CCLE Functional Sponsors Group: Charge

Charge

To: Functional Sponsors Group: Common Collaboration & Learning Environment

Timothy Tangherlini, Sponsor Group Chair, Scandinavian Section
Diane Favro, ETC and Architecture and Urban Design
Jason Frand, Anderson School
Lianna Johnson, Life Sciences
Larry Loeher, Office of Instructional Development
Kathy McGuire, University Extension
Richard Meng, Undergraduate student
Ajit Pyati, GSEIS Graduate student
Janice Reiff, History
Margo Reveil, Academic Technology Services
Joseph Vaughan, Center for Digital Humanities, Sponsor Group Facilitator
Sarah Watstein, University Library

External Participant: Kathy Christoph, Director, DoIT Academic Technology
University of Wisconsin-Madison

From: Jim Davis, Associate Vice Chancellor, Information Technology

Thank you for agreeing to participate in a Functional Sponsors Group as part of the campus-wide review process for converging on a common collaboration and learning environment for UCLA.

In Spring 2003, the Faculty Committee on Educational Technology (FCET) began the process of reviewing options for providing UCLA faculty and students with a common system that would support teaching and research collaboration. In Spring 2004, UCLA became part of a national initiative focused on precisely this same vision, the Sakai initiative and began a pilot project in fall 2004 to evaluate Sakai as a possible tool for broad deployment at UCLA.

In Spring 2005, the FCET recommended to the ITPB that the campus should converge on a common collaboration and learning environment. The ITPB has endorsed the FCET work plan to undertake a broad-campus review. Building on the work of the last four years, your charge is to present to the FCET by June 1, 2006, a joint recommendation with the Technical Sponsors Group for a common collaboration and learning environment for UCLA. Your report should include a summary of the information on which your recommendation is based, for example, the functional criteria you used, the solutions you considered, and other issues relevant to your decision.

cc: Alfonso Cardenas, Chair, ITPB
Patricia Keating, Chair, FCET
Executive Sponsors: Larry Loeher, Associate Vice Provost; Patricia O’Brien, Executive Dean; Judi Smith, Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education;
Gary Strong, University Librarian