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New Technology and Attitudes Emerge from the Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the start of 2020, there was robust availability of online higher education, but no one anticipated that a worldwide pandemic called COVID-19 would soon usher in a new world of distance learning. “The Making the shift and continued development Luoma was on Yale University’s faculty initiatives team when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020.

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Higher Education, Technology, and A Growing Social Anxiety

Higher Education Inquirer

The Era We Are In We are living in a neoliberal/libertarian era filled with technological change, emotional change, and behavioral change. We are simultaneously moving forward with technology and backward with human values and principles. We also have lives made more sedentary and solitary by technology.

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Pey Kin-Leong, Singapore University of Technology and Design

The PIE News

Singapore University of Technology and Design, the island-nation’s fourth public university, has embarked on a new project to reinvent blended learning. When Singapore entered its first lockdown in April 2020, SUTD – like institutions around the world – was forced to move its lessons online. pic.twitter.com/zP5rbyKRDw.

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Technology investments hit steep declines in 2022 due to budget and faculty shortages

University Business

Higher education institutions are in a race to replace 20-year-old administrative systems to modernize the faculty and student online experience, yet new findings show that investments across student, finance and human capital management technology systems dipped harshly following a surge in 2022. The Tambellini Group’s “2023 U.S.

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How to Approach Higher Ed’s Hybrid Cloud Migration

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Higher education has a reputation for being slow to embrace some of the technological advancements that other industries might jump at the chance to adopt. Although the events of 2020 did cause some institutions to rapidly escalate their cloud adoption, today’s IT leaders are more cautious with which systems and…

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Remote Desktops Pose Security Risks for Online Learners

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of technological solutions enabling digital communication led to a massive increase in distance learning. billion students in 186 countries from their classrooms in 2020. The pandemic displaced approximately 1.2

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Blackbaud to Pay $3M Fine for 'Misleading' Customers Following 2020 Ransomware Attack, Data Breach

Campus Technology

Securities and Exchange Commission to pay a fine of $3 million to “settle charges for making misleading disclosures about a 2020 ransomware attack that impacted more than 13,000 customers,” the federal agency said in a news release.