Getting back up after a disaster
By Beverley Head | 20th February, 2012 | Features, IT, News, | Lessons have been learnt after the Queensland floods with IT managers looking at cloud computing and shared storage. Beverley Head reports. One in seven Australian businesses don’t spend a red cent on disaster recovery or business continuity, and more than More..
By Beverley Head | 20th February, 2012 | Features, IT, News, | Lessons have been learnt after the Queensland floods with IT managers looking at cloud computing and shared storage. Beverley Head reports. One in seven Australian businesses don’t spend a red cent on disaster recovery or business continuity, and more than More..
IT chiefs tighten belts
By Beverley Head | 23rd January, 2012 | Finance, IT, News, |
Campuses are adapting to the lean times by networking and even sharing resources with nearby institutions. Large organisations across Australia will increase their IT budgets by just 1.9 per cent this year – a figure that won’t match inflation. The situation More..
By Beverley Head | 23rd January, 2012 | Finance, IT, News, |
Campuses are adapting to the lean times by networking and even sharing resources with nearby institutions. Large organisations across Australia will increase their IT budgets by just 1.9 per cent this year – a figure that won’t match inflation. The situation More..
The Blog Rankings – The lecturer who won’t let go
By Jennifer Bennett | 23rd January, 2012 | IT, News, |
University of Queensland lecturer Tim Kastelle has been using the internet for most of his professional life: as an undergrad at Princeton in the 1980s he was among the first students in the world to be given an email address More..
By Jennifer Bennett | 23rd January, 2012 | IT, News, |
University of Queensland lecturer Tim Kastelle has been using the internet for most of his professional life: as an undergrad at Princeton in the 1980s he was among the first students in the world to be given an email address More..
The Blog Rankings: Intimate world of the scholar blogger
By Jennifer Bennett | 12th December, 2011 | Features, IT, News, |
The Blog Rankings has interviewed many academics who are fans of the platform for sharing their work and facilitating discussion, but “more useful than peer review” is a new one. Mel Gregg, a senior lecturer in gender and cultural studies More..
By Jennifer Bennett | 12th December, 2011 | Features, IT, News, |
The Blog Rankings has interviewed many academics who are fans of the platform for sharing their work and facilitating discussion, but “more useful than peer review” is a new one. Mel Gregg, a senior lecturer in gender and cultural studies More..
In-house experts a challenge for university CIOs
By Beverley Head | 12th December, 2011 | Features, IT, | We are coming to a time when students may make decisions based on the IT capacity of a university. When Kerry Holling accepted the position as director of information technology services at the University of Western Sydney recently, he brought More..
By Beverley Head | 12th December, 2011 | Features, IT, | We are coming to a time when students may make decisions based on the IT capacity of a university. When Kerry Holling accepted the position as director of information technology services at the University of Western Sydney recently, he brought More..
The Blog Rankings -students recruit students
By Jennifer Bennett | 28th November, 2011 | Features, IT, Postgraduate, |
As anyone who has ever attended university knows, the difference between the world presented in the glossy publicity material and the one where you actually attend lectures can be stark. Students with older siblings or friends who have been to uni More..
By Jennifer Bennett | 28th November, 2011 | Features, IT, Postgraduate, |
As anyone who has ever attended university knows, the difference between the world presented in the glossy publicity material and the one where you actually attend lectures can be stark. Students with older siblings or friends who have been to uni More..
Technology spending set to rise
By Beverley Head | 28th November, 2011 | Features, IT, Management, | Increasingly tight budgets mean that spending on technology will be constrained in the education sector over the next 12 months according to leading IT analyst Gartner. But from 2013-2015 the organisation expects a significant uptick, particularly spending on telecommunications and More..
By Beverley Head | 28th November, 2011 | Features, IT, Management, | Increasingly tight budgets mean that spending on technology will be constrained in the education sector over the next 12 months according to leading IT analyst Gartner. But from 2013-2015 the organisation expects a significant uptick, particularly spending on telecommunications and More..
Is it time to update your online status?
By Campus Review | 31st October, 2011 | Analysis, IT, | Last week Lindsay Tanner said that the students of tomorrow will be born digital: they’ll have known nothing else but the web 2.0 world. They’ll want to be entertained as they learn. They’ll demand instant feedback. They’ll compare learning experiences with More..
By Campus Review | 31st October, 2011 | Analysis, IT, | Last week Lindsay Tanner said that the students of tomorrow will be born digital: they’ll have known nothing else but the web 2.0 world. They’ll want to be entertained as they learn. They’ll demand instant feedback. They’ll compare learning experiences with More..
Policy settings imperative for security in BYO environment
By Beverley Head | 8th August, 2011 | Features, IT, | Universities should in theory be in the box seat in terms of the move toward BYO devices and desktop virtualisation courtesy of their student populations, which have for some time been connecting their own devices to university computer networks. However their More..
By Beverley Head | 8th August, 2011 | Features, IT, | Universities should in theory be in the box seat in terms of the move toward BYO devices and desktop virtualisation courtesy of their student populations, which have for some time been connecting their own devices to university computer networks. However their More..
Education bodies back eLearning project
By Beverley Head | 25th July, 2011 | Features, IT, | Innovation fund set up to help develop prototypes for open source learning system. By Beverley Head. A $200,000 eLearning Innovation Fund has been established to identify university developed e-learning projects that could, with a little more work and funding, be More..
By Beverley Head | 25th July, 2011 | Features, IT, | Innovation fund set up to help develop prototypes for open source learning system. By Beverley Head. A $200,000 eLearning Innovation Fund has been established to identify university developed e-learning projects that could, with a little more work and funding, be More..
What to do when higher ed providers go feral with IT
By Mark Ellis | 11th July, 2011 | Features, IT, | Good governance is compromised if management is in the dark about the processes supported by shadow systems writes Mark Ellis. Given the current sensitivity surrounding the international student market in Australia, it may be a little startling to realise that More..
By Mark Ellis | 11th July, 2011 | Features, IT, | Good governance is compromised if management is in the dark about the processes supported by shadow systems writes Mark Ellis. Given the current sensitivity surrounding the international student market in Australia, it may be a little startling to realise that More..
Shock of the new: power bills to force an IT rethink
By Beverley Head | 4th July, 2011 | Features, IT, | If electricity prices surge post-carbon tax, universities could face huge extra cost burdens because computing is a prime suspect when it comes to sucking up power. Starting this month, many Australians face a significant spike in their electricity bills as More..
By Beverley Head | 4th July, 2011 | Features, IT, | If electricity prices surge post-carbon tax, universities could face huge extra cost burdens because computing is a prime suspect when it comes to sucking up power. Starting this month, many Australians face a significant spike in their electricity bills as More..
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