Upcoming Meetings

 June 11-13
 Chicago
 120 CIOs and CFOs
 Co-hosted with NACUBO
 Focus: Improving the value of administrative IT www.educause.edu/events/administrative-it-summit

 September 29-October 2
 Orlando
 General session speakers:
 Clay Christensen
 Doris Kearns Goodwin
 Nancy Zimpher

ECAR Research and more

 Today’s Higher Education IT Workforce
 Integrated Planning and Advising Services
Research
 IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance
 Technology in the Academic Community
(students and faculty)
 Top-Ten Strategic Technologies for 2014

1.
Business intelligence reporting dashboards
2.
Mobile apps for enterprise applications
3.
Mobile app development
4.
Enterprise identity and access management solutions
5.
Learning analytics: Course level
6.
Administrative or business performance analytics
7.
Unified communications and collaboration
8.
802.11ac wireless networking standard
9.
Virtual desktops or virtual PC applications
10.
Learning analytics: Degree advising
What are institutions tracking the most?
• Adaptive learning
• Gamification
• Mobile data protection
• Predictive analytics
• E-book readers/e-textbooks
• Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
• The Internet of things
• Text content analytics
• Mashware
• Open content
• Big data

 Data collection opens in mid-July
 We’re improving content to support measures of maturity and deployment in specific domains

Update from the ECAR Working Groups
Website: www.educause.edu/ecar/ecar-working-groups
Program Manager: Karen A. Wetzel, kwetzel@educause.edu

 Emergency Notification Strategy
ENS technology strategies to consider when determining the best notification system for your institution.
 An Introduction to BYOE Mobile Data
Collection
An introduction to the four main types of MDC
(passive, public, crowdsourced, and private), highlighted with exploratory use cases.

 Research Data Storage: Framework for Success
 Working Group: Data Management (ECAR-DM)
 Est. pub. date: June 2014
 Understanding Responsive Web Design in Higher Ed
 Working Group: Mobile Strategy and Application
Development (ECAR-MSAD)
 Est. pub. date: June 2014

 Campus Cyberinfrastructure
Perspective on Big Data Series
 Working Group: Campus Cyberinfrastructure (ECAR-CCI)
 Introductory brief: est. pub. date July 2014
 Three subsequent series briefs: August – December 2014
 International Perspectives on the Cloud
 ECAR-WG Strategies Committee
 Est. pub. date: August 2014

 Improving Institutional Collaboration through Unified
Communications: A Study of Current Implementations
 Working Group: Communications Infrastructure and
Applications (ECAR-CIA)
 Est. pub. date: September 2014
 Calculating the TCO for Web Services
 Working Group: TCO for Web Services (ECAR-TCO)
 Est. pub. date: September 2014
 IT Service Catalog Core Services and Best Practices
 Working Group: IT Service Catalog (ECAR-SC)
 Est. pub. date: October 2014

 Software-defined networking (SDN)
 Approaches to supporting traditional telephone services (POTs)
 Use of mobile platforms in student recruitment
 Developing a canonical BI dashboard
 Predictive analytics
 Workforce development
 Cost of digital libraries
Submit ideas for new projects online: www.educause.edu/ecar/ecar-working-groups

Betsy Tippens Reinitz
Director, Administrative IT Programs breinitz@educause.edu