Technology Goals
Goal I: Providing and Maintaining Student Access
- To encourage students to become independent learners able to function in an information society
- To provide access to computer lab facilities for demonstrations, individualized instruction and group learning
- To assist students in the full utilization of technology resources
- To provide email, news groups and Internet chat groups facilitating better communication among students, teachers, and the global community
- To support varied approaches to learning and teaching
- To provide quality hardware, software, and tutoring in open lab environments that facilitate learning and successful completion of course work
- To support access to appropriate technology, facilities, and software, including adequate computer classrooms and lab assistance.
Goal II: Ensuring Successful Student Outcomes
- To increase student learning through the instructional use of multimedia presentations, combining sound, pictures, illustrations and text to strengthen comprehension
- To enable students to pursue studies at an individualized pace which measures and rewards progress toward mastery of the subject
- To provide for the use and mastery of software applications currently demanded in the local job market
- To provide facilities for learning and application of concepts outside the classroom through the use of computer technology
- To provide facilities enabling practice and experimentation with complex laboratory simulations independently, safely, quickly and without exposure to possibly harmful chemicals or unexpected reactions
Goal III: Providing and Maintaining Faculty Access
Goal IV: Developing and Maintaining Infrastructure
- To provide support for an integrated network infrastructure that will potentially allow access to any software application through any computer on Grossmont's campus
- To standardize, where appropriate a Windows XX desktop menu for all computers in all of Grossmont's Learning Centers
- To provide technical support staff for maintenance of infrastructure as well as individual technology centers
- To provide timely replacement of hardware and software
- To work with District Information Systems in the establishment and maintenance of a unified approach to computer service delivery
- To support access for disabled students to the campus-wide network by providing adaptive equipment and support staff to train and assist the students
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