EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through the use of information technology.
EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2019
October 14–17, 2019
McCormick Place West | Chicago, IL
https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference
Tracks
- Creating a Culture of Data-Informed Decision-Making
- Evolving Infrastructure and Enterprise IT
- Exploring New Boundaries in Teaching and Learning
- Leading and Partnering Across the Institution
- Making an Impact with Innovative Ideas
- Managing and Reducing Information Technology Risk
- Navigating Change
- Supporting the Institution
- Transforming the Student Experience
Key findings from EDUCAUSE 2019
EDUCAUSE TOP 10 IT Issues for 2020
TOP 10 IT Issues within the four themes
Simplify
4. Digital Intgegrations
9. Administrative Simplifications
- Need to do more with less
- Good experience to end users
- Break down the silos
- Not enough resources and funding → need different strategies to tackle the issues of 2020
Sustain
1. Information Security Strategy
2. Privacy
3. Sustainable Funding
8. Higher Education Affordability
- Information security as a top issue
- Security analytics
- Institutions need to recognise IT's value to business models
- Data is the new currency of the institutions
Innovate
5. Student Retention and Completion
6. Student-Centric Higher Education
7. Improved Enrollment
Drive to Dx (Digital transformation)
10. The Integrative CIO: Repositioning or reinforcing the role of IT leadership as an integral strategic partner of institutional leadership in supporting institutional missions
- Which changes first, the institution or the CIO?
- Digital transformation is not digitization
- Does this all hinge on the Integrative CIO? → CIO as a key to tackle the nine other issues
Slides from the session