By Tony Bates, on January 15th, 2010
Grush, M. (2010) BI Today: More than Just a Big, Fat Report Campus Technology, January 13
First a declaration of interest: my son is a senior designer/manager of business intelligence software for Oracle. However, I do believe that business intelligence software will become an increasingly important development in higher education, allowing all key decision-makers to analyse [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 2nd, 2010
Hampson, K. (2010) Notes on digitization in higher education Higher Education Management Group, January 2
An excellent blog on this topic, summarizing in succinct form some of the long-term implications of digitization (or should it be ‘digitalization’?) for higher education.
By Tony Bates, on September 13th, 2009
Nicholson, P. (2009) Information-rich and attention-poor Globe and Mail, September 12
In one of Canada’s national newspapers, the Globe and Mail, Peter Nicholson, the President of the Council of Canadian Academies (formerly named Academy of Sciences), writes about the impact of new information technology on the nature of knowledge. He makes a number of arguments, among [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 12th, 2009
Purpose of this blog
This is the first of three blogs that examine some basic assumptions about technology and education, based on a review of three books: ‘THE TOWER AND THE CLOUD‘, ‘CATCHING THE KNOWLEDGE WAVE‘, AND ‘THE INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES IN THE UNIVERSITY‘. (Click on the titles to see the reviews).
In this [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 25th, 2009
Chui, M., Miller, A. and Roberts, R. (2009) ‘Six ways to make Web 2.0 work’ The McKinsey Quarterly, Feb 2009
This is not an article for your academics but for your administrators. Based on research by McKinsey consultants, the article looks at successful implementation of web 2.0 tools for management and business.
Thanks to Burkhard Lehmann for [...]
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