EDUCAUSE Top-Ten IT Issues, 2013: Welcome to the Connected Age

The List:

  1. Leveraging the wireless and device explosion on campus
  2. Improving student outcomes through an approach that leverages technology
  3. Developing an institution-wide cloud strategy to help the institution select the right sourcing and solution strategies *
  4. Developing a staffing and organizational model to accommodate the changing IT environment and to facilitate openness and agility
  5. Facilitating a better understanding of information security and finding appropriate balance between infrastructure openness and security
  6. Funding information technology strategically*
  7. Determining the role of online learning and developing a sustainable strategy for that role
  8. Supporting the trends toward IT consumerization and bring-your-own device *
  9. Transforming the institution’s business with information technology*
  10. Using analytics to support critical institutional outcomes*

* Also one of the 2012 Top-Ten IT Issues

 

The report:

https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM1333.pdf

Each section concludes with a series of strategic questions to consider about each point. In addition to the paper itself, there’s some supporting material on a companion website.

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