In addition to purchasing new equipment and software, institutions can partner with businesses to share resources. Material developed for the Web can be placed on business servers. Faculty need only access the material specific to work or research. Workshops, seminars and conferences on information technology are plentiful and expensive because they are geared to those in the business community. Many instructors, however, have limited budgets and are often unable to attend technology forums and conferences.
Financial support is needed to enhance the learning of relevant technology.
Dr. Mazharul Huq Dr. Mazharul Huq is an associate professor in the physics department at Lincoln University. Huq, who taught physics at the University of Nigeria prior to coming to Lincoln, has extensive scientific computer programming experience in the areas of network administration, software development using MS Access, Visual Basic and JavaScript. He is the recipient of many academic awards for scholarly achievement. He has published more than 20 scientific papers on topics in physics.