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Tis the start of the season for predictions. At the recent EDUCAUSE conference in Indianapolis in October a panel of leaders came up with a list of 10 IT issues that will be important to address in 2016. The following is a comparisons of the 2016 list with 2015 as one can see many of the issues are despite having different formal labels are very similar:
2015 Optimizing technology in teaching and learning and 2016 Optimizing educational technology
| 2015 | 2016 |
| 1. Evolving staffing models | 1. Information security |
| 2. Optimizing technology in teaching and learning | 2. Optimizing educational technology |
| 3. Funding IT strategically | 3. Student success technologies |
| 4. Improving student outcomes | 4. IT workforce |
| 5. Demonstrating IT’s value | 5. Institutional data management |
| 6. Increasing capacity for change | 6. IT funding models |
| 7. Providing user support | 7. Business intelligence and analytics |
| 8. Developing security policies for the institution | 8. Enterprise application integrations |
| 9. Developing enterprise IT architecture | 9. IT organizational development |
| 10. Balancing information security and openness | 10. E-learning and online education |
Elearning has been a top priority on many lists since the late 1990 so perhaps this year Educational IT will finally get this priority sorted out.
