Being Fluent with Information Technology

Box 4.3 - Imperative for Universities in Adopting Information Technology for Instructional Purposes

Improving Teaching and Learning

• Develop a coordinated, cross-departmental organization to advance the institution's goals in instructional technology.
• Equip more classrooms with basic and advanced information infrastructure.
• Provide better and more extensive training and support services in pedagogy and multimedia technology.
• Expand the availability of software site licenses, including better tools for building instructional materials.
• Create new, flexible multimedia learning environments.

Supporting Students

• Develop programs to ensure universal individual student access to (ownership of) network-enable computers.
• Provide basic universal competency training in the sue of online information resources for all students who do not yet have it.
• Provide more extensive and readily available help-desk facilities for students and faculty.
• Expand and modernize drop-in facilities with mix of multimedia development capabilities, docking stations, printers, advanced software, and so on, with consulting support.
• Enhance the capabilities of universal e-mail and provide voice mail.