My fifth UB column for 2007 is now available in the October issue as well as online: “Demand Print or Print On Demand?” For a reason unknown to me, the online resource box of the column is offered as a graphic file instead of the usual link list. So, here are these links for your […]
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Higher Ed Experts Update: Stats and facts on how admissions offices use social media
I’m glad to introduce the first event of a new series called “30 minutes with a Higher Ed Expert.” The plan is to try to schedule one of those free online events per month. As regular readers might know I signed a yearly contract with WebEx for Higher Ed Experts, and I thought it would […]
Need to make your case to get started with online videos at your institution?
The good folks at the Pew Internet and American Life Project have just made your life a bit easier by releasing today a new 28-page report about online videos. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between February 15 to March 7, 2007, among […]
Interested in the state of print and electronic publications in higher education? Take the online survey now to receive the results with an executive summary highlighting best practices!
I’ve put together a short online survey to get a better idea of the state of print and electronic publications in higher education. The results of this survey will be used for my next University Business column to be published in October 2007 and for a study I’m conducting on this topic. My goal is […]
47% of Internet users have enough bandwidth to watch your online videos at home
Just a quick post today for Independence Day in the US. According to a report about broadband usage released yesterday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 47% of Internet users had a high-speed connection to the Internet at home in March 2007 (vs. 42% in 2006 and 30% in 2005). The survey of […]
4 questions to U.S. News & World Report about Morse Code, Robert Morse’s new blog about the college rankings
I first read about Morse Code, the new blog authored by Robert Morse, the director of data research for U.S. News & World Report behind the methodologies and surveys for the America’s Best Colleges annual rankings, on Andrew Careaga’s blog last Thursday. It appears that the blog was launched on May 15. As regular readers […]
How do adult Americans like their technology? Pew Internet Life & Project’s Typology of information technology users
The Pew Internet Life & Project has just published its latest report: “A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users.” It is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet, data gathered through telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between February 15 and April 6, 2006, […]
How universities and colleges communicate with their students’ (helicopter) parents
I’ve already posted about helicopter parents, this new breed of college parents. It’s difficult to ignore them when you work on a campus. And, we shouldn’t. Never has a generation of parents been so involved in their kids college life, which is why they have become one of our main target audiences (the fact that […]
Ask your questions to Diane Oblinger, co-editor of “Educating the Net Generation,” today at 2PM ET
Have you read “Educating the Net Generation,” a free PDF e-book published by Educause? In the post I wrote about it 2 years ago, I mentioned that this collection of essays published by Educause would help spread the word that Web 101 wasn’t enough anymore in colleges and universities. In other words, it was a […]
Are Australian freshmen really digital natives?
Georgina Hibberd, the soul of Templatedata, is back from her blog hiatus and writes about a very interesting study done the University of Melbourne in Australia: First year students’ experience with technology: are they really digital natives? This study of 2000 students was conducted in March 2006, during the first two weeks of their first […]