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New Technology and Attitudes Emerge from the Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the start of 2020, there was robust availability of online higher education, but no one anticipated that a worldwide pandemic called COVID-19 would soon usher in a new world of distance learning. “The Making the shift and continued development Luoma was on Yale University’s faculty initiatives team when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020.

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Technology investments hit steep declines in 2022 due to budget and faculty shortages

University Business

Higher education institutions are in a race to replace 20-year-old administrative systems to modernize the faculty and student online experience, yet new findings show that investments across student, finance and human capital management technology systems dipped harshly following a surge in 2022. The Tambellini Group’s “2023 U.S.

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Blackbaud to Pay $3M Fine for 'Misleading' Customers Following 2020 Ransomware Attack, Data Breach

Campus Technology

Securities and Exchange Commission to pay a fine of $3 million to “settle charges for making misleading disclosures about a 2020 ransomware attack that impacted more than 13,000 customers,” the federal agency said in a news release.

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Technology can keep on going 24/7 – we aren’t meant to!?

HEPI

Now I am no scientist, as will become evident, but technology is a wonderful thing – from the advent of the television in the late 1920s, and the CT scan in the 1970s, to the camera phone in the 2000s. Then 2020 arrived. Forgotten Books: London The post Technology can keep on going 24/7 – we aren’t meant to! Parker Follet, M.

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Turn it off and on again: digital literacy in college students

ACRLog

Surely, the kids who have grown up with technology are good at it, right? The 2018 International Computer and Information Literacy study showed that only 2 percent of students scored at the highest level of computer and information literacy (Fraillon et al, 2020). They’re “digital natives”? References Fraillon, J.,

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From technology enabled teaching to digitally enhanced learning: a new perspective for higher education

HEPI

But, nearly three years on from the start of the pandemic, universities have also made widespread progress with technology-enabled teaching, witnessing the benefits that it can bring and most now realising that investment in technology is strategically vital. Employability has also been enhanced through embedding skills.

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Should Higher Education Consider Cloud-Based VPNs?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

While virtual private network technology has been around in one form or another for over a quarter century, many people’s first encounters with VPNs were during the pandemic, when the ability to remotely access secure campus networks became a necessity for people working and studying from home.