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he average annual information technology budget for campus operations ranges from just 5 to 7 percent of total revenue at public and private 4-year universities, a budget that includes salaries and the ongoing maintenance and equipment to keep all things running smoothly. T

The budget allocation for IT has not gone up more than a 1 percent over the past 10 years, yet the technology expectations continue to double annually.

Every IT leader needs to see the world of campus technology from a fresh, yet exciting perspective. This fresh perspective is what some are calling the NetGen Campus, Smart Campus, or Empowered Campus designs.

“The flip model of learning offers a considerable cost saving opportunity to learners as well as educational institutions. Many institutions are using LMS to facilitate the delivery of content to the users. Although end-users have to make substantial upfront investment in the required infrastructure such as adequate Internet bandwidth, the long-term benefits of flipped learning considerably outweigh that of traditional classroom teaching and training,”

Global flipped classroom market by product Software 54.89% Hardware 33.54% Services 11.56%

The global flipped classroom market by hardware was valued at USD 165.9 million in 2015. The hardware segment comprises devices such as document cameras and tablets that are required to create, capture, and access learning content. These devices are finding more acceptance in schools and colleges. Lecture capture is used to facilitate learning for both students and teachers and helps in recording and delivering lectures in multiple formats including text and video. Vendors are equipping hardware with advanced features for lecture capture such as high-resolution video and display to improve quality. The devices used to facilitate lecture recording include microphones, cameras, screen capture devices, desktop recorders, DVD players, electronic whiteboards, and videoconferencing devices.

More and more frequently modern employees expect video to be a factor in on-the-job learning. And not simply a dry, one hour VHS training course of the past. Good, relevant video content that impacts performance. We’ve outlined a few guidelines on improving onboarding with video here.

In an international poll each year, reaching over 50 countries, I ask people: “What is hot in L&D this year?” The choice of ‘Video’ has fallen down the table of ‘hotness’. In other words, it’s no longer considered exciting

In other words: video is now part of the way we live and learn today.

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.

The initiative will launch with three new institutes--a Sustainable Connected Cities ICRI based in the United Kingdom, an ICRI for Secure Computing in Germany, and another focused on Computational Intelligence and based in Israel

YouTube announced this week it will invest $20 million to support educational creators, resources and tools on the popular Google-owned video platform.

The investment will provide funding for educational creators on the platform, a new “Learning” channel with curated playlists, and resources and support for EduTubers. YouTube-funded videos will also give brands more opportunities to run ads and sponsor conten

The global eLearning market was worth an impressive $107 billion in 2015 [1]. By 2025, however, Research and Markets believe that it will reach a staggering total market value of $325 billion [1]. The reasons for this explosion in value come on the back of several main drivers: the need to educate vast numbers of people at low cost, the falling price of learning solutions, the needs of the modern workforce to engage in life-long learning, and the fact that learning through an internet portal is often more convenient than going to school. The majority of the growth in the eLearning market will come from demand in developing countries.

2. The Self-Paced eLearning Market Will Decline To $33.5 Billion By 2021

77% Of US Companies Used Online Learning In 2017

Le secteur de la EdTech est en plein essor, comme en témoigne la récente évolution des montants investis dans ce secteur. Ces derniers ont augmenté de 32% par an en moyenne depuis 2011, pour atteindre les 4,5 milliards de dollars en 2015, selon des données du Boston Consulting Group.

Cinq grands segments de marché attirent particulièrement les investisseurs et concentrent 64% des montants investis depuis cinq ans.  Les plateformes et les fournisseurs de contenu multimedia: c'est le segment de marché qui a le plus attiré les investisseurs depuis 2011, avec 2,3 milliards de dollars investis, en hausse de 34% par an. Les cours en ligne: c'est l'un des segments de marché les plus dynamiques, avec 421 entreprises identifiées. Ces dernières ont reçu des investissements à hauteur de 1,9 milliard de dollars depuis 2011, en hausse de 19% par an.  Les solutions de gestion d'entreprise et de finance: segment qui a connu la plus forte progression de ces investissements depuis 2011, avec un taux de croissance annuel de 127%.  Les infrastructures, la sécurité et les systèmes de gestion: 1,5 milliard de dollars ont été investis dans ce segment, en hausse de 10% par an.  Les services et les programmes d'éducation supérieure: segment qui connaît également une belle progression de ces investissements, en hausse de 49% par an.

Campus-wide lecture capture technology – a way to record lectures – is a major investment for universities, but is hugely popular among students.

Students generally do not expect a professionally produced recording, and are happy provided they can hear clearly, the recording is free from background noise and the video is sufficient.

The most common concern about recording lectures is that it will reduce attendance. However, most studies do not support this theory. Of my own students, only 5 out of 99 indicated that recorded lectures influenced their decision to attend. Many pointed out that there is added value in attending a lecture because they are able to ask questions.

Ninety-two percent of undergraduate admissions officers interviewed report that social media is a worthy investment

With the Inlet acquisition, which complements the earlier Tandberg acquisition by being equal parts video—a growth area that John Chambers has long espoused as "the next big thing"—and networking, Cisco has an end-point strategy for both broadcast and bi-directional video transmissions over Cisco's core networking products.

“Merchants that have invested in video do not seem to be turning back,”

In a blog post from 2013, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner wrote that unemployment is the result of a gap between the skills needed for a job and the skills people have, and he called for an overhaul of the education system. While not nearly as extreme as Weiner's vision for the future of American schools, Lynda.com provides a valuable service to help close that skills gap.

More than eight in ten executives (84 percent) in this year’s survey view learning as an important (40 percent) or very important (44 percent) issue. Employees at all levels expect dynamic, self-directed, continuous learning opportunities from their employers. Despite the strong shift toward employee-centric learning, many learning and development organizations are still struggling with internally focused and outdated platforms and static learning approaches.

To facilitate the effort to help employees “learn how to learn,” L&D teams are building internal knowledge-sharing programs, developing easy-to-use portals and video sharing systems, and promoting collaborative experiences at work that help people constantly learn and share knowledge.

Almost $1 billion of this went into tools, content, and companies that focus on the corporate market.6

Approximately 65 percent of people are visual learners and their propensity for watching videos online shows no signs of slowing down. The video component of e-learning helps to increase engagement by delivering content in a familiar, episodic fashion.

This ties in with microlearning, which is known to increase both engagement and knowledge retention by breaking learning down into manageable increments.

E-learning is scalable, and can be rolled out to more departments as the needs of the company change. As the skills needed for certain roles evolve, e-learning can be customized to specific, relevant content for employees without breaking the bank. As the saying goes, time is money, and e-learning has been shown to provide considerable savings by reducing time spent on training. It also offers savings on costs for external trainers, travel, materials and time spent out of the business. Case in point, after switching from traditional to online training, IBM delivered five times the amount of training for only one third of the cost – a saving of $200 million dollars. An IBM report found that investing in training can positively impact employee retention rates, with new employees 43% more likely to stay at a new job when training is provided

According to a research study, “IoT in Education Market” by MarketsandMarkets, the global market size is expected to “grow from $4.8 billion in 2018 to $11.3 billion by 2023.”

Personalized Learning One of the biggest hurdles with the typical education system is the lack of flexibility in the course work. The course is the same for each and every student. The human-to-human interaction in a classroom space is collective and does not take into account the individual pace and needs of the student. Building on the idea of Big Data collection, with IoT each student can be evaluated and monitored on an individual basis. Weaker students may be granted a modified course work that caters to them individually to bring them up to speed. On top of that, the aggregate data can guide the instructors to modify the coursework on the go depending on the collective class needs.

More Human-to-Machine Interaction

Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey — and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Upgrading infrastructure, device maintenance, and ongoing professional development, in addition to program and device costs, means tech initiatives need permanent budget lines that take into account the total cost.

In any good budget, said Soumakian, boards should base spending on their goals and strategic priorities. So, if a priority is to be able to measure student outcomes based on new tech initiatives, then the board needs to reprioritize and invest in that goal.

The most important thing about live-streaming isn’t video—it’s audio. Varvid CEO and founder Aaron Booker can’t stress this enough. “People are very forgiving about video; they’re not forgiving at all about audio.” He points to the tiny microphones in smartphones as the main reason they shouldn’t be used for streaming. “The video [from smartphones] can be pretty amazing these days. However, the audio is just not what it needs to be and will not reflect well on anybody.”

“But if you want something really flexible and portable because you have events that are happening in different places—then you’re going to need to invest in a good soundboard, good microphones, and most importantly in somebody’s skill set so that they can manage that for you.”

To present all speakers clearly and at the same volume, DSP is used to process the audio feeds to compensate for the size and shape of the room and the environmental factors that impact audio quality, including reverberation, acoustics, and where people are positioned