eLearning Initiatives
Part 1 Meet eLearning needs through a support organization with sustainable funding that can provide targeted instructional technology support and resources and stay competitive with peer institutions through collaborative eLearning policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Part 2 Continue to upgrade university pool and departmental classrooms with current technologies and learning-driven design and maintenance.
Part 3 Establish standards and resources for storage, accessibility, transmission, and delivery of large-scale digital assets.
eLearning Actions
 Address and resolve where needed the known learning management system issues such as interoperability, content exposed in different applications, the role of campuswide synchronous communication tools, and a review of the underlying Desire2Learn software to determine if it continues to meet the universityÕs needs for eLearning management.
Publicize the various ways to proctor exams using Carmen and the new Respondus technology, and by scheduling a Student Computer Center.
Explore the idea of a testing center where students can take tests anytime.
Determine whether to recommend more Carmen or web-based videoconferencing for meetings, graduate students forums, and faculty and staff training; provide a central product solution that is platform independent.
Continue to bridge the current gap in synchronous connections between sites for videoconferencing courses.
Consider distance educationÕs role in the future growth of the university. Provide assistance in offering credit courses in an online environment, including Carmen guidelines. Document a faculty memberÕs experience in converting to an online course, complete with resources needed.
Think about learning spaces in different ways to accommodate distance learning classes.
Learning Spaces Actions
Continue collaborations between central services and colleges and departments on the upgrading and enhancement of classroom space.
Consult with faculty in developing innovative teaching and learning spaces, especially for capital projects and the major uses of buildings. Follow up after the release of the classroom feasibility study.
Develop an awareness program to encourage faculty to try advanced technology classrooms and provide feedback on their experiences.
Continue to improve the furniture in classrooms, as students have indicated that comfortable seating is important.
Include room conditions, such as paint, furniture, flexible environmental factors, and utilities, when upgrading classrooms.
Large-scale Digital Assets Actions
Involve University Libraries and the Office of the CIO more closely in the development of digital storage projects and environments, considering all the collaborative issues that impact decisions, such as data curation, working with researchers from the beginning of their projects, and an institutional repository and network storage for the entire enterprise.
Establish a centralized engine for robust video encoding processing and streaming that can integrate with many different applications and be used by the entire campus.
Create a stream process for the long-term retention and archival of working tools such as blogs, wikis, videos, and class projects, moving to wherever the Knowledge Bank grows.
Develop space in the Knowledge Bank to digitally archive the universityÕs important historical materialsÑfrom committee meeting minutes to policy. Identify areas on campus to sample and library services to preserve faculty data sets through the life of a research project.
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