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Education Portals in the Net Economy

Education Portals in the Net Economy. Jay Visvanathan Market Dev Mgr – Education Portals Sun Microsystems Inc. The $3 Trillion Market. "Education over the Internet is going to be so big, it's going to make E-mail usage look like a rounding error” John Chambers, CEO Cisco Systems Inc.

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Education Portals in the Net Economy

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  1. Education Portals in the Net Economy Jay Visvanathan Market Dev Mgr – Education Portals Sun Microsystems Inc.

  2. The $3 Trillion Market "Education over the Internet is going to be so big, it's going to make E-mail usage look like a rounding error” John Chambers, CEO Cisco Systems Inc.

  3. Internet + Education = Money 53 million students 50 million parents 3.1 million teachers 15000 school districts $360 Billion Market for K12

  4. E for E-Schools $900 million investment in 60 companies in Q1 2000

  5. Four year degree Learner Mobility One-size fits all Geographic Institutions Just-in-Case Forty-year degree Distributed learning Tailored Programs Univ & Prof branding Just-in-Time Education in a Knowledge Economy Source: Merrill Lynch

  6. Massive Scale Integrated Stack Predictions for the Future Continuous real-time The .com Economy

  7. What Schools Need… • Enable anytime, anywhere learning • Emphasis on core competencies • Easy to use computing model • Affordable access to technology • Zero administration at the school • Reliability and constant availability

  8. New computing model for schools… • The portal integrates all applications • The browser is the only user interface needed • Content, applications and infrastructure are outsourced to Service Providers • The network webtone is managed by IT specialists • The infrastructure is accessible anywhere, anytime!

  9. What is a Portal?

  10. The Portal Solution Can Be Broken into Three Functional Components Browser-Based, User Customizable Interface Aggregation of Information, Applications, and Services Portal Enabling Services

  11. Portal Computing Model Targeted Communities Key Services Aggregated for... Employee Content Communication Supplier Collaboration Partner Commerce Customer Care Customer

  12. Service Providers are Creating the Web Economy Online Services Supply Chain Enterprise Resource Planning Bandwidth ISP Portal NSP CSP Web Marketing Customer Management FSP IPP ASP Hosting Outsourcing Services Web Presence

  13. Content Admin Lib Inst Infrastructure Portal BROWSER Components of Education Portals

  14. TIMESHARE Mainframe-centric Leased lines Purchase s/w model Office only access ASPs Web-centric Network Centric Subscription s/w model Anywhere, anytime access ASPs: Like Timeshare only Better

  15. Evolving SP Business Model • As margins on basic access plummet, SPs move up the food chain to hosting: Extranets -> Intranets -> POP3 mail -> secure mail -> VPNs -> VoIP -> voice mail Web sites -> storefronts -> e-commerce -> biz collaboration -> extended enterprise apps Computing infrastructure -> systems infrastructure -> application infrastructure -> Enterprise Application Integration • Future success requires scale and/or solutions-oriented specialization.

  16. Education Portals – State of the Market • Content is exploding • Partnerships are pervasive • Boundaries are blurring (work/learning/play) • Revenue models are immature • Standards are getting important • Adoption rate in universities greater than K-12

  17. Service Provider Market Predictions • ASPs will move upstream to provide BPO services • Fusion services will emerge (SI +Maintenance) • ISVs will become ASPs • ASP aggregators will emerge • ASPs will emerge in e-marketplaces

  18. Education Portals: Examples

  19. Campus Pipeline Jones Knowledge Time Cruiser Blackboard Scientific Learning Banco Sanatander Horizon.com Tsinghua TongFang PowerSchool EduPrise Bibliotech Atmark Learning Beida Online Ambow FutureKids Wharton Education Portal Examples

  20. Wharton School:Research Service Provider • Aggregation of market research information from various sources • Access to a wide range of functionality from data access to complex financial modeling • Existing C, Fortran or SAS programs can run on WRDS with little or no modification. • Anywhere, anytime access via a browser

  21. Home School Banner Space Classes Clubs Tasks Calendar Contacts Messages Customizable Content Personalized, Current Information

  22. Horizon.com - Singapore • Content repurposing and distribution via service provisioning • 75 % of CD ROM market in Singapore • 3-tier model to separate application, content and administration • 100 schools in the next year

  23. Guidelines for Developing Education Portals

  24. #1Form Follows Function

  25. #2 Ensure ease of use; simple interface

  26. #3Plan for Scale

  27. #4Plan for non-stop use

  28. #4Customize for Communities……Personalize for Individuals

  29. #5Context is King

  30. Mainframe-class Servers Datacenter.com Scalable Systems Java Technology Network THE Is the computer TM Thin Clients WebTone Intelligent Storage NFS Jini

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