The education landscape is changing rapidly, so universities need to be more agile and responsive as competition increases both locally and globally. Institutions are having to choose to focus on either teaching or research; broaden their reach through Internet-based course offerings to remote as well as on-campus students while seeking to reduce their costs and meet increasing student demands for extensive use of ICT in all aspects of their living and learning environments. In order to meet these demands, and to allow a degree of autonomy for faculties in their service functions, a new service model is required. In this presentation the tensions between the educational and the technology demands will be debated and a picture drawn of what the new service model will look like; what can be done with the network today; and what can be done in the future.
Bio
p>Peter Elford is a fifteen year veteran at Cisco Systems and as the
Public Sector Systems Architect is responsible for articulating an
architectural approach to how networked technologies can provide
positive outcomes for Australian public sector organisations. Before
taking up this position in early 2007, Peter held roles as the Federal
Region Manager, responsible for Cisco's engagements with the Australian
Federal sector, as a Corporate Consulting Engineer working on
residential broadband solutions and a range of activities related to
network security, and as both a Technical Marketing Engineer and Systems
Engineer.
Prior to joining Cisco Systems in February 1993 he worked for
three years at the Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet),
where he had responsibility for much of the hands on engineering for the
embryonic Australian Internet. Peter holds a BSc (Hons) from the
Australian National University.
