University applications?
Posted: March 21st, 2012, 12:01 pm
Hi, I am just exploring TODCM for possible use in our School of Teacher Education at University of Northern Colorado. I have only worked with the demos, so pardon me if some of what I ask is obvious to people who use todcm more.
1. At the university level our planning structures and evaluation systems seem to be much more based on corporate models, with mission and vision driving a strategic plan and the setting of goals. Then, of course, we have a curriculum of programs, departments, and courses that are involved with national standards.
2. Most of the curriculum software, both proprietary and this open source solution, seems to deliver on only the latter half of what I described above. Is this true of todcm? If we find that packages such as MyStrategicPlan are more amenable to creative and flexible program designs, and goal-setting, then we would be more likely to implement that kind of solution, because they may be open-ended enough for us to correlate to standards at the lower level of design--courses, units, assignments, etc. So we really need something that can help us get from mission to vision to goals first.
But todcm is a great open-source project, and I would love to be able to implement it--most of the Strategic Planning applications are proprietary. It would be great to have open code and be able to work with local developers to create apps and widgets to interact with todcm. What can people tell me here?
1. At the university level our planning structures and evaluation systems seem to be much more based on corporate models, with mission and vision driving a strategic plan and the setting of goals. Then, of course, we have a curriculum of programs, departments, and courses that are involved with national standards.
2. Most of the curriculum software, both proprietary and this open source solution, seems to deliver on only the latter half of what I described above. Is this true of todcm? If we find that packages such as MyStrategicPlan are more amenable to creative and flexible program designs, and goal-setting, then we would be more likely to implement that kind of solution, because they may be open-ended enough for us to correlate to standards at the lower level of design--courses, units, assignments, etc. So we really need something that can help us get from mission to vision to goals first.
But todcm is a great open-source project, and I would love to be able to implement it--most of the Strategic Planning applications are proprietary. It would be great to have open code and be able to work with local developers to create apps and widgets to interact with todcm. What can people tell me here?