Digital Transformation in Higher Education

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Increased digital capabilities hold the promise to modernize every aspect of the student, faculty, and the staff experience. Learn how colleges and universities are approaching digital transformation in this five-part series of papers by higher education author and strategist Jeff Selingo. Download selected papers below. 

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Paper 1

Strategies for Digital Transformation in Higher Ed

Read Strategies for Digital Transformation in Higher Ed to discover the four areas that institutional leaders need to focus on to drive change:

  • Modernizing campus information systems;
  • Blending different streams of data for better insight;
  • Using technology to enrich the student experience; and
  • Harnessing computing power to accelerate research breakthroughs.
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Paper 2

Building the Foundation of the Digital Campus

Read Building the Foundation of the Digital Campus to gain insight on how cloud computing is allowing colleges, no matter their size, to access big tech capabilities. In this paper, uncover:

  • How to conduct a readiness test to determine if your institution can reap the benefits of its investments;
  • The strategy for moving to the cloud from developing a business case to assessing talent; and
  • Three case studies about the cloud migration journey at Florida State, Cal Poly, and Valencia College.
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Enriching the Student Experience

Read Enriching the Student Experience to explore why the decade ahead is about connecting the physical infrastructure of colleges with the services infrastructure into a continuous and personalized student experience. In this paper, learn:

  • How institutions are mapping the experience of their students to understand their biggest needs;
  • The three critical areas to address in enriching the student experience: service, access, and learning approach;
  • Case studies from St. Louis University, the Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC), California State University at Fresno, and others about their strategies to enriching the student experience.
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Paper 4

Turning Data Into Wisdom

Read Turning Data Into Wisdom to understand how colleges and universities can better leverage data to gain an edge on performance and outcomes. In this paper, learn:

  • The critical first steps in making a campus more data-driven by ensuring the robustness of your own data and improving proper data accountability, especially at the very top of the organization;
  • The four key areas where institutions can draw wisdom from data to accelerate their transformations and build new business models for sustainability: enrollment, operations, student success, and advancement;
  • Case studies from Penn State, Wabash College, Virginia Tech, and others about their strategies to building a data-driven culture.
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Paper 5

Accelerating the Academic Research Enterprise

Read Accelerating the Academic Research Enterprise to learn how universities are using the cloud and on-campus computer power to scale academic research and secure more external funding. In this paper, uncover:

  • How expanding an institution’s research portfolio typically comes from new domains like the life sciences, social sciences, and data-driven sciences and why supercomputers universities have on site aren’t usually designed for such research.
  • Ways a cloud computing approach eases the sharing of large data sets with collaborators and the larger research community, improving the security of the data in the process.
  • Three case studies from Old Dominion University, Stanford University, and National University of Singapore.
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