On the second episode of PrioritiesEDU, EdScoop sits down with University of Tulsa CIO Paige Francis.

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PrioritiesEDU — Season 1, Episode 2: COVID-19, One Year In

On this episode of PrioritiesEDU, Jake sits down with Texas Tech University CIO Sam Segran to talk about technology strategy with an eye toward digital services.

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PrioritiesEDU — Season 1, Episode 3: Technology Strategy

On this episode of PrioritiesEDU, Jake sits down with Oral Roberts University CIO Michael Mathews and Dell Technologies' Jeffrey Lancaster to talk about student success, with an eye toward data and analytics.

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PrioritiesEDU — Season 1, Episode 4: Student Success

The massive shift to distance learning during the pandemic cast a sweeping spotlight on the challenges U.S. school systems continue to face trying to ensure every student has equitable access to online learning resources.

“There have been a number of new reports about this challenge, and every one seems to find that the problem is bigger than what we first thought. Not only are there [students who are] unconnected, but they're under-connected,” meaning their upload speeds can’t keep up with online classroom interaction, says Keith Krueger, CEO of the CoSN, the Consortium for School Networking.

New technology approaches — and a slice of radio spectrum known as Citizens Broadband Radio Service, recently released by federal authorities — may be of help to schools and communities that lack adequate or affordable access to broadband, says Dell Technologies Education Strategist Matt Dascoli on the podcast.

This podcast is sponsored by Dell Technologies.

Guests: Matt Dascoli, Education Strategist, Dell Technologies and Keith Krueger, CEO, Consortium for School Networking

Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group

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Ensuring equitable access to online learning resources

On this episode, Jake sits down with John Rathje, the CIO of Kent State University to talk about online learning, the student experience and more.

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PrioritiesEDU — Season 1, Episode 5: Online Learning

On this episode, Jake sits down with Jerry Sheehan, the CIO of San Diego State University and Verizon's Hayden Williams to talk about data protection and security when it comes to research's online learning and more. This episode is brought to you by Verizon.

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PrioritiesEDU — Season 1, Episode 6: Data Protection & Security

On this episode of PrioritiesEDU, Jake sits down with Ron Woody, Aric Kirkland and Kevin Akers to talk about the future of hybrid learning and how HyFlex classrooms and smart venues fit into it. This episode is brought to you by Verizon.

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PrioritiesEDU — Season 1, Episode 7: The Future of Hybrid Learning

Public venues, including sports stadiums, have made various technical upgrades to improve the user experience and adapt to new demands brought on by the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic. Higher education facilities are also changing as universities further pursue digital transformation. By leveraging a connected ecosystem, universities can deliver a more communal experience for students, faculty and staff as they move throughout the physical space on campus. 

There's a big focus on ingress and egress technologies, like understanding how people congregate to reduce congestion within the venue or how facial recognition can speed service, says Kevan Akers, principle consultant on smart venues at Verizon.

Guest: Kevan Akers, Principal Consultant, Smart Venues, Verizon

Host: Jake Williams, VP, SLED Content & Community, StateScoop & EdScoop

This podcast is produced by EdScoop and underwritten by Verizon.

Delivering communal experiences with smart venues

EdScoop's Cutting EDge Podcast has a new home on Soundcloud. Follow the revamped show at: https://soundcloud.com/edscoop-cutting-edge-pod and at www.cuttingedgepodcast.com
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On this week's episode of the Cutting EDge Podcast, Digital Pedagogy Lab founder Sean Michael Morris explains how he plans to connect with instructors after his move to edtech company Course Hero.

Jobs for the Future's Stephen Yadzinski discusses the Education Quality Outcomes Standards.

In the news this week:

The University of Washington named a new chief information officer.
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Bowdoin College is lending out laptops to all of its students, in addition to iPads.
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Kentucky recently launched a discussion platform for faculty and staff across the state's public institutions to discuss common challenges to student success.
edscoop.com/kentucky-launches-o…ss-student-success/

Hear more from the higher education information technology community every two weeks on the Cutting EDge podcast. Listen here: www.cuttingedgepodcast.com

Cutting EDge — March 1, 2022

Higher education institutions are looking for creative ways to improve student success, including more effective ways meet the evolving demands of hybrid instruction. For faculty, administrators and IT directors, that increasingly involves finding smarter technology solutions to make access to academic resources easier, more equitable and more secure.

One opportunity gaining wider attention among college officials is providing students and faculty standardized, secure laptops with enterprise-grade software, configured to provide single sign-on connections to on-campus, virtual and hybrid learning environments.

Guests: Kristin Kolodziej, senior surface specialist for U.S. education at Microsoft and Rob Curtin, director of higher education for worldwide education industry at Microsoft

Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group

This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for EdScoop and underwritten by Microsoft.

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Higher Education Integrated hardware/software

As K-to-12 school systems technology directors recover from the surge of supporting remote learning and teaching, many are now exploring how best to establish a more resilient and secure hybrid instruction environment.

One area getting a closer look are the laptops and software schools are using both for students and teachers.

Guests: Kali Alford, U.S. education Surface solutions specialist and David Comer, U.S. education Surface solutions director at Microsoft

Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group

This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for EdScoop and underwritten by Microsoft.

K-12 Education Technology

Hybrid learning has exposed the need for more uniform and secure access to academic resources. As higher education institutions continue to evolve in this environment, so does the need for modernized IT systems and infrastructure, says a longtime higher education technology leader. 

Creating a frictionless and successful experience for students and faculty remains a critical priority for higher education leaders. That means having reliable networks and servers and enhanced connectivity, according to Dell Technologies' Hernan Londono.

Guest: Hernan Londono, senior higher education strategist, Dell Technologies

Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group

This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for EdScoop and underwritten by Dell Technologies.

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IT modernization in higher education

On the first episode of EdScoop's Cutting EDge podcast, CSforAll's Ruthe Farmer weighs in on the importance of computer science education and where the movement is headed next.

Cutting EDge — Episode 1: CSforAll's Ruthe Farmer

On the second episode of EdScoop's Cutting EDge podcast, EdX's Nina Huntemann weighs in on how online education platforms have become increasingly important for colleges and universities.

Cutting EDge — Episode 2: EdX's Nina Huntemann

On this episode of Cutting EDge, EdScoop chatts with Maribeth Luftglass from Fairfax County Public Schools.

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Cutting EDge — Episode 3: Fairfax County's Maribeth Luftglass

On this episode of Cutting EDge, EdScoop chats with Wake County Public Schools' (North Carolina) Marlo Gaddis on the upcoming challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence.

Cutting EDge — Episode 4: Wake County's Marlo Gaddis

Identity governance plays an essential role for higher education institutions in their efforts to provide a seamless, reliable and secure user experience, says West Virginia University's CISO, which serves more than 21,000 undergraduates.

Colleges and universities have a diverse population — applicants, students, alumni, faculty, staff and contractors — and the potential for ever-changing access privileges to resources. Therefore, IT departments need a solution that can manage identity and access to systems, data and devices. Sponsored by SailPoint.

Guests: Alex Jalso, chief information security officer for West Virginia University and , Cullen Landrum, senior systems engineer at SailPoint

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Identity governance and security with WVU's Alex Jalso and SailPoint's Cullen Landrum

When higher education leaders started to realize the pandemic wasn’t going away, they had to move quickly to fully support a remote learning or hybrid-learning environment.

Three main IT and security challenges came to the surface, says Hunter Ely.

First was the need to quickly support the needs of students and faculty to access campus resources from virtually anywhere. Second, were scaling issues associated with moving on-premises services to the cloud to support a larger remote community. And third, there was — and still is — the need for transformational IT strategies that could meet the budget realities colleges and universities now face.

“We've had many conversations in the last few months about the need to reduce overall security spend while increasing efficiency,” says Ely. In this podcast he discusses how colleges and universities can address their security and scaling needs concurrently and in a way that will help promote remote learning. Sponsored by Palo Alto Networks.

Guest: Hunter Ely, Security Strategist, Palo Alto Networks

Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group

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Ensuring secure and scalable access in higher education

As K-12 school districts continue to respond to the pandemic, school leaders need to invest in cloud technology for scalable and secure remote learning. 

“Connectivity to the content was job one and has been a key focus and remains an issue,” says Palo Alto Network's Greg Herbold, on a new podcast. Right behind that is the second challenge, to focused on the quality and security of education platforms.

It is not just about putting what runs on-premise into the cloud, but optimizing those systems to operate on the cloud platform. Sponsored by Palo Alto Networks.

Guest: Greg Herbold, Palo Alto Networks’ director for state and local government and education

Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group”

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Ensuring secure and scalable access in K-12 education

EDUCAUSE recently released its report on the top IT issues that education institutions will face in 2021, and it’s no surprise that the focus was on how schools will move forward with digital learning platforms both during and following the pandemic. 

Among its conclusions, “the report says security threats aren't going to lessen. But with reduced budgets, institutions are going to have to prioritize their security spending even more carefully,” says Okta's Kelsey Nelson.  

Nelson highlights some of the report’s findings and discusses how schools can enhance their technology strategies by capitalizing on identity and access management solutions which mitigate security risks and improve user experience. Sponsored by Okta.

Guest: Kelsey Nelson, Product Marketing Manager, Okta
Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group

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Accelerating digital tools to support student success in higher education

Contact tracing is seen as essential to protecting students, faculty and staff from COVID-19 outbreaks as colleges and universities remain vigilant in keeping their campuses open.

Stephen Savas, vice president for Splunk’s government and education business in the western United States, says higher education leaders can use data to their advantage for contact tracing using technologies they likely have in place on campus.

He shares ways to harness data to support for contact tracing efforts on campus in a new podcast. Sponsored by Splunk.

Editor’s Note: Splunk advises that, “Any use of Splunk Interaction Analytics is likely to implicate certain state, local and federal privacy and/or data laws. Please consult any necessary professionals to ensure that your implementation is fully compliant with all applicable laws and regulations. Further, effective implementation of the tool is dependent upon significant participation by data sources and the consents provided by individuals.”

Guest: Stephen Savas, Vice President, Government and Education Business, Splunk

Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group

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Using Interaction Analytics to address public safety on campus

On the first episode of PrioritiesEDU, EdScoop sits down with ASU's Lev Gonick and Cisco's Renee Patton to talk about technology alignment. This episode is brought to you by Cisco.

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PrioritiesEDU — Season 1, Episode 1: Technology Alignment

While the move from perimeter-based defense to zero-trust security remains high on most CISO’s priority lists, it’s been arguably more of a challenge for colleges and universities, given the complexity of their operations, the constant turnover of users, and the relentless budget pressures they continue to face.

For Kent State University, deciding the best way forward came down to a decision — either take the “blue pill” or the “red pill,” recalls Bob Eckman, Kent State’s chief information security officer. 

Eckman describes how he and his IT associates agreed to abandon their waterfall approach to security project development, in order to implement a zero-trust environment by capitalizing on an existing Microsoft enterprise platform. Sponsored by Microsoft.

Guest: Bob Eckman, Chief Information Security Officer, Kent State University
Corey Lee, Zero Trust Architect, Microsoft

Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group

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How Kent State University fast-tracked zero-trust security

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