My ruminations on the need for a Portal in SEE
The Extended Education portal should be a web site that provides a starting point, a gateway, or “portal”, to all programs and services offered through/by the School of Extended Education at SSU. The portal also provides a programmed system for offering a broad array of dynamic resources, information, tools, search engines, calendars, announcements, schedules, notifications, Wikis, Twitter sites, and many more new tools for extending SEE communication and marketing. The site will also plan and organize the new SEE business operations and services.
The portal is an organized, efficient, and effective starting point for all Web activities of all Extended Education’s program and service units and SEE students and clients (potential and current).
The SEE portal should provide differentiated and personalized capabilities to visitors, students, clients, and SEE personnel. The portal should use distributed applications, different numbers and types of middleware and hardware to provide services from a number of different sources (current and future).
In addition, the SEE portal should be integrated and collaborative in design and in alignment with the SEE operations and business models. A business-driven requirement of the SEE portal is that the content will be able to work on multiple platforms such as various personal computers, cell phones, smart phones and more.
The SEE portal should be the “front” virtual gateway to the SSU campus” for all students and clients SEE serves. The portal must be built on contemporary technology and toolsets that include but are not limited to WCMS, dynamic survey tools; contemporary social networking tools, streaming and other media tools, and dynamic business systems integrated with the SSU database systems.
Mark
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Hello Mark:
ReplyDeleteThis is a good vision for how a well-organized information and resource portal can serve those interested, or already enrolled in, the program. Also, I believe what you are describing can be a great support site for instructors. Not sure if you have those folks factored into "SEE personnel." I believe supporting SEE instructors through such a portal, especially given the fact that many are part-time, would be extremely valuable. I would like to see more of this support approach via CTPD as well, particularly as I look to better support lecturers who often do not spend as much time on campus and therefore are not as available to attend regularly scheduled face-to-face workshop.
I can see more "dynamic resources" being developed, such as online modules that would help instructors better use learning management systems (e.g., WebCT, Moodle), as well as other Web 2.0 tools. Multi-platform is also a good goal. Universal Design will enable this greatly.
Many exciting developments! I look forward to seeing how the SEE portal grows.
Brett Christie, Director
Center for Teaching and Professional Development
Sonoma State University
I like your vision! Very comprehensive!
ReplyDeleteWhat are you thoughts about a content management system that support your vision? We are comparing the relative advantages of Wordpress and Moveable Type. Seems like there are good arguments on both sides of the issue.
Have about sequencing for the roll-out? Which features are most important to get up and running right away?
Keep the innovations coming!
Best,
Bill Silver
Dean
School of Business and Economics