ALT-C presentation 2013

1. A Synthesis of Modelling Tools for
Educational Management Systems Design
ALT-C 2013: Technological Developments for Strategy and Institutional Practice
Professor Tony Toole
Faculty of Applied Design and Engineering

2. ALT-C 2014: Technological Developments
for Strategy and Institutional Practice
An Overview of Management Modelling
The purpose of management modelling is to encourage and contribute
to a systematic and structured approach to management systems
planning. It aids the planning process by presenting existing and
proposed management systems in an easily assimilated way. The models
are designed to assist systems thinking by providing routes through the
planning process that generate consistency and lead to realistic and
achievable solutions.
Enterprise Architecture
Viable Systems Modelling
Soft Systems Modelling

3. ALT-C 2014: Technological Developments
for Strategy and Institutional Practice
Enterprise Architecture
Business Process Layer
Applications Layer
Technical Infrastructure Layer

4. ALT-C 2014: Technological Developments
for Strategy and Institutional Practice
Viable Systems Modelling
Self Managing Sub-systems
Recursive Structure
Control and communications Capacity

5. ALT-C 2014: Technological Developments
for Strategy and Institutional Practice
Soft Systems Modelling
The Soft Systems Modelling approach encourages constant reflection on
how things happen in real world situations. It doesn’t so much describe
how the information management system actually works, but how the
stakeholders think it works, how they think it should work and how they
would personally like it to work.
Root Definition of the problem
Conceptual Model of the solution
Designing a realistic and workable system

6. ALT-C 2014: Technological Developments
for Strategy and Institutional Practice
Case Study: Student Attendance Monitoring
Root Definition of the problem:
The creation and implementation of an information management system that accurately
and consistently records and reports on the participation of students in planned learning
activities.
Conceptual Model of the solution:
1. A data capture system that records individual student attendance at scheduled, location
specific, learning activities;
2. An online information management application that receives attendance data and
presents it for management use at module, course, faculty and institutional levels;
3. The management of data capture being the responsibility of the individual session tutor
and that automatically populates the online management application;
4. The student attendance information being used at tutor and course team level to trigger
student support actions where problems are indicated;
5. The student attendance information being available to appropriate levels of
management for internal and external performance reporting.

7. ALT-C 2014: Technological Developments
for Strategy and Institutional Practice
Viable Systems Model

8. ALT-C 2014: Technological Developments
for Strategy and Institutional Practice
Enterprise Architecture

9. A Synthesis of Modelling Tools for
Educational Management Systems Design
ALT-C 2013: Technological Developments for Strategy and Institutional Practice
Professor Tony Toole
tony.toole@smu.ac.uk
http://smudieprojectblog.blogspot.co.uk/