Standards

2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Supporting Agency, Trust, Transparency, and Involvement

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:09:12 Z

This report describes how advancing the future of higher education cybersecurity and privacy will be done by supporting agency, trust, transparency, and involvement among stakeholders.

2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Unified Data Models

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:16:49 Z

This report envisions the preferred future of unified data models in higher education and provides an action plan targeting that future.

EDUCAUSE Comments: Draft Cybersecurity Provisions for Research Security Programs

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:16:58 Z

EDUCAUSE submitted comments to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on June 5, 2023, concerning the draft requirements for research security programs under National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33).

2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Privacy

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:25:49 Z

This Horizon Action Plan is offered to the privacy and higher education communities as an actionable tool to help guide our thinking about tomorrow and to help inspire us to plan and take action today.

Technology Business Management and the IT Service Catalog: A Higher Education Crosswalk

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:06:37 Z

Technology business management (TBM) is a critical capability that provides IT leaders with standards and best practices to communicate the cost, quality, and value of IT investments to their institutional partners.

7 Things You Should Know About LTI Advantage

Thu, 02 May 2019 14:35:18 Z

LTI Advantage is the next generation of the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard, which was designed to enable plug-and-play integration of educational applications and tools within an institution’s digital learning environment.

7 Things You Should Know About Credential Transparency Description Language

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:13:53 Z

The Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) is a dictionary of terms for describing credentials and credential-related information, including rules for credentialing practices and organizations.

Report on the First IEEE Workshop on the Future of Research Curation and Research Reproducibility

Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:43:19 Z

This report describes perspectives from the Workshop on the Future of Research Curation and Research Reproducibility that was collaboratively sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) in November 2016.

Institutional Learning Analytics: How Can Academic Libraries Connect?

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 19:05:21 Z

This presentation provides a summary of the general definitions, concepts, and perspectives integral to institutional learning analytics initiatives, as well as a synopsis of current learning analytics efforts at the institutional level.

ELI Webinar: Open Standards: the Key to Building Digital Learning Environments

Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:34:45 Z

From procurement to adoption, learn how three institutions are leveraging open standards and practices to promote plug and play for educational technology, to accomplish low-cost integrations of digital resources, and to improve the flow of learner data in support of analytics.

7 Things You Should Know About Caliper

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:07:47 Z

Caliper is a standard that enables the collection, storage, and transport of data about learning. Sponsored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium, Caliper provides an information model that describes concepts, entities, and relationships.

Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:36:32 Z

The NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Library Edition identifies “Increasing Focus on Research Data Management for Publications” and “Prioritization of Mobile Content and Delivery” as fast trends driving changes in academic and research libraries over the next one to two years.

Web Accessibility Toolkit

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:37:27 Z

This Association of Research Libraries (ARL) toolkit was created to promote the principles of accessibility, universal design, and digital inclusion.

University of Northern Colorado Information Management and Technology: Standards, Policies & Procedures

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:37:23 Z

The University of Northern Colorado provides information technology resources to a large and varied group, including faculty, staff, students and guests.

7 Things You Should Know About LTI

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:34:37 Z

The 7 Things You Should Know About... series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies.

EDUCAUSE Response to NIST RFI: Developing a Framework to Improve Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:34:57 Z

The Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC), hosted by EDUCAUSE and Internet2, is pleased to submit comments to the NIST Request For Information on Developing a Framework to Improve Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity.

Born Digital - and Accessible

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:34:47 Z

Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Larry Goldberg and Madeleine Rothberg of WGBH NCAM.

Through a Glass, Brightly: ITâ€™s Impact on Higher Education by 2020

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:34:03 Z

The ECAR 2012 Symposium, was held June 18–20, 2012, in Boulder, Colorado. This event gave IT and higher education leaders the chance to imagine that the year is 2020 and to speculate about the biggest contributions that IT will have made between now and then to transform higher education.

Highlights of the 2011 ECAR Symposium: IT as a Game Changer

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:28:59 Z

This ECAR research bulletin presents highlights from the 2011 ECAR Symposium, held July 28–29 in Chicago, Illinois.

Welcome to the 2011 ECAR Symposium: Changing the Game

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:30:29 Z

Presentation at the 2011 ECAR Symposium, July 28, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois. Welcome and opening remarks.