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Academic Research and Computing Advisory Board
Meeting Minutes
September 22, 2003
Attendance: Gayle Bentley, Clare Billman, Beth Brigdon, Roman
Cibirka, Rick Hall, Anne Hinton, Fred Lupien, Rod Mackert, Rick McIndoe,
Fran Omar, Mimi Owen, David Wardlaw, Ronald Wirtz (for Kristy Stephens),
Chris White.
Absent: Andy Albritton, Caro Cassels, Van Haywood, Mark Litaker,
Kevin Plummer, Kenda Rindt
The bi-monthly meeting of ARCAB was held in the President’s Conference Room, AA-302. The meeting was called to order at 1:05 p.m. by Rod Mackert.
The minutes of the July 21 meeting were amended with one correction and approved.
Dr. Mackert discussed bylaws changes and an archiving problem in GroupWise.
Board Member Reports:
Classroom Services. Mr. Omar reported on the current state of GSAMS. Ms Brigdon added that the viability of the H.323 protocol is currently being evaluated. This will provide for two-way interactive instruction via IP instead of dedicated T1 lines (as currently employed with the H.320 protocol). If adopted, H.323 will enable broader, more cost-efficient access.
The Department of the Army Initiative with the School of Dentistry is in place and operating via ISDN lines. A lecture will be delivered to a U.S. military base in Germany on October 11.
Office of Educational Design and Development. Ms. Billman reported on their new Agility Presenter product which captures lectures for streaming on the web. She expressed great satisfaction with the product thus far and indicated that it is an ideal product because it fills a need and it is “good, fast, and cheap.”
Greenblatt Library. Dr. Wirtz reported ongoing problems with the Library’s online catalog. Each new update resolves old problems and brings new ones. They are currently working through resolution on all of the issues.
Kristy Stephens is chairing a workgroup for studying PDA standards. The Library is interested in acquiring an AvantGo server for pushing dynamic HTML content to PDAs and a Clarinet server for wireless hot synching of PDAs.
School of Allied Health Sciences. Mr. Hall questioned whether Agility Presenter and Allied Health’s new Tegrity system were duplicate resources. Ms. Billman explained that, though both have similar functions, each have their own unique functions that make both viable instructional technology tools for the campus.
Information Technology Division. Ms. Brigdon provided a status report on the MCGPrime network upgrade project.
School of Medicine. Dr. White reported that the School was still evaluating the feasibility of requiring incoming students to have PDAs (possibly starting with 3rd year students). They are awaiting the report from the PDA Standards Committee.
Division of Student Affairs. Mr. Wardlaw reported that the recruitment of a new Student Liaison Committee is underway.
Old Business. Intellectual Property Subcommittee: Tabled for now – Ms. Billman indicated that clear rules and guidelines already exist for governance of intellectual property issues.
Status of the evaluation of distance education technologies: We are faced with the threat of Bell South charges spiraling upwards. Where are we going? Mr. Omar indicated he would like to setup a hub for capturing and redistributing curriculum content.
New Business. Beeper article for next year’s Technology Fair.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:00 p.m. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 24 at 1:00 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
David Wardlaw
Secretary