{"id":35,"date":"2007-11-16T14:53:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T14:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cetis.ac.uk\/adam\/2007\/11\/16\/kuali-student-services-system\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T14:53:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T14:53:40","slug":"kuali-student-services-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/kuali-student-services-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuali Student Services System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kuali foundation has been around for a few years now but only recently (since July 2007)  started work on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuali.org\/communities\/ks\/partners.shtml\" class=\"broken_link\">student services system<\/a> backed by 7 N. American institutions to the tune of more than $25 million over a 5-year period, with Carnegie Mellon and MIT digging deepest. At an initial glance, this initiative looks like yet another well-funded open source initiative and the sceptics will not be expecting much long term impact, although it is worth noting that the kuali board does include Brad Wheeler, co-founder of the reasonably-successful <a href=\"http:\/\/sakaiproject.org\/\">sakai project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuali.org\/assets\/KualiStudentTimelineDiagram.gif\" class=\"broken_link\">timeline<\/a> gives an idea of the scope and indicates that &#8220;curriculum development&#8221; is an early priority, something that is elaborated upon in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuali.org\/communities\/ks\/functionality.shtml\" class=\"broken_link\">outline functional description<\/a>. This seems a logical starting point but is far from trivial, being the subject of several recent and active JISC projects such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/whatwedo\/programmes\/elearning_framework\/elfref_tvu.aspx\" class=\"broken_link\">COVARM<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/whatwedo\/programmes\/elearning_framework\/elfref_mmu.aspx\" class=\"broken_link\">XCRI <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/whatwedo\/programmes\/programme_elearning_capital\/courseinfo\/cova.aspx\" class=\"broken_link\">COVa<\/a>. How well the kuali team can deliver in this area should be an acid test of the viability of the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>A glance at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuali.org\/assets\/pdf\/KS-GuidingPrinciplesforTechnicalArchitecture.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">Technical Architecture Principles<\/a> is worthwhile, both for what it says as well as what it doesn&#8217;t. It is very committed to SOAP web services and service orientation. On this front, I think the student services system effort will be useful even if it fails miserably: a contributor and proving ground for the principles of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-framework.org\/\">eFramework<\/a>. On the what-it-doesn&#8217;t-say front, the list of open standards didn&#8217;t mention IMS or other educationally-oriented group outside the US; only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsaxmlregistry.ed.gov\/XMLRegistry\/Welcome.do\" class=\"broken_link\">PESC<\/a> was mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>One to watch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kuali foundation has been around for a few years now but only recently (since July 2007) started work on a student services system backed by 7 N. American institutions to the tune of more than $25 million over a 5-year period, with Carnegie Mellon and MIT digging deepest. At an initial glance, this initiative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/kuali-student-services-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kuali Student Services System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}