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	Technology choices for an MLE
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1.1 Types of Purchase

1.2 Who should be involved and why

1.2.1 Turnkey solution

1.2.2 Architecture selection

1.2.3 System selection

2. Outsource /Buy / Integrate / Build

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 Total cost of ownership

2.1.2 Fit to requirements

2.1.3 Available skills

2.1.4 Future needs

2.2.1 IT not a core function

2.2.2 cannot afford all the skills

2.2.3 potential for loss of control

2.2.4 Examples of outsourcing

2.6 Further materials

3. Architectures for MLEs

3.1 Compatibility with existing systems

3.2 Data compatibility

3.3 Futher materials

4.1 Why use standards

4.2 Which standards

4.2.1 Data interchange formats

4.2.2 Data exchange

4.3 The limits of standards

4.4 Further materials

5. Selection criteria

5.1 Functional requirements

5.2 Compatibility with partners

5.3 Long-term support and development

5.5 Integration with other systems

5.6 Integration with partners

5.7 Fit to strategic requirements

5.8 Partner institutions

5.9 Further materials

6.1 Speed of change of technologies

6.2 Speed of change of the environment

6.3 Poorly defined standards

6.4 Lack of cooperation between vendors of different systems

6.5 Gaps and overlaps between systems

7. what projects have done

7.1.1 Brief description of the product

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7.2 Technologies

7.2.1 What is the product integrating?

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7.2.2 What technologies/standards have been used?

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7.2.3 Availability of technologies?

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7.3 Requirements

7.3.1 Requirments hardware

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7.3.2 Requirments software server-side

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7.3.3 Requirments software client-side

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7.3.4 Accessibility awareness?

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7.3.5 Usability/accessibility

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7.3.6 Requirements additional technical development

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7.4.1 Security approaches?

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7.4.2 Security assessment

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7.4.3 Costs - startup

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7.4.4 Costs - ownership

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7.5.1 Existing documentation

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7.5.2 Existing demonstrator

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7.5.3 Planned demonstrator

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7.6 Re-usability

7.6.1 Indicators of scalability

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7.6.2 Can the product potentially integrate with other 7/99 products?

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7.7 Pre-existing technologies

7.7.1 Institutional profile OS culture

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7.7.2 Institutional profile SIS

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7.7.3 Institutional profile HR

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7.7.4 Institutional profile Finance

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7.7.5 Institutional profile Physical Resources

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7.7.6 Institutional profile Library

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7.7.7 Institutional profile VLE

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7.7.8 Institutional profile Groupware

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7.7.9 Institutional profile CMS/DMS

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7.7.10 Institutional profile ID/"smart" cards

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7.7.11 Institutional profile Directory Service

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7.7.12 Institutional profile approach to SSO

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7.7.13 Institutional profile approach to portals

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7.7.14 Institutional profile anything else

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7.8 Applications

7.8.1 Description of the purpose or functions of the product

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7.9 Architecture

7.9.1 Technical details of the product

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7.9.2 Architecture: scaleable?

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7.9.3 Potential for incorporation in a portal

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7.10 Recommendations

7.10.2 Ravensbourne

7.10.3 Sunderland

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