Dr. Carlos Solís, Associate Vice President for Technology Innovation, traveled to Chicago to participate in the Microsoft Higher Education Customer Advisory Board meeting in October. He started serving as a board member in September 2019. The board is made up of representatives from higher education across the United States. The mission of the Board is…
AI is a constellation of technologies—from machine learning to natural language processing—that allows machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn. It is seen as THE technology that will transform our relationship with technology, charging our creativity and skills, bringing about a new era of disruption and productivity, where human ingenuity is enhanced by speed and…
In the last few years, substantial transformations in higher education have opened extraordinary new opportunities to innovate instruction and expand educational opportunities. To ensure that Texas State continues to deliver quality education in this period of dynamic innovation and experimentation, the Technology Innovation Office (TIO), has set aside funding for faculty members to submit innovative…
On Feb. 14, 2019, staff in the Technology Innovation Office met with stakeholders for an initial brainstorming session around attendance taking at Texas State. Our goal was to generate ideas and gather feedback around the following problem statement. The university needs a unified, low cost, accurate and secure system to gather classroom attendance and make…
Mediaflo, the Division of Information Technology’s supported Media Management System, runs on the Ensemble Video Platform. Since the launch of Mediaflo, there have been ongoing concerns about video quality and audio/video playback. In addition, Mediaflo has seen its encoding engine discontinued by vendors twice in the last 3 years. Both of those encoding engines [Rhozet…
