The document discusses a project at Macomb Community College that aims to increase the number and types of classes offered to students in both online and in-person formats. It provides details on the stakeholders involved, including students, professors, and administrators. It also outlines the goals of providing more flexible scheduling options and real-world learning experiences to better prepare students for their careers. A work breakdown structure is presented as a framework to organize the tasks required to implement an online enrollment system to support these goals.
1. Initial Identification
When you hear the word "college," you might picture students
hanging out in their dorm rooms or packing into large lecture
halls for their studies. However, when more and more learning
methods are made possible by technology, that representation is
dated more and more. Indeed, the popularity of online and
distant learning among college students has consistently grown,
but does that indicate it's a good fit for you? To help you
respond to that question, spend some time contrasting
traditional versus online schooling. Since both traditional and
online learning have benefits and drawbacks, students should be
prepared before entering the classroom (or logging in). This
head-to-head comparison concentrated on three crucial
components that affect a student's experience. We'll also
examine the advantages of "mixed learning" in more detail.
The project encourages Macomb Community College to increase
the number of classes it provides to students, both in the
physical classrooms and online. College is a time for self-
discovery, and there is no better way to figure out one's
capabilities and areas of interest than by enrolling in a wide
array of subjects during your time there. Macomb analyses data
on student learning to pinpoint areas that could benefit from
altered rules and procedures. In order to improve the college's
Academic Mobility Policy, data on student success is used. This
policy establishes a procedure for ensuring that students are
enrolled in the proper classes. The set course prerequisites must
be met by all students enrolling in English composition,
mathematics, reading, and English for Academic Purposes
(EAPP) courses. The college has a "mobility period" in place to
make sure that students are adequately positioned for success in
these foundational courses. Math and English are the subjects
where mobility happens the most frequently. As a student, I
have participated in a diverse range of classes, and I never stop
being astonished by the extent to which the topics overlap.
2. The Center for Teaching and Learning used the assessment
results to provide additional opportunities and resources to
support faculty initiatives to integrate communication-based
teaching methods into their lessons. On the Macomb Community
College Portal, a page titled "Using Assessment Results" was
made with resources highlighting communication strategies
faculty members can use. Workshops highlighting methods for
assisting students in becoming successful researchers, thinkers,
and writers in the disciplines were available as professional
development opportunities. A book discussion on John C.
Bean's book Engaging Ideas - The Professor's Guide to
Integrating Writing, Critical-Thinking, and Active Learning in
the Classroom was also provided by the Center for Teaching and
Learning (2011). The focus of the faculty discussion was
developing stimulating writing and critical thinking exercises
and approaches.
For instance, completing classes in history and psychology has
provided me with greater insight and comprehensi on in the
literature classes I've taken. Understanding the histories,
attitudes, and circumstances of authors, as well as the settings
in which they wrote, draws the authors' stories to life in a whole
new way. Students will be spending less time outside,
particularly during rush hour. We'll gauge how well this works
by taking the number of students who graduated earlier because
these classes meet more often and responses from surveys about
how students feel about taking these classes online or at both
campuses. Also, the number of students who graduated will be
compared to how many graduated in previous years.
Scope
The students and the administration of the school would need to
establish channels for collaboration in order to make this
project a success. Students may rely on their professors for
guidance as they formulate their professional aspirations and
goals. It can be motivating and instructive for students to
understand the experiences that led their professors to their
current positions and to learn how they arrived there. School
3. councils, student councils, student assemblies, student clubs,
youth courts, community organizations, non-stable and
spontaneous student organizations, and individual engagement
are just a few of the channels via which students can participate
in school. According to my methodology, student involvement
agencies can be distinguished at least on the basis of two
factors: a) an organized or disorganized body, and b)
composition. The first factor has to do with how formally
organized an agency is and if students participate in it.
Teenagers can participate in community problem-solving
through a student club or have a say in school policy through
the school council, but they can also contribute to the creation
of new knowledge in the classroom by acting on their own or in
groups without the aid of a formal organization. In addition to
this, I would like to request that the administration of the school
adopts policies that will give students real-life opportunity to
study in a variety of various ways and participate in a wide
variety of classes. In turn, this helps students get the
opportunity to gain genuine business and professional insights,
develop their understanding of workplace culture, and enhance
critical workplace skills.
Project goal
The objective of the project is to provide more opportunities for
students who require assistance with having flexible schedules
to take those classes on campus, online, or at any time during
the year. To teach student knowledge and skills that will help
them succeed in the real world. to create students with strong
problem-solving skills. to establish a real-world learning
environment where students may use their knowledge and skills
to address problems and come up with solutions. The ultimate
purpose of education is becoming a subject of increasing
student curiosity. Education shouldn't merely serve to inform in
this day where information is readily available. Following are
some essential elements that both students and teachers believe
should be included in the purpose of education:
4. to teach children knowledge and skills that will help them
succeed in the real world.
to create students with strong problem-solving skills.
to establish a real-world learning environment where students
may use their knowledge and skills to address problems and
come up with solutions.
to get them ready for the professional world or a competitive
environment after school.
In other words, education must prepare children for life after
school as well as merely the classroom.
Stakeholders
· Students: A person who is enrolled in classes at a school or
university is called a student. However, at any point in their
lives, everyone who is learning anything might be referred to as
a "student."
· Professors: Teach graduate and undergraduate students one or
more university disciplines. As well as organizing and
delivering lectures to students, you might also lead lab sessions
or discussion groups. Exams, lab work, and reports should be
prepared, given, and graded.
· Academic advisors: To help students, decide on their own
educational goals that will lead to graduation, academic
advisors provide guidance on subjects such as academic plans
and progress, academic schedules, major selection, and other
academic activities and career aspirations.
· Staff members: addressing or escalating client or other
stakeholder concerns and questions. completing a variety of
office-related chores. preserving a high standard of
professionalism while speaking on behalf of the firm. attending
workshops and training programs to increase your skill set.
Tasks
Since the project's problem and solutions have already been
5. determined, the first step would be to assemble the project team
to present the solutions to the students. When putting together a
project team, choosing team members is equally as important as
developing the organizational framework. Regardless of the
organizational structure, you select, this involves creating
communication, defining expectations, and putting up rules and
processes. These issues will invariably arise if they are not
explicitly stated prior to the project's start. Then, we will plan
the project's schedule and necessary resources. A project
schedule is a timetable that arranges tasks, resources, and due
dates in the most effective order to enable the on-time
completion of the project. During the planning stage, a project
schedule is developed, which contains the following: a project
schedule includes milestones, start dates, and end dates. The
third step would involve carrying out the project by adopting
the identified strategies at the institution. Leaders of a company
develop their future vision and determine their organization's
goals and objectives through the process of strategic planning.
Establishing the order in which these objectives should be
accomplished can help the organization attain its stated vision.
The fourth step would involve controlling the risks associated
with the project and concluding with a project audit. The
collection of techniques used by businesses to assess possible
losses and take steps to lessen or eliminate them is known as
risk control. It is a method that makes use of risk assessment
results.
Work Breakdown Structure
A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a project management
tool used to organise and visually represent the project tasks.
Your project is broken down into smaller parts, and it is
organised into smaller, easier-to-manage pieces. It gives the
project manager the chance to forecast results based on a
specific scenario. By doing this, the decision-making process is
ensured to be efficient. The WBS can also be used to assist you
to identify project-related risks. The WBS is typically
developed at the beginning of a project, and once it is finished,
6. it will look like a flowchart.
An example of a work breakdown structure is:
· Task and activity descriptors
· Framework for high-level deliverables
· Granulation of multiple-level tasks
· Dictionary of work breakdown tasks.
· Planning Deliverables & Activities:
Work Breakdown Structure of Student Enrollment System
Planning Deliverables & Activities:
Project Planning
1.1 Project Definition: Encourages the students to enroll there
self’s for different classes both online and physical.
1.1.0 Project team naming: Professors, Director of the col lege,
Administrator
1.2.0 Objective determination: professor’s guidance,
professional aspirations, goals, leaning
1.3.0 Constraint’s determination: Online learning, policies for
enrollment, flexible schedule
1.2 Project Requirements: Software, computers, multimedia,
moderator
1.2.0 Divide requirements into component deliverables:
Arranging classes, Labs, instructor
1.2.1 Outline the tasks needed to complete deliverables:
· Install software for online classes
· Skills to use online system
· Guidance
1.2.2 Consider the resources of the project: money, time,
software, hardware, classes
1.3 Risk Management Plan:
1.3.0 Identify known risk and their potential effects: system
failure, mismanagement, No proper guidance
1.3.1 Perform risk analysis: Identify the risk, assessment of
risk, mitigation
1.3.2 Plan risk response: Reduce the risk by proper guidance of
7. professors or students to use the system.
1.4 Develop a communication plan: All the professors and
administrator discuss and communicate with each other to solve
the problem.
1.4.0 Develop the Gantt chart
1.4.1 Identify and assemble the communication tools: Online
platform, classroom, surveys
1.4.2 Give a detailed insight on project metrics:
1.5 Identify roles and responsibilities:
Teacher should be guide the students in every mater.
Academic advisor can solve major issues in college.
Students perform different education activities to enhance their
knowledge.
1.5.0 Assign different roles to the team:
Teacher: Guide students
Academic advisor: Solve major problems
Students: Discover there self
1.5.1 Determine the projects executive management
Close Deliverables & Activities:
1.1 Transfer the deliverables of the project: online enrollment
system
1.1.0 Go through the project plan
1.2.0 Ascertain that the deliverables are completed
1.3.0 Hand off the project deliverables: Online enrollment
system
1.2 Release resources: Release resources back to the team.
1.2.0 Confirm final payments to all suppliers: Payment should
give to all the suppliers or team members.
1.3 Archive documentation: Document for a long period of time
1.3.0 Index and document the project: Attributes to the
enrollment system.
1.3.1 Review and check the lessons learned: check all the
8. system working properly.
Resources
· The school administration
· Funds to create a learning management system and fund course
start-up
· Policies to be implemented
· Time to start up
Major Milestones
Similar to points in geometry, milestones. While milestones are
non-durational events, they serve as crucial defining markers
for an online learning project. A final milestone should be the
culmination of all activities that finish the development of a
course, lesson, or topic. The skills that learners are expected to
possess as they advance through training are laid out in
milestones. They combine the behavioral, psychomotor, and
cognitive domains. Milestones are visible and provide the
framework for evaluating the entrusted professional services.
After the policies have been put into place, we will need to
check to see if the online classes are functioning as intended,
evaluate how effective they are, and determine whether students
are enrolling in the newly offered classes.
Risks
Realizing hazards or risks leads to the loss of an asset. All
dangers and threats manifest themselves via the medium of
vulnerability. The following are the main threats:
1. Breach of confidentiality: Unauthorized access to the
resources in the E-Learning system.
Unauthorized access to and tampering with an asset utilized in
an e-learning system constitutes an integrity violation.
2. Denial of Service (DoS): Prevent lawful access privileges by
9. interfering with user transactions on an online learning system.
4. An evil program: with lines of code designed to harm other
programs.
5. Repudiation: A person's denial of involvement in any
document transaction.
6. Masquerade: A technique used by hackers to conceal the
facts.
7. Traffic analysis: Information leakage through wrong
communication channels.
8. Brute-force attack: An attempt to find the right combination
by trying every possible combination.
Also, Miscommunication and inaccurate information would
spread among those involved in the class, which would lead to
substandard participation during in-person sessions as well as
inefficient utilization of the online platform. This risk would
create a significant number of obstacles to the process of
adopting online learning. Because online classes are offered on
a regular basis, participants will eventually become accustomed
to the features of the online learning environment and the
capabilities of the learning platforms.