committee, a component of the Research Coordinating Committee, is responsible for creating and updating a continuous and dynamic environmental scan for the association that encompasses trends in academic librarianship, higher education, and the broader environment. As a part of this effort, the committee develops [...]

By Tony Bates, on June 28th, 2010 It’s funny how reports on the same issue arrive from completely different directions. These four all deal with the issue of innovation and higher education. Baker, S. (2010) Hefce gives out extra places and takes back £20m from teaching funds Times Higher Education, June 25 Calhoun, T. (2010) [...]

Learn. Share. Connect. Integrated Leadership for a New Reality is the theme of the Society for College and University Plannings 45th annual, international conference and idea marketplace—an event where great minds come together to share best practices in integrated planning. In these challenging times, higher education leaders need to draw upon the best thinking of [...]

More sophisticated educational dashboards may contain complimentary operational management and governance functionality as well, aiding in compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act as well as other federal, local, and state mandates—from facilities management to attendance tracking. As education becomes more progressive, the lines between student management and school management are becoming blurred, creating [...]

You’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger advocate of dashboards in higher education than Arizona State University’s John Rome. Like many academic institutions ASU already had a load of data around campus. It simply needed a way to make it valuable to various constituents. ASU needed a flexible development tool and design principles to put the icing on the cake. John chose a dashboard tool which enabled his team to create education dashboards quickly by pulling academic analytics data from any system, including the data warehouse.

The Public Forum on Action Analytics and the Action Analytics Community of Practice are now available to higher education institutions and technology vendors worldwide via edu1world.org. Funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities to support the Action Analytics Education Partnership (AAEP), these online communities [...]