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How well does your website play on mobile devices? Forget the future, mobile is the wave of the present. Your campus constituents have cell phones surgically connected to their hands. Prospective students might bounce if your design doesn't work on the small screen. The time to act is yesterday! How well does your website translate? What steps have you taken to optimize your portal for mobile devices? Share your tricks and your links.
How well does your school support distance ed? Faculty members responding to a recent survey by the APLU-Sloan-C said their institutions are doing a "below average" job when it comes to providing incentives to develop and deliver online courses, providing support to develop and deliver, support for students, intellectual property policies, and recognition in promotion and tenure. Technological infrastructure was the only support dimension to come out "above average." How well do the survey results reflect your experience?
How relevant are four-year institutions? Some people feel that since community colleges are the institutions providing workforce training, their importance is overshadowing that of traditional four-year institutions. What do you think? How should funding formulas be changed to address this?
Twitter Let's talk Twitter. How are you and your campus constituents using this surging source of social media? Is it mostly for PR reasons? Connecting with fellow tweeters in your respective fields? Sharing ideas? Exchanging information?
Student Technology Questions What IT questions do freshmen and returning students ask at the beginning of the semester? Are password resets your biggest issue or is something else keeping your staff busy? Share your stories here.
Content Management Systems How does your institution organize content for the web and what systems do you use to do it? What are the challenges for both content authors and web developers.