by Stuart Kennedy, Financial Review
Technology for higher education is big business, both globally and in Australia. Research organisation Gartner predicts that the worldwide higher education sector will spend more than $US38.2 billion ($50 billion) this year, while the Australian higher education institutions will spend $1.7 billion in 2016, up 4 per cent on last year. While tech spending might be on the increase in higher education, it is often the dramatic reduction in costs of digital gadgets and services that disrupts the status quo. Rapidly commoditising technology gives students and researchers access to once expensive tools they had previously only dreamed about employing.
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