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Professor Phillip Steele Pro Vice-Chancellor (Campus Coordination) Academic Director (Berwick & Peninsula). ICT Requirements What do campuses want/need? Monash Australia?. Monash University.
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Professor Phillip SteelePro Vice-Chancellor (Campus Coordination)Academic Director (Berwick & Peninsula) ICT Requirements What do campuses want/need? Monash Australia?
Monash University • Unusual among Australia’s research intensive universities in having multiple locations including one regional, three metropolitan, two outer-urban and two overseas campuses.[1] • As set out in the Monash Academic Plan 2006-10, Objective 11 aims to ‘ensure the multi-campus nature of Monash University is used to greatest advantage by students and staff’.[2] • The role of ICT??? [1] Excellence & Diversity Strategic Framework 2004-8 [2] Monash Academic Plan 2006-10
Monash UniversityPhysical Campus Configuration Monash Malaysia Monash South Africa Monash Australia Monash Metro Monash Regional Parkville Berwick Caulfield Peninsula Gippsland Clayton
Beneficial Wishful Thinking • The technology is easy to use and always works • Very high bandwidth connections between all campuses, classrooms and offices Uniform quality! • Recognise diversity in student access • Location transparency. All Monash ICT services accessible through the Internet classroom, student café. office, home, airport, etc. • Broadband access and computer lease bundled into the Monash student fee? • Increased flexibility in student learning options – sometimes remotely attend classes?
The wish list continued • Improved Learning Management Systems providing all students and staff with access to learning and teaching resources. This should include Blogs, Wikis, shared workspaces e.g. MUSO, SAKAI, etc. • Enhanced broadcasting, recording and/or playback of classroom activities for remote access by students e.g. MULO, Lectopia • Enhanced student and staff collaboration and networking through desktop video-conferencing, e.g. Elluminate, Marratech, WebEx, etc. • Improved student experience through eportfolios, social computing, virtual worlds, e.g. Skype, Second life, Facebook, etc.
And continued….. • Enhanced student portal to provide more integrated access to Monash learning and teaching resources • More flexibility in learning options through a closer connection between off campus learning and on campus learning? • Enhanced staff portal to provide better support for staff in the development and delivery of units and courses • Learning object repository that facilitate the storage, retrieval and sharing of learning resources. Searching continuous media is important
And even more…..Research! • The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) - sharing of scientific knowledge globally, using advanced information and communication technology. • Advanced broadband is networking scientists to highly complex instruments, databases, libraries, supercomputers and colleagues • Gigabit network • Terabyte, petabyte, exabyte,zettabyte, yottabyte (10**24) storage • Teraflops of processing capacity, computer clusters and grids • Collaboration tools are centrally important
High TechLearning and Collaboration Spaces • A variety of next generation flexibly configured learning and collaboration spaces e.g. lecture theatres, tutorial rooms, labs, breakout rooms – computer, data projector, document camera, sound system, Internet access, etc., + • Audio and video recording and Internet broadcasting / playback capability • Local and remote student feedback technology • Wireless coverage • Ability to link easily to remote spaces and/or students – voice, video and document sharing Collaborative Learning Centre Sir James Foots Building The University of Queensland
Facilitating collaboration - a social activity! • Meeting rooms are a portal for collaboration • All meeting rooms with at least a conference phone, a meeting room phone directory and a central multi-room cross campus booking facility • Many with computer, data projector, WLAN, document printing, scanning, photocopying, faxing, etc. • Ability to link to other rooms and/or staff offices and/or individuals via Internet enabled video-conferencing • A meeting room is a Dr. Who phone box