Describes the registration system at Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, which allows centralized administration and self-signup for access to the Hopkins network. Reception of the system has been overwhelmingly positive. (SLD)

An annual survey to determine pressing campus information technology (IT) challenges revealed that campus IT staffing challenges have eased, while security management has emerged as an issue of strategic importance. Numerous other findings were also gathered. (EV)

Surveyed faculty at Ball State University to determine what factors they believe are important either in facilitating or inhibiting adoption of instructional technology. Found that major barriers include technology reliability, learning to use new technologies, uncertainty about its worth, and lack of institutional support. Includes…

Discusses the critical success factors that must be in place for an academic unit or faculty member to implement a Web-based portfolio system--a tightly integrated collection of Web-based multimedia documents that includes curricular standards, course assignments, student artifacts in response to assignments, and reviewer feedback to the student's…

Describes an Internet-based image database system connected to a flexible, in-class teaching and learning tool (the Madison Digital Image Database) developed at James Madison University to bring digital images to the arts and humanities classroom. Discusses content, copyright issues, ensuring system effectiveness, instructional impact, sharing the…

Discusses key issues in addressing the challenge of Web accessibility for people with disabilities, including tools for Web authoring, repairing, and accessibility validation, and relevant legal issues. Presents standards for Web accessibility, including the Section 508 Standards from the Federal Access Board, and the World Wide Web Consortium's…

Describes the reengineering of business practices that took place at the University of Wisconsin-Superior when they implemented an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, PeopleSoft Student Administration (SA). Discusses lessons learned. (EV)

Used asynchronous electronic discussion groups across sections of a required introductory U.S. Government course. Findings for three course sections show the ways in which initial parameters affect student participation and perceived value. (SLD)

Studied the efforts of Hong Kong to embrace information technology (IT) in education, focusing on a survey of IT skills and attitudes among four cohorts of incoming college freshmen. Findings for 2,330 students over the 4 years show that in each successive year freshmen report higher levels of computer skills and greater confidence in using…

Studied the perceptions of chief financial and information officers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software implementation best practices. Usable responses from 159 respondents show consensus for the most part between the perceptions of the two groups and describe some best practices that represent common ground. (SLD)

Describes a model for thinking about information professionals working in information technology (IT). This Information Resources Model describes the roles of information professionals and how these roles relate to users of information resources. (SLD)

Discusses trends in e-learning, such as: its use has crossed a threshold level which has brought it to the serious attention of policy makers, institutional planners are beginning to use the Web to restructure campus services, and there is growing interest in finding a way to share online academic materials. (EV)

Explores how integrating best practices for "deeper learning" with the robust tools provided by course management systems can create a very effective, engaging, and student-centered learning environment. (EV)

Describes a planning framework that provides the technical foundation necessary to support Web-based relationships and applications in higher education. The framework enables delivery of information, tools, and services to all of a university's constituents. (EV)

Discusses how achieving compliance with the federal government's new Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) will require higher education institutions to establish, on a very tight schedule, systems to track international students and share data about them with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). (EV)