Welcome And a few thoughts on learning technologies… Bradley C. Wheeler Assoc. VP of Research & Academic Computing and Dean of IT Office of the Vice President for IT & CIO Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana
Forces Shaping the Next Generation 1. Course Management Systems have gone Enterprise 2. Personalized portals become the norm for delivering services 3. University services (library, registrar, etc.) become unbundled via Web Services
Course Management Systems Trends 1.CMS becomes part of the 24x7 mission-critical enterprise system 2.Vendor consolidation and shakeout mean that universities must establish a clear CMS strategy 3.Publishers (textbooks, lab manuals, etc.) are developing materials to plug into leading CMS
CMS Requirements are Growing Library Integration Special Character Sets Math/Languages/Sciences Sophisticated Assessment Streaming Multi-media Direct Manipulation User Interfaces Textbook Integration w/ Publishers Oncourse Ongoing Maintenance IMS/SCORM Self-paced Tutorials Research/Committee Support E-Portfolio How will IU meet these growing requirements for Oncourse in a period of relatively flat resources? Workflow Integration/Leverage w/Enterprise Services Greater Personalization
Consistent Growth
Fall 2003 Semester (14 Oct) Faculty loaded 7,430 Faculty login 5,432 Percent Usage 73% Students loaded 94,570 Student logins 74,894 Percent Usage 80% All Campuses IUPUI Faculty 89% Students87% Bloomington Faculty 73% Students83%
Annual Cost Measurement Units Activity Measurement Unit Cost User Satis- faction $ 862,246 82,747Users $ % Activity-based Costs Total unique users Source: UITS Report on Cost and Quality of Services, Budgets for IT Services are Flat…
Oncourse Strategy Rewrite the application using OKI services, J2EE, open sourced Partnered with U. of Michigan, Stanford, MIT – see Identified 7 redundant services in Oncourse for retirement that will be generic to OneStart; economic efficiencies Oncourse as both a Complete CMS and a set of Web Services for personalization in OneStart portal
OneStart to Services & Information LibraryRegistrarCMSUITS onestart.iu.edu Portal Authentication Personalization Workflow Delegation Services: Data:
Post-PC future of mobile computing Portal Services connect to the Portal and the Portal connects to the evolving plethora of wireless, mobile computing devices headed to campus. Connecting each service is infeasible.
Authn/Authz SecurityWorkflow Comm. Tools Storage In Touch Syllabus Testing Gradebooks Calendar eReserves Digital content Full Text articles Federated Searching Because you can’t sustain pair- wise connections between n number of systems Other Functional Apps
Welcome And a few thoughts on learning technologies… Bradley C. Wheeler Assoc. VP of Research & Academic Computing and Dean of IT Office of the Vice President for IT & CIO Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana