I am just returning from this year's annual EDUCAUSE conference in Dallas and have much to share over the next week. Here is a quick note, though. The results of the 2006 Campus Computing Project Survey were released at EDUCAUSE by the project’s executive director Kenneth C. Green. A summary can be found at the project site http://campuscomputing.net/:
Begun in 1990, the project is "the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American higher education" and each year some 600 two-and four-year public and private colleges and universities in the United States participate.
Some of the highlights from the summary follow:
Wireless networks now reach fully half (51.2 percent) of college classrooms compared to just over two-fifths (42.7 percent) in 2005 and a third (31.1 percent) in 2004.
Campus IT officers continue to view network and data security as the “single most important information technology issue confronting their institution” over the next two-to-three years.
The overall Open Source tool deployment numbers are highest in research universities (56.1 in public universities; 49.0 percent in private universities). Open Source Learning Management Systems (LMS) are beginning to gain traction: a tenth (10.2 percent) of private four-year colleges report that they have designated Moodle as the campus-standard LMS, while 5.5 percent of public universities and 3.9 percent of private universities are using Sakai as their LMS standard.
Copies of the 2006 Campus Computing Report will be available on December 10th.
