Welcome Welcome And a few thoughts on learning And a few thoughts on learning
technologies…technologies…
Bradley C. Wheeler
Assoc. VP of Research & Academic Computing and Dean of IT
Office of the Vice President for IT & CIOIndiana University
Bloomington, [email protected]
Forces Shaping the Next Forces Shaping the Next GenerationGeneration
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 Course Management Systems TrendsTrends
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 GrowingCMS Requirements are Growing
Library Integration
Special Character SetsMath/Languages/Sciences Sophisticated Assessment
Streaming Multi-media
Direct Manipulation User Interfaces
Textbook Integrationw/ Publishers
OncourseOngoing Maintenance
IMS/SCORM
Self-pacedTutorials
Research/CommitteeSupport
E-Portfolio
How will IU meet these growing requirements for Oncourse in a period of relatively flat resources?
Workflow
Integration/Leveragew/Enterprise Services
Greater Personalization
Consistent GrowthConsistent GrowthEnterprise Oncourse Growth
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Spr99 Fal99 Spr00 Fal00 Spr01 Fal01 Spr02 Fal02
Semesters
Pe
rce
nta
ge
Courses facultyX2 StudentsX2
Fall 2003 Semester Fall 2003 Semester (14 Oct)(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%Students 87%
Bloomington Faculty 73%Students 83%
Annual Cost Measurement
Units Activity
Measurement Unit Cost User Satis-
faction
$ 862,246
82,747 Users $ 10.42 94.7%
Activity-based Costs 2001-2002Activity-based Costs 2001-2002
Total unique users 2001-2002
Source: UITS Report on Cost and Quality of Services, 2001-02
Budgets for IT Services are Flat…
Oncourse StrategyOncourse Strategy
Rewrite the application using OKI services, J2EE, open sourced
Partnered with U. of Michigan, Stanford, MIT – see www.navigoproject.org
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 & OneStart to Services & InformationInformation
Library Registrar CMS UITS
onestart.iu.edu
Portal
AuthenticationPersonalization
WorkflowDelegation
Services:
Data:
Post-PC future of mobile Post-PC future of mobile computingcomputing
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 Security WorkflowComm.Tools
Storage
In Touch
Syllabus
Testing
Gradebooks
Calendar
eReservesDigital content
Full Text articles
Federated Searching
Because you can’t sustain pair-wise connections between
n number of systems
Other Functional Apps
Welcome Welcome And a few thoughts on learning And a few thoughts on learning
technologies…technologies…
Bradley C. Wheeler
Assoc. VP of Research & Academic Computing and Dean of IT
Office of the Vice President for IT & CIOIndiana University
Bloomington, [email protected]