Managing Identity in Higher Ed = Fewer Breaches? Part 2
Read this two-part blog series to explore the evolving data breach landscape in higher education and the crucial role that “people security,” or managing identities and access rights, occupies. Last week, we explored the extreme vulnerability higher education institutions face to data breaches, led by stolen credentials. Vendors like SecureAuth caution higher education institutions to […]
Managing Identity in Higher Ed = Fewer Breaches? Part 1
Read this two-part blog series to explore the evolving data breach landscape in higher education and the crucial role that “people security,” or managing identities and access rights, occupies. In December 2017, Ed Tech Magazine published an article entitled “Education Sector Data Breaches Skyrocket in 2017.” If you missed it, you can find it here. […]
Success in Higher Ed Security Requires Collaboration
Security is hard. Any security practitioner will tell you that, although almost everyone will have a different reason why. Some will say a lack of budget, while others will cite people resources. A few say a lack of respect for the cybersecurity role, or where it is placed in the org chart. You will also […]
Artificial Intelligence: Transforming the Nature of Work, Learning, and Learning to Work
It’s hard to make a case for the “sudden” development of something that has been a formal topic of research for more than 60 years. Attending presentations on Artificial Intelligence (AI) at three recent conferences and following that up with extensive reading does, however, suggest that all of us engaged in teaching-training-learning need to be […]
An Unlikely Couple—The Moodle/Blackboard Divorce
As Blackboard struggles to retain learning management system (LMS) market share, steadily losing customers to Instructure Canvas and D2L Brightspace, Moodle announced on July 27th that their partnership with the LMS giant Blackboard was coming to an end after six years. In their press release, Martin Dougiamas, CEO and Founder of Moodle, stated, “While we […]
Does the Vendor Notebook Count?
When the Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium’s institutions joined together to revamp their administrative systems, outsiders were watching—and waiting for them to select Workday. After all, Champlain already had Workday HCM, and Middlebury fit the profile of so many other liberal arts institutions that were selecting Workday for HCM, finance, and student. The process appeared […]
The End of the Student Information System Era
Are you working at an institution that is involved in an evaluation to replace your legacy student information system (SIS)? If so, you are probably noticing the “student system” nomenclature shift. Modern SaaS cloud vendors are no longer referring to student software solutions as student information systems and have since rebranded them as “student systems.” […]
ERP Replacement and The Apps Ecosystem
If you are replacing your ERP, related systems quickly come up for replacement as well. Should you isolate the change or “clean house?” Replacing major systems brings high anxiety to a campus. This anxiety is spawned from concerns about spending vast amounts of money, bringing such a major change to the constituents of your institution, […]
Demographic Shifts in Higher Education: The Impact on Teaching and Learning
In my Learning Management System (LMS) Whitepaper, From Portal to Platform, I describe how trends in technology such as the shifts to more online and mobile learning opportunities have helped shape the LMS of today. Parallel to these technology developments are changing demographics and new expectations for a growing body of nontraditional learners. In this […]
Student Cloud Anxiety: Is Your Institution Impacted?
Analysts at Tambellini speak with higher education CIOs every day, and some interesting conversational threads weave throughout the calls. You may even choose to call them “viral trends.” One of those trends includes regular questions about Oracle Student Cloud versus Workday Cloud and whether or not either solution is “real.” The cloud showdown between Oracle […]
