Without vehicle fleets, many higher ed institutions would function in gridlock. Facilities technicians wouldn't be able to go out and make repairs, and police would have difficulty patrolling. "Fleet is a vital part of keeping an entire organization moving," says Carlos Berriz, Florida International University's fleet manager. Yet the realities in higher ed vary from […]
Seven years ago, Western Kentucky University said goodbye to its time-consuming, paper-based way of issuing financial aid refunds and said hello to BankMobile, an electronic disbursement service that has led to major savings. "Between student refunds and student payroll disbursements, we have eliminated having to issue 76,000 paper checks annually," says Belinda Higginbotham, bursar for […]
Below is a closer look at how two universities, Butler University in Indiana and the University of Florida, are enhancing learning videos for their online courses. Butler University: Adding quizzes to video Technology used: Panopto video platform for recording lectures Interactive boosts: Voiceover can be added to PowerPoint slides. When the instructor finds a place in the […]
Teenagers spend more of their time watching YouTube video clips than television, according to research from DEFY Media. Yet when they arrive at college, they're suddenly expected to sit in classrooms, concentrating on 50-minute lectures. The disconnect between students' digital lives and their classroom experience is narrowing as professors are increasingly embedding video in their […]
Two years ago, the human resources department at the University of Santa Monica was predominantly paper-based. Since then, the school has implemented an HR information system along with a new management platform called Employee Self-Onboarding by BambooHR. "The onboarding function absolutely changed my life," says Elisa Perry, HR director at the school. The new platform […]
Few of us would be surprised to learn that young adults have been the earliest adopters of social media. However, don't be fooled into thinking that older adults, particularly baby boomers, are not active users. In a 2017 study conducted by the Pew Research Center, nearly 7 in 10 Americans reported using social media "to […]
The words used in job descriptions can affect who applies, research has shown. Terms associated with masculine stereotypes—like aggressive, ambitious and leader—might deter female candidates. Removing these can increase the number of applicants by 42 percent, according to data from ZipRecruiter, an online hiring platform. Link to main story: Breaking the tech ceiling The National […]
Higher education is in the midst of significant change. Institutions are under pressure to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of operations while providing responsive, quality services to students. Many college and university leaders are turning to transformative technologies such as electronic forms, workflow automation and enterprise content management (ECM) to help them overcome these […]
In recent years, the requirements of public higher education institutions have changed drastically, increasing the pressure to modernize their IT systems. To meet those challenges, many universities are looking at available options, including the cloud. Pittsburg State University was faced with disparate, aging tools, requiring it to rely on manual processes that made it difficult […]
Eric Burns, co-founder and CEO, Panopto What are you seeing as the biggest trends in higher ed video? Lecture capture solutions are becoming as prevalent as email on college campuses, and institutions are using video in new ways to enhance pedagogy. For example, the flipped classroom has been something of a "silent revolution," helping instructors reclaim class […]
