Educational Leadership

When colleges in the California State University system sent students home from campus in spring 2020, it quickly became clear that some student

The long read: With 850 million children worldwide shut out of schools, tech evangelists claim now is the time for AI education. But as the technology’s power grows, so too do the dangers that come with it

People have a tendency to treat technology and data as neutral, sterile and immune to mortal failings. Yet the digital tools we use at schools, job

By reading and paying attention to present-day signals from our future, we can best make sense of the higher education IT world in 2038.

What education technologies and trends will have the most impact in the coming year? We asked four higher ed IT leaders for their take.

Start-ups, including one from sharing-economy company WeWork, try to shake up the staid, and pricey, status quo of New York’s independent schools.

This month, Eduventures is releasing an update to the Higher Education Technology Landscape report. First introduced in 2014, the landscape map is our

Straight from the CIO's bike saddle: The author shares observations about technology and the role of the CIO inspired by a renewed interest in cycling.

Universities have been teaching remotely this term but can the online model work long-term?

Families are using technology to keep things ‘normal’ during the pandemic but questions remain about what remote learning can teach us

Higher education information technology and human resources departments can both benefit from increased collaboration and communication.

When financials are steady and a college doesn’t have a desire to expand its reach beyond a physical campus, is online learning necessary—or even relevant?

That was a question posed last week by Janet Russell, director of academic technology for Carleton College, at a session at the Online Learning Consortium’s Innovate conference.

“We are investigating online learning, but it still makes us a little bit nervous,” Russell said to a group of about 30 academic-innovation officials. Many who were in the room work at small liberal arts colleges that are grappling with similar questions around whether or not to pursue online learning—and, if so, how to get campus buy-in.

Artificial intelligence and automation are bringing changes to higher education that will challenge, and may even threaten, traditional universities.

SYMPOSIUM REPORTS
The Symposium Working Groups spent the past year collaborating to identify barriers, tackle complex challenges, and generate new insights to advance the field of edtech research and evaluation. Through surveys, interviews, and case studies, working groups explored issues such as how edtech decisions are made in K-12 and higher education and how companies and investors view and use research.

The Symposium Working Groups’ final reports summarize these findings and their implications for the role of efficacy research in the development, adoption, and implementation of edtech moving forward.

Unless universities embed technology in course programmes, staff and students will never learn the skills needed to use it

This talk was presented at Coventry University as part of my visiting fellowship at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab