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Information Technology StrategySupporting Excellence
Tim Phillips, Director of Information Systems & Computing
Information Technology, supporting excellence
Tomorrow’s ChallengesTomorrow’s Challenges
• Responding to student expectationsResponding to student expectations• Enabling research and collaborationEnabling research and collaboration• Generating and sharing knowledgeGenerating and sharing knowledge• Meeting the Exabyte challengeMeeting the Exabyte challenge• Transforming business processesTransforming business processes• Being innovative and achieving technological Being innovative and achieving technological
leverage leverage • Developing all our peopleDeveloping all our people• Building the “Virtual University”Building the “Virtual University”
Information Technology, supporting excellence
IT Strategy Aims
Information Technology, supporting excellence
A Vision of the Future
“We are moving towards a mobile, broadband society”
“I see a near-future in which mobile terminals (phones, other handheld devices) have more processing power than today’s laptops; with cognitive radio, they will select the best wireless system for the task in hand …terabit communications are not that far away”
Joe McGeehan, Professor of Communications Engineering, credited with pioneering many of the major developments in mobile communications.
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The future (or the present)?Did you know?
Portal
You Tube
• UOB
• Comp. Sci.
Podcasts
Online Courses
e-Portfolios
Weblogs
• Physics
Wikis
Virtual Campus
SOASecond Life
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What does that mean for Jane?
Jane is woken by her mobile alarm, checks out the day’s todo list and diary and reads her email over breakfast whilst catching up on yesterday’s soap in the corner of her laptop screen.
She picks up a recorded lecture from last week as she cycles in (click here for podcasts). As she walks by the Students’ Union she sees a display of the week’s events and downloads timings and details to her mobile calendar. A message arrives saying her first lecture has moved, so she goes straight to the new venue.
Jane downloads images and notes during the lecture and annotates them, uploading them via the portal to her workspace afterwards. She’ll use them when working on her essay later on in the library. A message arrives from a friend in a 2nd Life seminar from another part of the course and they arrange to meet. (click here for 2nd life)
The students compare notes and search video clips of lectures from the 3rd year options to try to work out which to choose for their final year. (for an example, see UC Berkeley Youtube)
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Students can…Students can…
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Staff can…Staff can…
Student submits assignment
Student submits assignment
Lecturer sets assignment for
students
Lecturer sets assignment for
students
Lecturer uploads learning resources into on-line learning environment
Lecturer uploads learning resources into on-line learning environment
Student accesses on-line resources and assignments
Student accesses on-line resources and assignments
Student attempts assignment
Student attempts assignment
Lecturer accesses submitted assignments
Lecturer accesses submitted assignments
Lecturer reviews, marks, and returns assignmentLecturer reviews, marks, and returns assignment
On-line AssignmentsOn-line Assignments
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It’s all about integration (and access)
• Processes
• Communication
• Data
Workflow: Integrated processesReporting
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) = Process and Systems Integration
New Systems:PurchasingTimetabling
fEC
WorkflowBusiness Process Model
Portal
CODA SITS Library Aleph
VLE Bboard
JISC/SOA
Information Technology, supporting excellence
Integrated Communication & Collaboration
Portal
Expertise Locator
eLearning
Large FileTransfer
Shared Workspaces
Web Conferencing
Messaging PresenceAwareness
Search
Single Point of Entry
Access to Applications & Reporting
Q&A Forum
Virtual Meeting Rooms
Information Technology, supporting excellence
Integrated Data & Information Resources
ROSE: Bristol Repository of Scholarly Eprints
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Information Technology, supporting excellence
A Vision of our future
“We are still some way off a modern and wholly integrated IT system. This, in part, reflects years of underinvestment but also a kind of natural conservatism and a fear of the sums of money involved.” Speech to University Court, 7th December 2007
(Eric Thomas, Vice-Chancellor; Speech to Court, December 2007)
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3. Systems &Technology
Balancing business requirements with technology and maturity of the organization
1. Requirementsof business
2. Maturity ofOrganization1)
Unbalanced,technology “push”
Balanced, business led “pull”
1) Processes, Structures & Organization, People & culture
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