John Lympany

EDUCAUSE Top-Ten IT Issues, 2014

It is interesting that many of the issues this year focus on student outcomes and learning.  What do you think?

Top-Ten IT Issues, 2014

1. Improving student outcomes through an institutional approach that strategically leverages technology
2. Establishing a partnership between IT leadership and institutional leadership to develop a collective understanding of what information technology can deliver
3. Assisting faculty with the instructional integration of information technology
4. Developing an IT staffing and organizational model to accommodate the changing IT environment and facilitate openness and agility
5. Using analytics to help drive critical institutional outcomes
6. Changing IT funding models to sustain core service, support innovation, and facilitate growth
7. Addressing access demand and the wireless and device explosion
8. Sourcing technologies and services at scale to reduce costs (via cloud, greater centralization of institutional IT services and systems, cross-institutional collaborations, and so forth)
9. Determining the role of online learning and developing a strategy for that role
10. Implementing risk management and information security practices to protect institutional IT resources/data and respond to regulatory compliance mandates*

10. Developing an enterprise IT architecture that can respond to changing conditions and new opportunities*

* Tie