The year 2017 will be pivotal for technology in higher education. Are you up to speed on the latest trends and issues? Watch the webinar “On the Leading Edge of Higher Education Innovation: A CIO’s Perspective” for key insights and observations to benefit your institution throughout the year and beyond.

Automation and a gig economy are changing today’s workforce. Learn the skills and jobs that are in demand in the new economy and how higher education will need to adapt to prepare students.

Higher education is changing. Learn the strategies colleges are deploying to deal with shifting expectations and economic models.

Today’s shifting economy has industries and occupations in a constant state of flux. To prepare students for this changing workforce, higher education must rethink its purpose and structure. Watch this webinar replay to discover what the future of work looks like and how your institution might need to respond.

Higher education is in financial crisis, according to 71 percent of chief business officers (CBOs) surveyed by Inside Higher Ed. Read the 2017 report to understand how these leaders view the financial and other challenges facing higher-education institutions in the U.S.

This whitepaper—the final part of a three-part series—examines four institutions that have adapted to better prepare students for the changing economy. Read the whitepaper to learn: The skills students need to succeed, the importance of career services, and how institutions are reshaping curricula

Higher education must make changes to best prepare students for the shifting economy. This whitepaper outlines the skills needed in the workplace of tomorrow and strategies colleges and universities might consider to ready their students for what’s to come.

Today’s modern institution moves at the speed of information. Asking yesterday’s finance, HCM, and student information systems to keep pace doesn’t really make sense, does it? Leaders from The Ohio State University, University of Rochester, and Vassar College highlight how their move to the cloud increased productivity, improved efficiencies, lowered the total cost of ownership, and—most importantly—gave their staff and students the necessary tools to succeed.

We all want our nation’s schools to be safe, secure learning environments where students can realize their full potential. This requires reliable, continuous communication among school personnel, both onsite and district-wide, plus the ability to instantly connect with first responders in an emergency. This seamless communication must be delivered over any network, from any location, using any device. Team Communications from Motorola Solutions provides this seamless integration, helping schools preserve the all-important safety of their students. Team Communications empowers educational institutions to transform how they communicate, enabling individuals to share real-time information to make schools safer and staff more productive. Schools across the U.S. use Team Communications from Motorola Solutions to deliver unified voice and data to administrators, teachers, maintenance, security, coaches, and other personnel, improving decision making, increasing visibility into school activit

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When investing in a phone system replacement, edcuational institutiones have two main options: an on-premise PBX or a hosted VoIP services.

Forrester Consulting was commissioned to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Cylance's advanced threat protection solution, CylancePROTECT®, and its deployment and configuration services, ThreatZero™. The study aims to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of CylancePROTECT and ThreatZero on their organizations, which will improve customer success with advanced cybersecurity and antivirus protection solutions. To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with an investment in Cylance, Forrester interviewed the Chief Information Security Officer for a Large State County Government, who has used the solutions for over a year. Cylance provides a new-generation, predictive, cybersecurity, and malware prevention solution that leverages artificial intelligence to prevent malware from executing on endpoints in real time. This is usually implemented with ThreatZero, which is a continuous professional service program rendered by Cylance for users of CylancePROTECT. ThreatZero guides through the planning, implementation, integration, and ongoing optimization of the solution. This often includes end user education, training, and support to totally eliminate endpoint threats and incidents. With CylancePROTECT and ThreatZero, the organization was able to reduce security breaches to almost zero, catching malware before it ever gained access to public records. Relative to their previous endpoint protection, this significantly reduced costs from remediation/reimaging and incidence response. Additionally, IT and security employees’ productivity were boosted. Read more in the full TEI report.

As a broker, your customers look to you to provide guidance, education and cost savings in a world filled with ever-changing regulations and skyrocketing costs. See where Houston businesses find the most value in their brokers and what new options exist to help contain costs. • Learn where Houston businesses see brokers adding value • See the impact carrier satisfaction has on changing carriers • Read about new cost-containing options to help your clients

Highlights for Children, Inc. was founded in 1946 with the belief “that children are the world’s most important people.” Since its inception, the organization has been dedicated to helping children “become their best selves and become confident, caring, curious, and creative individuals.” Today, the Highlights for Children, Inc., family of companies includes educational publishers who publish textbooks and offer educational seminars for teachers, as well as a consumer division that publishes books, digital products, and four magazines for children ages 0-12. The flagship magazine is Highlights for Children, well known for its Fun with a Purpose.

Expanding and enriching the educational experience through a streamlined, broadened networkBYOD in the classroom and one-student-one-device trends meant Kentucky’s Bullitt County Public Schools needed an easily configurable, reliable and scalable network. Read this case study to discover the benefits of WLAN technology in the educational world >

"Smart Campus: The roadmap of best-practice tips from the top IT education experts A smart campus enables everyone — from administrators to faculty to students — to engage with the entire educational experience anytime, anywhere. Explore the five critical keys to delivering a modern education experience >"

The United States educational system is in the midst of transformational change due to widespread adoption of technologies, including video, mobile devices, and cloud services. Given the enormous potential of these technologies to improve educational outcomes, increase access to information and collaboration, and reduce costs, schools and libraries across the nation want to do more, not less, with technology.

As education evolves, so does the way we teach and learn. This report focuses on one of the newest trends, still in its nascent stages—mobile learning. It describes the potential benefits of mobile learning, addresses the challenges and opportunities that introducing mobile learning presents, and provides examples from school districts that have already implemented mobile learning programs so we can learn from their best practices. The report also suggests key points to consider as you develop your plans, align your goals, and make decisions regarding mobile learning in your schools.

Remote support technology, including remote control, desktop sharing, and web collaboration, is one of the most popular platforms used across TSIA service disciplines. Today’s remote support solutions offer much more than just remote control for PCs, their functional footprint is expanding to include support for more devices and richer analytics for trend analysis and supervisor dashboards. Remote support solutions are typically well regarded by users, consistently delivering one of the highest average satisfaction scores in TSIA’s annual Global Technology Survey. Service executives should acquaint themselves with the new features and capabilities being introduced by leading remote support platforms and find ways to leverage the capabilities beyond technical support. Field services, education services, professional services, and managed services are all increasing adoption of these tools to boost productivity and avoid on-site visits. Download this white paper to learn more.

ThinkCentre Tiny: Robust, flexible computing, where and when it matters for Higher Education We all love laptops, tablets, and mobile devices; but, sometimes Higher Education needs a powerful desktop that fits neatly in small, awkward, or even non-traditional spaces. Enter Tiny. In this eBook, we dive into the diverse settings where Tiny has proven to be the better fit. Get the eBook now.

The Real Impact of Body Cameras: Unprecedented Secure Storage Demand Body cameras have become a critical component of campus and community policing — they protect everybody’s interests. However, gathering, securing, storing, and managing the terabytes of content created on a monthly basis can be daunting even for the most sophisticated IT teams. In this eBook, we provide a comprehensive look at this growing challenge and how you can get in front of it! Read this eBook now.

Better technology drives more engaged learning. Getting students engaged in the classroom is always challenging. Keeping them engaged is often the more difficult battle! Windows 10 Pro paired with innovative Lenovo tablet, laptop, and desktop computers provides the perfect user experience-driven solution — where technology is never a constraint to innovation or engagement. Learn more, get this eBook.

Teachers face ever-increasing pressure over the integration of technology into both daily classroom management and long-term instructional strategies. Add to these demands the increasing complexity of digital learning environments. Luckily, the right technology can go a long way toward the goal of meeting diverse needs with simplicity, helping empower teachers. Download this guide to learn more.

Case management frameworks built on business process management platforms help IT solutions architects deploy case-handling applications and offer an alternative to specialized case management applications and custom coding. According to Gartner, the complex architecture required to support case management has relegated it to the status of a niche application, typically addressed by specialist, commercial off-the-shelf application providers and system integrators. Case management as a process style is being applied in many sectors beyond government, legal and insurance, including healthcare, banking, higher education and retail. Industry and cross-industry case management frameworks are now available. "Adaptive case management" hype exceeds the reality of what buyers need. Gartner evaluated 12 vendors including Pegasystems against nine critical capabilities in four use cases. Download this Gartner analysis and gain a better understanding of the case management frameworks solutions offe

If you’re anything like your peers, you are evaluating your education technology on an annual basis to determine if it’s time for a refresh. While most schools conduct their device refreshes during the summer because teachers, staff and students are not present, this timing can prove costly as the market is flooded with devices from schools doing the same thing. To help school districts re-think their technology spending to focus more on total cost of ownership and residual value, as opposed to upfront cost, we’ve partnered with Diamond Assets — a technology buyback company — to explain: • The true value and cost of iPad and Chromebook in education • When schools receive the most trade-in value for their technology • How to prepare for and execute technology refreshes