A DISTRIBUTED WEB BASED K-12 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
João C. Ferreira · E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education · 2002
The project Bringing the Future to the Education is a research effort to study and prototype information system architectures to support, standardize, and facilitate the management of K12 schools at a national scale. It looks for the sharing and dissemination of relevant information among different stakeholders, based on the ASP model and also on a novel architecture, which we called distributed and multi-instance web architecture. This architecture means that beyond the existence of a unique central/national Rent@School instance, multiple Rent@School instances can be installed at local/regional scale, in a way that autonomy, performance and flexibility of all the system can be improved. This issue is introduced and discussed in this paper from two complementary perspectives: from the organizational and management information systems perspective; and from the integration and large-scale interoperability.