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How To Help With a University ICT Strategy?
An anonymous reader writes "I have been asked to contribute to my university's revised ICT (Information and Communication Technology) strategy and I am curious what fellow Slashdot members consider to be the main advice in this context. What are the major mistakes that organizations like universities make? Given the complexity of the different participants in a university, how does one have a coherent strategy that fulfills the needs of such a wide audience? How does one promote open source in a managerial culture? How does one deal with the curse of the virtual learning environment?"
Why do you feel the need to point out that these were young, female co-eds? Does that make it worse somehow?
Yes, it called chivalry it may be mostly dead but not entirely. Among the heterosexual male population the desire to protect and shelter females is ingrained into the genetic code.
Because I'm a man, am I supposed to be LESS traumatized?
I damn well hope so. Fairy.
Drug use and selling? Theft of property? you're sure these were the SAME people that were masturbating?
It is certainly possible that these are to different groups and there are public mastrubators who are not selling drugs and druggies who are not publicly masturbating but I think the point is I don't want either in my library or on my network.
Let me guess, you vote Republican. Fucking scumbag. I wouldn't let your ilk in my library.
I missed it when the DNC endorsed public mastrubators or when the ACLU came out to declare this First Amendment free expression. I'm more worried about being the next one to use the terminal. It gives new meaning to sticky keys.
When it comes to VLS (Virtual Learning Systems) please don't give into the Blackboard marketing machine. Moodle is free and equivalent in just about everyway. It drives me nuts to see colleges and universities paying for crap like Desire2Learn and Blackboard when many of them are cutting back student services and laying off people these days. What's even worse is that both Blackboard and D2L have significant bugs and really bad customer support.
Our university (around 38,000 students) pays Blackboard $600,000 a year (yes there are five zeros after that six). Please try convince your PHBs to give Moodle a look. The community is massive and helpful. You can find hundreds of great pluggins as well.