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January 15, 2008
Top Ed-Tech Headaches in 2007 Accounted For
Your votes are in! In 2007, the top-of-mind issues for you and your K-12 ed-tech peers were:
- proxies bypassing the Internet filter,
- a growing need for data storage,
- knowing what users are doing on the network, and
- spam inundation and management.
After these issues, responses to Lightspeed's survey, "2007's Top IT Headaches for K-12 Education," varied with district enrollment. For small districts having fewer than 2,000 students, spam wasn't as big an issue as end-point security and enforcing AUPs.
For districts with enrollment between two and five thousand, the fifth biggest issue was managing portable workstations on the internal network, followed by enforcing AUPs.
Finally, for larger districts, the number five issue was aligning education and IT goals.
Understanding email archiving compliance earned an "honorable mention" as an "issue" for both medium and large districts.
Thank you to all who participated!
If you're the curious sort, you can see what issues in 2007 were rated the biggest headaches for IT managers and CIOs in the non-edu world... http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=574&tag=nl.e101.
Methodology. The survey, "2007's Top IT Headaches in K-12," was administered online by invitation through email from Lightspeed Systems between December 19, 2007, and January, 9, 2008. Customers, prospects, and resellers were invited to respond. Seventy-five completed surveys were received with an approximately equal number of responses in each of the three school district sizes (i.e., less than 2,000 students, between 2,001 and 5,000, more than 5,000). Issues were rated on a scale of one to five with one being "no problem," two "small issue," three "issue," four "somewhat critical issue," and five "critical issue, big headache." All the issues listed above were rated three ("issue") or higher.
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