Goal 1: digital strategy
Architect Athabasca University’s digital strategy that will enable a re-imagined semi-virtual AU organization and its innovative learning environment for our learners.
Objectives
1.1
Define with the Provost office, the digital learning environment of the future to serve students across their lifetime of learning and identify existing products and emerging technologies that meet that criteria.
1.2
Ensure the functional academic, research, and administrative capabilities in the current environment are road mapped to the desired future environment to determine decommissioning, modernization and prioritization.
1.3
Build a flexible and adaptable Canadian-region cloud strategy that allows for media-rich courses easily accessible by all learners, even if in rural, remote, or international locations.
1.4
Identify and prioritize the IT investments necessary to modernize existing services deemed core, to acquire new core services with the required capabilities to achieve the desired future environment, or to decommission service and migrate required data.
1.5
Create and maintain a conceptual architectural reference model of identified existing core services, proposed future services, and their interdependencies.
1.6
Establish an enterprise-level service for course and program evaluation.
1.7
Establish an enterprise-level social networking service for current students and staff.
1.8
Work with stakeholders to establish a standard exam management system across the organization.
1.9
Work with stakeholders to develop a document management framework for all types of learning content, including media-rich content, currently on a multitude of platforms.
Updated July 07, 2021 by Digital & Web Operations, University Relations (web_services@athabascau.ca)