Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Sunday, January 02, 2005
Assessing Portalness - Bert DeSimone, Campus Technology

Campuses are continuing to expand their offerings of online services. In the past it was the core administrative systems. When most course management systems were initially implemented, they were isolated from the traditional enterprise administrative systems. Soon, however, it became clear that users were not well served if they were addressing each system individually. There rose a demand to integrate not only these offerings, but also other online services outside the university. A portal implementation became the means to address these needs. For many students and faculty, the portal is a critical integration component for the course management system. In the following viewpoint we explore how to evaluate the portal's effectiveness.

 



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