(CATEGORIZED VERSION)
Question
27. List Up To 3 Major IT Upgrades/enhancements
To Support What You Dream Of Doing (Categorizer)
1. Real time video conferencing, and availability of asynchronous streaming media.
2. additional funds for library-provided databases and journals
3. Funds to preserve legal and historical data of University that is in digital form
4. Voice command
5. Broader range of campus wide software licensing, especially for higher end specialized computer programs that have applicability to multiple disciplinary venues, such as GIS, 3D, database (DBMS other than Oracle, which is too expensive!), and support for establishing department and individual researcher based research and educational programs archiving, including Control Version Systems (CVS) to enhance
6. Desktop videoconferencing around the University System.
Classroom
Technology
1. Develop a 24-station/stand alone G.I.S. computer lab with available plotting and scanning hardware.
2. Equipping all classrooms, practice rooms, rehearsal and concert facilities with cutting-edge technology.
3. Construction of large classrooms equipped with computer technology that can be used on a campus wide basis, e.g., classrooms each with at least 100 workstations and flat panel display units that can be used for both research and educational purposes.
4. Create a "virtual patient" instructional classroom or laboratory which is interactive and tests students problem-solving skills and application of subject matter,
5. Construction of a classroom technology building, [providing state of the art in media and computing delivery systems. Each classroom would be equipped with computers in podia, using a touchpad ("media-on-call") system by which faculty and students could request and display digital media. The media would be distributed from a central storage facility in the building. Labs would include facilities that one would need for instrumenting laboratory equipment in such a way to be controlled from anywhere over the internet. {#303}
ERP
1. Employee, applicant, manager, executive self-service of HR information.
2. Work management with web interface
3. Totally online electronic grants/research administration.
4. Sell all parking permits electronically.
1. Complete upgrade of ancillary hardware to the Fine Arts cluster facilities.
2. Web-based cardiovascular fitness equipment. Would require server, hardware & software to store workout information on a comprehensive database.
Infrastructure
1. Wireless video conferencing
2. Electronic file storage
3. Upgrades to all halls
4. Have full audio, video, and data interfaces to research sites around the globe
5. Upgrading computers, networks, capacity.
6. Establish an IT architecture supported through grant overhead dollars
Internet 2
1. Internet 2 capability directly into the Fine Arts facilities. This would enable real-time interaction with remote collaborative sites.
Technical Support
1. Hire an individual to provide graphic-based/G.I.S. software training for faculty as well as support graphic lab hardware and software needs.
2. Staff whose IT skills are not a hindrance to trying innovative approaches to completing research and education
3. Ready access to trouble-shooting, problem-solving computer services.
4. More personnel, office web person, more training.
5. A dedicated group in my department for computational polymer and materials design
a group dedicated to color and appearance computational techniques {#279}
more computer based teaching in department, including more handling of problems and grading, etc. {#280}
6. Enhance the IT environment to support research and innovation equal to a Research University-Extensive institution.
7. Provide researchers with technology resources to make them nationally competitive.
Web Enhancements
1. Interactive web site with forms and on line access to department information.
Other
1. Virtual reality suites for classroom use in anthropology, archaeology and history. This would require server capabilities as well as terminal capabilities.
2. Plenty of room for multiple computers so students can access them for either testing or other interactive work in our unit.
3. New library facility
4. A campus wide policy (standards and guidelines) in support of IT based and IT related research and educational programming that mandates the implementation and maintenance of expanded and continuing IT training for faculty and staff and thus provides a more effective model for assuring that all faculty and staff will not fall behind the technology curve.
5. Access to all on campus students
6. Continued deployment of next generation technologies will keep NDSU on the leading edge