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Supporting teaching, research and events
One of the most exciting experiences of the year was the department’s continued support for VR-enabled teaching. Over the course of 2021/2022, we managed 250 devices across our campuses with multiple sessions per week. The rapid growth in this innovation is expected to continue as many more academic areas develop VR case studies.
Also, in the classroom, we added functionality to our Learning Management System, including digital attendance tracking and easier recording of face-to-face sessions. In addition, we introduced new production software, including green screen, for Live Virtual teaching, which continues to develop rapidly despite the return to campus.
It was also fantastic to be able to support so many on-campus events, particularly reunions, as our global community reconnected again. Likewise, we were pleased to facilitate more effective hybrid research collaboration with the enhanced audio visual (AV) capabilities of PhD rooms across the Europe and Asia campuses.
Keeping our digital infrastructure reliable and secure
Behind the scenes, we continue automating infrastructure and system tasks and improve the monitoring of our key cloud and on-premise applications. Our investments in optimising our cloud platforms have helped us to keep downtime of critical services to a minimum.
We continue to enhance our cybersecurity capabilities extensively. This covers our authentication mechanisms, perimeter defences and email security. In addition, there were additional efforts to improve end-user education about cyber threats through more regular phishing-awareness campaigns. Our investments in cybersecurity will continue to grow in tandem with our growth in digital capabilities.
Enabling INSEAD’s long-term digital transformation vision
Looking forward to 2022/2023, our digital transformation will accelerate with the launch of several major projects. As we ramp up our digital transformation activities, the IT Department will strive to strengthen our partnership with all INSEAD departments in order to better serve the needs of our colleagues and their clients.