May 8, 2008
Educause Survey: Top 10 IT Issues in Higher Education
Educause, the higher-education-technology consortium, released the results yesterday of its 2008 survey on the top IT issues in higher education.
The top-10 issues “most important for… institutions to resolve for strategic success” are:
1) Security
2) Administrative/ERP Information Systems
3) Funding IT
4) Infrastructure
5) Identity/Access Management
6) Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
7) Governance, Organization, and Leadership
8) Change Management
9) E-Learning/Distributed Teaching and Learning
10) Staffing/HR Management/Training
Since 2003, the top three issues issues have been, in various rankings, security, administrative/ERP information systems, and funding IT. This year was the first time that “change management” appeared in the top-10 list, however.
Click here to find resources relating to each of these issues and an additional breakdown of the survey results.—Catherine Rampell
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Interesting that higher education doesn’t consider monitoring use of its networks and systems for copyright infringement a priority at all.
— Sandy Thatcher May 9, 09:19 AM #
I would point out that security encompasses “appropriate use” which includes copyright issues. Governance would also capture some aspects of copyrights usage.
— Tony May 9, 09:42 AM #
Sandy — Until and unless commercial ISPs are held to the same standard of “monitoring” their networks and systems for copyright infringement, I wouldn’t think it appropriate for higher education to do so. After all, higher education is about openness, and our systems have historically been more open than those of the private sector. That said, higher education is explicitly about education, and we do, I think, have an obligation to do a better job of teaching students about copyright, intellectual property, fair use, and ethical use of information. Let’s spend our money on those things, instead of being compelled by knee jerk legislation to do something which is difficult, expensive and has not been shown to be effective.
— Michael May 9, 09:44 AM #