Resources such as faculty, facilities, infrastructure, and time will be efficiently used through distance education, shared technology centers, video conferencing, electronic collaboration, data warehouses, web-based services and other technological solutions. Technology is the focus of this planning effort, which focuses on how technology can best be used to serve the state of Nevada and its educational requirements. Productivity in instruction, research and administration is affected by technology development in many ways. Numbers of students served and quality of instruction are driving forces behind each campus plan to incorporate more distance education and more on-campus technology into the curriculum. Electronic student services are essential for growth in student populations.
Research brings dollars into the state and solutions to society s problems.
Research productivity is dependent on access to technological tools, to information and to colleagues. The most essential research tool today is access to very large amounts of network bandwidth. Increased administrative productivity, as well as improved levels of service, can be obtained through office automation, data warehousing, web-based access to information and a variety of other technical solutions proposed in this plan. An important caveat in the relationship between technology and productivity is that, while technology has the potential to improve service quality and quantity, it does not reduce costs. Every institution has plans to increase the integration of new technologies into instruction.