Enable UCLA Anytime, Anywhere
UCLA uses IT to increase its global intellectual impact by enabling scholarly interaction among its communities and collaborators, anytime and anywhere.
YouTube: UCLA Vice Provost Jim Davis discusses this theme
Scholarly interaction has become a global enterprise. Researchers find collaborators not only on other university campuses throughout the nation, but on other continents as well. UCLA’s educational outreach has now extended far beyond its local community to encompass national and international programs.
Modern scholars expect much from technology to support their academic pursuits, at all times of the day and night and from every possible time zone. Here at home, IT can do more to enhance scholarly interaction among students and between students and faculty, with fewer constraints on time and place and in ways that make face-to-face interactions even more valuable. Expectations are high for IT to foster the fusion of education and research, interdisciplinary scholarly interaction across both the campus and over great distances, and to support international programs. Use of educational technology is, for example, one of the key themes in our WASC accreditation process.
To meet the expectations of an increasingly technical and mobile constituency, future campus applications must be designed to support a wide range of devices in any number of mobile computing modalities.
With the exponential growth of research data, the campus will need to develop an institutional view of stewardship and archival preservation, and adopt tools for globally exchanging massive amounts of data.
This vision element supports the institutional goals of draft academic plan Transforming UCLA for the Twenty-first Century to enhance academic excellence, increase diversity, and deepen public engagement by broadening connectedness and outreach and creating a "level playing field" through increased access for members of all communities.
