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Deans/VPs Meeting January 2009

Deans/VPs Meeting January 2009. UB’s Strategic Plan for IT Elias G. Eldayrie CIO. Goal: UB Plan for IT (not an IT Plan). Input to the Plan. Key Findings from Leadership Interviews: Teaching & Learning.

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Deans/VPs Meeting January 2009

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  1. Deans/VPs MeetingJanuary 2009 UB’s Strategic Plan for IT Elias G. Eldayrie CIO

  2. Goal: UB Plan for IT (not an IT Plan) Input to the Plan

  3. Key Findings from Leadership Interviews: Teaching & Learning • Enhance local and global collaborations/communications: Provide video-conferencing tools (desktop, multipoint) & IM support and standardization • Provide better support for non-traditional, remotely-located students (distance learning) • Address insufficient physical lab & technology classroom space; address need for virtual classrooms/labs, software simulations, lecture capture and distribution • Provide more Continuing Ed/in-service training and programs for alumni (revenue enhancement) • Improve support for mobile devices/emerging tech for faculty and students • Enhance support for student clinical practice assessment, simulations, modeling • Provide more support for media-rich content delivery – video, audio, digital imagery, multi-media • Meet the expectations of students for social networking apps

  4. IT Strategic Plan: Teaching & Learning Goals • Foster a culture of collaboration and communication: Link UB campuses/units/faculty/students to each other and to scholars around the world. • Enable pervasive access from desktops/laptops, classrooms, and other spaces to multiple site web and video conferencing; provide a standard set of personal conferencing/collaboration tools and services • Equip all instructional spaces with core/basic high quality instructional technology, including automatic lecture content capture and standardized software/hardware • Provide a base set of instructional technologies for 21st Century teaching and learning, including social networking, clinical assessment, and emerging technology tools • Support faculty development of instructional content & use of tools • Develop informal technology-enabled learning spaces with wireless access and access to instructional software for collaborative & individual work

  5. Teaching and Learning Goals High Impact, Low Cost High Impact, High Cost Desktop Video- & Web-conferencing Faculty Development Faculty Development Informal Learning Spaces Value/Impact Emerging Tools Automatic Lecture Capture in all Instructional Spaces Low Impact, Low Cost Low Impact, High Cost Cost

  6. Key Findings from Interviews: Research • Address collaboration needs for multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research • Need for a continuum of videoconferencing solutions, including desktop conferencing, to reduce travel and increase & improve collaborations • Improve grant & other administrative systems to reduce the administrative burden for PIs • Tracking balances, matching funds, proposal preps • Infrastructure: Improve/enhance data and file storage infrastructure, archiving and management services

  7. IT Strategic Plan: Research Goals • Facilitate/enable local and global scholarly/research collaborations and communications: Connect people and resources • Enable pervasive access from desktops, laptops, offices and other spaces to web and video conferencing (reduce travel, increase collaborations) • Deploy and support document collaboration and other collaborative tools • Minimize the administrative burden for PIs and researchers via improved systems, tools and data for proposal/award/other grant administrative activities • Provide needed research infrastructure & tools • Provide data and file storage infrastructure and data management services: Support data sharing, reuse, archiving • Provide and support the computational tools and resources (cyberinfrastructure) researchers need to do their work • Provide consulting, training, & support for research IT tools & infrastructure

  8. Research Goals High Impact, Low Cost High Impact, High Cost Collaboration Tools, Desktop Videoconferencing Provide Consulting & Support Faculty Development Minimize Admin. Burden for PIs Provide needed infra and tools Value/Impact Low Impact, Low Cost Low Impact, High Cost Cost

  9. Other Key Findings • Need for improved administrative systems, support and services; Improving business processes and admin systems • Need to address security, risk management, & regulatory compliance issues • Need for improved Communications and Web Presence (not an IT issue except in the sense of providing tools, such as content management tools) • Community Service: Provide increased public access to University resources

  10. Additional Goals • Complete the IT Transformation • Implement the Student Services Transformation • Develop a comprehensive information security program • Continue community service programs such as the Rural Health Network Initiative

  11. Are we on the right track?

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