The students of the present and future expect seamless digital experiences. By now, this is a truism in almost every industry. But for a number of reasons, higher education lags behind other sectors in terms of uptake and implementation of digital infrastructure. Our own research showed that university students ranked their university lives as the…
For educational institutions, the decision to accelerate digital transformation is a straightforward one. But the question of which Student Information System solution to adopt is not. In a saturated ed-tech market, vendors tend to emphasize their own SaaS value propositions without first addressing the specific institutional needs of prospective customers. Here, we will unpack the…
A university’s legacy is part of its appeal: we all expect a place of higher learning to have a timeless look, feel, and ethos. The prestige of many universities is intimately tied up with how long it has been around, and how well it has weathered changes from generation to generation. But legacy systems of…