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New, Jake – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
Inside campus libraries and dormitory rooms, thousands of students connect to the Internet not only to study with online systems like Blackboard but also to watch movies and TV shows on Netflix. Computers, smartphones, wireless printers, tablets, iPods, Xboxes, handheld gaming systems, e-readers, smart TVs, Blu-ray players--students now bring an…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Computer Use, Information Technology
Woo, Stu – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
San Jose State University is planning to ban Skype, a popular Internet telephone service, from the campus network because of concerns about security and bandwidth. University administrators say that the technical aspects that make Skype effective also make it dangerous and potentially crippling to a university's network bandwidth. Skype has a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Networks, Computer Security, College Faculty
Gale, Douglas – Trusteeship, 1998
Discussion of Internet2 and the college or university's decision to participate in the network looks at the characteristics of the system and the advantages of access to it; infrastructure needed to participate; costs to the institution; considerations in making the decision to participate; and the consequences of waiting. (MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Information, College Administration, Computer Networks, Cost Effectiveness
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Kesner, Richard M. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1997
To improve services and reduce costs, Babson College (Massachusetts) has begun continuous quality improvement and reengineering, moving rapidly toward a client/server information technology environment and Internet/Intranet-enabled business processes. The evolution of the strategy and its products, underlying technologies, and development process…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1996
Seven papers and one abstract of a paper are presented from the 1995 CAUSE conference track on new technology issues faced by managers of information technology at colleges and universities. The papers include: (1) "The Use of Groupware in the Reengineering of Business Processes" (Richard M. Kesner), which discusses the role of new…
Descriptors: College Administration, Colleges, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Murphy, David; Williams, Jeff – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1997
Describes four successful cost-containment initiatives of the Midwestern Higher Education Commission, which was established to advance higher education in the Midwest through interstate cooperation. Projects include development of Academic Scheduling and Management Software; Internet-based activities; the Virtual Private Network, to reduce…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Networks, Computer Software Development, Educational Technology