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Stephanie Steelman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Private higher educational institutions are at a high risk of cyber-attacks based on the amount of data they consume about students, their families, donors, faculty, and employees. I determined that there was a gap in the body of knowledge concerning how IT leaders in private higher education secure their information assets. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Information Security, Computer Security, Higher Education
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Chimbunde, Pfuurai – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
While the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019 threatened educational activities in Higher Education globally, it renewed the interest in online learning and teaching in developing countries. To frame our understanding, we employed the Technological Readiness Index lens to investigate the institutional needs necessitated by the sudden uptake of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Online Courses, Readiness
David Seyi Akanbi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The demand for university education exceeds the supply in Nigeria, as more than 70% of eligible applicants cannot get admission into Nigerian universities annually. With a current population of 206 million, the World Bank predicts the Nigerian population will surpass the United States to become the third-largest country in the world by 2050. If…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Universities, Supply and Demand
Aljuaid, Alanoud – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There is a workforce shortage and a huge gender disparity in the cybersecurity profession globally and Saudi Arabia. Enabling women to access these opportunities involves bolstering training and implementing reforms to give women the go-ahead to access these opportunities. With only a paltry 5% of women being in cybersecurity in the Middle East…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Computer Security, Information Security
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Tosun, Nilgün – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, universities in Turkey, like many other countries, began compulsory distance education in March. Most of the courses are conducted by distance education. Millions of students and academics have been involved in distance education through technologies enabled by the existing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education
Basken, Paul – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
For some colleges and professors, classified research promises prestige and money. Powerhouses like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Johns Hopkins University have for decades run large classified laboratories. But most other universities either do not allow such research or conduct it quietly, and in small doses. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research, Access to Information, Barriers
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Jackowicz, Stephen, Ed.; Sahin, Ismail, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
"Proceedings of International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (iHSES) which took place on April 22-25, 2021 in New York, USA-www.ihses.net. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Handheld Devices, Audio Equipment, Foreign Students
DeSantis, Nick – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
College campuses are hothouses of data, including course schedules, degree requirements, and grades. But much of the information remains spread out across software systems or locked on university servers. Start-up companies want to pry the information loose from campus servers in order to offer personalized services that could transform the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Grades (Scholastic), Scores
Hart, Kevin – CURRENTS, 2010
According to a 2008 "Year in Review" report by Educational Security Incidents, an online repository that collects data on higher education security issues, the total number of security incidents reported at universities and colleges worldwide rose to 173 in 2008, a 24.5 percent increase over 2007. The number of institutions…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Computer Security, Barriers, Confidentiality
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Rosenberg, Timothy; Hoffman, Lance J. – Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 2006
Educational institutions that wish to implement a specialized teaching laboratory often have a variety of obstacles to overcome. Some of these obstacles are related to adapting existing classroom infrastructure, building the laboratory, and meeting the demands for multiple-use classrooms to maximize the return on investment. In some cases, such as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Professional Education, Computers, Specialization
Villano, Matt – Campus Technology, 2006
October is national Cyber Security Awareness Month, and for the world of higher education, that means it is time to take a look at defense systems and plan for the future. Clearly, more planning is needed now than ever before. According to the majority of IT market research firms, phishing and identity theft have leapfrogged spam and spyware as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Computer Security, Human Factors Engineering
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers