AN-MSI HSI Community Report San Juan, PR Feb. 26, 2002

1. AN-MSI HSI Community ReportSan Juan, PRFeb. 26, 2002 Alex Ramirez, Ph.D.Exec. Dir. IT Initiatives, HACUAN-MSI HSI Project Manager

2. Highlights of Areas of Progress • Regional Collaborations • CalSNMP • Puerto Rican Connectivity Project • Executive Awareness • UT-El Paso Campus Follow-up Visit • Cal State San Bernardino Campus Strategic Planning Process Continuing • Testimony Provided to NSF Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyberinfrastructure • Testimony Prepared for Cleland Bill S414 Hearings Tomorrow

3. Highlights of Areas of Progress • Applications • National Learning Infrastructure Initiative NLII • Visit to EOT-PACI NPACI SDSC • Collaborations • Meeting with Knowledgenet • Follow-up Meeting with Cisco • Meeting with OARnet

4. Highlights of Areas of Progress • Strategic Planning • Teleconference calls to review Strategic Plan

5. Area of Needs for Strategic Plan • Tactical • Strategic planning for NY and Sagrado Corazon needs to be arranged Alex with Milton, Joe, Jim & Cefarino • Site Visit for NY needs to be arranged • Wireless planning and training for the initial setup - Build a team for skill transfer • Voice over IP

6. Area of Needs for Strategic Plan • Tactical • Bandwidth connectivity esp. for PR • Thin-client solutions - William • Executive awareness Alex • Assessment of technology - Alex

7. Area of Needs for Strategic Plan • Tactical • Incorporating tech into classroom & pedagogy for tech. • NLII membership • Campus membership • Community membership – Henry Ingle to send out info • Evaluation of commercial software for instruction

8. Area of Needs for Strategic Plan • Tactical • Effectiveness indicators for evaluation • Assessment of student learning • Assessment of faculty effectiveness • Finding and threaded discussion about Best practices – Mark Trebian to setup collaborative • Funding source identification and cultivation

9. Area of Needs for Strategic Plan • Tactical • Network security • HR3394 to provide $576m for cyber-security fast tract • Remote technical assist • Tech training • Knowledgenet online training grant – Art Gloster to organize • Art needs topics of training • Art to get out initial costs • Sabbatical/internships for cross institutional training

10. Area of Needs for Strategic Plan • Strategic • Distance learning • Faculty development for HP computing tools, and research as a learning tool • Faculty culture change to accept IT and new roles • New organizational structures for IT • I2 applications for research and instruction • Upgrading infrastructure for advance Applications

11. Area of Needs for Strategic Plan • Strategic • New collaborative course development paradigm to justify high cost/high value • Visualization into the classroom using HP computing and networking

12. NLII Ideas for Proposals • 1. The development of a repository of culturally sensitive/relevant learning objects for online and technology enhanced courses, perhaps in collaboration with the MERLOT project. A learning object would be part of a course that could be combined with other learning objects to form or re-design a course. Joyce Williams-Green, Joe Douglas, Al Kuslikis, and Charlene Douglas expressed an interest here.

13. NLII Ideas for Proposals • 2. A summer institute(s) for faculty for faculty development in the area of learning/teaching and technology. Henry Ingle, UTEP, and Carolyn Anderson, WSSU, the later through Joyce Williams-Green, have expressed interest in this project. • 3. Faculty development to engage them in collaborative research with other universities so they may in-turn engage students; so research activities for the teaching of undergraduates. Richard Alo expressed an interest in this idea.

14. NLII Ideas for Proposals • 4. Physical Learning Spaces, sometimes referred to as smart classrooms among other terms. Steve Pollard, CSULA, and Joyce Williams-Green expressed interest in this idea. • 5. Assessment of learning outcomes with online or technology-enhanced courses to ascertain the effectiveness of the technique. Steve Pollard is doing this and is interested in doing a proposal with others.

15. NLII Ideas for Proposals • 6. Virtual Educational Communities perhaps utilizing the Access Grid for cross-cultural collaborations. Al Kuslikis and Richard Alo expressed an interest. • 7. Student Centered Institutions. Angelique Lewis expressed an interest here. • 8. Resource Mapping perhaps as a means for Knowledge Management or for letting others at other MSIs know who and what are resources at MSIs. Joyce Williams-Green and Al Kuslikis have an interest.

16. NLII Ideas for Proposals • 9. A faculty development program for developing culturally sensitive learning objects through cross-cultural collaborations using virtual educational communities and a summer institute. Joyce Williams-Green expressed interest for herself and for Carol Anderson, WSSU, who would like to be the PI on such a grant.

17. NLII Ideas for Proposals • Other ideas that came out of the brainstorm: • 1. Designing online courses • 2. Learning styles research/support • 3. Potential research proposal on MSIs with Richard Katz, ECAR, Educause • 4. Course re-design through technology • 5. Virtual learning groups as part of classes • 6. Collaborative solutions • 7. Strategic planning • 8. Making swirling, the taking of classes from other institutions than the primary institution, into an asset through formal agreements

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