Data: Roads Traveled, Lessons Learned

Autor/inn/en	Green, Kenneth C.; Smallen, David; Leach, Karen; Hawkins, Brian L.
Titel	Data: Roads Traveled, Lessons Learned
Quelle	In: EDUCAUSE Review, 40 (2005) 2, S.14 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1527-6619
Schlagwörter	Internet; Information Technology; Benchmarking; Longitudinal Studies; Budgets; Higher Education; Data Collection; Interviews; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Informationstechnologie; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Finanzhaushalt; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Data capture; Datensammlung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; USA
Abstract	In their efforts to better understand, plan for, and make decisions about information technology on campus, higher education leaders need data. They need benchmarking and longitudinal data. They need data about IT budgets, expenditures, and investments. They need data about IT staffing. And they need data about IT programs, planning, policy, and procedural issues at colleges and universities across the United States. But collecting data about campus activities is not an easy task. What are some of the challenges and complexities involved? How have the key IT data issues changed over the years? What is being done well in the collection of the data, and what needs to be done better? To address these and related questions, EDUCAUSE Review interviewed the directors of three widely cited and respected IT data-collection projects: Kenneth C. Green, for the Campus Computing Project http://www.campuscomputing.net/); David Smallen and Karen Leach, for the COSTS Project (http://www.costsproject.org); and Brian L. Hawkins, for the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (http://www. educause.edu/coredata/). The results of those interviews are provided in this article. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10