Changing Assumptions in Best Practice

Autor/in	Dodds, Ted
Titel	Changing Assumptions in Best Practice
Quelle	In: EDUCAUSE Review, 41 (2006) 4, S.76-77 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1527-6619
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Computer Software; Information Systems; Information Technology; Educational Change; Organizational Development; Computer System Design; Standards; Strategic Planning; Partnerships in Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Informationstechnologie; Bildungsreform; Organisationsentwicklung; Standard; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Hochschulpartnerschaft
Abstract	More than a decade ago, the predominant means by which colleges and universities deployed major information systems shifted from in-house development to the acquisition of packaged software. The author of this article suggests, however, that institutionally defined business or academic processes may or may not fit the embedded definition of "best practice" in current-generation systems. He suggests several factors that, when taken together, can broaden the available alternatives for planning next-generation campus systems, including: (1) Institutional commitment to designing end-to-end business and academic processes so that they are end-user centric, plus identifying those processes that have the potential to strategically differentiate individual institutions; (2) Modular systems made up of well-defined business processes that themselves are composed of software services built on a foundation of rigorous open standards; (3) Community source (open source) software development and the rapid evolution of multiple organizational models that can sustain product development and support over time; (4) Next-generation tools that are designed on a network model so that they can leverage the Internet's critical success factors: end-to-end design, layered architecture, and open standards; and (5) A growing knowledge base of how to make these new approaches work effectively in higher education. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10