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A knowledge and informationmanagement vision for Wits
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Prof Derek W. KeatsDeputy Vice Chancellor
(Knowledge & Information Management)The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
http://[email protected]
Academic administration, governance
ResearchTeaching-and-learning
Community engagement
Knowledge and Information Management
(KIM)
Computer &Network Services
Management Information Unit
Library eLearning
Knowledge and Informationcontributing to WITS 2010
and beyond
Financial strength
Research
driven
High level & scarce skillsIn
telle
ctua
l ach
ieve
men
t Strategic partnerships
TransformationEngagement
Infrastructure & environmentPerformance
Enterprise
21st Century challengesand opportunities
A global perspective
Process
Technology
Support(people)
PPT model
People
Process
Technology
Process
Technology
Innovation InnovationSupport(people)
TIPS model
Process
Technology
Innovation InnovationSupport(people)
Source of competencies
TIPS model
Exist within KIM Build within KIM Internships Outsource within Wits
Private sector
FOSS community
Goals
Establish KIM and conduct strategic planning Develop a wireless and mobile Wits strategy, and first phase
implementation Review the development of e-Learning at Wits and establish a
21st Century, innovation-based structure and process for eLearning
Consolidate various Free and Open initiatives at Wits to create synergy and improve positive impact
Enhance efficiency through administrative and support systems Explore opportunities to enhance library initiatives through latest
generation technologies, particularly using FOSS where possible
Miscellaneous academic initiatives
KIM strategic planning
Establish strategic planning based on the Good-to-Great framework, and develop an overall Knowledge and Information Management strategy
Develop, present and discuss the TIPS (Technology, Innovation, Process, Support) model for innovation based on people-process-technology
Begin creating the support and technology innovation capacity, building on
internal capacity use of student interns relationship with Wits initiatives enhancing the skills of KIM staff making better use of FOSS and FOSS procedures strictly managed relationships with private sector partners.
Wireless & mobile Wits
Develop strategy Create implementation projects
e.g. Hotspots e.g. Podcast e.g. Mobile phone application
Investigate feasibility of worldwide mobility Research trends in mobile applications to support
Teaching-and-learning Research Community engagement (e.g. DAS@MXit)
eLearning
Design an eLearning area based on the TIPS model (where the 'process' P also represents pedagogy), and propose an eLearning unit be established in KIM
Establish example eLearning site based on FOSS (KEWL3), together with demonstration project, and have Java development team member trained to create innovation example.
Note that this is a demonstration project and does not represent a decision around eLearning technology
Relegate the use of the concept LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMto the 20th Century where it belongs!
Participate in national eLearning standards processes
Identify eLearning 'lighthouses'
Free and Open Wits initiatives
Strategy to enhance the use, creation and support of FOSS
in conjunction with existing and new proprietary technologies that make up the current the de facto strategy
Devise a Free and Open Content strategy, encompassing Free and Open Courseware
Membership of Open Courseware Consortium Institutional Repository
Improvement plan for the Wits institutional repository establish a presentation repository
General Content
Administrative and support systems
Investigation and planning for the Oracle Student System successor
Review Management Information opportunities, and improve access to management information both vertically and horizontally
Implement a CRM solution Establish a portal project that will devise a portal strategy,
and begin implentation Document management solution
Administrative and support systems
Finalize support arrangements for HEMIS reporting system and ensure that HEMIS reporting is not at risk
Review staffing requirements in relation to risks in MIU Review / audit all software licenses and support costs Replacement of the ERP servers and Storage Area
Network, concurrent with a review of the data centre architecture.
Enhance library initiatives
Explore opportunities to enhance library initiatives through latest generation technologies, particularly using FOSS where possible
Archive digitization, including building the semantic connected archive making use of the TIPS model.
Hold a workshop with representatives from Sun Microstems, and other semantic archive projects
Potential commercial project
Bring the Copyright and Access to Knowledge information service into KIM as an official Wits initiative, and provide facilities to enhance this service
Institutional repositories
Academic initiatives
Establish a video streaming project, linked to media rich web technologies
Based on Chisimba and IceCast tools with plugins
Opportunity to create a low-costkit for deploymentin any venue
Academic initiatives
Google gadgets research project in eLearning, and apply to Google for funding
Identify someone in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering who would be interested in doing it in collaboration with the FSIU at UWC.
Academic initiatives
Application to SAFIPA for the JCSE to become a partner in the AVOIR project
A way to build FOSS capacity within Wits
Explore options for Wits video online
Challenges
Federated nature of Faculties We don't necessarily know what the level of activity is in the areas under KIM
across the institution So we have to create an enabling environment with some 'channeling'
We (or our auditors) confuse us with a bank This inhibits innovation Need for balance
Classroom infrastructure ?? Power of vendors Lock-in inertia Skills
We must grow some timber! Fast but not balsa!
Positive factors
Energy, passion, thirst Smart and very committed people Strong academic departments with which we can build
synergy Pool of potential interns World class strengths on which to build Funding opportunities
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