Part II: Are Portals Dead? And More

As je to his report from last week, he moves from a purely technical one of the areas definition and function On the basis of cross-site evaluation of 172 colleges and universities and the Universitys website. Along with other observations, he concluded "portalization" may have reached its Zenith and projections, many site has been or will call themselves "Portalized" the name some form, but really is not and will not be true portal. Enjoy! ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡.

je St. sauver the University of Oregon computer center University "gateway" site a few years ago, the University under great pressure from the business (such as And a large number of peer pressure, from those who have to be on the portal site trend) move to a portal model, the systems website. So so far, no speculation, a lot of the real "gateway products", and is likely to not.

course, the first question, the university is faced with the clear just What is a portal site, in fact yes. A good definition is elusive, but is a fair consensus that a portal will be: â requires the user to log in (in this process, This would allow users to customize portal to best reflect their interests, the interests of the possible, then recalled in the following Login) â inclusive to a certain extent, to the user as the default start page, owned by all, users wanted or needed â closely integrate with the existing administrative system and the existing teaching and learning system (such as blackboard or webct).

In some cases, the portal also a way of billing for the university to improve revenue through the sale of online advertising. University was informed that as soon as possible "everyone" will have a real portalized Home. "Portalize or die," they told effectively.

University administrators also said that a simple security network sites, they have to be deployed, web site, allowing students to carry out management Online tasks, such as registration for classes or looking for a grade, not portal. Students will often sign in to the kind of site (unless they have a specific administrative tasks to complete), this is extremely impossible Anyone who would make one of these safety of the site their default homepage.

, Therefore, now two or three years have passed, there is all the University of the portal? » portalization of higher education has actually happened? »·ñ.

not a research university in our sample have a portalized Home, only 36 schools (20 percent) and even a link to a portal site, from schools The default home page, often through a not very obvious link. In other cases, a system portal may have been marginalized, to points, this is the only goal of in a scale more The small audience, such as the students.

We believe that the University of the portal is currently at their peak, and as time ges, these universities did not test the deployment of a portal will be the most Possible retirement, the model and return to a simpler functional model.