There has been a great deal of discussion about the impact of COVID-19 on technology adoption among colleges and universities. Many commentators, for example, have noticed the spike in the adoption of Productivity and Collaboration Solutions (like Zoom) and have...
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Five Vendors to Watch: New Companies in the Higher Ed Tech Landscape
Followers of higher education technology all want to predict where the market is headed—often leveraging information such as investments, acquisitions, or macro trends to do so. Parsing through these tea leaves can certainly be helpful, providing insight into the ebbs...
EdTech and the Changing Role of Course Evaluations
Higher education has long asked students to provide this type of insight—via the course evaluation. More recently, however, the ideal role for these evaluations has come into question, sending course evaluation vendors in several different directions with their products.
What the SolarWinds Attack Means for Higher Ed
In January, you probably heard about the SolarWinds Orion hack, the Russian-linked cyberattack that may have affected up to 18,000 government agencies and private organizations. But, chances are, you may not have heard about a key detail related to how hackers carried...
The Problem with Transfer Student Pathways and Technology
Upward transfers—students moving from two-year to four-year schools—increased by 2.6% since last year. Most of these students faced the daunting task of finding the right four-year institutions, transferring credits, and securing enough financial aid. As institutional...
Improving Technology Predictions by Focusing on Student Agency
We all love making predictions. They help us deal with uncertainty, which has undoubtedly come into sharp focus over the past year. The issue with predictions, however, is that they are often wrong—some glaringly so. And those involving higher education technology are...