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Highlights from report (linked above):
- incremental improvements: add business functionality, improve technical infrastructure
- History of ed. systems: current WebSIS is 15 years old, and SIS backend is ca. 1988.
- Overall system has 45k users, from applicants to faculty
- Ensuring face-to-face relationships, not taking human factor out of the equation.
- Input from 300+ students
Q: A lot of visible changes are on the faculty/admin side. When are the next big student visible things?
A: Online registration will be the first major change: small pilot Summer 2011, larger pilot Fall 2011.
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Marilyn discuss the IT Governance Committee (http://web.mit.edu/itgc
). Currently developing roadmaps for various parts of computing at MIT. So far: Mobile Roadmap, Network Security Roadmap, Education Systems, Data Roadmap (Data Warehouse)
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