Objective 3: Technology

1. Outcome: Outcome: Colleges will use information technology  to improve and expand services to students in such areas as admissions, advising, financial aid, orientation, registration, assessment, placement, and progress monitoring.  

Activities: 
1a. Create a new information systems environment that makes information flows and administrative processes more efficient, more flexible, and more available for students and staff.  Introduce learning college concepts into the process.  Expand the learning college concepts to include all employees and activities affected by this project.  

Timeline:
2000-01  Define project and opportunities to practice learning college concepts    
2001-02  Selection, acquisition and project implementation planning    
2002  July: Finance system goes live  
2003   January: Human Resources system goes live  
2003  March: Financial Aid system goes live  
2003   May: Student system goes live  
2003-04  Consolidation and evaluation phase   

This project is fully funded and staffed and is in active implementation phase.  More detailed and current information can be found  at http://2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/lasr/

Facilitator:  Stephen Pruch and Alen Bahret

2. Outcome: Colleges will create and expand opportunities for asynchronous learning through information technology. 

Activities:
2a. Create a strategic plan for instructional technology.  The plan will include a definition of instructional technology, a report on the current state of instructional technology at Lane, a vision for instructional technology in the year 2007 and a broad set of goals that will move Lane in the direction of the vision.

Timeline:
2002  October: Charter a team to work on the plan 
2002  December: First draft due to sponsors 
2003  March: Final plan submitted to sponsors for adoption and approval

Facilitator:  Ken Zimmerman and Stephen Pruch