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See Also:
Maricopa Strategic Planning
Retreat 2002

Upcoming Forums
Ocotillo Retreat
"Guess Who's Coming to Learning? Managing Expectations" with Jay Jamrog, Human Resources Institute / University of Tampa
Rio Salado College, May 20, 2003

Past Forums
Planning for IT Change and Innovation in Higher Education
Mike Zastrocky, Feb 20-21, 2003

Back to the Future: After WYSIWIG, What is the Next Killer App?
Carl Berger, Dec 5-6 2002

On the Horizon and In Your Face...
Mark Milliron, Oct 31 2002

Ocotillo Retreat 2002
Special Guest: Alan November
Tucson, May 14-15, 2002

Developing the Future Maricopa: Strategies for Emerging Educational Realities
Michael Dolence, April 8-9, 2002

Into the Future: What is IT?
Diana Oblinger, February 26-27, 2002

Designing the Hybrid Campus
Philip Parsons, January 30-31, 2002

New Resources
Philip Parsons asks what has happened with "Hybrid Learning" since his first visit ... Transforming e-Knowledge "a revolution in the sharing of knowledge..." Maricopa's Killer Apps developed at the Dec 5-6, 2002 forum with Carl Berger ... Battelle Technology Forecasts ... The Futures Project ... Get Mark Milliron's Presentation from Oct 31 Forum ... inventio: "Bricks and Clicks: the Learning Space of the Future" ...

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evalutions

Planning for IT Change and Innovation in Higher Education
Mike Zastrocky
February 20-21, 2003

7. What did you learn that you could use as you develop your college strategic planning?

• Need to discuss Enterprise Process Management.
• Lessons to be considered in adopting a CMS.
• The additional considerations needed to make decisions about IT - especially as it relates to budgets, customer services, and teaching and learning.
• Looking at different technologies that are coming - some I thought were important may not need to be the focus of planning but still be looked at as the base not an add on.
• Formal advance technology; Student support model ideas.
• More need to show value. Need to formalize process to identify direction for Portal.
• Confirmation of our current plans and areas we can continue to improve.
• That measuring the value of the technology is important.
• The research and documented sources was quite valuable and it could be used in developing the college strategic planning.
• Education and policy need to protect IT commons.
• Develop technology within strategic plan; personality types overlap with product appearance.
• Need to protect resources; the need for a business continuity plan in case of a catastrophic situation; ensure an institution takes advantage of the cross functional processes.
• As the discussion questions all addressed strategic planning at district level, all applied to some extend at college level.
• Centralized services are the way to go; need to integrate enterprise-wide applications.
• Thinking - business side.
• It reinforced the need to integrate technology and not have it exist separately; I will be able to use the hype cycle, business, and academic value.
• Students bring everyone together for the planning.
• Need to provide access for students but students need to provide their own tools; we are at a crossroads with CMS - cost is forcing us to standardize; we will have to lower costs by not "reinventing the wheel" to achieve the bottom line.
• The discussion on centralization of IT and the future of wireless, PDAs, portals, etc.
• New ways to think about planning and financing IT.
• Student services are critical but they are an integral part to buy portals and CMS.
• Infrastructure planning; students will spend expendable income on technology (must have CD players, cell phones, etc.); we should expect students to absorb some or even a large percentage of personal technology (laptops, PDAs).
• We were able to come with a variety of viewpoints to a common concern, of IT in the lunch break out session. The need for an integrated and intelligent planning became obvious.
• Other campuses have more support from their IT personnel for faculty than we do.

8. Name one or two things the presenter did that you enjoyed the most.

• Good presenter; conversed with each table.
• Allowed time for discussion.
• Good examples and concrete stories that emphasized his abstract concepts. Example: his son needed a distance learning course and found a solution.
• Involved the group in discussions.
• "Real life examples"; He has walked the talk.
• Gave personal experiences; related comparable issues from other higher education institutions.
• His presentation style; gave me some ideas to research for RIO.
• I enjoyed his presentation style, his information, and his anecdotes.
• He demonstrated a solid understanding of the content presented.
• Table discussions, upbeat presenter
• Good listener; posed thoughtful questions; provided useful foundational information.
• Gave concrete examples; reinforced the need for planning in a complex environment and create the ability to remove portions of a system rather than revamp the entire system.
• He displayed a great ability to focus the discussion.
• Liked - I thought that the presenter certainly brought us valuable information; however, he spent a lot of time delivering "relevant analogies" from his own experience; Did not like - I felt it interfered with the flow of our own discussion.
• Slides - URLs with data.
• Open discussion.
• I enjoyed everything.
• Giving great examples from business and higher education; his slides were extremely informative.
• The best speaker yet!
• His graph of the "hype" cycle of new technologies.
• The graphs of type A, B, C personalities and interest in technology.
• Frank discussions; good factors; new perspectives.
• Great presentation; plenty of examples.
• Excellent follow-up of group discussion; excellent use of personal stories in making points (very effective communication).
• I really enjoyed the afternoon discussion with applications in Maricopa.
• Spoke clearly.

9. As we plan the next Forum, what improvements in this format should we keep in mind?

• Be all morning or all afternoon; I dislike this "middle of the day" format.
• Students will find them elsewhere; lesser learning for video generation learners; Deans of Instruction interest and dislike of subject.
• Keep the start time at 10:30 AM!
• I enjoyed today's session very much. I enjoyed the conversation with colleagues from other colleges.
• I liked the format, but raise the screen.
• People leave prior to meeting being over, therefore disrupting team collaboration and discussion/learning.
• Basically keep the same.
• Keep as is.
• It was great as it was.
• Great format today for the topic group questions well stated.
• Continue to bring speakers that can help us refine our ability to assess our efforts.
• The number one goal - best service to our students. Students want to see common software and tools.
• Keep it the same.
• Keep the session small (as this was), so discussion is rich and fruitful.
• Need to continue the discussion. I'm glad I came.
• Need better defined goals and objectives for the forum.

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