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Instructional Facilities
Instructional Facilities Design (IFD) incorporates presentation, transmission and learning technologies employed throughout AIS into University facilities.
IFD strategically plans the University's upgrade path to implement leading-edge information technology when it supports the educational and research goals of the Health Science Center community.
To accomplish this, IFD monitors a variety of technologies including
digital projection, recording, and transmission. The rapid rate of
change experienced in digital technology creates the need for informed
acquisition and upgrade.
Additionally, there has been extensive
construction of new buildings and renovations in Harlingen, Edinburg,
Laredo and San Antonio that have forced many schools and departments to
consider how to share knowledge and expand instructional delivery to
these diverse locations.
The Virtual Campus is alive and well at the Health Science Center, and innovation and integration is our cornerstone.
Instructional Facilities Design does the following:
- Consult with faculty to design, implement and evaluate appropriate technology for instructional facilities
- Serve as a liaison between the faculty and the construction process during renovations and new construction
- Participate in the construction design process, offering appropriate comments to reduce expensive change orders
- Assist departmental negotiations with technology vendors
- Assist in drafting specifications and budgetary simulations for the construction process
- Provide the continuity of experienced project management
- Evaluate site appropriate distributed learning technologies
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