Students First
At Utah Valley University (UVU), we continue to develop a culture where we focus our efforts on students. UVU is an integrated university and community college that educates every student for success in work and life through…
UVU’s Secret Sauce
In a recent opinion piece in the Deseret News, Samuel Benson writes that Utah Valley University (UVU) is leading higher ed’s tech revolution. He raises several key points: Many universities cut back or closed permanently…
Digital Transformation Strategy
Introduction: A strategy should inform an institution where business process improvements will have the largest impact on realizing its mission. Both for-profit and non-profit institutions should pursue projects and initiatives that help them reach their…
myCoreDump
Introduction I hope you enjoy this core dump! The thoughts are so interrelated and connected it is difficult to optimize the presentation so you may need to apply your own defragmentation to get it. In…
Domains, Personal APIs, and Portfolios
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…
Blog Moved to Domain of One’s Own
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…
Criminals, Conjecture, and Connected Things
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,…
Domain of One’s Own @ BYU
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…