(12/10/01-DRR)

ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT (ATA)

• Executive Dean
• Faculty Computing Support (FCS)
• Instructional Technology Facilitator Program
• Pioneer Program

MISSION (draft)

• Provides focused voice for faculty on Instructional Technology
• Advocates and facilitates integration of IT into curriculum where appropriate
• Provides IT training & support for faculty at all levels
• Communicates and coordinates faculty use of IT
• Develops and supports Distance Learning options
• Develops IT vision in consultation with faculty

ACCOMPLISHMENTS (3 months)

• Service contracts and sweeps for C.V. Starr Hall and Tech. Enriched Classrooms
• Budget plan for departmental lab replacement and upgrade; need for lab statistics
• Blackboard training for faculty (181 sites; 51 new); dedicated Hofstra server
• Technology bonus; responding faculty contacted by joint teams of facilitators and FC staff; 29 faculty created web presence for first time; 21 new web sites.

IN PROCESS:

• Decision about Classroom Management Platforms (Blackboard, WebCT, Prometheus)
• Filling Distance Education and Emerging Instructional Technology position
• Defining roles/responsibilities of Facilitators and FCS staff ; holding joint meetings
• Review of Pioneer Program:  (Ralph Zalma on 12/12; proposal by Alex Sharland)
• Senate sub-committee reviewing Technology Enhanced Classrooms
• Matching faculty IT needs & equipped classrooms; as needed scheduling
• Development of ATA Web page
• Videotaping faculty presentations and making available on ATA web page
• Gathering faculty input:  SCAC, School IT committees; CAIR; open hearings
• Reorganization of hiring & training ITAs
• Standardizing faculty information in Allaire
• IT service center for faculty
• Faculty & ITA workshops over January break
• Survey of faculty teaching in C.V. Starr Hall

ISSUES FOR CAIR DISCUSSION:

• Upgrading Operating System: Windows 98, 2000, XP?
• Browsers: support both Explorer and Netscape?
• Ordering hardware & software in a timely manner
• Customization vs. standardization; creating new images in a timely manner
• MAC support
• Increasing speed & ease of revising web pages in Allaire (H. Hastings)