[Offtopic] Ultranet

[Cameron Bell]

Ohh I don't know - I would classify edupass as a success when you 
consider the scope of the project.
Edumail seems to be pretty good as well.

The trouble with IT across the curriculum is that the approach has been 
to throw a (comparatively) huge bucket of money at a project to get it 
up and running with no $ for follow up or ongoing running.
One of my (and my bosses) concerns at the moment is how are we going to 
sustain the practices that we have initiated as a LSF when the money 
runs out? Will ultranet be the same?


victor rajewski wrote:
> On 5/23/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>> I didn't want to kick off the cynicism too early in the thread - you can
>> pull a hammy if you get started too early without warming up.
>> HOWEVER:
>> If a statewide system is introduced:
>> 1) It will make moving between schools very easy. No new system to 
>> learn.
>> 2) Materials developed will be compatible across all schools. (Provided
>> vendors don't impose their own file formats or systems on materials)
>
> One would hope they use a standard for learning objects like SCORM. If
> not, any possibility of me respecting this system will be lost.
>
>> 3) Group expertise while be huge and common help facilities will be
>> understood across all schools.
>> 4) Auditing of materials against the current standards, (at the moment
>> VELS, but who knows what they will be by the time the Ultranet is
>> running) should be easy
>>
>> I don't want to kick a system before I know anything about it, but
>> that's the problem, I don't. Does anyone know where the input is coming
>> from? Whether they will mandate all schools use this thing?
>> Where can you find out so that long term-planning can be taken into 
>> account?
>
> It is a brilliant idea in theory, and something like this will
> eventually happen. But from a perspective, anything the education
> department has tried to do with IT has been a miserable failure. While
> I wish that this isn't, I ain't holding my breath.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but someone told me there are something like
> 8 or 9 people working in the IT section of the department of ed (this
> could be totally  mistaken). For this to be a success, it would
> require a lot more resources than this.
>
> vik
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