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Preserving Academic Independence Through Cost-Saving Collaboration
2/27/2004
WebCT Vista will now support eLearning for the three Connecticut higher education units on the same platform and enable the institutions to integrate their student information systems. Integration allows student information systems to automatically exchange registration information and grades with WebCT Vista, eliminating weeks of manual data exchange. WebCT Vista’s design makes integrating student data a relatively straightforward matter. Its multi-tier architecture is 100 percent J2EE compliant, leveraging the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Server at the application layer and the Oracle 9i Database.
WebCT Vista will also enable every school to maintain its own branding identity and autonomous control of teaching and learning. In addition, WebCT Vista offers collaborative options for creating, storing, sharing, and managing content, as well as for sophisticated role-based access to content, tools, and student learning data.
Very large eLearning undertakings like Connecticut’s give both students and taxpayers the opportunity to experience the full benefits of enterprise-scale eLearning. Having joined forces on their own volition, Connecticut’s three units of public higher education will collaborate where it makes sense while making sure to preserve full academic independence and control across systems, schools, and departments.
The benefits are imminent. The schools will deploy pilots this fall and launch in 2005.
Ed Klonoski (eklonoski@ctdlc.org) is executive director of the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium (CTDLC).
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