EDUCAUSE Annual Conference

Data-enabled institutions

Flexible learning

Student Success

Analytics

Open resources

Open Educational Materials (OER)

• Course books are still expensive and out of reach for many students and OER are seen as a possible solution to ease the problem
• The goal in many cases is to provide every student access to course materials through digitalization and OER. 
  
  

Diversity

EDUCAUSE TOP 10 IT Issues for 2019

1. Information Security Strategy
Developing a risk-based security strategy that effectively detects, responds to, and prevents security threats and challenges

2. Student Success
Serving as a trusted partner with other campus units to drive and achieve student success initiatives

3. Privacy
Safeguarding institutional constituents’ privacy rights and maintaining accountability for protecting all types of restricted data

4. Student-Centered Institution
Understanding and advancing technology’s role in optimizing the student experience (from applicants to alumni)

5. Digital integrations 
Ensuring system interoperability, scalability, and extensibility, as well as data integrity, security, standards, and governance, across multiple applications and platforms

6. Data-Enabled Institution
Taking a service-based approach to data and analytics to reskill, retool, and reshape a culture to be adept at data-enabled decision-making

7. Sustainable Funding
Developing funding models that can maintain quality and accommodate both new needs and the growing use of IT services in an era of increasing budget constraints

8. Data Management and Governance
Implementing effective institutional data-governance practices and organizational structures

9. Integrative CIO
Repositioning or reinforcing the role of IT leadership as an integral strategic partner of institutional leadership in achieving institutional missions

10. Higher Education Affordability
Aligning IT’s priorities and resources with institutional priorities and resources to achieve a sustainable future