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Strategic IT Plan Drive for Enhanced Teaching & Learning at UB

Dive into UB's strategic IT plan for teaching and learning, emphasizing collaborations, virtual classrooms, mobile tech, and more. Findings from leadership interviews reveal goals to nurture a culture of collaboration, equip instructional spaces, and support faculty development. Explore research goals to facilitate scholarly collaborations, improve infrastructure, reduce administrative burdens, and provide essential resources. Discover additional objectives including IT transformation, student services enhancement, information security, and community service initiatives. Are we headed in the right direction?

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Strategic IT Plan Drive for Enhanced Teaching & Learning at UB

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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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