Cybersecurity is becoming more expensive for higher education institutions. Case Western Reserve University is responding to the challenge by prioritizing its security controls.

The adoption of OER (Open Educational Resources) is on the rise. According to a report from Babson Research Group, almost half of the faculty surveyed for the report are aware of OER and, for the first time in its history, more faculty report a preference for digital rather than physical class materials. In a recent Campus Technology survey, faculty members singled out proprietary publisher content as something they’d like to see disappear.

Among instructors, OER has an increasingly passionat…

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IT consultants have a lot of options right now. This article describes what they should look for when they decide which technology consulting company to work for.

Your server is down. Your organization needs custom software. But IT isn’t your thing, so you’ve brought in a technology consultant. This post will help you communicate them so that everybody is on the same page.

The Eco Dess Project Has Studied One Highway’s Impact on Health in Ecuador; Now It’s Tackling Zika and Dengue.

By: A.J. O’Connell

It’s the kind of farming you see in science fiction: plants grown, not in a field, but in a series of tubes rising high into the air in an enclosed space. But vertical farming is very much real. And it’s happening here on Earth, masterminded by University of Arizona professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering Joel Cuello.

Cuello, director of the Global Initiative for Strategic Agriculture in Dry Land, has patented a modular farming system that will allow people to …

The crowdfunding platform lets authors skip the hurdles of traditional book publishing—but is it worth it?

Kids in the ’70s needed a magazine that didn’t underestimate them, and they still do.