Task Groups and Deliverables


What are the key deliverables of the project?

Task Group 1 - Key Individuals & Users Task Group 2 - Tools Evaluation
Focus: Consultation and Education Effort Focus: Pilot and prototype projects, tools testing and evaluation, recommended solutions documents
1.1 Faculty Needs Assessment (joint project of TRC and LEAD) to take inventory of current faculty resources (hardware, software, technical support), skills, needs and expectations. (1/99) 2.1 Create and implement plan for coordinating UCD projects with each other, other UC campuses, and with the IMS project(2/99)
1.3 Student Needs Assessment (coordinated inventory of current resources, skills, needs and expectations) (1/99) 2.2 Develop recommended guidelines for design, prototype and pilot projects (5/99)
1.2 Regular monthly program of workshops & presentations (through Arbor, CAIT, library, SITT) (ongoing)

1.2.1 Think Tank on Distributed Learning

May, 1999

Panel of campus representatives, and off-campus visitors conduct public review of the Distributed Learning Environment Architecture report and recommendations from Task Group 4.

1.2.2 Communication Plan (processes and protocols for ongoing communication about the LEAD project with the entire campus). (11/99)

2.3 Recommended Solutions documents:

2.3.1 Web server/database architectures(12/98) (four documents: Overview, platforms, web servers, databases & middleware)

2.3.2 Authentication/authorization architecture (1/99)

2.3.3 Course Management Systems (2/99)

2.3.4 Distributed file systems (4/99)

2.3.5 Voice/Video Conferencing (5/99)

2.3.6 Review of existing recommended solutions documents (6/99)

2.3.7 Quick Fixes (1/99 - 6/99, ongoing)

2.3.8 Solutions Map (7/99)

Task Group 3: Technical Infrastructure

Task Group 4: Institutional Infrastructure
Focus: Specify the technical infrastructure necessary to meet the needs identified by Task Group 1. Focus: Identify the institutional infrastructure elements (funding, policies, procedures) that would be necessary to implement the technical infrastructure specified by Task Group 3.
3.1 Develop and present for review technical white paper (4/99) that describes a campus-wide distributed learning environment architecture, addressing:

3.1.1 web server and database infrastructure architecture and needs;
       3.1.1.1 web server architecture and infrastructure

3.1.2 access needs;
       3.1.2.3 mobile access with DHCP

3.1.3 content management infrastructure architecture and needs;

3.1.4 security and, authentication, and authorization infrastructure architecture and needs
       3.1.4.2 digital certificates

3.1.5 messaging requirements;

3.1.6 distributed file systems

 4.1 Develop and present policy, procedure and funding recommendations to provide the institutional framework for creating and maintaining the distributed learning environment described in 3.1. White paper will include situation inventory (local, national and international), results of faculty and student needs assessment, general discussion of technology alternatives and issues, and recommendations with regard to guidelines for prototype/pilot projects, assessment and evaluation, relationships with other projects (NLII, IMS, California Virtual University), and intellectual property and copyrights. (5/99)