Google Creates Online IT Certificate for Higher Education
Google has partnered with colleges around the country to offer students its entry-level IT Professional Certificate Training, Inside Higher Ed reports.
Google has partnered with colleges around the country to offer students its entry-level IT Professional Certificate Training, Inside Higher Ed reports.
Augmented and virtual reality is beginning to come into its own as a functional education tool, but there is still substantial room for growth.
Universities are finding digital signage and interactive whiteboards to be a helpful tool in engaging students in new and creative ways.
While using a digital whiteboard has many of the same benefits of a traditional one, professors and students are excited at the extra benefits, including video conferencing, collaboration and content sharing, according to Phil Hill, a founder of the higher education consultancy MindWires.
The University of Washington is leveraging IoT for better energy efficiency, in part through its Compliance IoT Risk Mitigation Task Force, co-chaired by Chuck Benson, assistant director for IT, facilities services.
“We were spending about a million dollars a month on electricity, but we didn’t have the detailed information we needed to closely manage consumption,” says Norm Menter, energy resource conservation manager, facilities services.
A recent report from CDW•G demonstrates the need for institutions to continue to bang the drum about security awareness to ensure users are equally vested in safeguarding data. The findings show that 76 percent of students admit to engaging in risky behavior while connected to their institution’s network.
The infographic report, "Securing Higher Education – It Takes Two" found the following:
Overall enrollment for higher education institutions might be on the decline, but science, technology, engineering and mathematics are on the rise.
Colleges and universities have begun to find innovative uses for virtual and augmented reality, from training to recruitment. These investments are likely to continue to grow in the future.
In recent years, universities have embraced technology as a way to connect with nontraditional students and expand learning beyond the campus. These efforts seemed to have worked.
Getting bounced from rep to rep in search of an answer is frustrating for everyone, students included. Officials at George Washington University are sensitive to that frustration as they strategize how to centralize help desk functions to improve the user experience.
The integration of education technology into teacher training programs has gone a step further. Earlier this month, Cornell University announced that its Center for Teaching Excellence has been merged with Academic Technologies IT unit to create one Center for Teaching Innovation.