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Strategic Technology Plan 2012 – 2017 Coastline Community College Strategic Technology Plan 2012 – 2017 Distance Learning & Technology Committee Thursday, November 29, 2012 Strategic Technology Plan Thursday, November 29, 2012 Subject: Technology Plan To: Coastliners and Coastline Constituent s Transformation of our college is inevitable and critical. Today’s workplace increasingly demands tech-savvy knowledge workers who are fully conversant with the acquisition and presentation of information using technology and workers who collaborate and work virtually with peers around the world. This new and ever-changing environment comes as no surprise to a majority of Coastline students; many are digital natives and virtual learners, who are familiar with and use technology in everything they do. Moreover, unlike many colleges, the progression to an ever-increasing world of ubiquitous persistent technology integrated into every aspect of daily life and learning has been a natural progression for Coastline. Whereas many colleges experienced a major paradigm shift, Coastline with its experience as a college without walls (embracing technology) glided into the new technology-enabled era with a degree of ease. Today however, this in itself presents a major threat to the college. Where we were once pioneering the way and complacent about being a technology-enabled outlier, we now find that many if not most colleges, have suddenly and aggressively moved into our domain. Moreover, the rapid advancement of mobile computing, social networking, and other critical and emerging technologies is now placing Coastline in a position of catch-up! We are now immersed in a crowded field where others have acted more aggressively. Where we were once segmented along with just a few other institutions, we are now one of many in the same position. Even though we predicated many of the changes that would dramatically impact teaching and learning, and implemented numerous pilots and small programs, we have not acted with urgency in a unified manner. Our new challenge ─ to innovate, to create, to transform, and to reinvent ─ is paramount. If the College’s mission of providing accessible, affordable, and high quality education is to be sustained, Coastline must leverage technology in new and creative ways, now and into the future. As technology has become a fundamental component of the education landscape for all institutions, nationwide and worldwide, the strategic application of technology must be leveraged more effectively than ever before. No longer is Coastline an outlier able to pick and choose when and how to use technology with little or no competition. The National Education Technology Plan, Transforming American Education – Learning Powered by Technology calls for the application of advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to improve student learning nationwide at all levels of education. We must act quickly, in a decisive and aggressive manner. We urge you to consider the vision for transforming the college’s technology discussed in the plan. We also urge you to embrace and champion the goals and objectives set forward to achieve the plan. And most of all, we urge you to consider the urgency of our actions. Sincerely, Technology Plan Work Group Page 2 of 269 Strategic Technology Plan Thursday, November 29, 2012 Acknowledgements The Technology Committee and Technology Plan Work Group (members listed below) would like to thank everyone who contributed to this plan. The initial document was crafted and refined through a collaborative process that involved focus group meetings with various departments, surveys of college constituency (faculty, classified staff, managers, and students), draft document reviews by constituency groups (e.g., Technology Committee, department and wing managers, academic department chairs, Academic and Classified Senate, and the Planning, Institutional Effectiveness and Accreditation Committee, College Council), and open forums discussions. Strategic Technology Plan – 2012-2017 - Work Group Dan Jones, Executive Dean, Office of Learning & Information Technologies Ted Boehler, Ed.D., Dean of Instruction, Newport Education Center Dan Johnson, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Distance Learning & Technology Committee (Faculty Member) Anthony Maciel, Co-Chair, Distance Learning & Technology Committee (Interim Senior Director Information Technology) Cheryl Chapman, Faculty Member Distance Learning & Technology Committee (DL&TC) - 2011-2012 Mandate Members 2011-12 Meeting Schedule, etc. To review Coastline’s Classified (ISD Rep - Sylvia Amito’elau) September – November & Distance Learning Classified (DL Department - Tai James) February – May courses and curriculum in Classified (Deborah Tetnowski) 3rd Thursday - 3-5 pm relation to issues of Classified (Mark Worden) feasibility, production, Counselor (Helen McClure) Location facilities, technology, Dean, CTE (Ted Boehler) College Center marketing, contract Dean, Distance Learning (Vince Rodriguez) education, research, and Co-chairs Dean, Military or Designee (Janell Keough) student support services. Dan Johnson - 241-1398 Dean, ISD or Designee (Dan Jones) Anthony Maciel - 241-6225 Faculty (Curriculum Distance Learning Rep. - Cheryl Chapman) Committee Support Faculty (Senate - Bob Covert) Karen McLucas - 241-6140 Faculty (Senate - Dan Johnson) ISD (Bob Nash) IT Director (Co-Chair - Anthony Maciel) Librarian (Cheryl Stewart) Student (ASG - Jesus Becerra) Page 3 of 269 Strategic Technology Plan Thursday, November 29, 2012 Table of Contents Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Executive Summary ..................................................................................................................................... 8 A Vision for the Future ............................................................................................................................................... 8 Ongoing Development Review & Development ....................................................................................................... 10 Technology Vision .................................................................................................................................................... 10 Technology Mission ................................................................................................................................................. 11 Aligning Technology Goals ...................................................................................................................................... 11 Strategic Planning Consideration ............................................................................................................................. 12 Assumptions......................................................................................................................................................... 12 Budget Environment ............................................................................................................................................. 12 Funding ................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Learning and Information Technology (L&IT) ....................................................................................................... 12 Organizational Structure ...................................................................................................................................... 13 Students ............................................................................................................................................................... 13 New Learning Paradigms ..................................................................................................................................... 13 Key Implications ....................................................................................................................................................... 14 Key Emerging Technologies .................................................................................................................................... 14 Teaching & Learning ............................................................................................................................................ 15 Infrastructure & Operations .................................................................................................................................. 15 Research & Assessment ...................................................................................................................................... 15 Entrepreneurship & Monetization ......................................................................................................................... 15 Critical Drivers .......................................................................................................................................................... 15 Strategic Technology Plan Initiatives ....................................................................................................................... 16 Summary & Recommendations – A Bold Plan ......................................................................................................... 16 Bold Plan of Action ..............................................................................................................................................
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