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"Information technology in higher education has never been easy to manage, but these days doing so seems like a choice between the merely difficult and the impossible.That is partly because so much is changing so quickly—technology and higher education, opportunities and expectations, requirements and funding—and partly because we are trying to apply existing methods to new problems.
With help from the IT Issues Panel and a representative sample of IT leaders in the community, EDUCAUSE has selected the 2016 top 10 IT issues and strategic technologies in higher education. The issues reflect three overarching themes:
Divest— Higher education IT organizations are divesting of locally optimized and delivered technologies, architectures, and processes and moving to standardized, and cloud-based services and architectures.
Reinvest— Institutions are reinvesting in key areas to ensure readiness to manage a re-architected IT function and support mission differentiation with IT.
Differentiate— Colleges and universities are using IT as a strategic differentiator to enhance the institution’s particular culture, missions, and strategies, particularly in analytics and in teaching and learning."
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