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Fifty-eight percent of surveyed leaders say institutional analytics that improve operational efficiency are of greater priority than learning analytics that will improve student outcomes, according to What Will It Take to Build an Analytics-Driven Campus? Analytics priorities seem to differ by role, with presidents, CFOs, and CIOs focusing on improved learning outcomes; provosts are focused on improved retention and completion; and CTOs are concerned with improved operational efficiency.

Top-Ten IT Issues, 2012 Updating IT professionals' skills and roles to accommodate emerging technologies and changing IT management and service delivery models Supporting the trends toward IT consumerization and bring-your-own device Developing an institution-wide cloud strategy Improving the institution's operational efficiency through information technology Integrating information technology into institutional decision-making Using analytics to support critical institutional outcomes Funding information technology strategically Transforming the institution's business with information technology Supporting the research mission through high-performance computing, large data, and analytics Establishing and implementing IT governance throughout the institution

Data analytics and adaptive technologies, while still emerging in K–12 education, could help educators overcome barriers and accelerate innovation, the report says.

Schools have been collecting student data for many years. However, the human process of sifting through mounds of data is tedious and inefficient. Data analytics has shifted this workload from educators to algorithms, freeing up time for teachers to support student needs and giving them more meaningful insights into what those need may be.

Similarly, adaptive technologies are able to monitor and adjust to student learning in the moment, catching and helping students when they exhibit a wobbly conceptual understanding of competencies and advancing them to more challenging content as soon as they have met learning objectives.

We’ve seen the company do all it can to amp up one of its newer features by making live broadcasts more visible on your timeline, adding them to your trending stories and even notifying you each time a friend or someone you follow is broadcasting live. All of these are positive steps to give content producers real reason to take advantage of live video.

In addition, ‘Total Performance Insights‘ brings even better analytics to video including two really outstanding features: the ability to measure stats on video crossposted to multiple pages and a heatmap that allows 360 degree video creators to see the areas their audiences are honing in on.

While investment to date is on track for a slight decline from last year, deal activity in HR tech has grown consistently in the last 5 years and at the current rate is expected to increase more than 15 percent over 2015. This amazing investment growth—much of it spent on integrated human resource management system (HRMS) platforms for midsize companies—illustrates the industry’s volatility. That instability is being driven by the shift from cloud to mobile; the explosion in analytics and artificial intelligence; and the emergence of video, social recruiting and wearables in the workplace. Everything is changing, and quickly—including the types of technology HR professionals use, the experiences those systems deliver and the underlying software designs—making many of the traditional HR systems purchased only a decade ago seem out of date.

Ideally, IT staff should be able to review and negotiate contracts, conduct security reviews, and evaluate products and vendors. Also important are skills associated with analytics, process redesign, and the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

They added significant functionality around registration, attendee communications, customer-level and event-level branding, lead tracking, reporting, and analytics.

The eLearning side of things will now support HTML5 and SCORM 1.2 content.

Higher education institutions are increasingly using lecture capture to help their students, according to a 2018 State of Video in Education report from Kaltura. There was a 21% increase in lecture capture use by institutions over the last two years, up from 65% in 2016 to 79% this year. Lecture capture doesn’t just take place in standard lecture halls too, with 10% of all those responding saying they already capture over half of all classes, wherever they take place, and 31% keen to follow their lead. Overall, 88% of respondents across higher education and K-12 (primary/secondary schools) already use lecture capture tools or intend to in the future.

21% report that over half of their students are involved in creating (as opposed to simply watching) video; among higher education respondents, the figure is a little lower at 15%.

Closed captions are in use at over half (52%) of institutions today, while 34% use interactive video quizzes to help students learn more effectively. Mobile apps that make it easy for students to watch videos on the move, or offline, are used by 39% of institutions, and a further 53% are eager to add this capability.