Posted by Lexi Rivetti, UCB student intern at UCOP. Tucked away inside South Hall, the oldest campus building in the UC system, is Berkeley’s School of Information. To undergraduates, South Hall is a mystery, for classes in the school only…
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Posted by Candace Jones, web manager, UCOP. UCOP participated in Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day on April 23. The Web and Application Services group joined in the festivities to talk about the information technology field and,…
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Posted by Jim Phillips, Director, Learning Technologies and IT Accessibility Officer, UCSC. In a recent EDUCAUSE article titled Taming Application Sprawl, David Koehler provides an easy-to-read overview of the portfolio management methodology used by campus leadership to closely consider…
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Posted by Louis Fox, CENIC President and CEO. Today, a lot of research involves remote collaboration between laboratories and universities all over the world. But collaboration can sometimes be hindered by a network design for big-data research – the Science DMZ….
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Posted by Jenn Stringer, Associate CIO, Academic Engagement, UCB. Active Learning isn’t new, but it is gaining ground as a teaching modality on many of our campuses. The “Flipped Classroom” is just the latest popular flavor of active learning. Active…
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Posted by Charles McIntyre, UCSC. As our collaboration survey contest winds down, we picked three entries at random to get the remaining free UCCSC tickets. The winners are: Patrick Windmiller (UCSB) Glenn Blackler (UCSC) Jessica Hilt (UCSD) See you…
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February 19, 2015 All Articles 0
Posted by Scott Cebula, UC Health IT Initiative. The five UC medical centers are working together on an initiative to share best practices, leverage economies of scale, and thereby return dollars to higher-value activities. As the cost of delivering healthcare…
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February 13, 2015 All Articles 0
Post by Charles McIntyre, UCSC. This week, we randomly picked two entries in the UC NeXt survey for the free UCCSC tickets. The winners are: Jonathon Wilson (UCLA) David Rusting (UCOP) See you at Riverside this summer! A common…
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February 5, 2015 All Articles 1
Post by Charles McIntyre, UCSC. The UC NeXt group, an ITLC subcommittee, wants to discover and connect the pockets of innovation and collaboration across UC. We have a survey so all UC IT staff can participate and share…
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January 15, 2015 All Articles 20
Post by Charles McIntyre, UCSC. It seems like everything I read and hear these days, from EDUCAUSE to Harvard Business Review to MBA programs, is discussing how to deliver more innovation in IT. Webster’s definition of innovation is “to begin…
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