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Student Success: Helping Students MAP Their Future. Jim Gaston Associate IT Director South Orange County Community College District. Overview. Background Project Goals and Process Architecture Demonstration What’s Next? Slides can be found on my blog at: digitaledu.blogspot.com
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Student Success: Helping Students MAP Their Future Jim Gaston Associate IT Director South Orange County Community College District
Overview • Background • Project Goals and Process • Architecture • Demonstration • What’s Next?Slides can be found on my blog at: digitaledu.blogspot.com Click on “Recent Presentations”
Background • Two College District in Orange County, CA • Saddleback College, Mission Viejo • Irvine Valley College, Irvine • Approximately 37,000 students (23,000 FTES) • Culture of innovation and direct student service in IT
Project Goals • Create a system that provides: • Self-service guide for students to set academic goals • Tracking system for counselors and students to monitor progress toward those goals • Automated assistance for students to select classes that help achieve the goals • Use flexible architecture • Enable future integration with registration
Process • Design Team Creation • Counselors • Students • Articulation Staff • Iterative prototypes • Discussions began in late 2004, serious development began in Fall 2005
Architecture Overview MAP Application Service Layer Curriculum DB Monthly ETL Student DB MAP DB Project ASSIST
Usage Statistics - Plans Created From: 4/27/07 to 3/3/08
Enough Talking… MAP Demonstration
What’s Next? • Increased integration with registration • Expanded help for undecided students • Inclusion of private colleges/universities • Possible expansion for use by other colleges
Questions? Contact: jgaston@socccd.edu