EDUCAUSE | Benchmarking

Core Data Survey Submission Date Extended to March 19

lgesner — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:17:58 -0600

The submission date for this year's Core Data Service survey has been extended to March 19. Eligible campuses are encouraged to complete the survey by this date to ensure access to the updated database service later this spring. Find out more on the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service website.

Core Data Survey Submission Date Extended to March 19

lgesner — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:12:30 -0600

The submission date for this year's Core Data Service survey has been extended to March 19. Eligible campuses are encouraged to complete the survey by this date to ensure access to the updated database service later this spring. Find out more on the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service Web site.

Core Data Service Collection of 2006 Data Begins

lgesner — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:01:57 -0600

Data for fiscal year 2005-06 is now being collected for the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service database on campus IT environments. Eligible institutions should complete the Core Data survey by March 7. Nearly 960 institutions completed the survey last year. The report summarizing 2004-05 data, EDUCAUSE Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2005 Summary Report, was released in December 2006.

New CIS Benchmark Projects

vvogel — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:53:40 -0600

From time to time, EDUCAUSE partners with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) on the development of new benchmarks. Below is an announcement regarding some new CIS activities. Please consider participating.

Note: EDUCAUSE Institutional Members receive a 50 percent discount on the fee they pay to become members of CIS.

The Center for Internet Security(CIS) is beginning work on several new benchmarks and would like to invite the members of the higher edducation community to participate in our consensus process.

For those of you new to CIS, we are a not-for-profit, end-user group that develops security guides, which we call benchmarks, by bringing together teams of experts who discuss security recommendations made in a draft. These teams work via teleconference and email lists to reach consensus on the best security recommendations for a particular platform. This process has proven very effective at creating detailed and useful benchmarks, while providing excellent opportunities for all involved to interact with their peers.

You can see a list of currently available benchmarks and learn more about CIS from our web site at http://www.cisecurity.org.

The following benchmarks are currently under development:

Juniper Routers
Check Point Firewall
MySQL Database
SQL Server 2005 Database

If you or any of your colleagues are interested in participating or have any questions, please contact John Banghart at 703-716-0199 or jbanghart@cisecurity.org. The time commitment is a only a couple hours a month.

Thank you.

--
John Banghart, CISSP
Director of Benchmark Services
The Center for Internet Security
jbanghart@cisecurity.org, (703) 716-0199

e-Benchmarking for the UK

catherine — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:57:59 -0500

The UK's Higher Education Academy is carrying out a pilot e-learning benchmarking exercise, and my institution is going to be participating come October. The idea is to capture an overall picture of e-learning provision at Cambridge. The first phase will be fairly low-key, but intensive, and will involve desk research, reading reports on teaching and learning, and talking to people. The next phase will require us to raise the profile of the e-benchmarking project, and to decide on a framework and tools to help us capture the data we need.

This will be a new project for me, so I'm curious to learn more about e-benchmarking approaches and how other institutions (in the UK, and elsewhere) might be going about it.

In an interesting development, the HEA has required all institutions participating in the pilot to maintain separate e-benchmarking blogs (as a sample, try the Institute of Education and the University of Strathclyde), and there is a collective e-benchmarking blog hosted at the HEA which seems to contain some good introductory material. Defining that old chestnut, "e-learning", is an issue that seems to be bothering most (e.g. does all VLE use count as "e-learning"?). I'm going to try and follow these discussions quite closely and will be interested to see how "open" the discussions are.

E2005 Podcast: A Successful Tool to Create Positive Change

podcaster — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:39:53 -0600

This 53 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled A Successful Tool to Create Positive Change: Result of an IT Risk Assessment and Benchmark at Scandinavian Universities.

E2005 Podcast: EDUCAUSE Core Data Service

podcaster — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:40:51 -0600

This 43 minute presentation by Brian Hawkins provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled EDUCAUSE Core Data Service.

Core Data Survey Submission Date Extended to March 27

lgesner — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:59:45 -0600

The deadline for completing this year's Core Data Service survey has been extended to March 27. Eligible campuses are encouraged to complete the survey to ensure access to the updated database service. Read the FAQ.

Core Data Service Collection of 2005 Data Begins

ecoghlan — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:26:45 -0600

Data for fiscal year 2004-05 is now being collected for the Core Data Service database on campus IT environments. Eligible institutions should complete the Core Data survey by March 14.