Applications Development

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Applications Development

The Collaborative Partnership and the Profile System: Encouraging Collaboration in Research

February 19, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2010

The Profiles System is a Facebook/Wikipedia-type open-source tool developed by UT Arlington (www.uta.edu/expertise) to capture expertise and resources of the research enterprise. UTA has shared THE…

Balancing Acts: Leveraging Open Content, Tools, and Processes to Support Learning and Teaching Communities

May 8, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2007

As a fundamental shift from one-way knowledge dissemination in teaching to learner-centered collaborative knowledge sharing and building is taking place, and the importance of openness in facilitat…

User-Centered Design in IT: The Low-Hanging Fruit

May 7, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2007

This presentation will introduce several basic usability and user-centered design concepts and techniques. We will explain how they are being introduced at UC Berkeley to create Web sites and IT se…

Service Oriented Architecture

August 9, 2006

Successful migration to service oriented architect (SOA) requires complex changes in culture, technology, organization, and budget. This session will define SOA, explain the benefits, give example …

Xythos Software - From Digital Lockers to Research Compliance: A Review of Secure Campus Collaboration Solutions, featuring UC Irvine

April 28, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2005

Learn how academic and research institutions have deployed cost-effective Web-based solutions to make information sharing safer and easier for the entire campus community. The session will feature …

Reengineering Web Application Design: Customers in Charge

January 1, 2004

Delivering online self-service applications for a community as large and diverse as a university presents a unique set of challenges. Queen's University Information Systems developed a design …

Which Comes First, the Process or the Technology?

January 1, 2004

A broad understanding of business requirements is a prerequisite to system (re)design. Business processes must be designed in conjunction with the technical environment that will support them in or…

Checkin 4.0: A Computer Lab and Facilities Management System at the University of North Texas

January 1, 2004

Developed completely with open source tools, the University of North Texas's Checkin application tracks students' use of computer lab facilities. This presentation will showcase the appli…

Putting the "We" in "We Are Penn State"

January 1, 2003

In 1994 Penn State University appointed a team to develop an interactive advising system to supplement student/adviser relationships. Over the years this initiative has evolved into eLion, a compre…

A Novel Idea in Application Development: Ask the Users What They Want

January 1, 2003

Florida State University is in the final phases of developing a new classroom scheduling application. Hear from both sides, technical and client, about the pros and cons of involving the core users…