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
If you would like to listen to the original webinar, our colleagues at GatherContent have archived it here: https://gathercontent.com/resources/the-state-of-higher-education-digital-environments
If you prefer to view the material as slides: The State of Higher Education Digital Environments - Webinar April 2019.
If you prefer to view the material as slides: The State of Higher Education Digital Environments - Webinar April 2019.
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