TECHNOLOGY MASTER PLAN 2010 – 2015

LOS ANGELES MISSION COLLEGE

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Executive Summary

Technology Mission

Technology Vision

 

A.   Assessment and Evaluation

Campus Infrastructure

Students Access Technology

Faculty, Staff Access Technology

Campus Resources

        Physical Resources

        Financial Resources

        Human Resources

B.  Technology Goals, Objectives and Action Items

Goal 1: Continually provide the best possible technology support and solutions within Institution.

Goal 2: Develop and maintain technology skills for faculty, and staff.

Goal 3: Promote Anytime, Anywhere and Always-on with Technology to enhance student success and readiness.

Goal 4: Improve technology resources and skills to better address learning, services and student success.

Goal 5: Continually update and maintain the technology infrastructure to improve the operation, services of the college with the aim to be a carbon neutral campus.

Goal 6: To develop and implement a long-range budget plan for technology needs

Goal 7: Annual developing, reviewing, and revising technology related policies and procedures.

 

C.  IT Challenges and Opportunities

IT Funding

Network Security

Digital Divide

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Infrastructure and cyber-infrastructure

 

APPENDICES
Executive Summary

This plan is integrated with Strategic Master Plan, supports Educational Master Plan, consistent with Facilities Master Plan and aligns with financial planning initiatives at Mission college.

Technology Mission

á    To ensure technology is available and improve teaching, learning.

á    To ensure students, faculty and staff have the ability to use technology

á    To insure environment are conducive to learning

á    ??

This plan is not all inclusive.  New technology will be discovered in the process of implementing and executing the plan.  Technology is changing rapidly that the prediction of the five years or three years from now cannot be done. Thus, this plan provides a vision what is possible of the current knowledge and information of technology.  The Technology Master Plan is not developed for Information Technology department or Technology committee.  It is developed for students, faculty, and staff of Los Angeles Mission College.

 


Technology Vision

       Our goals focused on:

á       Student Success

á       Teaching and Learning Excellence

á       Professional Development

á       Infrastructure Improvement

á       Resource Management

á       ???

 

A.  Assessment and Evaluation

 

Campus Infrastructure

Project name

Description

Completed

Fund(s)

Email and Network Operating System

Migrated faculty, staff email from CCmail to MS Exchange 2003.

Migrated Novell network to MS network operating system in academic network and administrative network.

Winter 2006

College

Smart

Classroom

Converted 11 regular classrooms in the Instructional building into smart classrooms; these rooms equipped with mounting projector, electronic screen and computer.  Rooms are 1001, 1002, 1012, 1013, 1017, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2018, 2021

Summer 2007

Perkin

Campus cabling

Upgraded of campus network cabling and data network switches.

Installed multiple mode fiber backbone between buildings.

Summer 2007

Bond A/AA

2nd MPOE

Secondary main point of entry was built entering from Hubbard to create a redundancy network loop.

Spring 2007

BondA/AA

OmniUpdate

Converted campus web page to District standard Content Management System

Summer 2007

District

College

Voice over IP

Migrated the PBX Fujitsu phone system to CISCO Voice over Internet Protocol. 

Summer 2008

Bond A/AA

Wireless Access

Implementation of a wireless network throughout all campus facilities.

Spring 2008

Bond A/AA

Emergency phones

Implemented blue phones throughout all campus facilities

Spring 2009

Bond A/AA

Security Camera

Implemented security camera throughout all campus buildings

Spring 2009

Bond A/AA

Campus Payphones

Campus owned six payphones to accommodate the lack of cell site coverage on campus.

Spring 2009

Bond A/AA

 

Student access technology

Project

Description

Completed

Fund(s)

Active Directory,

LDAP implementation

 

Winter 2006

None

LRC computer

Replaced 100 computers in LRC common

Spring 2006

Block Grant

Tracking software

Implemented NetTrack software to track computer usage in LRC

Spring 2006

Title V

SOCO

Implemented a dynamic search of classes

Summer 2006

Title V

Equitrac printing

Implemented a self serve printing in LRC and Library using Equitrac Card

Summer 2006

College

New Student ID

New student ID is District Project to replace studentÕs SS number with the 88 formats

Fall 2006

District

LRC 205/234

Replaced 42 computers in LRC 205 and 28 computers in LRC 234

Fall 2007

Title V

LRC 234

Replaced 28 computers in LRC 234

Spring 2009

Title V

MAC labs

Replaced 50 IMAC computers in LRC 233 and 126

Summer 2008

SFP and Title V Grant

Library computers

Replaced 27 student computers in Library

Summer 2008

Prop A/AA

SARS call/grid

Student appointments

Summer 2007

Title V

Student Portal

ASO online voting

Student profile, referrals.

Summer 2007

Tile V

 

Faculty, staff access technology

Project

Description

Completed

Fund(s)

Web server

Brought main campus web sites back to campus to better provide support faculty web pages

Spring 2006

College

Online Curriculum

Curriculum centralized on the database server; faculty can view curricula any time and any where via Internet web browser

Spring 2006

None

Online Enrollment Report

Developed a web based enrollment report to check class status.

Spring 2006

Title V

Faculty computer

Replaced all full time, adjunct facultyÕs computers with Pentium IV.

Summer 2006

College

Multiple Function Printers

Deployed 20 new multiple function printers in most buildings, offices

Summer 2006

College

Faculty/Staff portal

 

Summer 2006

None

Staff computers

Replaced all staff computers in Admin services areas

Spring 2006

College

SARS call/grid

Student appointments, scheduling software

Summer 2007

Title V

Web developments

SLO, Program Reviews, Online Tutoring referral, Faculty web pages

2007

NONE

Smart Copy

Submitted a copy, printing request on line

Spring 2008

College

 

 

 

 

 

Campus Resources

Physical Resources

Current computer inventory

Open Lab

 

 

Discipline Labs

 

 

Full time Faculty

 

 

Adjunct Faculty

 

 

Staff/administration

 

 

 

Current network inventory

Equipments

Quantities

Responsible Organization

Admin servers

25

LAMC Information Technology

Academic Servers

10 HP

LAMC Information Technology

SAN

6 LeftHand Network

LAMC Information Technology

Core switches

2 CISCO 6509

LAMC Information Technology

Access switches

50 CISCO 3750G – 48 ports

LAMC Information Technology

Wireless Controller

2 CISCO wireless controllers

LAMC Information Technology

WAN devices

1 Internet router, 1 gatekeeper

1 Mesh router

1 Sheriff

2 Voice gateways

6 Analog gateways

2 ASA VPN device

CENIC.ORG

District IT

LA Police Department

LAMC Information Technology

LAMC Information Technology

LAMC Information Technology

 

Financial Resources

Current funding sources

Program 100 (college budget) of IT, LRC, CSIT, CAOT

        Equipments, services, support

 

TTIP

Staff Development

VTEA

Grants

 

       Human Resources

Discipline labs have Instructional Assistant (IA) to assist students and faculty in the use of the labs.  CAOT labs have a haft time IA and a haft time ?.  CS labs have one full time and one haft time IAs.  The Learning Center has one Assistant Computer Network Specialist and a haft time IA.  DSPS lab has one full time IA. 

 

In addition, IT department filled several key positions in the past few years.   College hired IT Manager in spring 2005; replaced a vacant Computer Network Support Specialist with computer technician in spring 2007; reclassified one Computer Network Specialist to Senior Computer Network support specialist and hired a Web designer in spring 2008.  For the first time, Mission college has so much expertise been gathered together in service of our technology goals and objectives.

 

B. Technology Goals, Objectives and Action Items

There are seven major goals, all of equal importance.

 

Goal #1: Continually provide the best possible technology support and solutions within an institution.

Objectives:

 

1.1  Develop learning resources and use of innovative technologies

Action item:

¯ Provide students, faculty, staff and administration with hardware, software necessary for use of technology.

¯ Every student, staff and faculty member will have the best possible of training and support required to perform assigned work.

¯ Develop and maintain college information technology standards for common resources.

¯ Develop an annual replacement strategy for upgrade of desktop computers and equipments for instruction, and staff members.

¯ Upgrade the operating system and Microsoft application of students, faculty and staff computers with the latest, proven technology.

¯ Improve network access response times by increasing bandwidth, storage and processing capacity.

¯ Provide a state-of-art technology environment that can attract and retain quality faculty, staff, students and administrators.

 

1.2  Define and implement technology support services for student, staff and faculty development.

Action items

¯ Evaluate existing services in all divisions.

¯ Define needed services.

¯ Implement and/or improve automation services wherever applicable.

 

1.3  Facilitating communication among students, faculty, and staff and beyond campus through effective integration and use of appropriate technologies.

Action item:

¯  Promote the use of a college web based calendar of events.

¯  Continually improve the use the electronic message board.

¯  Improve and reorganize academic department web pages.

¯  Create division web pages (?).

 

1.4  Promote deepening of information literacy and technology competency.

Information literacy and technology competency are frequently introduced to students when they are expected to access to available sources in the library.  However, it has extended to the ability of recognizing when information is needed; ability to locate, evaluate, and use it effectively; ability to innovate and invent ways of applying technology in challenging new situations.

 

For this objective, Information Technology department serves as a supporting role only.  This objective is included in the Technology Master Plan because it raises attention of academic of information technology and many institutions incorporate information literacy skills in the requirements for their general education curriculum

 

Goal #2:  Develop and maintain technology skills for faculty, and staff.

Technology is a tool that is valuable only if faculty and staff are empowered to use it.  An on-going professional development program is essential for the investment in technology to obtain the maximum benefits.

Objectives:

2.1     Enhance the college professional development program to improve faculty and staff skill in the effective use of technology.

Action items:

¯  Develop orientation training when an employee is hired, some of which deals with technology issues

¯  Periodically update technology contents for new faculty.

¯  Provide computer based training or onsite training of Microsoft Office Users Certifications.

¯  Specific training on the use of technology in smart classroom, especially for faculty using AV equipments as they relate to computers in the classroom.

¯  Specific training on the use of web portal to upload faculty profile and syllabi.

¯  Perform faculty and staff surveys on a regular basis and use the feedback to prioritize the training course offerings.

¯  Develop online tutors or computer based learning for all topics.

 

2.2   Propose a Technology Resource Center shared by all faculty and staff.  This center will provide ongoing workshops, self-paced and one-to-one instruction. 

Action items:

¯  Item proposed in LRC renovation project

¯  Propose to hire a new Instructional Assistant, Information Technology position to work with faculty in the Technology Resource Center.

 

2.3   Encourage faculty using Mission portal to develop and deliver handouts, syllabi in regular classes.

Action item:

¯  Provide ongoing training workshops in the use of Mission portal.

 

2.4 Strategies for increasing technology use in classrooms.

Action items:

¯  Increase support from administrators.  One of the methods that administrators can learn how to use technologies and model their proficiencies during faculty meeting.

¯  Peer collaboration.  This factor can be encouraged and cultivated quite easily in the academic environment by simply providing an environment where faculty can congregate, conserve, eat and share their teaching methods with one another. 

 

Goal #3:  Promote Anytime, Anywhere and Always-on with Technology to enhance student success and readiness.

Create a continuous learning environment that is always available where meet the studentsÕ needs.  Today, students expect constantly access to the class lecture regardless of where they are; we need to move ourselves from printed books to fluid information and transform traditional classroom into the stage of mobile classroom in different format including distance learning, blended technology, interactive learning, cloud computing, and social networking.

 

Objectives:

3.1   Develop a contingency plan for distance education course management system.

Course Management System for distance instruction currently is ETUDES.  ETUDES was determined to be sufficiently robust and extremely affordable four years ago.  In light of the budget issues, it appears that ETUDES becomes out of reach.  However, strong, popular and open source online CMS as Moodle could serve as a replacement of ETUDES.  A contingency plan needs to be developed that will allow the distance learning program to make a smooth transition for students and faculty in the event of any changes of ETUDES support.    

        Action items:

¯  Establish a Course Management System Task Force with the charge of  reviewing the current status of LAMC course management systems and of making a recommendation to College Council  regarding the number and choice of course management systems to be available at LAMC

 

3.2 Develop a transition plan for faculty from ETUDES to Moodle site

 

3.3 eBook development - Digital content should be available before, during and after school to support teaching and learning.

Action items:

¯  Incorporate digital content into instruction to decrease the dependency on print materials.

¯  Seek funding opportunities to provide digital resources to educators, students before and after school hours.

 

3.4   Digital content will be integrated into all instruction, as appropriate, to support teaching and learning.

              Action item:

¯  Provide more opportunities for faculty to develop new course materials utilizing technology.  Create incentives for those that are incorporating new technology into the curriculum

 

3.5 Create Mission on Youtub, Twitter and Facebook.

        Action item:

 

3.6 Create a social networking web page of Mission college

        Action items:

¯  Outsource?

 

3.7   Increase the Use of Social networking in learning and teaching -

        Action items:

¯  Provide training to faculty on Web 2 technology.

¯  Pushing services to advance student mobile devices and networks.

 

       3.8  Online educational services

        Action items

¯  Interactive exercise with online tutor.

¯  Learning to learn online

 

3.9   Prepare online instructions, assessments and courses for students to equip students with the skills for e-learning in the online world.

Action items:

¯  Skill-assessment tools evaluate whether online learning is right for students.  The tools measure and possess the ability to organize students own time, how they study, search and answer to questions.

¯  Off-campus access to learning resources, online journals and full text databases provided from Library.

 

3.10 Continually expand wireless wherever possible

        Action items:

¯  Expand wireless access point in all new buildings

¯  Apply the latest wireless standard 802.11n technology to all wireless access point in the new buildings.  The 802.11n significantly improve the speed and range.

 

Goal #4: Improve technology resources to better address learning, services and to student success.

Objectives

4.1 Students will be able to use technologies as a critical learning tool to further their college education.

Action items:

¯  Enhance the educational technologies available onlines, computer labs, library and other physical and virtual learning environments.

¯  Provide reliable and user friendly access to college services.

 

4.2 Improve tutoring services to students in the use of technology in academic courses

Action item:

¯  Implement online tutoring service to assist students anytime.

4.3 Develop and implement a comprehensive online orientation for students in different areas.

Action item:

¯  Implement online orientation introducing all services and steps to apply to college for new students.

4.4 Implement a plan to help students identify their progress toward their educational goals and career objectives.

Action item:

¯  Degree audit system?

4.5 Implement online counseling services

Action items:

¯  Implement online chat services

¯  Implement video conferencing

4.6 Implement student email with edu domain.

        Action item:

¯  Coordinate with District to implement student email either with Google or Microsoft.

4.7 Develop a process to monitor and fund the needs of student computer labs, establishing a replacement cycle program to ensure technology is available to students.

Action item:

¯  Lab managers (Instructional Assistants) keep track, monitor inventories of their labs and report to IT Manager (Need to discuss? ).

4.8 Address Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance.

        Action items:

¯  Increase the availability of disability software in computer labs throughout the campus.

¯  Address physical space, applicable technology, lighting, classroom layout and appropriate furniture.

¯  Validate web pages for ADA compliance section 508.

4.9 Enhance basic skills

        Action items:

¯  Upgrade computers in writing and reading lab to support new software.

¯  Increase tutors and technology to assist students in writing, reading using software in LRC.

4.10 Enhance academic discipline and department web pages

Action items:

¯  Redesign academic discipline web page

¯  Reorganize and redesign departmental web pages

 

Goal #5:  Continually update and maintain the technology infrastructure to improve the operations, services of the college  with the aim to be a carbon neutral campus.

Objectives:

5.1   Satellite building connectivity

The 2007 and 2009 Facility Master Plans have prepared the development of instructional and support facilities to accommodate enrollment through 2015.  The new Health Fitness and PE center and East campus will be the two satellite locations where the college expects the enrollment from 9,100 to 15,000 students.  To provide voice, data and other communication services to these two locations, Information Technology department and campus construction management initiates the dark fiber project.  The project is to build the direct fiber connection from the main campus to the new the Health Fitness and Athletic Complex (HFAC) building which is within one mile.  The dedicated fiber connection backbone can provide much faster connection speed which is critical needed for supporting the increasing traffic of the online education activities and network convergence at Mission college.

Action items:

¯  Install new 96 single mode fiber strands connected the primary data center to the Building Distribution Facility (BDF) in HFAC building.

¯  Install 100 copper pairs from Verizon local loop to the BDF of HFAC building.  This serves as a main point of entry of the building.

¯  Install 10Gigabit modules to connect the core switch on main campus to the distribution switch in the HFAC building.

¯  Extend the emergency phone lines, security camera, video conferencing to the HFAC building.

 

5.2   Maintain and update the network convergence

The use of multiple communication modes such as Internet, telephone, streaming media and video conferencing in a single network offers convenience and flexibility.  As network convergence evolves, learning and teaching in classrooms become sophisticated and the application delivery can be rich content.

Action items:

¯  Propose to upgrade the core switch and distribution switch on campus to 10G.  This will increase backbone bandwidth from 1G to 10G.

¯  Extend Cable TV to the classrooms.

¯  Request training budget to hardware technical staff to manage the convergence network.

 5.3 Upgrade operating system and Microsoft applications to the latest verstion.

          Action items:

¯  Upgrade operating system of all workstations to Window 7

¯  Upgrade Microsoft application from 2003 to 2007

 

5.4 Upgrade Network Operating System and Email Exchange server

Action items:

¯  Request a training budget to senior technical staff on how to manage Exchange 2010 and server 2009 versions.

¯  Upgrade server hardware from single servers to blade servers

¯  Upgrade all academic servers and admin servers from 2003 enterprise server version to 2009 version.

¯  Upgrade Exchange server from 2003 to 2010.

5.5   Develop, test and update disaster recovery procedure, and contingency planning.

Information technology department manages and maintains a larger number of critical servers hosting databases, email, scheduling, documents, and student record imaging documents.  Current, IT department is charged with providing backup, recovery of these resources.  In addition, to ensure the business continuity in the event of a disaster, off-site storage, ring topology and secondary data center are scheduled to implement in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Action Items:

¯  Off-site storage

¯  Creating a ring connectivity of the current network topology.

¯  Move DS 3 Internet to Secondary Data Center.

¯  Secondary Data Center in East campus will be a secondary feed.

5.5   Renew campus software and network equipments.

Action item:

¯  IT provides a list of academic software and network equipments that need to be renewed. 

 

5.6 Consider thin clients and/or blade PC technologies

Blade PC uses only 20 watts of power per PC, compared with 85 to 150 watts for desktop computers.  When the server power is factored in, the data center will use 12,600 watts to run the blade PC system, compared with 80,500 watts for the 500 student computers.

Action items:

¯  College will adopt the blade PCs wherever it is applicable. 

¯  Use the power management tool to shut down PCs at night.

 

5.7 Purchase Energy Star technology and encourage offices to do the same.

Action item:

¯  All new purchase technology equipments must meet Energy Star requirements

 

5.8 Consolidate data center

Action items:

¯  IT administrators can consolidate servers, and storage to save data center space and reduce power and cooling costs.

¯  Raise the cooling in data center in between 68 – 78 degrees instead of 65 – 75.

5.9 Reduce printing and implement document management

Action items:

¯  Reduce desktop printers; replace with multiple function printers. 

¯  Encourage using recycle paper with double-sided printing.

¯  Process paper online whenever possible.

 

Goal #6: To develop and implement a long-range budget plan for technology needs

Objectives:

6.1   Establish and implement equipment replacement plan

Over the past few years, computers and printers replacement plans have been driven by various budget resources including Title V, VTEA, TTIP, block grant and Bond A/AA as well measure J.  As result, 98% of computers of student labs and faculty, staff are Pentium 4 with LCD monitors.  Recently, college council has directed Information Technology to ÒEstablish and Implement equipment replacement planÓ. This will help ensure that all technology on campus is kept-up-to-date, and that the funding for this plan is clearly established across multiple years.  Some faculty and staff may require more powerful computers than others as well the student labs.  The PC from the student computer lab can be cascading to the areas where the computers are less demand or occasionally used.  Equipment will be replaced at the rate of 25 – 30 % each year allowing for 100% replacement over a four year period.  The PC replacement plan is based on the categories of computers to minimize the collegeÕs expense and be as efficient as possible. 

Categories of Computers

Categories

Description

High usage

Used all day, every day, multiple and high demand applications – Staff and administration

Moderate usage

Tenured faculty

Low usage

Single application, occasionally used or basic used included Kiosks, counters, adjunct faculty offices

High end lab

Multiple and high demand applications

Low end lab

Low demand application.  Examples: writing, reading labs.

 

                      Action items

¯  Adopt the computer standard from District Technology Committee (Appendix E)

¯  IT department establishes an inventory of old computers to be replaced. 

 

6.2 In order to avoid future struggles and dissatisfaction with technology, the college needs to consider the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO); this included total purchasing price, periodic upgrades, maintenance, personnel costs, training, support, etc. in the evaluation of prioritization of technology-related projects and other requirements e.g. security, performance, control.   This requires all project proposals to identify three budgeting components: (1) Cost for development/implementation, (2) Operation/maintenance costs, (3) Upgrade/renewal costs

Action items:

¯  Maintenance/Upgrade for software and hardware

o Hardware included desktops, servers, audio/video equipments, and network infrastructure

o Software included renewal licenses, yearly contract.

¯  Training included IT training and campus training.

 

Goal #7: Annual developing, reviewing, and revising technology master plan related policies and procedures

To assure goals, objectives are supporting technology vision and college mission and vision, measurements will be developed to access success.  Technology committees together with other share governance committee create measurements of success.  A process must be developed to review the update TMP based on the results of measurements and in response to the changing needs and goals of the college.

 

Objective:

7.1 Create a Technology Master Plan Task Force (TMPTF)

        Action items:

¯  The TMPTF is responsible for developing and updating Technology Master Plan based on the primary goals, objectives of Educational Planning Committee.

 

7.2   Review process

Action Items:

¯  Develop a tool or survey to measure and monitor institutional effectiveness and assist administration and faculty in evaluation programs and processes.

¯  An annual review and assessment of goals and objectives is required, in concert with other planning entities on campus. With input from all areas (Administration, Instruction, Student Services, and the PresidentÕs Office) via program review documents, the Technology Master Plan is reviewed and revised. Results of this review are then relayed to appropriate committees—particularly the Budget and Planning Committee, Facilities Planning Committee and Educational Planning Committee.

¯  Propose the process and schedule to review the TMP

 

C.  IT Challenges

Funding IT

In the last four years, many services include core LAN/WAN infrastructure, Voice over IP/Unified communications, security, wireless networks, data center systems integration, and the demand of fast transmission, larger bandwidth have driven the college to improve network performance, while budget constraints limit the ability to invest in new hardware.  The college is anticipating continued growth in 2015

 

Security

Security remains the strategic issues facing any institutions as the network evolves to accommodate distance education, on-demand courses, social media and global collaboration. (É ?)

 

Digital divide

The term Òdigital divideÓ is real and is not new that refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital information and those with very limited access or no access at all.  This includes the physical access such as computer, laptop and intellectual access such as skills to participate to the digital century and knowledge of the use of social networking.  Digital divide is a problem of multiple dimensions and extends even more in these days with the existing of cell phone, iphone, text messages and so on.  If digital divide can be viewed as a technology problem, then the solution is within our reach.  The solution would be to increase the numbers of computers, laptops on campus for students; increase technology training for students, faculty and staff. 

While such technical problem can be resolved, the problem of digital divide is not primarily technology problem but social and economic structures.  Not all individuals want to use computers or get online; or being bothered to engage in social networking, forum or face book while they have to work hard for their daily living.  Technology is not a silver bullet that will resolve all social and economic problems.  While digital divide is not a crisis but affects the school success; closing or bridging gap between the ÒhavesÓ and Òhave- notsÓ is a part of the education in the 21st century. 

 

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity (DR/BC)

It is important to understand disaster recovery and business continuity are business issues not simply technology issues.  For instant, the loss of connectivity between campus and District office during the registration period has an impact and severe operational, fiscal and academic services.  The college needs to have a hard look at the infrastructure, staffing and support system that need to ensure continuity of the college operation in the event of system failures or natural or man-made disaster.   DR/BC planning is an institution wide responsibility.  Planning includes the identification and alignment of college vulnerabilities, priorities, and dependencies.  Training, simulation and testing of the plan must be ongoing; DR/BC planning and overall resilience of the infrastructure need to be integrated into institutional thinking on an ongoing basis and in all aspects of campus activity to support teaching, learning and research activities. 

 

Infrastructure and Cyber-infrastructure

Web 2, cloud computing, Internet 2, social networking are a few items of advanced computing which combined to the current infrastructure to create cyber-infrastructure.  Unlike physical infrastructure, cyber-infrastructure has a level of volatility and change that is unprecedented in human history.  There are important concerns for the near future education:

o Education and educational technology use must keep up with ever-changing economic, social, and cultural needs.

o Basic skills include not just mathematics and English but social networking technology.

o Learning will take place both inside and outside the classroom in the context of real-world environment, interactive virtual environments, virtual resource centers, digital libraries, games, simulations, models.  Opportunities for learning can occur in any place and at any time and it does not suddenly stop when a school bell rings or the semester ends.

o College technology vision must be merged to cyber-infrastructure which is a comprehensive digital environment in the 21st century. 

 

APPENDICES

 

APPENDIX A – Strategic Master Plan 2008 -2009

 

APPENDIX B – Educational Planning document http://www.lamission.edu/eduplanning/planningdocuments.aspx

 

APPENDIX C – Facilities Master Plan 2007 and 2009

http://www.lamission.edu/community/construction/

 

APPENDIX D – Technology Master Plan 2003

http://www.lamission.edu/facstaff/technology/docs/LAMC-TMP-2003.pdf

 

APPENDIX E – District Computer Standards 2009