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//This is the WIP page for Analysis. To be added to by everybody. We can review each other's ideas etc etc// //Jog down your idea here for members to reflect on and discuss// //===================================================================================// ==== __** Ahlam. 15 Sep. 10 **__ Click on Link to view the Rich Picture in full size [] ==== Client: University administration Practitioners: Department => Program Coordinators => Teachers within programs Owners of issues addressed: LC, PCs, Ts, students, technicians, etc. (List can be expanded) Teachers implement online supplementary modules across all academic programs and courses in all departments by using Moodle to enhance the quality of learning and thus qualify the university to be internationally accredited. Design and implement e-learning courses by using Moodle in order to enhance the quality of learning.
 * Root Definition (RD)**
 * PQR**
 * CATWOE**
 * T :** « Current quality of learning » => « current quality of learning //improved// »
 * W :** E-learning enhances the quality of learning
 * C:** Departments, Program Coordinators, Teachers, students, technicians, etc. (List can be expanded)
 * A:** LC, PCs, Teachers
 * E:** Computer access, financial status, Moodle efficiency as an educational tool, technical capabilities, technical support, blended learning system, learning strategies/styles, previoustraditional teaching and learning practices, etc.
 * O:** University Administration
 * EEE**
 * Efficacy:** Will the implantation of e-learning enhance the quality of learning? Will studentsbe engaged in learning? Will it help at improving Ss’ knowledge and skills? Will e-learning modules improve the teaching practices and Ss’ learning in the classroom?
 * Efficiency:** Moodle is a free educational MLS which is a plus with regard to financial costs. However, how much time/money would it need to equip teachers with instructional designand technical skills (professional development in the area of using Moodle as an educational tool)? How much time would teachers spend in the actual designing of Moodle courses? How much time Ss would need to spend on Moodle outside the classroom? Is computer access available to all Ts and Ss all the time? If not, are there enough financial resources to make computer access available at least on campus to all Ss and Ts for the longer period of time possible?
 * Effectiveness:** Will the implementation of e-learning across all courses at the university help in improving the quality of overall learning? Will this qualify the university to get international accreditation?

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 * NICOLA - 12 September Initial Analysis**

__To restate story in terms of Checklands xyz format and get to Root Definition:__ Primary Task: University – a system to provide education – a system to make money through providing an education – a system to be recognized as valid by having accreditation Language Centre - a system to provide language courses - Issue Based Relevant Systems -University - a system to reconcile the conflict between business needs and educational needs a system to co-ordinate the different needs of program co-ordinators, teachers and students Langage centre A system to reconcile teaching needs of students and business needs of university Metaphors Boss/employee traditional institution/business entity A root definition expresses the core purpose of a purposeful activity system. Core purpose is always expressed as a tansformation process – in which some entity “input” is transformed into some new for of the same entity, the “output”. Actions to do not get transformed so do not use verbs. Unaccredited university à Accredited University English courses without e-learning à English courses with e-learning T : unaccredited university à accredited Univeristy A: English Teachers C: victim teachers, beneficiary University, students if e-learning helps them, teachers benefit if university gets more students? O: Program c-ordinators/Teachers if they refused or weren’t capable? E: time and capabilities of teachers W: (a teacher asking for this project from her point of view of time and capability constraints? W: university needing accreditation to run a more appealing business? A system to do X, by Y, in order to achieve Z A system to implement e-learning modules, by the teachers of the programs, in order to get accreditation for the University