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      • Goals and Objectives
      • Goal 1: Digital Strategy
      • Goal 2: Digital Experience
      • Goal 3: Data Collection
      • Goal 4: IDEA Model
      • Goal 5: Governance
      • Goal 6: Partnerships
      • Goal 7: Digital Learning Products
      • Goal 8: Continuous Improvement
      • Goal 9: Access to Digital Learning

Goal 9: Access to Digital Learning

Expand access to high-quality Canadian digital learning to rural and remote learners in Alberta, Canada and the world by becoming Canada’s leading technical team in cloud infrastructure management for online universities.

Objectives

9.1

Improve the utilization of remote communication and collaboration technologies at organizational events to facilitate community engagement and develop institutional culture.

9.2

Optimize remote communication and collaboration technologies and training to enable staff, students, and partners to communicate, collaborate, and work effectively from a distance.

9.3

Transition the provisioning of core services, and the underlying services on which they are reliant, as software as a service (SaaS) or cloud-based services.

9.4

Modernize the IT infrastructure to ensure seamless failover and disaster recovery using best cloud practices.

9.5

Strengthen AU’s security posture by engaging external expertise in the design, management and continuous improvement of IT security architecture and implementation.

9.6

Implement a fully redundant and secure network topology.

Updated September 25, 2020 by Digital & Web Operations, University Relations (web_services@athabascau.ca)

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