Informationsinfrastrukturen im Wandel. Changing ... - DINI

278 Steffi Engert, Uwe Blotevogel
complete, but key elements have been defined and anchored in real life.
These are some of the steps:
Already by the end of the 90s the universities of Duisburg and Essen
understood the crucial importance and far-reaching potentials of new digital
media and technologies. This was manifested, for example, in:
– Multi-Media Plans as blue-prints for the extension of new technologies
and media in the universities were continuously updated
– the central service-units, computing centre, library and media centre
cooperated closely and developed joint projects, such as the multimedia
teaching and learning server in Essen (miless) or the Competence
Centre Digital Media in Duisburg
– the cooperation of these units with the chairs committed to innovation.
This resulted in joint projects such as E-Campus (a model for a
Notebook-University) in Duisburg, the E-Competence-Teams supporting
and training teaching staff in Duisburg und Essen and E-
University, fostering innovative e-learning in faculty and the development
of a study portal
– Management information systems based on a data warehouse and
accessible online.
4.1. Reorganisation of the ICM sector
The foundation of the University Duisburg-Essen involved the necessity
but also the chance for a through re-organisation, including the sector Information,
Communication and Media. Though other universities are also
re-arranging their service units, particularly the computing and the media
centres, in order to meet new requirements resulting from the increasing
importance of digital media/technologies and the need for their integration
as well as the greater role of E-Learning, E-Management etc. on the one
hand and growing (global) competition on the other, there is a particular
acuteness to these processes in Duisburg-Essen on account of the fusion.
Digital technologies and media were rightly considered as important vehicles
to solve a number of organisational problems of the two-campusuniversity.
In addition, there was a very clear commitment to a very tho-