Three Year Forecast

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Three Year Forecast

• What, me forecast?
• I dont think so!!
• More likely well ride the wave.
• And get knocked off and get up and get knocked
  off again.

November 13,2001 Apple UEF Annie
Stunden
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UW, Madison has a new strategic plan

• Promote research
• Advance learning
• Nurture human resources
• Amplify the Wisconsin Idea
• Accelerate Internationalization

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At UW, DoIT, we identified a set of strategic
initiatives that will support the University plan.

• Enable easy access to web-based services to
  support the Universitys instructional, research
  and administrative functions.
• Advance the learning experience by integrating
  technology both within and outside the classroom.

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• Provide easy access to data and information that
  support the decision making needs of the
  University.
• Support research and learning by evolving the
  network infrastructure and related security.

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and

• Provide outstanding applications that support the
  academic and administrative functions of the
  University in partnership with the University
  departments.
• Develop a culture of customer service excellence
  to support the information technology functions.

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• We are at work on all of these, at the same time
  as we are developing a plan to support each
  initiative.
• Our first initiative, enable easy access to web
  based services, is being used as an umbrella for
  components of each of the other initiatives. It
  is driving some of our middleware work.

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• Integrated web based services, in my mind, are
  the transformative technology for higher
  education during this five year period.
• Check out the thinking of Ed Lightfoot from the
  University of Washington in Seattle. (The other
  UW).

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• The challenge isnt what services can we provide
  in a personalized, web based, portal
  environment.
• The challenge is, which of the many electronic
  services that we do provide, shall we integrate
  first.

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• We have about 7000 students with access to My-UW
  Madison right now.
• November 1, we made the product available to the
  balance of the student body, 38,000 more
  students.
• A subset of that 38,000 will pilot web course
  enrollment that is being incorporated in the
  portal starting November 16.

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• My-UW Madison provides access to the campus
  calendar and integration of events on your
  personal calendar - Corporate Time from Steltor.
• It includes a web based e-mail application
  -I-Planets e-mail which will come up before the
  end of year.

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• It includes web course enrollment which we hope
  to make live for all students after the first of
  the year.
• Students can ask what if questions regarding
  their course selection (DARS-What-If).
• Students can check their bursar bill and their
  financial aid status.
• It provides direct access to web based courses
  and course materials.

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We call this thing
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Spring semester

• Faculty and staff will become part of the
  thing.
• By the way, for the longest time we called the
  thing e-whatever.
• The e-cat (campus advisory committee) is
  identifying and selecting the components to
  integrate for the faculty staff component.

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Major challenges

• Roles definition - we are doing it a-role-at-a
  -time.
• Single sign on - are our apps ready and willing?
• How many things can/should a campus have? This
  one is political.
• Access to technology - this has to be ubiquitous.
• And the accessibility issue.

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Things we are driving

• Middleware - certainly our directory and security
  services, but again, the answers are coming as we
  move along.
• Integration - this is bigger than a breadbox,
  bigger than a volkswagon, bigger than a mac
  truck, bigger than a We are the system
  integrators. This is a most complex job.
• The campus network - it has to be good all over
  for this to make sense.
• More wireless and the handheld stuff.

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Is this transformative?

• I think so -
• It is already changing the way that many folks on
  campus think about and do their work.
• It supports the chancellors concerns about a
  user friendly campus.
• Big hunks of the campus are asking how they can
  do their work to be a part of this - and thats
  more collaboration than we have seen in a long
  time.

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Do we know what it will look like in three years?

• Nope.
• We hardly know what it will look like in three
  months.
• The technology is evolving.
• The community is figuring out how to take
  advantage of it (in community).
• And we are figuring out how to provide the
  infrastructure and support.

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Predict the future.

• Nope-
• But-
• Provide opportunities for our Universities to
  take advantage of the great technology that we
  can see and touch to support the Universities
  strategic initiatives and to make a difference in
  the future.

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Check it out

• http//my.wisc.edu
• There is an annie student log-on

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