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Digital Empowerment on the State Education Network Elisha Allen, Elaine Rising, Marth Becktell, 2023

A minority majority, Carnegie Very High Research, Hispanic Serving Institution
#9 NY Times list of colleges with the greatest economic diversity

Land of Enchantment

New Mexico has long been home to artists of all kinds, creatives, dreamers, healers, scientists and inventors. Multiple traditions of art and storytelling weave their way through landscape and memory and fuse with emerging technologies and scientific breakthroughs to create the culture, creative works, innovation, and possibilities for a diverse future. It is a legacy that originates with the land, the light, and the diverse peoples that make this the Land of Enchantment. From artistic and cultural creativity to technical innovations, the lasting impacts of New Mexico’s contributions are impossible to completely enumerate. These ingredients that make New Mexico unique are also inspiring a new generation of leaders, creators, innovators, artists, dancers, musicians, writers, scientists, and scholars.

Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. -American Library Association

UNM IT Mission

UNM IT will partner strategically with the community of New Mexico’s Flagship University to enable success without boundaries through innovative technologies and services aligned with its educational, research and service missions.

http://creativecampus.unm.edu

Maker and Collaboration Spaces

  • Creative Commons
  • Departmental Spaces
  • Legislative requests

Communication in the age of distributed mass media

Text, raw data, graphs, still matter...

As do these tools...

...But in a world of short attention spans and access to unlimited data, media, distribution and context are critical

Along Came Coronavirus (and Generative AI)

Advances in AI may be just as disruptive! https://airesources.unm.edu

UNM Learning Management System

https://canvasinfo.unm.edu

  • 2,249 instructors
  • 218,991 student enrollments
  • 34,768 unique users in all roles
  • 10,142 (Banner) sections

UNM Web Conferencing (Zoom)

https://webmeetings.unm.edu

  • 30,585 Licensed Users as Authenticated Meeting Attendees
  • 13,947 Licensed Users as Meeting Hosts
  • 800,241 Meetings
  • 5,294,917 Total Meeting Participants
  • 3,133,533 Hours of Zoom Meetings
  • 53,974 Hours of Meeting Recordings
  • 778 Webinars
  • 64,031 Webinar Attendees

Kaltura (Lecture Capture and media)

https://canvasinfo.unm.edu/external-apps/kaltura-index.html

  • 88,690 Distinct Videos Watched
  • 1,983,438 Total Views
  • 346,372 Hours of Video Viewed
  • 30,327 Licensed Users (Unique Authenticated Users who at least watched video)
  • 10,405 Content Creators/Contributors (Authenticated Users who recorded or uploaded new content)
  • 126,360 New Videos Created/Uploaded
  • 122TB of Media Content Managed

Textbooks and Curricular materials

  • Publisher integrations (Cengage, Pearson, McGraw Hill, Norton, Redshelf, more to come)
  • Inclusive Access
  • Open Educational Resources

Scantron scoring and test proctoring

Classroom Technologies

  • Central and departmental classrooms
  • Audio / visual support
  • Instructor computer
  • Connected and collaborative classrooms

Transformation of Computer Labs

Software

Digital Accessibility + Universal Design

  • Physical accessibility (equipment and connection)
  • Cognitive accessibility (knowledge and skills)
  • ADA Accessibility (Kaltura Captioning, Ally ADA checker, faculty and staff awareness development)
  • Online and mixed modality options

Universal Design and design for accessibility benefits everyone!

We are all creative

Creative, adj. (from Oxford English Dictionary)

  1. Having the quality of creating, able to create; of or relating to creation; originative.
  2. Inventive, imaginative; of, relating to, displaying, using, or involving imagination or original ideas as well as routine skill or intellect, esp. in literature or art.
But, I'm not artistic!

Digital Literacy is a skill

  • Skills can be learned.
  • Skills require study and practice.
  • Learning by making, doing.
  • You don't have to be Scorsese or Picasso.

Creativity in all of its forms is the currency of the new economy

Putting it all together

It's about creating sustainable models for promoting digital inclusion and empowerment

UNM 2040: Opportunity Defined

  • Advance New Mexico
  • Student experience and educational innovation
  • Inclusive excellence
  • Sustainability
  • One University
Creating a more porous boundary between the university and the community

University Mission

  • Education
  • Research
  • Patient Care
  • Community Service

Tutoring and train the trainer events in K12 schools

Train the trainer and community skills development in Albuquerque's International District

Training the trainer with Explora and expanding UNM App Contest to High School Students

Comprehensive Native Digital Inclusion project in process.

Our CIO IT Community Initiatives

  • CHECS
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Campus
  • Tech Days
  • App Contest
  • New Mexico Black Leadership Council
  • New Mexico Pueblos and Tribes
  • Explora Children’s Museum and Science Center
  • Taos Public Schools
  • UNM College of Education and Human Sciences

Questions?

Appreciate