vol. 28 no. 4 campustechnology.com December 2014 Empowering the World of Higher Education IN THIS ISSUE 6 | WHY WEARABLES ARE THE NEW GATEWAYS TO HUMAN KNOWLEDGE Wearable devices like Google Glass are opening up exciting new possibilities for teaching and learning. 10 | HOW SNHU DEVELOPS 650-PLUS ONLINE COURSES PER YEAR Course development at Southern New Hampshire University — the country’s fastest growing nonprofit online educator — is a major endeavor. 13 | HIRING IN HIGHER ED I.T. Campus IT departments are looking for candidates with skill sets in mobile, big data and more — but HIGHER ED: will the best talent be lost to the corporate sector? 17 | FLIPPING THE LECTURE HALL Columbia University is experimenting with the flipped classroom model in large lecture courses. MEET THE 19 | HOW WILL CAMPUS NETWORKS HANDLE THE INTERNET OF THINGS’ 26 BILLION DEVICES? The IoT will challenge wireless networks with big data, security concerns, bandwidth demands and more. CHIEF 22 | HIGHER ED: MEET THE CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER Some universities are creating a new C-level title focused on moving the academy into the digital age. 28 | USING VIDEO GRADING TO HELP DIGITAL STUDENTS SUCCEED Creating videos to supplement the grading process can help keep learners on track. DEPARTMENTS 2 | LOGIN Does Higher Ed Need a Chief Digital Officer? OFFICER CAMPUS & INDUSTRY iPad Program Cuts Degree Cost 3 | 32 | C-LEVEL VIEW Giving Learners a New Point of View 35 | ABOUT US/INDEX LOGI N ADVISORYBOARD Link Alander Vice Chancellor and CIO, Lone Star College System (TX) Does Higher Ed Need a Chief Jill Albin-Hill CIO, Dominican University (IL) Digital Officer? Keith Bailey Technology is fundamentally changing the nature of higher Director, Office of Online Learning, University of Georgia education — and its strategic leadership. Edward Chapel VP for IT, Montclair State University (NJ) I MUST ADMIT, I’m skeptical of any new C-level title, espe- being a chief telephone officer when the phone was first Maya Georgieva Associate Director, Center for Innovation in Teaching and cially one as amorphous as chief digital officer. What can introduced. People wanted to understand the strategy Learning, NYU Stern School of Business another executive accomplish that isn’t covered by existing behind it, how to implement it and how to use it. They won- Thomas Hoover leadership and the talented people throughout an organiza- dered if it would disrupt their life. Eventually everyone fig- Associate Vice Chancellor and CIO, tion? And what exactly does “digital” mean, anyway? ured out how to use a phone and it became part of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga The definition of digital is particularly unclear in higher edu- workflow. There is a chance that will happen with this and Kim Cliett Long Director, The Center for Excellence in Distance Learning, cation, and it varies from institution to institution. It has a lot you won’t need a chief digital officer anymore. Everybody in Wiley College (TX) to do with online learning, but could also include things like the building will be a digital officer.” Alexandra M. Pickett social media, digital libraries, mobile technology, data analyt- How do you know whether or not you need a CDO? In “Don’t Associate Director, SUNY Learning Network, I State University of New York ics and more. A better way to think about the “D” in CDO Let a Chief Digital Officer Steal the Best Part of Your Job,” Sue Talley might be disruptive change: the way technology is fundamen- Forbes columnist Dan Woods provides a helpful scale: Dean of Technology, Capella University (online) tally redefining higher education. “If you think the role of CDO is passé, it is likely you work Arguably, it’s already the strategic role of the CIO to guide at a company that is a digital native, like Amazon, Facebook, hand and are in the thick of a struggle. a university through technology change. Google, or that ilk. To the staff at these firms CDO means “If the idea of a CDO just seems like a fad or irrelevant, it But disruptive change is so big, so all- nothing. You might as well just add digital to everyone’s title, is likely that the impact of the current digital transformation encompassing, that perhaps a CDO is because everyone is focused on optimizing a business that that is changing almost every industry is perhaps lost on needed to help bring it into focus — at has digital DNA. your company. Or you could be in the rare company or least until it becomes second nature to “If you already have a CDO or wonder how a CDO might industry, and there are some out there, that really will not be everyone on campus. As Sree Sreeniva- help accomplish a variety of digital initiatives at your com- digitized in the foreseeable future.” san, former CDO at Columbia Univer- pany, you probably have a transformation underway and are Where does your institution fall on the CDO scale? sity, noted in this month’s cover story, “A attempting to figure out how to make it work. Such compa- Rhea Kelly, Continue the conversation. Executive Editor chief digital officer is the equivalent to nies are usually wide awake to the digital transformation at E-mail me at [email protected]. 2 CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY | December 2014 Campus+Industry TECHNOLOGY HAPPENINGS IN HIGHER EDUCATION IPAD PROGRAM CUTS DEGREE to a university statement. Read the full range of positions and institution types KEEPING UP WITH WIFI DEMAND. COST. Lynn University in Florida will story online. to explore the role of OER in higher Illinois State University is upgrading slash the cost of a degree for non- ed. Among faculty who are aware of its wireless network to support more traditional students by launching an SHARING MUSIC. The 4,200 stu- OER, 79 percent reported that they than 30,000 mobile and wireless de- evening undergraduate degree program dents and 600-plus faculty at Berklee use it in some capacity. Read the full vices, including collaboration tools and delivered through the iPad Mini. Start- College of Music (MA) now have a new story online. classroom technology. With students ing in fall 2015, “adult students will way to file their digital assets. The insti- bringing up to five mobile and wire- be able to pursue their undergraduate tution, which has campuses in Boston ALLOCATING INTERNET2. Internet2 less devices onto campus, and fac- degrees online, on campus or through and Valencia, Spain, recently contracted has added a new resource that en- ulty using Apple TV, Chromecast and a combination of both for about the with Widen for use of its Media Col- ables its national education network to other technologies in the classrooms, cost of a single year’s tuition for a lective for cloud-based digital asset be divided into segments that can be the university’s legacy WiFi network traditional degree program,” according management. The Widen service will allocated for use as multiple, discrete couldn’t provide the coverage, reliabil- be used as a shared database to make private networks by specific research ity and speed that users have come to contents — both audio and visual files — or other user communities. The “Flow- expect, especially in high-density ar- searchable, accessible and shareable. Space Firewall” has been installed in eas. To bring its WiFi up to speed, the Read the full story online. the Internet2 production network, al- university’s Administrative Technologies lowing it to be partitioned across nearly department is rolling out an 802.11ac OER AWARENESS. Nearly two- 40 100G-attached access nodes solution from Aruba Networks. Read thirds of faculty members in U.S. high- throughout the country. With the new the full story online. er education are generally unaware of firewall in place, one allocation will be open educational resources (OER), prevented from consuming resources BIG DATA DEGREE. 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