C1: AN AUTOMATED ONLINE EDUCATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BASED ON AN OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH
Keywords:
Education management system, Information and Communications Technology, (ICT), object-oriented approach, normalisationAbstract
Communication and information are integral parts of the education process and thus the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education management systems comes naturally. Many business organisations, schools and universities are gradually increasing the use of ICT to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of administration. This paper presents the implementation of an automated online education management system, named Cybernetics 1 (C1). C1 was tested as an operational tool to support the education process of undergraduate students. The four major modules in C1 include the registration of new students (inclusive of retrieving and updating of student profile), creation of module assessment structures, module marks entry and generation of academic transcripts. C1 was developed based on the object-oriented approach. This system successfully eliminates the problem of poor data sharing and data inconsistency as encountered by most existing education management systems. In particular, the normalisation process has significantly reduced the problems of data redundancy in the database.
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