The Drake Union is bustling, full of incoming first-year students and their families arriving for their first day of orientation. This year, the already-exciting day includes another first for new Buckeyes: students and staff in brightly colored Digital Flagship shirts, guiding them through picking up their new iPad Pro and setting up the device, Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil.
The electronic lab notebook software, LabArchives , helps you create structure for research notes, promote research integrity and securely record, manage and share your professional research data. Did you know that LabArchives can provide this same...
In April, Adobe announced that Adobe Spark Premium will be FREE for higher education institutions like Ohio State. All students, faculty, and staff can access this...
The latest edition of the Enterprise Project Digest was shared with the Ohio State community to provide updates about the project’s work. Check out the EP Digest archive to read the full May issue. Highlights of this issue: (1) Executive Sponsor Susan Basso recently unveiled the HR strategic plan and how the Enterprise Project is a key initiative for the plan. (2) The Ambulatory Services Change Coordinators in the Wexner Medical Center created an email newsletter to introduce themselves and explain their roles as Change Coordinators to their colleagues.
This fall, more than 10,000 first-year students will arrive at all five campuses of The Ohio State University with a common set of technology. In May, 78 instructors participated in the first Digital Flagship Educators cohort to learn, collaborate and develop courses that will leverage that new common toolset. Digital Flagship Educators is the instructor-facing component of the broader initiative and strives to establish a connected and supported community of practice among those who teach at Ohio State.
The Affordable Learning Exchange (ALX) is requesting proposals to participate in its next cohort. ALX awards grants to instructors who want to transform their courses using open and affordable materials. Any course at The Ohio State University is eligible for consideration–from small seminars to...
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new data protection privacy standard for individuals within the European Union (EU) that goes into effect on May 25. It also applies to the export of personal data to organizations outside the EU, including Ohio State.
Should you receive any external GDPR inquiries, please direct them to the IT Service Desk at 614-688-4357 (HELP) or via email at itservicedesk@osu.edu .
The College of Public Health (CPH) recently came to OCIO with needs centered around staffing, equipment and security, all tied to technology.
OCIO helped CPH researchers look at their unique computing needs and come up with a solution that offers both increased processing power and improved security without sacrificing their growing data and collaboration needs. Read on to learn more of the story .
