IPAS Implementation Handbook
While the use of analytics to promote student success is gaining in popularity, basic questions about what IPAS is and the issues institutions face during implementation and integration. The IPAS...
View ArticleIPAS Implementation Issues: Data and Systems Integration
Enthusiasm for IPAS solutions may be hindered both by technical and institutional barriers. The Data and Systems Integration Report uses qualitative data from four institutions that have recently...
View ArticleStudy of Students and Information Technology, 2014
For the 2014 student techology use study, ECAR also collaborated with 213 institutions to collect responses from 75,306 undergraduate students about their technology experiences.Key FindingsSelected...
View Article7 Things You Should Know About IPAS
IPAS is an institutional capability to create shared ownership for educational progress by providing students, faculty, and staff with holistic information and services that contribute to the...
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An Operations Checklist for Adopting Higher Ed Tech Innovations
Author: Judith A. Pirani “The lesson learned was that, in addition to providing viable software, successful dissemination must also focus on the adopting institution’s implementation and ongoing...
View ArticleThe 2013 Enterprise Application Market in Higher Education
ECAR CDS spotlights highlight findings from the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service, focusing on a small but meaningful slice of data collected in the CDS. This collection of ECAR CDS spotlights focuses on...
View ArticleStudent as Designer: Making EdTech that Increases Student Success
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View ArticleImproving Student Graduation Rates Using Data Insights and Predictive Modeling
This session is a continuation of the conversation started at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Orlando on innovative initiatives to improve student retention. As part of an overall plan to improve...
View ArticleThe Human-Technology Intersection: A Framework
The enthusiasm of the ed-tech and DIY sectors sometimes lapses into a kind of insurgent rhetoric. In this narrative, all traditional colleges and universities are dinosaurs, and the meteor that will...
View ArticleKnow Thy Students: Providing Aggregate Student Data to Instructors
TakeawaysLearner-centered approaches to higher education require that instructors have insight into their students' characteristics, but instructors often prepare their courses long before they have an...
View ArticleIPAS Evaluation and Assessment Guide
This report consists of two main parts. The first addresses a host of methodological and procedural issues related to the evaluation and assessment of IT projects in general and IPAS projects in...
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7 Things You Should Read About IPAS
Integrated planning and advising services (IPAS) is an integrative approach to student success that promotes shared ownership for educational progress among students, faculty, and staff. It encompasses...
View Article7 Things You Should Know About Degree-Planning Tools
Degree-planning tools provide personalized guidance to students about navigating higher education. Using institutional information and data about students, these tools aim to help students make better...
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Expectations for the Next Generation Digital Learning Environment
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View ArticleStudent Success: Everybody's Business, Especially IT
Improving student success requires seeing the whole system of undergraduate education in institutional data, and then working to integrate component parts to inform improvement.University of South...
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Wearable Technologies Gain Momentum in Higher Ed
Thanks to a device on her wrist, a colleague of mine knows when she’s had a restful night’s sleep as opposed to a more fitful one.Chances are, you know someone (or ARE someone) who could say the...
View ArticleThe Predictive Learning Analytics Revolution: Leveraging Learning Data for...
Everyone from government agencies to mainstream press are looking for improvements in areas that typically fall under the umbrella of “student success.” Universities are seeing the potential that the...
View ArticleCompetency Based Education Technology Challenges and Opportunities
Growth in competency-based education has been stymied by a lack of software support. The Technical Interoperability Pilot incorporates vendor engagement on finding solutions that work together...
View ArticleIntegrated Planning & Advising for Student Success: After a Convening, Work...
iPASS stands for Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success. There’s a lot behind the five-letter acronym and the name it stands for – and it means much more, for the students and for the...
View ArticleWinning Integration Strategies to Inspire and Stimulate Campus-Wide ECM Adoption
The IT teams at Loyola University Chicago and Williams College delivered value to departments campus-wide by integrating SIS, ERP, and other systems with their ECM system. We'll discuss our DIY...
View ArticleBringing Student Forms Online: A Federated Collaboration
In 2014 Northwestern University launched a tool to bring paper forms online. Instead of being developed by central IT, this system was developed by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences...
View ArticleStudent Attitudes toward Technology in Advising
The Community College Research Center explored student attitudes toward technology-mediated advising in a recent study. This blog presents some of their findings.read more
View ArticleComprehensive Learner Records and Personalized Learning Plans
Efforts to reimagine the college transcript have some startling similarities with two innovations in K-12: learner profiles and personalized learning plans.read more
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