{"id":4374,"date":"2018-01-17T16:08:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T00:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www5.hmc.edu\/ITNews\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2019-07-05T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T20:49:43","slug":"academic-and-research-computing-services-a-new-name-for-ets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/2018\/01\/17\/academic-and-research-computing-services-a-new-name-for-ets\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic and Research Computing Services: A New Name for ETS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/01\/IMG_0244.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/01\/IMG_0244-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"The ARCS team\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/01\/IMG_0244-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/01\/IMG_0244-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/01\/IMG_0244-1024x869.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We are thrilled to announce our new group name, Academic and Research Computing Services or ARCS for short. Our new name reflects the expanded services that we now offer to the HMC community. This includes more support for research computing, as well as instructional design services. The arrival of our new instructional designer, Dr. Yi Luo, and our new Research Computing Intern, Chu Oguejiofor, makes this a good time to introduce our new group name. Academic and Research Computing Services (ARCS), will be used in all of our communications with the community starting today. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can read more about Yi and Chu in these separate news articles:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/2018\/01\/17\/cis-welcomes-dr-yi-luo-in-the-instructional-designer-position\/\">CIS Welcomes Dr. Yi Luo in the Instructional Designer Position<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/2018\/01\/17\/cis-welcomes-chu-oguejiofor-in-the-research-computing-internship-position\/\">CIS Welcomes Chu Oguejiofor in the Research Computing Internship Position<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In connection with our new name, we\u2019re also happy to announce our new website at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/cis-arcs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/cis-arcs\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Our new website describes the services that we offer with examples of pilots and projects that we\u2019ve worked on with faculty, staff and students. Please take a look and send us your feedback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The services ARCS offers are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/cis-arcs\/arcs-projects\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Projects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: The Academic and Research Computing team sends out a request for educational technology projects three times a year. Our goal is to work with groups across campus to expand the use of educational technology and instructional design throughout the college.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/cis-arcs\/arcs-pilots\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pilots<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Academic and Research Computing Services (ARCS) team regularly performs trials of new technology in \u201creal world\u201d situations within HMC. By this we typically select a few faculty members to test out new technology in their course, and then ask for feedback about how it worked for them. We then investigate the practicality of implementing that new technology either across campus, or for select courses\/classrooms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/cis-arcs\/arcs-instructional-design\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructional Design<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructional Design is the process of developing learning experiences and course content. It\u2019s a sort of \u201clearning engineering,\u201d using research, technology, and design thinking to build effective learning experiences.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/cis-arcs\/research-computing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research Computing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Academic and Research Computing Services (ARCS) provides research computing services including high-performance computing (HPC), high-throughput computing (HTC), data intensive computing, Big Data analytics, large scale data storage resources, and other advanced digital services related to research activities. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce our new group name, Academic and Research Computing Services or ARCS for short. 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