Are we engaging the most important questions to enhance learning by technology? Do we have the best support services for faculty to enhance their use of technology in their scholarly and pedagogic practices? Should we offer different or more of our degree programs in part or wholly online? Are our IT resources appropriately configured to support our educational innovation and research and to provide appropriate levels of security and access, now and for the future?
Emergent Ideas of the Technology Working Group
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| James Hilton | Chair |
| Margaret Grundy | Working Group Staff Lead |
| Jim Aylor | Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science |
| Laurie Casteen | Assoc. Dean of Students |
| John Evans | Parent |
| Kelvin Grullon | Undergraduate Student, Architecture |
| Will Guilford | Faculty, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering |
| Suzie McCarthy | Graduate Student, A&S |
| Randy Smith | CTO, Darden |
| Jerilyn Teahan | Working Group Staff Member |
| Rip Verkerke | Faculty, School of Law |
| Karin Wittenborg | University Librarian and Dean of Libraries |
Comments
mobile
Hi technology group. This is Scott Casey, Darden class of '96. here is my comment -
everything will be mobile. that is where everything is headed. most web and computer-based technologies will likely be outdated within a decade, or just not used very much by anyone of college age. think mobile first.
to get ahead of this curve and be strategic, I would suggest that mobile technologies be given a lot of attention and discussion. the wireless environment is where strategic advantage and differentiation can and will occur. from suites of purpose-built applications to enhanced wireless networks, this can differentiate the UVA experience in a modern technology context.
apologies if this has already been said, or discussed.
thanks!
Scott Casey
scottpcasey@hotmail.com
Scott - I think you are right
Scott - I think you are right on point. It seems businesses are slowly catching on to the whole mobile marketing thing but as a whole, they haven't even scratch the surface. I forget the exact numbers, but the ratio of people who own cell phones versus people with personal home computers is almost 6 times greater. If business do not jump on the growing trends of mobile marketing, they will be left behind.
thanks,
Chad S.
http://www.completethepair.com
On-Line Learning
There are many advantages from development of a top rate distance learning capability. First and foremost, the University can geometrically expand the number of students is services with substantially lower capital and operating costs. Second, the University can offer these degree opportunities for a lower cost to students and yet generate significant incremental revenues to support overall University programs. I'm sure that Thomas Jefferson would have seen the opportunity to expand the University's programs to more students as a very strategic move. If this is pursued the program should be exceptional in design, focused on areas where the University is seen to have top expertise (nursing, business, law, etc...) and executed in Jeffersonian style.
On-Line Education
I agree wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Crowe. Not only can education be served at a lower cost , it can also reach a greater audience through on-line offerings. I completed 90% of my undergraduate degree at UMUC and then a year later was accepted at McIntire to complete my MSMIT degree. The quality of education I received on-line was outstanding in all but a few courses and I'm sure that the University of Virginia would bring all their wonderful faculty and staff togehter to make this a excellent offering. Additionally, as a Veteran, I can tell you that there is a very large student base that is waiting to be able to take classes at such a great University, but just can't get to Charlottesville or Northern Virginia.
University and Community Action for Racial Equity (UCARE)
Members of the Technology Working Group
Greetings:
The University & Community Action for Racial Equity (UCARE) is pleased to be able to respond to the call by President Sullivan to “consider the issues we are facing and offer advice.”
As you approach the subject of Technology, we urge you to consider how your task might affect issues of race and equity at the University of Virginia and surrounding communities. We are deeply concerned that public statements accompanying the strategic planning process have ignored these important issues. These concerns may easily be displaced when we focus on seemingly neutral questions of technology or efficiency, but these are precisely when deliberate attention must be paid to race and equity.
Indeed, your first charge addresses this head on: “Are we engaging the most important questions to enhance learning by technology?” What tools are being used, for what purposes, by which groups? Who is left out? Who gets to decide? Who benefits, and who loses?
These are not neutral questions. This is particularly so at an institution whose very origins are embedded in slavery and segregation and where issues of race and equity continue to be salient, both within the University and in University-community relations.
In UCARE’s May 2012 Report and Call for Reflection and Action, we describe the University’s legacy of slavery, segregation, discrimination, and efforts to fight those wrongs. We are attaching a copy of our Report to each member of the Technology group. We urge you to look carefully at the ideas for actions that have come from several years of authentic dialogue among the University and the surrounding community. We would be most pleased to speak with the group or individual members to explore common ground and to answer any questions.
Respectfully,
Frank Dukes, Ph.D.
ed7k@virginia.edu
Steering Committee members:
Mr. John Alexander
Ms. Riana Anderson
Ms. Lawrie Balfour
Rev. Lehman Bates
Ms. Selena Cozart
Ms. Holly Edwards
Ms. Ishraga Eltahir
Ms. Bonnie Gordon
Ms. Claudrena Harold
Mr. Walt Heinecke
Ms. Phyllis Leffler
Mr. Dion Lewis
Ms. Sarah Malpass
Ms. Leontyne Peck
Ms. Leah Puryear
Hon. Kristin Szakos
Mr. Sherman White
Rev. Erik Wikstrom
Tech and the classroom
While you are exploring the enhancements that technology and social networks will bring to the University, it will be important not to forget that the classroom and campus will and should continue to be important places for education. Technology won't replace those places as strategic educational assets of the University, they will enhance them and also create new venues for its important work to continue.
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