Year in Review 2009-10
As Duke increases its international engagement, information technology plays a key role in strategic efforts to embed and connect the university's research and teaching activities in cultures around the world.
In fiscal year 2009-10, Duke's Office of Information Technology focused on building a technological infrastructure that can connect and support a growing global campus, facilitating communication and collaboration across multiple locations, while still controlling costs in a time of economic uncertainty.
Below are some of the key accomplishments that illustrate the role of information technology in supporting Duke's mission of sharing knowledge in the service of society.
For previous Years in Review, see 2007-08 and 2008-09.
- Supporting essential services while controlling costs
- Ensuring data security and privacy
- Enabling “anytime, anywhere” learning and collaboration
- Exploring innovative uses of technology in teaching and research
- Leveraging new media to help Duke reach a broader audience
Supporting essential services while controlling costs
- Changes to student services help control expenses
- Collaboration fosters innovation, helps in cost savings
- Team honored for data center planning, design, construction
- Duke centralizes computer purchasing
- Performance metrics now available
- OIT encourages sustainable computing
- Fuqua enjoys advantages of Exchange
- VoIP phones add new features, save Duke $2 million
Ensuring data security and privacy
- Port 25 block aims to minimize spam
- Educational campaign targets mobile devices, phishing
- Faculty move forward on acceptable use policy
Enabling “anytime, anywhere” learning and collaboration
- Duke IT clicks on new ways to support global agenda -- from new networking technologies to telepresence
- New DukeMobile applications provide information on dining, maps and more
- Virtual computing lab pilot expands, allowing remote access to specialized software
- Online training program offers free access to video tutorials
- Committee gathers feedback on the future of "e-learning"
Exploring innovative uses of technology in teaching and research
- Duke Digital Initiative changes summer experience for students, helps expand discussion beyond classroom
- Research cluster expands to include GPU computing
- Froshlife film festival features new technologies
- Faculty explore open access possibilities at showcase
- Duke joins data initiative
Leveraging new media to help Duke reach a broader audience
- Interactive technologies help employees stay connected
- New online presence for university, calendar, administrative departments
- Duke explores live streaming, social media and video to share research and knowledge
- Duke joins local effort to attract Google high-speed