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December, 2008:

Emerging Tech Challenges

Dec 30th, 2008
by UWB LT.
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Emerging Tech Challenges
Campus Technology

  • Who’s Pushing New Technologies?
    Response to the question “Who do you think is primarily pushing new technologies in higher education?” revealed students as the drivers (44%), but additional polling showed that IT leaders focus on wider institutional priorities even as they react to student expectation and demand.

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  • Challenges What are the challenges surrounding the deployment of emerging technologies?
    Participants suggested their own categories, and as a group ranked the following, among other criteria (right): • Impact of technology on learning (30%) • Helping people (faculty, etc.) change (23%) • Keeping up with change (15%) • Changing criteria for evaluating scholarly teaching and learning (5%).

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  • Additional Challenges
    In a ranking of “additional” challenges, participants singled out planning for innovation (48%) as the most significant challenge.

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Link: http://campustechnology.com/articles/2008/11/emerging-tech-challenges.aspx