TREND TOWARD EVALUATIONS ONLINE - eCollege, a provider of technology
and services for online higher education programs, announced it will release research
showing a growing number of institutions are moving or planning to move their course
evaluation activities from paper-based to online methods. Survey participants cited
improved efficiency and timeliness of feedback to be among the key factors driving
the need for an online evaluation process. Based on eCollege's survey of 500
institutions, nearly 23% are either conducting course evaluations online or plan to
do so before the end of 2003, with another 24% reviewing this option in 2003. To
receive more information about the survey visit: http://www.ecollege.com (Learning
and Training Innovations, 19 May 03)

EDUCAUSE RELEASES RESULTS OF CURRENT ISSUES SURVEY -
Educause has published the results of its fourth annual Current IT Issues Survey
in the latest issue of Educause Quarterly. The survey gathered responses from
542 of Educause's 1,620 member institutions, representing colleges and
universities of all sizes and types. IT funding challenges was the top issue in three
of four categories: strategic importance, potential to become much more significant,
and demanding more time of campus IT leaders. Security and identity management
this year is a top-ten issue for those three categories and also for the fourth, human
and fiscal resource consumption. The survey also revealed that maintaining and
upgrading network and IT infrastructure has risen in significance since last year,
and that distance education is - for the first time in four years - no longer a top-ten
issue for any of the four categories. See the complete article at:
http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=EQM0322 (Educause, 7 May
03)