Why business intelligence is important to HE institutions

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 [...]

The impact of digitization on higher education

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.

Information-rich and attention-poor

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 [...]

Does technology change the nature of knowledge?

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 [...]

Six ways to make Web 2.0 work

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 [...]