Information Technology at Indiana University

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About Indiana University Founded in 1820, Indiana University is one of the world’s foremost public institutions. With more than 114,000 students and 19,000 faculty and staff on campuses around the state, IU is also one of the largest institutions of higher education in the United States.

IU’s annual budget totals over $3.5 billion. Each one of the IU campuses is an accredited, four-year degree-granting institution. The largest and oldest campus is in Bloomington.

IU strives to be the epitome of the modern university, expanding the frontiers of knowledge and creativity.

It’s no surprise that in 2017 Reuters ranked Indiana University 27th on its list of the world’s most innovative universities.

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Information Technology at IU |

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First and foremost, University Information Technology Services supports the scholarly mission of IU. From our supercomputers that enable IU researchers to make worldchanging discoveries to our well-integrated and reliable information systems that support the faculty, students, and staff every day, UITS has helped make IU a national leader in the uses and applications of IT in higher education.

The secret to our success? Unlike most large universities, but like many corporations, IT at IU is almost entirely consolidated, with shared software and services for every student, faculty, and staff member on every campus.

IU’s move toward consolidation started in 1997 when current IU President Michael A. McRobbie, then IU’s first vice president for information technology, established University Information Technology Services to “provide more effective and efficient” IT services for all campuses. Just 10 years later, our current CIO Brad Wheeler took the helm. As an IU Kelley School of Business professor, Wheeler understands faculty needs and brings business principles and forward thinking to UITS. Now entering our third decade, UITS is regarded as one of the most efficient and influential university IT organizations in its service to all campuses of Indiana University, the state, and the world.

Our consolidated IT services include: » Everyday tools like email as well as large-scale data storage and licensed software from Adobe, Microsoft, and others available to all IU students, faculty, and staff—at no cost. » Canvas, IU’s system-wide learning management system, where the IU community accesses assignments, discussions, announcements, quizzes, syllabus, etc., as well as tools for communication, collaboration, and assessment. » A thriving eTexts program, thanks to our partnerships with more than 30 publishers to offer licensed access to their titles digitally. In the 201617 academic year, our students saved an estimated $3.5 million over the cost of traditional textbooks. » 24/7 IT support for all campuses via our awardwinning UITS Support Center. » Ubiquitous wireless access and high-speed networks connecting all campuses.

eTexts at IU |

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Transforming education, one textbook at a time IU eTexts are more than digital copies of traditional textbooks. They are tools that help reduce the cost

Launched in 2009, the Indiana University eText program has four goals: 1. Drive down the cost of materials for students 2. Provide high-quality

of education, while enhancing student learning both in and outside the classroom.

materials of choice 3. Enable new tools for teaching and learning

The program has continued to grow every year,

4. Shape the terms of sustainable models that

and we now have agreements with nearly 30

work for students, faculty,

publishers at substantially discounted prices.

and authors

Here are some more eText pride points: • In academic year 2016-17, IU students saved an estimated $3.5 million over what they would have

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otherwise spent on traditional textbooks.

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• IU eTexts provide Day One Access, bursar billing, and a collaborative platform for students and instructors to annotate and ask questions directly through their textbooks.

• In fall 2017, 32,891 students used eTexts, saving $4.4 million over what they would have otherwise spent on traditional textbooks.

Media contact Anastasia Morrone, PhD Associate Vice President, Learning Technologies amorrone@iu.edu (317) 274-3479

Capsim Cengage Learning ClassActive Flat World Knowledge Harvard Business School Publishing HEC Montreal Helios Digital Learning Human Kinetics Indiana CPA Society International Society of Automation IU Press Jones & Bartlett Learning Macmillan McGraw-Hill Pearson Responsive Learning Technologies Sagamore Publishing Sage SED-IT SimProfessionals Taylor and Francis Group WDI Publishing West Academic Wiley

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2,896 sections 6,166 eTexts 8,100 students 185,605 courses

GlobalNOC |

globalnoc.iu.edu

Driving the future of advanced research and education networks Since 1998, the nation’s most advanced research and education networks have operated from Indiana, thanks to a groundbreaking partnership between Indiana University and Internet2 that founded the Global Research Network Operations Center, or GlobalNOC, at IU. Internet2 is the advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading universities.

R&E networks are dedicated networks that allow colleges, universities, national labs, and more share large amounts of research data securely and quickly.

For the state of Indiana, the GlobalNOC is a true success story—creating jobs, attracting talented people, and bringing more than $20 million dollars in research funding to the state.

Since 1998, it has grown from three to 80 highly skilled, full-time employees, providing career options for Indiana college graduates and recruiting talent to the state.

Media contact Dave Jent Associate Vice President, Networks djent@iu.edu (317) 274-0763

In addition to Internet2, GlobalNOC’s current partners and projects include: » TransPAC3: This network directly connects U.S. researchers with their colleagues in Asia. It is the first US-China connection specifically dedicated to academic scientific research. » National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration N-Wave: As NOAA’s science network, N-Wave connects researchers from a variety of fields (oceanography, chemistry, biology, meteorology, and more) to the data and resources they need to advance environmental science.

OmniSOC |

omnisoc.iu.edu

A new cybersecurity operations center shared among multiple universities The Omni Security Operations Center, or OmniSOC, is a pioneering initiative to help higher education institutions reduce the time from first detection of a cybersecurity threat to campus mitigation.

It is founded by Indiana University, Northwestern University, Purdue University, Rutgers University, and the University of Nebraska—all members of the Big10 Academic Alliance— and will formally launch in early 2018.

In short, OmniSOC helps all participating universities become more secure, informed, and responsive than they would be working on their own.

OmniSOC will operate as part of IU in conjunction with the formidable experiences and capabilities of the Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC). It will also make use of threat intelligence insights from the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC).

Media contact Tom Davis Founding Executive Director and CISO OmniSOC Initiative tdavis@iu.edu (812) 855-7451

What is a security operations center?

A SOC is an organized team whose mission is to continuously monitor and improve an organization’s security status while preventing, detecting, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity incidents with the help of both technology and well-defined processes and procedures.

Mosaic Active Learning Initiative |

mosaic.iu.edu

Transforming the classroom experience for students and faculty From video walls to configurable furniture, Indiana University has been rethinking what classrooms should look like, and how instructors and students can use them.

In 2015, the school launched the Mosaic Active Learning Initiative to lead the charge to help faculty explore classroom design and maximize its potential for enhancing student learning.

The Mosaic Faculty Fellows program is a key part of the Mosaic Initiative. It brings together faculty who, over the course of an academic year, teach in Mosaic classrooms, share approaches to active and collaborative learning, engage in research related to active learning classrooms, and contribute to the development of learning spaces across IU. The Bloomington campus already has a variety of active learning spaces designed to promote student engagement, and there are plans to design more active learning spaces across IU campuses in support of Mosaic.

Some of the technology and equipment available includes: » » » »

portable whiteboards wireless projection capabilities movable furniture tools to facilitate student collaboration in the classroom

Media contact Anastasia Morrone, PhD Associate Vice President, Learning Technologies amorrone@iu.edu (317) 274-3479

Jetstream |

jetstream-cloud.org

The National Science Foundation’s first science and engineering cloud When IU unveiled its first supercomputer, Big Red, in 2006, it was named one of the 50 fastest supercomputers in the world. In 2014, its successor, Big Red II, was the fastest university-owned supercomputer in the US, clocking in with a processor speed of 1 petaFLOPS, or one thousand trillion floating-point operations per second.

It’s no surprise, then, that in 2014 the National Science Foundation awarded the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University $6.6 million to create its first science and engineering research cloud, Jetstream.

What is Jetstream?

Jetstream is the first of its kind supported by NSF: a cloud-based, ondemand system for 24/7 access to computing and data analysis tools that are integrated into the national research ecosystem.

Jetstream is a user-friendly cloud environment designed to give researchers and students access to computing and data analysis resources on demand—from their tablets, laptops, or desktop computers.

Think of the system as an “easy button” giving researchers access to supercomputing tools and data sets.

Media contact David Hancock Program Director, Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research Technologies dyhancoc@iu.edu (812) 855-4021

At its core, Jetstream empowers new communities of researchers who previously lacked access to high performance computing and software resources. These researchers are primarily found at small colleges and universities—especially historically black colleges and universities, minority serving institutions, tribal colleges, and higher education institutions in NSFdesignated Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) states.

For all other IT media inquiries, contact: Ceci Jones Media Relations Specialist University Information Technology Services ccjones@iu.edu (812) 856-2337

Daphne Siefert-Herron Communications Officer Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO dsiefert@iu.edu (812) 856-1242