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Enigma Project: 

Enigma Project Part of JISC SWaNI programme Partners – Perth College, Lauder College Inverness, Sabhal Mhor, Lews Castle UHI, SFEU Capita, WebCT, Learnwise

Why Enigma? The Aspiration…: 

Why Enigma? The Aspiration… The aim of the project is to develop a data transfer engine to allow course and student information to flow freely between existing virtual learning environments and existing student records systems used by the Academic Partners to create the beginnings of a managed learning environment. ‘Vanilla’ middleware product not hard coded to specific systems and vendors – a true code breaker and paradox

The Compromise: 

The Compromise The aim of the project is to prototype a data transfer engine which has been developed by Capita to allow course and student information to flow freely between existing virtual learning environments and existing student records systems used by the Academic Partners to create the beginnings of a managed learning environment. Enhance the functionality of Capita MLE Exporter  

Project Issues: 

Project Issues Scope refinement for vendor involvement Learning curve of technical and user group Terminology and structural differences – college:college, CETIS: technical:vendor, vendor:vendor Vendor commercial priority and timescale Headroom of key project members within college commitment

User Issues: 

User Issues Successful interoperability requires cultural, operational and business process shift Student, lecturer, support, admin and marketing advantages Consultation, cross college and vendor involvement at an early stage vital – practitioner involvement Interoperability required inter as well as intra institution level

Outputs and Impacts: 

Outputs and Impacts Bid, funding and project management experience further enhanced Cross college and vendor cooperation Internal understanding of wider organisational issues of interoperability Technical knowledge of processes

Outputs and Impacts: 

Outputs and Impacts MLE Exporter as enhanced in place and working in Lauder this year as part of E Learning strategy. Data from Capita DITA to Learnwise. UHI has now changed SIS to SITS, and is planning to develop an open source VLE The knowledge, learning and network remains!

Further Information: 

Further Information http://extranet.lauder.ac.uk/quickplace/enigma/main.nsf Michael Turpie Michael.turpie@perth.uhi.ac.uk