IT ISSUES & TRENDS, 2015 Faculty Technology Day Wednesday, August 19, 2025

1. Hiring and retaining qualified staff, and updating the knowledge and skills of existing technology staff. 2. Optimizing the use of technology in teaching and learning in collaboration with academic leadership, including the appropriate level of technology to use. 3. Developing It funding models that sustain core service, support innovation, and facilitate growth. Top Ten IT Issues, 2015

4. Improving student outcomes through an institutional approach that strategically leverages technology. 5. Demonstration the business value of information technology and how technology and the IT organization can help the institution achieve its goals. 6. Increasing the IT organization’s capacity for managing change, despite differing community needs, priorities, and abilities.

Top Ten IT Issues, Providing user support in the new normal – mobile, online education, cloud, and BYOD environments. 8. Developing mobile, cloud, and digital security policies that work for most of the institutional community. 9. Developing an enterprise IT architecture that can respond to changing conditions and new opportunities. 10. Balancing agility, openness, and security.

Themes of Change Inflection Point… 1, 6, 9 & 10 a turning point that results in extraordinary change From Technical to Business… 2, 3, 4 & 5 IT architecture, process optimization, service management, risk management, project management are efforts to manage the change The New Normal… 7 & 8 Mainstream users enter the market place motivated by the need to solve a problem that current solutions cannot address

Trends The evolution or morphing of the campus IT organization, in its role as the provider of the IT environment and also with respect to its role in teaching and learning. The increased independence of instructors and students, using their own tools to form their connections resulting in custom pathways to achieve learning goals. The trend away form large central applications, run on campus servers, in favor of confederations of apps, many of which run in the cloud. higher-education

Trends The growing importance of interoperability and interface standards The increase in multiple mobile device ownership. The capacity of data analytics to proffer custom portraits of learners and to make predictions and suggestions based on those portraits. higher-education

Trajectories Device Ownership and Mobile First The textbook and Open Education Resources (OER) Adaptive Learning Technology Learning Spaces The Next Generation Learning Management System (NGLMS) Learning analytics and Integrated Planning and Advising Services (IPAS) higher-education

Next Generation Learning Management System (NGLMS) 99% of colleges and universities run and LMS 85% of faculty use an LMS 56% of faculty use an LMS on a daily basis 74% of faculty say it is a useful tool to enhance teaching 83% of students use an LMS 56% of students say they use it in most or all courses

“The LMS has been highly successful in enabling the administration of learning but less so in enabling learning itself.”

Next Generation Digital Learning Environment What comes next must be informed by the new learner- centered model that increasingly characterizes higher education practice (hence next generation). It must be digital, given that digital technology has become a component of virtually all teaching and learning practice. It must be about learning, since learning ties together learner and instructor. It must be an environment, an ecosystem – a community of learners, instructors, tools and content.