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The Wake County Public School System Uses Biscom Delivery Server (BDS) To: Ensure Privacy of Student and Employee Files, Comply With the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and Eliminate

whitepaper Despite the fact that both student, and employee, records contained sensitive information that needed to be sent securely, regulatory compliance was a large challenge. The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) is one of the twenty largest school...

Tags: tcp - ip

[16 May 2008]

University Optimizes Security for Campuswide Network, Increases IT Efficiency

whitepaper The University needs to safeguard private information such as student records, commercially valuable research, and financial transactions. La Trobe University, a leading higher education institution in Australia, had to automate network access...

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

University Simplifies IT Management, Speeds Up File Search Time With Desktop Tool

whitepaper University administrators at each campus need to update student information, work on research projects, and perform other administrative duties. Syddansk Universitet (the University of Southern Denmark) is a leading research school with four...

Tags: desktop systems - pcs

[15 May 2008]

Create Tests, Rubrics, and More to Assess Student Performance

whitepaper Teachers can determine whether a student has grasped the concepts of a lesson in a variety of ways. One of the most important jobs a teacher has is measuring the knowledge and understanding of his or her students.

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[13 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Process not bureaucracy

Comment One student put it to me that when it comes to change, people resent and resist it at all costs. Managers tend to recoil from any discussion about process because they equate it with bureaucracy. They're wrong, says the Naked CIO.

Tags: project management, process

[12 May 2008]

Get Started With Project-Based Learning

whitepaper Project-based learning emphasizes long-term, multidisciplinary assignments and activities that are student centered and focus on real-world problems and issues. The teacher serves more as a facilitator and assigns students tasks that need to be...

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[11 May 2008]

Students Use Online Collaboration to Improve Study Habits and Learning Outcomes

whitepaper To reduce spending, the IT department decided to replace its aging, expensive, in-house student e-mail solution with a hosted solution. In Joplin, Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) offers students a high-quality education while striving to...

Tags: collaborative web

[10 May 2008]

Microsoft making a move on Facebook?

News Facebook, founded in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, has become one of the hottest properties on the internet because of its rapid growth and the loyalty of its users. Microsoft gauged Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition after...

Tags: facebook, yahoo, microsoft

[08 May 2008]

Vendor Aims to Double Customer Base in Three Years With Software as a Service

whitepaper It wanted to expand its market by helping schools to comply with Dutch government legislation for managing student records electronically. Kooijman software, an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) in the Netherlands, develops record management...

Tags: database management

[02 May 2008]

University Builds Universal Access With Learning Portal

whitepaper This facilitates student collaboration, speeds up the dissemination of important news, and improves information sharing across the university. Ma Chung University, a recently established Indonesian tertiary institution, wanted a digital gateway to...

Tags: application servers

[02 May 2008]

University Improves Remote Access, Cuts IT Costs, and Enhances Student Experience

whitepaper To provide the best educational environment it can, a major public university offers its students access to specialized applications by installing software on student systems and providing remote access over a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Tags: vpns

[14 Apr 2008]

Setting Up a Help Desk: Students Learning From Experience

whitepaper In a regional city, there are limited opportunities for students whilst studying to obtain experience working in the Help Desk environment, as being off campus impacts on the student's other papers. Building a Help Desk from "The boots up", gaining...

Tags: customer support services

[12 Apr 2008]

Thin Client Solves Weighty Student Record Problem in California

whitepaper California School Information Services (CSIS) was created with a mandate to help local education agencies (LEAs) develop and maintain effective and efficient pupil information and reporting systems. The challenge was to build a flexible information...

Tags: thin clients, client, education, reporting

[10 Apr 2008]

The Ohio State University Newark and Central Ohio Technical College

whitepaper The shared Newark campus of The Ohio State University (OSU) and Central Ohio Technical College(COTC) provides its growing student population with leading-edge IT services using Dell storage, wireless and network equipment.

Tags: sans, dell, students, ethernet

[10 Apr 2008]

Sandy Hill School District Case Study

whitepaper Founded in 1894, Sandy Hill School District (SHSD) is the largest public school district in the state of Anywhere, with a district population of 482,618 and a student population of 84,169. The Sandy Hill School District Case Study was prepared for...

Tags: procurement and sourcing, population, school, district

[10 Apr 2008]

United States Immigration Law in a World of Terror

whitepaper Immediately after the attacks, the news media filled with reports that the terrorists had entered the United States on student visas, Immigration & Naturalization ("INS") border officials and State Department consular officers had failed to screen...

Tags: network security, united states, attacks, failed

[10 Apr 2008]

Authenticated Network Access: A Model for General Access Network Ports and Mobile Computing

whitepaper Providing network connectivity for students and faculty in the classroom, as well as providing networking services to the student housing facilities, recently became a critical issue for the University of Utah to address.

Tags: directory services, utah, facilities, demand

[10 Apr 2008]

Success Story - Wireless Monitoring and Integrated Registration System

whitepaper The onboard system will utilize bio-readers to scan finger prints of the student bus riders, keeping an accurate to-the-stop accounting of where the students are in your school transit system. A Texas Corporation approached AVIDWireless to develop...

Tags: bluetooth, school, accounting, students

[10 Apr 2008]

Old Concerns With New Distance Education Research

whitepaper Unfortunately, to answer the question, many educators use a strategy of comparing distance courses with traditional campus-based courses in terms of student achievement. Distance educators who have gone through the process of designing, developing...

Tags: online - distance education, distance, courses, instruction

[10 Apr 2008]

Assessing the Relative Merits of Courseware Management Tools Used in Engineering Education

whitepaper These perspectives correspond to the individuals who are involved in delivering a course: the content expert, the web developer, the student, the teaching assistant, and the system administrator. Courseware management tools (CMTs) are software...

Tags: courseware, facilitate, materials, administrator

[10 Apr 2008]

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