
Number of Post-Secondary/Higher Education Institutions Worldwide

Proportion of Population with Internet Access Worldwide 2018

Individual Institutions Are Complex Digital Ecosystems

How Did We Create Such Complexity?

Evolution from Data Repository to Communications Channels

Digital Content has Overflowed the Internal Structures

Technological Exuberance Has Been Matched by Content Decentralisation

Stumbled Into Agile Content Development Without Formal Methodology Approach

The Sum of All the Foregoing Has Led Us to Where We Are Now

Need to Understand the Layers to Improve Our Solutions To The Issues

Development Efforts Focus on The Middle Layer

The Top Layer Defines the User Experience And Whether It All Appears To Work

Why Are We Building All These Websites?

Let’s Put Numbers On the Descriptions

On The Surface That Technology Stack Produces Similar Looking Websites

And These Websites Try To Say A Lot on Their Homepages

How big and how complex are higher education digital environments?

Words, images and lots of PDFs

On A Number of Measures HEI Websites Stack Up Well Versus Others

We’ve Incrementally Built Ourselves Complex Digital Ecosystems

PriceWaterhouseCoopers Risk Profile for UK Universities - 2018

Typical Website/Digital Environment Risk Identification

Complexity Elevates Risk

Financial Risks – Lose Revenue or Incur Unnecessary Costs

Legal & Regulatory Risks – Exposed To Legal or Other Sanctions

Security Risks – Universities are Attractive Sites to Attack

Security Risks – Universities are Attractive Sites to Attack

We’ve Identified The Issues. What Are The Solutions?

Four Building Blocks

Agile Development Techniques

Agile Development Foundation

Digital Governance Framework

Agile Development Foundation and Digital Governance Framework

Integrated Content Policies

Agile Development Foundation + Digital Governance Framework + Integrated Content Policies

Monitor, Measure and Analyse

Agile Development Foundation + Digital Governance Framework + Integrated Content Policy +
Monitor, Measure and Analyse
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If you prefer to view the material as slides: The State of Higher Education Digital Environments - Webinar April 2019.
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