Virtual University in the context of Today Web Technologies
| Author | Cosmin Cătălin Olteanu |
| Pages | 587-594 |
Cosmin Cătălin Olteanu. Lecturer, Ph.D. candidate, “Nicolae Titulescu” University, Bucharest (e-mail: contact@olteanucosmin.ro).
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In the Internet era the need for web complex integrated applications is sustained by huge demands from all kind of users.
This is the case for universities also. Right now there are a lot of web applications for some specific purposes like e-learning, management etc. which are not integrated as a unique system and everything is not well connected.
We have to say that an integrated system is a must in order to have everything available from anywhere.
Moreover, if we go further and think in the context of web evolution, where everything is dynamically generated and the tendency is to have social behaviors of informatic systems.
These days the world of students, teachers and everything else that are related to university are the whiteness of big software changes around the globe.
Right now, in some of universities the students are learning in the old fashion way (with paper and pencils), the work flow of documents is also in the same way managed etc. (Fig. 1). This is a fact and we should encourage them to change the way of facts and modernize all the departments and services. The students are one step ahead of us (teachers and staff) in the matter of technology and they make us to come and respond to their needs.
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[SEE THE FIGURE IN THE ATTACHED PDF]
Fig. 1.Regular University Informational Distribution Diagram.
In order to do that we have to change the way we think. We have to give away the mentality of “that way is wrong” and come with a positive and open minded way of thinking.
We have to make every step of anyone available online. Everything should be available in a form or another on a real time server (Fig. 2).
[SEE THE FIGURE IN THE ATTACHED PDF]
Fig. 2.Virtual University Informational Distribution Diagram.
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In the Internet era, where everything is online, students are asking for more online information like taxes and payments, courses, tests, grades, news etc. that should be accessible from any device that you can imagine.
Furthermore, they ask for online communities where they can debate any subject and can met any person they want.
With the help of today technologies we can say that everything is possible.
This should be the tomorrow universities where students should remain student and teachers should keep their high quality standards.
With the entrance of Romania in the European Union the issue of finding some unique quality models is related...
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