AWG - Initiatives

Higher Education Podcasting - Stanford on iTunes

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:32:55 -0700

Stanford University has fueled the recent podcasting buzz in industry and higher education by offering over 400 unique audio programs online to their students, alumni, and the general public. They developed an application that allows them to manage content that loads in Apple's iTunes software.

This move should help to erase some of the fear of uploading classroom content, as Stanford is following in the steps of MIT and others by making their lectures, notable speeches, research, etc available to the world free of charge.

There has been a lot of discussion at APU in regard to podcasting, with a recent grant to Dr. Orlando Griego to develop a podcast for the School of Business and Management. Other schools and individuals will no doubt want to follow in his steps, and perhaps make additional forms of content available. AWG and IMT needs to be prepared to respond to such requests by evaluating the emerging technologies as they become more widespread, and by planning our infrastructure to accomodate anticipated future requests.

Stanford provides access to university content through iTunes
October 20 2005
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/october26/itunes-102605.html

The Sounds of Stanford, via the iPod
October 21 2005
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/21/itunes

IMT Strategic Priorities

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 11:38:00 -0800

CIO John Reynolds has put forth the following strategic priorities for IMT. They are in no particular order, but everything IMT does in the forseeable future should be aligned with these priorities. This includes efforts around [Initiatives], projects, and architecture.

Organizational Efficiency
Graduate and Adult Learner Support System
Virtual Accessibility
Knowledge Management
Transformational Self-Service

From a broad architectural perspective a theme arises, Agility. Organizational efficiency can only be achieved with an Agile Enterprise Architecture, where work seamlessly flows between organizational units; modular design masking complexity and enabling change. Whether a grad student, or a university partner, virtual accessibility and self-service are critical to enabling distributed access to a living organization that works as one. The self-service enterprise is one which is able to provide personalized service to the individual, hiding the complexities of organizational process to present a single friendly face to the customer. And yet with knowledge management, not loosing the value that each constituent: student, faculty, staff, alumni and parents personally bring to APU as transformational scholarship through Christ leaves its legacy.

Initiatives

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:42:55 -0800

This collaborative book is for documenting the major iniatives that the industry and IMT is considering. These often are three letter accronyms that define an industry approach to a suite of opportunities, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Identity Management (IdM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) etc. The idea here is to to gather information and ideas as we develop a strategy to approach these areas of interest.