Week+7+Questions+(for+Matt)

Infrastructure planning

1) Does GSLIS and/or LEEP have a **technology plan** for acquiring, maintaining, and upgrading hardware and software required for eLearning ? 2) Does the GSLIS and/or LEEP have a contingency plan for **IT emergencies**? 3) Is the GSLIS and/or LEEP **network system** sustainable, reliable, and consistently available? Elaborate in any area you wish! 4) What prompted GSLIS' switch from their own LMS to Moodle? What criteria did you use to select Moodle? 5) What functionality of Moodle does GSLIS use:

Schedules and registers learners into online and offline courses keeps learner profile data launches eLearning courses tracks learner progress through courses manages classroom based learning handles grading, assessment and feedback provides learning adminstrators with the ability to manage learning resources including labs and classrooms supports learning collaboration automates use of competency maps to define career development and performance paths creation of test questions and administration of tests, performance reporting learning results, interconnectivity/integration with the institutions enterprise applications.

6) Has GSLIS created any re-usable learning objects? If so, do they follow international interoperability standards?

7) Does GSLIS/UIUC has special arrangements with vendors to offer student discounts on hardware and/or software?