The document is about a workshop discussing how technology is impacting and potentially leading changes in education. It discusses trends in information technology and education, including consumerization of technology, cloud computing, the use of data, and the growth of online and hybrid learning models. It also summarizes the University System of Georgia's use of a common learning management system that over 300,000 students actively use, generating over 34 million hits per day. The workshop aims to discuss how to maintain quality education and access while reducing costs and increasing student success with the growing reliance on educational technology.

1. Is Technology Leading the Change?
An interactive workshop
Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
Board of Regents, University System of Georgia
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3. Silver Bullets or Bricks of Kryptonite?
Trends in IT and Education
• Premise: Quality and Access Matters,
Folks Learn Differently, Support Matters
• IT Trends: Consumerization, Cloud, Data
• Education Trends: Budgetary Diversification
and Stagnation, Success not Enrollment,
Online/Hybrid/MOOC Learning
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4. The Microcosm of the USG
Learning Management System
Working from the Cloud:
– 30/31 institutions using same system
– 220,000 students active now. By May, 300,000;
– 34,000,000 hits a day or 153 per student each day;
– 100% system availability since launch
(knock on wood)
If it does not work all the time, the faculty
will not use it.
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5. The Microcosm of the USG
Learning Management System
• Intelligent Agents: Predictive intervention
based on different data to provide support
• Data from the LMS – not the SIS
• Student and Faculty access from a broad
spectrum of platforms
• Experimentation abounds
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6. Working as a System
How do you maintain quality and access while
driving down costs, increasing success and a
growing reliance on technology, or more succinctly:
How do you light lifelong flames
from afar….
for less?
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7. Working as a System
How do you maintain quality and access while
driving down costs, increasing success and a
growing reliance on technology, or more succinctly:
How do you light lifelong flames
from afar….
for less?
“Creating A More Educated Georgia”
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