The ‘Towards a 21st Century National Software Infrastructure for Education‘ report from Education.au’s Strategic ICT Advisory Service for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) makes a number of important points and recommendations focussed on bringing together and building on existing and planned initiatives.
It suggests that “the infrastructure should be focused on connecting and enabling services from multiple providers to meet learner needs. It should deliver learner-centric services seamlessly across geographic, jurisdictional and sectoral boundaries”.
It identifies the key components of this national software infrastructure as:
• an ‘education cloud’ based on the internet ‘cloud computing’ model
• learner-centric approach to digital identity
• support for collaborative learning
• support seamless resource discovery
• support for secure data interchange.The infrastructure should be based on a nationally agreed set of interoperability standards and governance, leadership and operational processes to ensure that the national infrastructure is developed, sustained and enhanced to keep pace with constantly and rapidly changing technology.
The recommendations from the report are to:
- Recommendation 1: Develop a national cross-sectoral collaborative interoperability service
- Recommendation 2: Develop a national cross-sectoral trust fabric to support secure learner centric identity and access management.
The recommendations are supported by discussion and examples of how this could be implemented.
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if the ICT professionals charged with the responsibility of building the networks and installing servers follow the published standards, this will not be an issue.
the error, past present and future is where proprietary software is adopted, and the state adopts a de facto standard which only talks with similar products from that supplier…microsoft being the main offender
IE does not follow web standards
many Victorian education.vic.gov.au websites only recognise IE5, 6 or 7…not 8 or firefox or safari
they have flash embedded which prevents iPhone access
similarly the reporting package adopted by Victoria..ony works on windowsXP
despite the tender documents requiring web standards and cross platform - in breach of the tender process!?
sharepoint is another non standard interface..and so it goes on…
just specify AJAX web2 standards and go for online web interfaces
and ban activeX and flash!!
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