Education

The University of British Columbia is making buildings smarter with green initiatives. UBC transformed their building network to obtain highly granular, digital insights into traffic patterns. Using these data analytics, they improved operational efficiencies, resulting in 33 percent lower gas emiss…

Like Renee Patton who is Gearing up for EDUCAUSE 2016, I am equally thrilled to be co-presenting with Bruce Maas and Bob Turner from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Our session, Effective Threat Detection: The Key to Constraining Our Attackers on Thursday October 27th from 8 to 8:50 am, will…

When people think about the impact of technology on education, they tend to focus on how the Internet has changed the classroom experience. Blended learning is now a common delivery model in universities and vocational education, and the use of video to connect students in remote locations is common…

There’s never been a better time to attend EDUCAUSE! Who wouldn’t want to hear education revolutionaries and TED Talk alumnae, Sugata Mitra and Susan Cain speak, along with the best thinkers in Higher Education IT? EDUCAUSE is higher education’s premiere technology event, and this year thousan…

When Callie was ten years old, she was diagnosed with leukemia. Then, after two years of chemotherapy and three years of remission, Callie relapsed when she was fifteen. To help Callie beat cancer, a bone marrow transplant was needed. However, due to the risk of exposure to germs post-transplant, Ca…

Last week, we hosted a Twitter chat that discussed all things digital campus, including trends in higher education, how to make campuses safer and more productive, as well as some highly successful education customer stories. Industry experts Navneet Johal (Research Analyst of Education Technology f…

Contemporary education systems face a range of challenges, including delivering on their equity commitments and ensuring that all students regardless of location or socio-economic status have access to a high quality education.  While governments have invested in a range of proactive initiatives to…

In this exciting election year, we at Cisco are very proud to have supported the first Presidential Debate held on September 26th at Hofstra University. Although Hofstra has hosted past Presidential debates in 2008 and 2012, this year they had less than nine weeks to design and deliver a secure and…

When it comes to learning, particularly at the organizational level, one of the major problems we run into is this sort of “evolve or die” mentality. We live in a world that seems almost predisposed to tell us where we are weak. When you ask most people to point out their weaknesses, the answer come…