CREATED FOR THE FUTURE
Business continuity encompasses a loosely defined set of planning, preparatory and related activities to ensure an organization’s critical business functions either continue to operate despite serious incidents or disasters that might otherwise have interrupted them or will be recovered to an operational state within a reasonably short period.
“We are one of few Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) schools that have already prepared to move delivery of all courses to an online format with the flip of a switch. All courses currently have an online presence should they be needed,” Rentz explained. Top priorities for the department are to ensure classes continue and data is protected as well as campus safety issues that include enabling emergency notification systems via text, phone or email messages.
Educational Technology
Another facet of the department is educational technology, overseen by Pam Jimison. Pam monitors and implements the latest trends, typically utilizing the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, an ongoing resource designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching and creative inquiry in education.
During this academic year, Pam delivered 65 training workshops to faculty and staff providing tools to engage Jessup’s growing number of students. Some of the most popular training courses include Google
Apps, Moodle (which provides online access to course resources); digital storytelling; and Turnitin (a tool that assists professors with issues including student feedback, plagiarism and checking grammar.) Many faculty utilize student response systems otherwise known as polling (designed for online learning environments) to get an immediate response from the entire class quickly.
Pam trains faculty, staff and students to keep current with the latest trends via open educational resources that are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media useful for teaching, learning or for research purposes. She provides hybrid training (a combination of online and traditional classroom instruction) for faculty and assists professors who use video conferencing to utilize outside professionals to share their expertise with students. In addition, Pam also authors one of the top 50 2015 Higher Education EdTech blogs to inform faculty about upcoming trends and useful apps and tools for the classroom.
Media Services
Jessup’s Media Services provides numerous benefits around campus including filming instructors for online courses. Te team literally produces hundreds of hours of content per semester. “We easily create terabytes of content on a monthly basis,” said Josh Ribb, media services supervisor. Te team also produces videos capturing the heartbeat of campus in various venues including chapel, Jessup sponsored events and student life activities.
Media Services also offers top quality job experience opportunities for those students who are more media centric and provides a training camp for students who become part of the volunteer or paid media services team. Students gain rich tech expertise in a multi-camera environment providing training in frame up, live stream, copyright, developing online content, production work, and mobile applications.
Audiovisual students work with state-of- the-art equipment and learn the ropes to operate a fully digital console and get ample exposure to big show productions. “Some of our musical theatre productions require our team to wire and microphone up to 30 actors at a time,” Ribb added. Students also provide tech support for Jessup hosted large- scale events and concerts held on campus for well-known bands such as For King and Country and Lincoln Brewster.
Students also gain television production experience assisting with interviews, editing and developing weekly content and schedules to support Warrior Nation, a sports roundup show highlighting Jessup athletics. “One of the things we are looking at for the future is providing the infrastructure to support subsequent programs such as a communications major,” Ribb said.
Te IT department also provides superior help desk services, overseen by alum and Supervisor Michael Pagan (’14). Michael and his team often come to the aid of staff, faculty, students and administrators on a daily basis.
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