– Maureen Downey for the AJC Get Schooled blog From the board of Regents on proposed consolidations of eight campuses, which are bound to spark political battles, turf wars and naming feuds: University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby is recommending to the Board of Regents that eight of the System’s 35 colleges and universities be […]
Changing an ERP to SaaS is a large investment in time and cost for any vendor to address. Therefore the challenge for the vendors is how to get the ERP, with its slow development and implementation cycles, to provide the solutions to the new needs of the institution.
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San Jose, CA/Dartmouth, Jun 25, 2010 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) —-Ninety-five percent of colleges and universities use at least one form of social media to recruit prospective students. This was among the key findings of the study, “Social Media and College Admissions: Higher-Ed Beats Business in Adoption of New Tools for Third Year,” conducted by Dr.
ASU Academic Analytics Background Dashboards–succinct graphical summaries of information that are commonly used in business to present data to executives and managers–are now cropping up in universities. Well at the forefront is the work being done at ASU under John Rome, who is associate vice president, University Technology Office. ASU is a large and rapidly
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Looking for Educational Dashboards for Higher Ed or K12? the Gilfus Education Group provides capabilities to education organizations through Academic Analytics and Gilfus Analytics. Every kind of organization now employs a digital dashboard to keep track of the way the company is functioning and also in order to be able to plan for the future.
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July 6, 2009
While the open source movement has taken off in course management systems, with Moodle and Sakai as alternatives to the dominant Blackboard, the administrative side of the house has been almost entirely corporate. While some colleges use home-grown systems, the norm has been to use any of a number of vendors for systems that allow colleges to manage and report on budgets, billing and many other functions crucial to running a college. These administrative software systems cost millions of dollars to install and manage, and any malfunctions can be hugely frustrating to institutions.
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Sept. 10th 2008
Open source software encourages learning, the exchange of knowledge and information, and project improvements that rely as much on its users, and its developers’ colleagues, as it does the developer. It’s not unlike education. Ideally, learning is a continuous cycle of taking in, processing, and giving back, with modifications.
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