Category Archives: information technology

ECAR Bulletin on Collective Wisdom on E-Mail Outsourcing

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This ECAR research bulletin covers experiences and lessons learned from 10 IT leaders who have transitioned their institutions to an outsourced e-mail solution. It provides data from the 2009 ECAR study, Alternative IT Sourcing Strategies: From the Campus to the Cloud, by Philip J. Goldstein, as well as from interviews with 10 information technology leaders [...]

New Directions in Federation

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Federation technology has become a very important connective technology that enables efficient distributed identity management (IdM) and enhanced convenience for users. The trend toward outsourced applications and more collaboration between business partners strains the capabilities of traditional IdM technologies. The industry is responding to growing demands by offering federation in a range of delivery models [...]

JISC TechWatch: New report on low carbon computing is published

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TechWatch is pleased to announce the publication of its latest report, Low carbon computing: a view to 2050 and beyond. The report looks at short-term technology ‘quick fixes’ based on simple staff actions and/ or low cost investment as well as longer term solutions that either represent a more costly investment, or are based on [...]

Privacy and Confidentiality: Holding IT Service Providers Accountable

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This ECAR research bulletin addresses the data privacy issues that must be covered by contractual language when entering into an agreement for externally provided IT services or for external consulting about institutional systems. It covers instances in which external agents have access to data that is considered confidential and/or where data can be linked [...]

ECAR Publishes 2009 Study of Students and IT

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Since 2004, the annual ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology has sought to shed light on how information technology affects the college experience. We ask students about the technology they own and how they use it in and out of their academic world. We gather information about how skilled students believe they are [...]

EDUCAUSE Quarterly v32 no3, 2009

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contents include:
Greening Technology in U.K. Higher Education; by Rob Bristow with Mark Samuels
Green Desktop Computing at the University of Oxford; by Howard Noble, Daniel Curtis, and Kang Tang
Powering Down From the Bottom Up: Greener Client Computing; by Tom O’Donnell
Bottom Up and Top Down: Making IT a Key Part of the Campus Sustainability Effort; by Dennis [...]

Victorian universities combine for cloud play

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Universities pull apart data centres to consolidate at Fujitsu park.
Three Victorian universities plan to disassemble their internal data centres and consolidate their compute power in a new facility in Melbourne’s South East.
Monash University, RMIT (The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and the University of Melbourne have signed a multi-million dollar deal with Fujitsu for ten [...]

Impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services

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The main focus of this research was to assess the impact of the economic downturn on university library and IT services. We conducted 40 interviews with representatives of each of these services in 36 different institutions across the UK.

SubjectsPlus — New Version

Hello, all. With all the recent list chatter about LibGuides, I thought I’d mention that there is a new version (0.9) of SubjectsPlus
available:
 http://www.subjectsplus.com/
SubjectsPlus is a free and open source tool to help you manage several interrelated parts of your website, including your subject guides.
Version 0.9 is a significant improvement (hopefully) over version 0.8, with [...]

Horizon Report: 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition

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The Horizon Report: 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition was released today in a symposium held at Griffith University’s Southbank campus in Brisbane. The report is the second in the series to focus on the impact of emerging technologies on postsecondary education in Australia and New Zealand. The Horizon Report series is a product of the New [...]

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