Additional staffing for the HelpDesk is planned to extend on-site support and conduct training of interest to students. The addition of a full-time laboratory technician is planned to extend expert technical support throughout the evening hours of lab operation. Also planned for 1997-98 are more tutorials designed especially for students, more training in web page construction, and more technical assistance. The University currently operates one interactive compressed video classroom and has offered both our courses and courses from other universities using this medium. The University has also offered several teleconferences using satellite technology and has provided a campus backbone to enable delivery of multimedia instruction to virtually every classroom.
Faculty development is critical to the adoption of new technologies in the classroom.
Therefore, during AY 1997-98, emphasis will be placed on providing faculty with the technological and training support they need to develop effective multimedia, ITV, and web courses. Income generated by the SATF will be used to fund the projects listed above and other projects needed for Academic Computing to keep pace with advancing technology. Income from the SATF will be maintained in a separate account. The Technology Vision Committee, reporting directly to the president, is responsible for monitoring the strategic technology plan of the University, reviewing all proposed spending to assure its consistency with that plan, and evaluating both the plan itself and the progress made towards meeting the goals of the plan. All expenditures of SATF funds must be approved by the Technology Vision Committee.