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InformationWeek Education: Your New Guide To Higher Education IT

Having a son who just completed his first semester at university, I can attest to the value (even at exorbitant expense) of the traditional on-campus experience in honing learning and independent-thinking skills. Not only is my son regularly interacting with people of different backgrounds and viewpoints, but he's also learning how to get along with roommates and floormates, manage his own time and academic workload, and deal with university-issue bureaucracy and arrogance ... without mom and dad's interference. You can't get those life experiences by logging on from home.

But it would be a big mistake for college educators and administrators to think that technology-intensive learning, whether on campus or off, is just a marginal, incremental consideration. Even if higher education is an industry and calling like no other, it must grow and evolve with its tech-literate clientele. Or it will whither.

Such is the philosophy and coverage mandate of InformationWeek Education, our new website and quarterly digital magazine for technology executives and managers at colleges and universities. InformationWeek Education will bring the enterprise IT credentials and credibility of InformationWeek, providing news, analysis and expert commentary on the technology issues reshaping higher ed. Coverage areas will range from the latest digital learning and course management systems to mobility, cloud computing, analytics, enterprise applications, security, privacy, networking and much more. We'll also enlist CIOs, academics and administrators at colleges and universities to write about their frontline experiences and challenges with technology.

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• 2013: The Year Of Engagement
• Intelligence Agencies Must Operate More Like An Enterprise
• CES 2013: 5 Dumbest Ideas
• Research: 2012 Mobility & BYOD Staffing Survey
• Why Linux Virtualization Is Ready for Prime Time
• CES 2013: 5 Dumbest Ideas
• Is Your Network Ready for BYOD?
• 2013 InformationWeek 500: Nominations Now Accepted


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