Education

Technology is now an integrated aspect of today’s schools, with one-to-one computing enhancing and enriching the way we teach and learn. K-12 schools were expected to spend $4.7 billion on technology in the past year, with no sign of slowing, but the safety of the students who are using these technologies is often overlooked. In an article on eSchoolNews, I discuss How every school can promote safety in a digital...

Digital Learning Day for 2016 just passed, and it with came a wealth of insight on EdTech about the key issues and challenges surrounding digital learning. The focus of this year was on Digital Equity, the concept that every student in every school and community should have access to technology.

Educause recently profiled the Top 10 IT Issues and strategic technologies in higher education, a list that aims to help higher educational institutions gain insight from trends to help inform IT planning. The profile focuses on three separate movements occurring in higher education IT: divesting of technologies and practices that are no longer efficient, reinvesting in capabilities and resources, and differentiating through IT’s contribution to support teaching, learning and...

Absolute has helped recover more than 38,000 devices from 112 countries, thanks to our technology and the support of our Absolute Investigations team. In 2015 alone, we conducted more than 5,700 theft investigations. Aside from helping to solve thousands of cases, our theft recoveries can have a meaningful impact on a case-by-case basis. In education, for example, the theft of a device can greatly impact the educational outcomes of...

Data governance is important in any organization, but organizations that protect the information of minors have a more critical role. Educational institutions have a responsibility to build out effective data governance frameworks, and to report to parents on how student data is being protected and used. Not only is this important for the privacy of the minors in question, but also because identity theft for children is both difficult...