Data Driven Information Flow in E-Universities: A Process Modeling Analysis

Abstract

Advancements in information and communication have a big impact on people's life. The quality of information affects the decisions made by the management. This paper focusses on the analysis of data flow in the of 'Handling a lecture' process at two universities. Based on the process analysis, the demonstration of the activities, roles and data flow enabled the authors to compare the flow of data in the two processes. This analysis aids in evaluating the quality of data and the means of improvements to obtain well-structured data for better analysis and decision making. The impact of improvement will need to be reflected again in the process model, which indicates a triangulation between both techniques and thus each one reinforces the other. Accordingly, such methodology could be generalized and used in other universities that are aiming to make the transition to e-learning. Index Terms-E-University, lesson planning, virtuallearning, e-learning, information flow, knowledge sharing, process modeling.