Introduction After being a university chief information officer (CIO) for more than a decade, I decided to refresh my technical skills acquired through formal education and practice as an electrical engineer. I learn best by…
Introduction In addition to the traditional educational experience students at Brigham Young University receive, we want them to acquire skills, techniques, and tools that facilitate their current and future learning. We believe students should learn…
At Brigham Young University (BYU) we have been developing a University API to expose the functionality of a reasonably generic educational institution, while consuming a very specific set of underlying technologies. Our generic institution has…
Over the past several years I have been a member of several executive leadership teams. While in these environments I have witnessed leaders using several interesting techniques to teach others. I share two of these…
At Brigham Young University, we are experimenting with and piloting a Domain of One’s Own experience for students, faculty, staff, and courses, as well as exploring other potential uses. To experience this environment, I have…
My connected devices were initially secured using a hash-based message authentication code (HMAC). An HMAC is constructed for each HTTP request directed at a device. The HMAC is created by combining certain HTTP header elements,…
At Brigham Young University we’ve noticed the work at Mary Washington University on the Domain of One’s Own. I’ve been thinking for some time about providing each of our potential, matriculated and former students with…