# Report to Faculty Policy Committee

# Drivers of IS Change

- increasing interest in understanding and applying IT to enhance/transform teaching and learning (content and clientele, methods and management)
- pedagogical directions
  - greater coupling of workplace and education: tools and processes
  - increased proximity of research-teaching
- technology developments and options presenting opportunities to exploit and diversity
  - virtuality, multimedia, networks, OSes,WWW
- several agencies involved in IT/IR services
- innovation driven staff

# Likely impacts

- more IS involvement in technology/application exploration
- greater engagement in academic forums
- demand for more 3rd party software.
- specialised facilities (advanced visualization, supercomputing)
- expectation of specialized support
- collaborative projects with other agencies( internal and external)
- engagement with wider segment of vendors
- lack of resources to meet needs of projects and specialized support
- uneducated demand and unplanned supply ( fragmented)
- centrally managing distributed diversity with reliability, efficiently
- equitable access for extended community
- ilgs; distant
- network capability/management
- increased communication with customers
- systematic processes for efficient management of software
- multiple service configurations (public ws; docking;quickstations)

# IS-AC Strategies

- Conspicuous Collaboration to identify strategic educational initiatives
  - Education Technology Council; School/Department Committees
  - Academic_IS Committee to prioritize and plan initiatives and resource application
  - Crosstalk ( Academic Forums)
- Conspicuous Collaboration to partner in in delivering solutions and services
  - Classrooms(AV+Registrar)
  - Digital Resources development (Library)
- Infrastructure renewal and construction (hardware, software, services)
  - Ongoing incremental technology explorations and modernization
  - Quickstations
  - Special initiatives (Advanced Visiualization facility, New Media Center)
  - Ed Tech Council projects

# Principles

- Serve many students rather than few.
- Serve the Core of the MIT currivulum rather than the periphery
- Seek innovation and creativity rather than simple automation
- Increase technological equity amongst departments.