Just how wired are our colleges and universities? Educause, a non-profit whose mission states that they are transforming higher ed through IT, was reported in InsideHigherEd as having released a survey/report about the use of IT in colleges and universities.
A brief summery goes like this:
- Use of open source: 32% (2005) –> 47% (2006) –> 51% (2007). This is a decent arc over the previous three years, which I would assume will only continue to grow–especially with the relative instability of Vista as an IT backbone
- Use of platform (Blackboard/WebCT/Moodle): 29% (2006) –> 35% (2007). I attribute this arc to the ground gained in the entropy of tenured faculty.
There is more, if you would like to check it out.
