Establish a comprehensive faculty support center to provide training and support to faculty in the use of instructional technology. We aspire to the widespread use of instructional technology in the classroom, yet we have limited infrastructure in place to support faculty in the use of this technology. We need to provide a permanently funded center that provides training and consulting on a wide spectrum of topics including instructional systems design, web page creation, effective use of multimedia, use of presentation software, copyright issues, and identification of online content. Provide a mid-range research computing platform for use by research faculty and their graduate students. Access to research computing resources varies widely across campus.
Some units have adequate resources while others have none at all.
We need to establish a mid-range research computing platform that can be used by FSU researchers and their graduate students. This is consistent with the intent to establish a new School of Computational Science. Current file and networking technologies allow for the access of files across the network in a seamless fashion. This can be used to expand local file resources as well as provide units the ability to backup their critical files across the network. We need to look at offering this as a service to the FSU community.