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University of the West Coast Task Group

University of the West Coast Task Group. A model for enterprise systems for the next 5 years – the role of a service oriented approach A presentation from the Department of Information Services. Why we think a service oriented approach is a good idea for us. Probs: Insufficient requirements

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University of the West Coast Task Group

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  1. University of the West Coast Task Group A model for enterprise systems for the next 5 years – the role of a service oriented approach A presentation from the Department of Information Services

  2. Why we think a service oriented approach is a good idea for us

  3. Probs: • Insufficient requirements • Missed opportunities • Need an extreme programming team • Vendor buy in needed

  4. Lots of academics not interested in e-learning: often some reluctance about new things • Sometimes feel it’s education dragging technology not the other way around • Teachers can’t always express what they’re after • Institutions must recognise teachers & techies need to work together • Student satisfaction with IT is crucial, not just teacher satisfaction

  5. Competing demands from different groups – and often conflicting demands • Academics want flexibility and lots of responsibility for students, but administrators want more control! • Flexibility costs more, as need to train more people

  6. SOA benefits: • Vendors more likely to implement an API which conforms to industry standards • More skills development • Need a good development environment in the institution • Need in house development team to develop SOA at the moment, but maybe not so much in future

  7. With SOA, e-learning is not trailing behind current developments • Can create services which are then offered to other institutions • Another business model is going into partnership with vendors: can be problematic! • SOA can be cheaper

  8. Give us lots of money to build SOA’s coz they’re flexible and support a diverse community • Need to have an integration team • Learning technologists ought to be bridging gap between techies & academics • Are learning technologists to support techies implement stuff, or academics realise ideas, or both?

  9. Prompts - • Why an soa approach is a good idea for us, • What we want to be able to do • advantages, • cost benefits, • how we get there, • what the issues are • What’s good about ws? • Sell idea to your teaching colleagues and committees

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