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TISR. Aims and objectives To produce a “student object” that represents a meaningful subset of learner information held in institutional MIS systems that can be held in an object-oriented store such as an LDAP directory.
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TISR • Aims and objectives • To produce a “student object” that represents a meaningful subset of learner information held in institutional MIS systems that can be held in an object-oriented store such as an LDAP directory. • To develop a “proof of concept” servlet that consumes data from disparate stores, and, using DSML, updates an LDAP directory and/or presents directory information for display. Supporting Further and Higher Education
Progress to Date • Diet TISR • A “lite” object model, essentially biographical; • XML initialisation that addresses access control and object model issues; • Working now on the API of the servlet. Supporting Further and Higher Education
Success and Problems • Successes • Conceptually clean • Good foundation for extensible application • Clear insight into the issues • Problems • A “techie” solution – arcadian and utopianist • Organisational changes have hampered development of a richer data model Supporting Further and Higher Education
Findings & Recommendations • Buy-in • Build a wide-based team • Ensure they are not “reorganised” out • IMS • What can the IMS Spec offer you? • Can your application sit on an IMS compliant layer? • Keep it Simple • Modular, straight forward • Don’t try to answer everything • MLEs are a process Supporting Further and Higher Education