SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Technology Utilization | |
| Assist in the design, purchase, and utilization of hardware and software in classroom-based and online technologies. Associated Goals: Creativity And Pedagogy In Technology Utilization, Strategy And Technology In Distance Learning |
| Indicator | Collaboration Collaboration with academic and non-academic entities across campus. |
| Criteria | Techheads Group Increasingly substantial meetings and collaborations with key campus technology participants. |
| Finding | AB5 Building Technology Continued efforts relating to the outline provided to the President detailing the list of current distance learning capabilities and offerings, and costs associated with technology as well as work with UCS in providing a comprehensive list of planned technology and utilization (available on the Techheads Wiki). Offered show and tell meetings to key building committee members. |
| Finding | Multimedia Circus While we had planned to offer a Circus show and tell of current and emerging technologies and their applications, we have not found a good time to do so and need to re-evaluate the way this information is disseminated. |
| Finding | Multimedia Production Produced 4 multimedia programs for campus use. Produced website for common reader program. |
| Action | Classroom Technology Work with UCS, Techheads, and new Faculty Techheads groups to design an implement a matrix of room-based designed solutions to update/upgrade classroom instructional technology based on classroom type using AB5 technology as a model for this type of implementation. |
| Action | Multimedia Production Work closely with new PACE Center to increase the awareness and utilization of campus resources towards creating media library of content for use in courses and other venues. |
| Objective | Trends | |
| Increase the awareness of technology trends. Associated Goals: Creativity And Pedagogy In Technology Utilization |
| Action | Distance Learning Offerings Continue to converse and plan with academic partied towards the increase of offerings and faculty certification. This will lead to increases in distance learning enrollments. |
| Objective | Increase Awareness | |
| Increase awareness, use, and quality of technical and information support services. Associated Goals: Strategy And Technology In Distance Learning |
| Indicator | Communications Communicate office activities and technology trends. |
| Criteria | Increased Communications The Office will seek to provide a short technology column in the Academic Affairs newsletter produced by the Provost''''''''s Office once per academic month. Increase of multimedia example across the university''''s web presence. |
| Finding | Techheads Met with Techheads Group 9 times and have created Techheads Wiki as a documentation library for group documents, agendas, meetings, and correspondence beginning Spring 2008. |
| Indicator | Visability Increase visability of activities and technology applications. |
| Criteria | Add Distance Learning Activities The Office will seek to continue the promotion and development of distance learning activities across campus. |
| Finding | Distance Learning Programs Added two distance learning programs to degree inventory: MLS, Library Science; M.Ed School Counseling (hybrid). |
| Criteria | Certification Increased certification of faculty members to teach online and certification of distance courses. |
| Finding | Faculty Certification 83 faculty members certified to teach online. Working towards an easier, technology-based solution. |
| Criteria | Increased Distance Enrollments While the Office does not think that distance learners should be counted as separate from on-campus students, as time progresses and the economy changes, there will be an even greater demand for distance learning types of activities. |
| Finding | Distance Learning Enrollments 235 graduate sections and 71 undergraduate sections with a total of 306 online sections with enrollments of 2694 graduate, 2770 undergraduate, for a total enrollment of 5464. 22 graduate sections and 6 undergraduate sections of ITV with enrollments of 120 graduate and 44 undergraduate for a total of 164 ITV enrollments. 8 current online programs. |
| Action | Multimedia Circus Will find better way to offer the Circus utilizing multimedia technologies and increase faculty participation. |
| Action | Techheads Will continue the current format and re-implement faculty version of the group. Offer joint meetings once per semester. Meet with ITRC Committee once per year. |
| Objective | Technology Evaluation | |
| Identify and evaluate equipment and software for potential utilization within the University. Associated Goals: Strategy And Technology In Distance Learning |
| Objective | Technology Utilization | |
| Assist in the design, purchase, and utilization of hardware and software in classroom-based and online technologies. Associated Goals: Creativity And Pedagogy In Technology Utilization, Strategy And Technology In Distance Learning |
| Indicator | Collaboration Collaboration with academic and non-academic entities across campus. |
| Criteria | Techheads Group Increasingly substantial meetings and collaborations with key campus technology participants. |
| Finding | AB5 Building Technology Continued efforts relating to the outline provided to the President detailing the list of current distance learning capabilities and offerings, and costs associated with technology as well as work with UCS in providing a comprehensive list of planned technology and utilization (available on the Techheads Wiki). Offered show and tell meetings to key building committee members. |
| Finding | Multimedia Circus While we had planned to offer a Circus show and tell of current and emerging technologies and their applications, we have not found a good time to do so and need to re-evaluate the way this information is disseminated. |
| Finding | Multimedia Production Produced 4 multimedia programs for campus use. Produced website for common reader program. |
| Action | Classroom Technology Work with UCS, Techheads, and new Faculty Techheads groups to design an implement a matrix of room-based designed solutions to update/upgrade classroom instructional technology based on classroom type using AB5 technology as a model for this type of implementation. |
| Action | Multimedia Production Work closely with new PACE Center to increase the awareness and utilization of campus resources towards creating media library of content for use in courses and other venues. |