Jeff Guan, William Nunez, John Welsh, Institutional strategy and information suport: the role of data warehousing in higher education, Campus-Wide Information Systems, 19(5), 2002, pp 168-174
Abstract
This paper examines the challenges that colleges and universities confront in the management of information necessary for strategic planning and decision making and explores data warehousing as an approach to knowledge management in academia.
Philip Uys, Networked educational management: transforming educational management in a networked institute, Campus-Wide Information Systems, 19(5), 2002, pp 175-181
Abstract
Transformation of academic, student and administrative management is a key element in the institutionalisation of Internet/intranet-based (networked) education in higher education. The distributed nature of networked education demands distributed models of academic, student and administrative management. Some argue that networked education is essentially an alternative delivery mode and its management is thus no different from that of other modes. Others posit that networked education is a new educational paradigm and a response to the educational needs of the emerging information society, in the same way that the traditional class was a response to the educational needs of the industrial society. Management of networked education is therefore fundamentally different fromconventional educational management and correlates with new forms of private enterprise management including management of the learning organization, the information-based organisation and the networked organisation. Proposes a new form of higher educational management for the operations of networked education: networked educational management. Discusses the following dimensions of networked educational management: its distributed nature, managing convergence, its adaptability and transitory character.
Donald Spicer, Peter DeBlois, Fifth annual EDUCAUSE Survey identifies current IT issues, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2, 2004, pp8-22
Beda Hammerschmidt, Patrick Bar, Nina Moebius, Torben Spiegler, Anke Boettcher-Krause, Martin Kempa, Volker, Linnemann, Campus Admin: an Integrated architecture for automating data-related processes in education, ??AACE or IEEE FIE
Abstract
Managing courses and students at a university or other educational institutions includes manifold administrative tasks to be performed by different persons, e.g. secretaries, lecturers and system administrators. Most tasks are performed manually - sometimes assisted by stand-alone software solutions that are not designed for collaboration and reuse of existing data. On this account, today’s processing of administrative tasks in education is time-consuming, labor intensive and error-prone.
In this paper we present an approach and an implementation integrating several data-related processes of students at our university with hundreds of students starting each year. Our implementation is composed of several modules distributed over the campus. Extensive tasks like creating personal login accounts and email-addresses are performed automatically without any human interaction leading to a higher quality of data and completion in time. Frequently occurring processes like managing the results of exams and exercises, admitting students and creating individual certificates are integrated seamless reusing the existing data of the students.
John Voloudakis, Hitting a moving target: IT strategy in a real-time world, EDUCAUSE Review, 40(2), pp 44-55
Judith Pirani, Gail Salaway, Information Technology Alignment in Higher Education, ECAR Key Findings, June 2004
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