September, 2006

The Edutech Report - September, 2006 - Full Issue PDF
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Catching Up On Lagging and Emerging Needs
By Thomas Warger
There seems to be a constant residue of IT issues that fall below the threshold of hot topics. Some of these do not even appear very often in Listserv queries. Yet they lurk on every campus and do have an important effect on the quality of IT services, and frequently on the perceptions held by the user community.

Quotes of the month
differences between online and F2F courses; methods of obtaining data

Newsbriefs
Farewell to a Good Friend; Educause Honors Outstanding Leaders in Higher Ed IT

CIO Leadership Series: When Budget Trumps Mission
By Linda Fleit
Creating a mission statement for the IT department has been a popular exercise the past few years in higher education. Virtually without exception, these mission statements contain language affirming the department’s role in supporting the institution’s goals and objectives and explicitly stating that service to the institution is paramount. However, along with this near-universal recognition of the importance of IT as a service organization, almost every higher-ed IT department has had budget difficulties. Sadly, of course, the item that takes the biggest hit when IT budgets are under pressure is service.

Edutech Responds
Nonfunctioning network drops, student IT work force, commercial ERP