1' Academic Enterprise System

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1. Academic Enterprise System
Tallinn, March 12th, 2004
Hans-Lorenz Reiff-Schoenfeld Lerneffekt
GmbH www.lerneffekt.de
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E-Learning Trends

• By 2005, supplemental use of e-learning among
  faculty will rise from 28 to more than 50.
• By 2005, more than 70 of students will be
  enrolled in courses that use e-learning.
• By 2005, the amount of digital material delivered
  per student will quadruple.
• Institutions must plan for geometric, rather than
  arithmetic, growth in e-learning system capacity.
• "Higher Education E-Learning Grows Up, May
  2003, Gartner Research

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Estonian E-Learning Landscape
The Ministry of Education and Research creates
constant and continuous conditions and
assumptions in order to guarantee an access to
life-long learning for all people in Estonia,
which would enable them to achieve new standards
of living.
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Consortia for E-Learning
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Four Strategic Aims

• Cooperation between Universities
• Equal Possibilities in acquiring Higher Education
• Innovation and Development of Studies
• International Cooperation

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Needs of Consortia

• Centralized Implementation with Local Control
• Enterprise-wide Content Sharing
• Best System for Student Learning
• Best Solution for Faculty of all Experience
  Levels
• True Enterprise Technology

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Centralized Implementation with Local Control
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Enterprise-wide Content Sharing
Reusable Content Modules in a repository
Templates for usage in multiple courses
Assign
Assign of Templates to sections
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Enterprise-wide Content Sharing

• Share content across courses, groups and even
  institutions
• Avoid duplication of development efforts
• Enhance the academic experience by improving
  access to exceptional content
• Increase efficiency by providing easy access
• Shared file manager automatically updates course
  content when a file is updated
• Content integrity is ensured by restricting
  editing to authorized editors

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Best System for Student Learning

• Assignments
• Assessments
• My Progress
• My Grades

• Syllabus
• Learning Module
• Content Page
• Organizer Page
• Media Library
• MyFiles
• Take Notes

IntegratedLearningSuite

• Announcements
• Calendar
• Chat Whiteboard
• Discussion
• Mail
• Whos Online?

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Best System for Student Learning

• Personalized Learning Paths
• Content can be released to students based upon
  multiple criteria, including student information,
  time, and performance
• Access to future content is controlled to
  provide a more intuitive, productive learning
  environment
• Students enjoy a dynamic, personalized learning
  experience

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Best Solution for Faculty of All Experience Levels

• Strong support for novice users
• Powerful functionality for advanced users
• Efficient course management

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Best Solution for Faculty of All Experience Levels

• Strong Support for Novice Users
• Course design for novices from a friendly
  homepage environment
• Templates provide a framework from which to begin
  course design
• Explicit designer and instructor roles allow
  institutions to de-couple course design from
  teaching

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Best Solution for Faculty of All Experience Levels

• Powerful Functionality for Advanced Users
• Power View provides advanced users with an
  efficient interface for designing large,
  content-rich courses
• Breadth of tools to support a broad range of
  pedagogical models
• Sophisticated control over the presentation and
  delivery of content to create engaging learning
  experiences

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Best Solution for Faculty of All Experience Levels

• Efficient course management
• Teach interface provides a single point from
  which the instructor handles course
  administration
• Tools are aware of each other a change in one
  ripples to the next - no duplication of work
• Course-section hierarchy simplifies the
  management of large courses

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True Enterprise Technology

• Java 2 Plattform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
  Architecture
• Oracle 9i DBMS and Oracle IFS
• BEA WebLogic Enterprise Server

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True Enterprise Technology
Web Tier API
Services API
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True Enterprise Technology
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WebCT Vista for Consortia
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WebCT Vista Customers

• British Columbia Institute of Technology
• University of Alberta
• Bolton Institute of Technology
• City University of London
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• University of Sunderland
• University of Ulster
• Deakin University
• Monash University
• University of New South Wales
• University of Southern Queensland
• University of Tasmania
• City University of Hong Kong
• Dublin Institute of Technology
• E-Learning Consortium Hamburg (7 institutions)
• Universität Utrecht
• Swiss Virtual Campus
• University Vienna

• Bellevue Community College
• Chemeketa Community College
• Drexel University
• Eastern Michigan University
• Kent State University
• North Harris Montgomery Community College
• Purdue University System (4 institutions)
• Salt Lake Community College
• State University of New York, Morrisville
• Texas AM University College Station
• University of Akron
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• University of Houston
• University of North Texas System
• University System of the State of Georgia (34
  institutions)
• Weber State University

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EASE OF USE
WebCT Vista Demo