EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated trends toward remote instruction, asynchronous learning and more, classrooms were inundated with new technologies that were intended to help. Technology is as vital to teaching as textbooks once were. As everyone in higher education now knows, we’re not going back to pre-pandemic days.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2024

Four years after a wave of classroom technology investments, many higher education institutions are taking a step back to analyze their results. A McKinsey study of eight learning technologies found the most significant increase in tools that facilitate interactivity, group work and community building. Most students said all eight…

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

The institute will focus on interdisciplinary research addressing global African diaspora issues, including studies on race, technology, climate change, and systemic disparities. Kendi, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient and one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, brings considerable scholarly credentials to the position.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Money Magazine has revamped its college ranking system into a star-tier list , and with it, it has named 34 colleges and universities to its five-star category. 12% $85,400 $24,700 95% Georgia Institute of Technology 16% $31,200 $18,600 89% Harvard University (Mass.) College Acceptance rate Est. full price 2023-24 Est. rice with avg.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2025

Imagine walking into a chemistry lab, beakers and chemicals laid out on the table ready for the days experiments to begin. Beyond your table are 30 identical tables with the same setup. You pick up a beaker and add two chemicals that, when combined, create a toxic gas.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

While this information might seem discouraging, there are colleges and universities across the country using technology in innovative ways to address some of these challenges. Technology can help institutions better meet the needs and preferences…

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Access to technology is vital for today’s college students. The EDUCAUSE 2023 Students and Technology Report surveyed more than 1,900 higher education students across 10 institutions to find out what students want from their technology experiences in terms of flexibility, choice and equity.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 17, 2024

10, a panel of higher education technology experts met to discuss the evolving needs of college students and how technology plays a role in their experience. In a CDW Education webinar held Dec.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2023

18-19), the EDUCAUSE annual conference will feature programming on higher education IT issues and offer opportunities to see innovative technology at work. 9-12 at Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center (and online Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In general, it’s really opened conversations about flexibility and thinking about how we can use technology to be more inclusive to provide opportunities.” We had some of our colleagues provide advice on using educational technology. Technological advances In the five years that Gibson-Gayle has been at St.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Technology can play a critical role in making this communication happen clearly and concisely, and many higher education institutions are making… In higher education, for example, enrollment and retention are more important than ever, and staying in touch with internal and external stakeholders is key to attracting and keeping new students.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There’s no avoiding the role of technology in higher education success. According to a Barnes & Noble College report released this summer, 49 percent of students prefer hybrid learning options, while 35 percent of instructors favor this approach. While it’s possible to approach these…

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

Brian Beatty, a professor of instructional design and technology at SFSU, says that in those first days, Burk 170 looked like a computer lab, with machines lining the sides of the room and more traditional teaching spaces at the center.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Gonzalez Convention Center, will feature timely programming on higher education IT technology issues and offer networking opportunities as well as an exhibit hall to see emerging technologies at work. The 2024 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, held Oct. 21-24 at San Antonio’s Henry B.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The age of AI is burgeoning, ushering advancements in many fields, so it’s important that any institutions interested in incorporating this technology consider the rules and regulations around it. In the higher education world, colleges and universities are starting to dabble with AI projects, such as chatbots or aids for incoming students.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

At the same time, theyre being proactive and thoughtful in asking important questions about the responsible use of this powerful technology. Many schools already look to AI to support teaching, learning, research, back-office functions and even physical security.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Higher educations approach to technology can be frustrating at times. The arrival of much-hyped technologies to higher ed is often met with a skeptical side-eye, perhaps some cautious optimism without any action or, at most, a single toe dipped into the pool.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

In what is being hailed as a significant technological leap forward, Morehouse College is offering 3D avatars that can stand in for teaching assistants. These humanlike figures can answer student questions 24 hours a day.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

At the College of Lake County’s Advanced Technology Center, dual-credit high school students receive hands-on experience with the latest manufacturing technology that supports Industry 4.0. But just as important as the industrial technology experience the students receive is the exposure to software they’ll see in the workforce.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

You’re in high school, and you tear home after the final bell to check your mailbox. Inside is what you’ve been waiting for. It’s addressed to you from the college you’ve dreamed about attending, the one that will vault you into a successful career and where you will make friends and memories to last a lifetime. You open the envelope.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This is the power of virtual reality and other immersive technologies in higher education. And in a rhetoric class, a restless audience prepares to mercilessly heckle students who drone on in a monotone as they practice their speeches.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

While most faculty agree that ed tech enhances the teaching and learning experience, many question whether higher education administrators are choosing the right products.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

She received GMU’s Teaching Excellence Award for Technology-Enhanced Teaching in 2016, the inaugural GMU Online Teaching Excellence Award in 2018, and the John Toups Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Teaching in 2023. Shown: A student uses a technology-based graphic organizer.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In response, digital transformation efforts that promote collaborative and engaging learning environments, equip classrooms with modern technology, and enable a secure and seamless experience throughout campus can help institutions achieve their enrollment goals.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As director of the brand-new College of Lake County Advanced Technology Center in Gurnee, Ill., Innovation in education has always been near and dear to Jon Hardbarger’s heart. Now, however, it’s also near his office, and he can see it and hear it every day when he goes to work.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

They’ve beefed up their security protections by incorporating new technologies and they’ve gotten better at identifying different types of attacks. Over time, higher education institutions have gotten a little better at defending themselves. Unfortunately, cybercriminals have also grown wiser, and have…

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A defining moment for higher education in this country lurks just around the corner. What awaits college and university leaders is the long-predicted enrollment cliff, the period around 2025 or 2026 when the effects of the Great Recession on this country’s birth rate will be realized as dramatically fewer high school seniors reach graduation.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When those kids matriculate to college, their reliance on technology only increases as hybrid learning structures, immersive environments and instruction on the tools they’ll use in the workforce — like artificial intelligence — are part of everyday life in higher education.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

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

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

Higher education is at a crossroads as generational and technological shifts reshape the sectors landscape. Generation Alpha, the most digitally fluent cohort, will bring expectations for immersive, personalized and tech-driven learning, while millennial leaders drive innovation through data and digital transformation.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 23, 2024

And youve taught sometimes less-than-eager audiences how to make technology an integral part of teaching and learning, now and into the future. Youve integrated Internet of Things tools to make life easier for students, faculty and staff. Youve built a network that can handle a mountain of devices.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

The College of Lake County’s Advanced Technology Center was created as a local resource to prepare students for the demands of this changing industry. Manufacturing is a crucial element of the Lake County, Ill.,

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2025

Many colleges and universities that operate in the cloud have different technology needs than they did when they made their initial investments. As institutions re-evaluate their cloud environments, they should consider the educational technologies theyre using now as well as the tools they plan to adopt and implement in the future.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Higher education institutions know the benefit of a strong pipeline. Reinforcing established community connections helps colleges and universities grow enrollment via local students and offers those students and others invaluable connections with nearby employers once they complete their college degrees.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are trained using large datasets from public audiobook websites, resulting in technology that excels at transcribing voices similar to professional narrators but struggles with challenges like second-language accents, underrepresented dialects, and speech impacted by disabilities.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In the past, it was a rite of passage: Students graduated high school and enjoyed a final summer at home before heading out to the next stop on their educational journey. For many, college wasn’t a matter of whether they would attend but where they would go.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

Universities must protect both data and students from theft and unauthorized entry, and biometric building access controls play a key role in this effort. Educational institutions are using biometrics to protect facilities such as residence halls and research facilities that store highly sensitive information.

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