By Marc Singer - EvoLLLution. For a number of years, higher education institutions have been in a squeeze. On the one hand, it’s important to maintain the unique character and traditions of our institutions. There’s value in maintaining our sense of ourselves as skilled craftspeople in an artisanal industry, perhaps one of the last remaining. More...
Cloud Offerings Enable Higher Ed to Refocus on Core Competencies
By Mike Scheuermann - EvoLLLution. Even the most tech-savvy institutions in the higher education landscape are not in the IT business; they are, of course, in the research and/or the education business. Trying to concomitantly fund and build out a central, expert IT shop can only serve to diminish effectiveness in both areas. More...
Increased IT Staff Satisfaction an Undervalued Benefit of the Cloud
By Steve Burrell - EvoLLLution. Beginning in 2007 Georgia Southern University initiated an aggressive strategy to move legacy systems into the cloud and adopt a “Cloud First” approach to selecting new information systems. More...
Using the Cloud to Transform Business Outcomes: Sooner is Better
By Abbie Lundberg - EvoLLLution. The business world is constantly shifting and evolving as new and exciting technologies emerge. Cloud hosting is one of those shifts that have created a great deal of flexibility and agility for organizations while allowing them to operate more effectively. More...
A Second Look at Success Tools for Online Students
By Judy Baker - EvoLLLution. I can always tell when my college colleagues have returned from conferences recently by the uptick in their excitement about educational technology. The latest buzz is about the educational technology resources that abound for online learning students at community colleges in California. More...
Predictions About the Near Future of Online Learning and Five Tools Needed to Succeed
By Wendi Prater - EvoLLLution. It’s a typical Saturday evening at my house and as usual huddled in the kitchen is a group of teenagers searching their mobile devices. This particular evening, they are looking for new cupcake recipes and watching baking videos. More...
Engagement and Experience Should Be Top Of Mind When Shopping For New Tools
By Robert Rosenbalm - EvoLLLution. It seems the world of online education is full of noise. New buzzwords spin everyday, fancier gadgets come out weekly, competing platforms bombard marketing channels and rapidly changing student demographics keep everyone guessing. More...
Instructional Technology: Navigating Higher Ed’s Next Iceberg
By Albert Powell - EvoLLLution. A new picture is coming into focus, but not everyone is seeing it: today’s instructional technology is the tip of higher education planning and budgeting’s next big iceberg. More...
How Flexibility and Agility Benefit Today’s Higher Ed Organizations
By Michelle Stiles - EvoLLLution. Today’s higher education market conditions, which demand institutions do more with less, have led “flexibility” and “agility” to become goals so sought-after that they are beginning to fall into the category of buzzwords. More...
Moving to the Cloud Facilitates Re-Prioritization and Differentiation
By Sue Workman - EvoLLLution. College and universities IT teams are historically understaffed and overworked. As student expectations continue to rise, though, IT teams are under more pressure than ever to deliver high levels of service that really improve the student experience while maintaining systems already in place. More...