UDENTE Airport

 

To understand what UDENTE can do, the use of a 3D metaphor is helpful.  This is where the UDENTE airport comes in.

Imagine that the airport terminal is the secure UDENTE environment...

• each school brings in its own plane of students, staff, and crew to the Terminal – the captain being the Dean. (Charter/scheduled members of UDENTE)
• the luggage is tagged and is full of a range of objects which can be uploaded into the airport and new luggage chosen by the travellers from the luggage carousel. (Learning Objects)
• all the travellers are subject to airport security. (Legal and copyright issues)
• the concourse is an area for discussion and collaboration and the shops a place to buy extra items for travel. Timetables can be obtained and other tools for travel, to make the onward journey more pleasant and organised. (The Global Forum)
• the course options can be seen on the arrival and departure boards and security assured through logins and passports. Radar for the air traffic control will inform the airport who is about to arrive or depart. (Courses)

This is the metaphor for the airport ecosystem of UDENTE.

 

Terminal

• Integration platform providing ‘superglue’ and backed by standards
• ‘Launch pad’ for applications
• Timetabling
• Double-blind marking and standard setting
• Global gradebook
• Electives (outgoing and incoming)
• VLE Plugins (Moodle and WebCT)

 

 

Luggage

• e-content
• Elsevier and Blackwell’s dental books
• CPD material from the UK Department of Health
• Materials from King’s and partners
• Uses Equella for content

• Search by keyword using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) taxonomy

 

Security

• Authentication
• Quality assurance
• IAAS authentication

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arrivals and departures

• Courses

• VLE plugins (Moodle and Blackboard)

 

 

 

 

Concourse

• Global Forum
• Communications tool integration (e.g. Wimba, WizIQ)
• Bulletin Board
• Careers applications
• e-profiling