Profile:
After the launch of the School Management Program by the Ministry at schools, it
managed to achieve much of its goals, but missed at the same time an effective
communication system linking school and the educational directory in the region
and the ministry, as well as communication between school and community. This in
turn reduced employability of databases for schools for educational planning
service. To overcome this problem and other technical problems, there was a need
to implement educational portal project.
What is the Portal?
It is a mean of communication between the databases of the Ministry and the
Ministry audience, whether they are teaching staff or management staff in all
positions such as the Ministry of education cabinet or at schools in different
areas or between student and guardians and community members interested in this
sector; targeting provision of electronic services, administrative and
educational, where these can be accessed either by browser and e-mail at the
Ministry's website or by voice interface ( phone lines.(
The educational portal is an important project not only to the Ministry of
education, but also to the whole society as it is one of the future pillars of
this nation , as the ministry carry core responsibilities burdens in preparing
future generations and actively contribute to its progress and development.
Project objectives:
The educational portal project connects the objectives of the Ministry of
Education to the objectives of the community , which is the gateway to link the
widest possible audience, through the provision of electronic services and
update their statements, and the promotion of quality in the educational process
, providing an attractive education using interactive tools and innovative
techniques, and this in turn will lead to improved assessment and evaluation,
better curriculum development ,better teaching methods and promote the quality
of education ,too. The project also aims to provide education outside classroom,
through the use of modern techniques which are part of the portal, so that we
can apply remote distance learning, self-learning , Self paced learning, and
provide default Virtual classrooms and mass education classrooms. Add to that it
would help to develop work desk, devising a system of document management and
archiving in an attempt to reduce paper consumption, in addition to facilitating
the administrative procedures and set a mechanism of follow-up, providing
accurate data for statistics and reports, especially in educational planning
expecting that this project will contribute to raising the level of regulation
and correspondences, thereby reduce resources consumptions especially time. At
the same time, the Ministry will merge within the framework of e-Government in
Oman, the Ministry will be able to supply other ministries with the required
data electronically within minutes and in return receive data.
Furthermore, we aim at professional creativity, because traditional methods in
management processes, imposes on the staff member is in addition to his job
competencies tasks to handles beside other obligations, thus we expect the
project to promote the organization of work ,providing employee with capacity
for innovate at work.
Portal strategies:
The Portal consisted of 4 strategies which are Administration System, Assistant
educational system, cultural and educational content, and user training. Where
administrative system aims to provide regulatory administrative database with
various reports and statistics used by every audience, everyone according to his
mandates powers, giving each one a user name and a password.
When this aspect have finished, we expect a Ministry of education, Educational
Region and schools to be managed through electronic methods. The Assistant
educational system aims at strengthening the educational process, learning by
adding new educational methods different from traditional methods, and featuring
attractiveness and being interactive, this is in addition to providing education
outside classroom. The system will also find ways to continue the ongoing
educational attainment, behavioral, and enhance student practice techniques. The
educational and cultural content is converting all curricula and textbooks into
electronic formula…, attractive, easy to handle and research. The fourth and
final strategy is training users, especially teachers, through specialized
curricula, where each visions and plans and techniques that are used in this
project are worthless if teachers could not use it effectively.
Implementation mechanisms:
Initially implement partial projects to guide all sectors and slides towards
this goal, among which ; electronic school project, this is done through the use
of school management program, through the provision of online service and use of
electronic mail between different segments of the school. In addition to
electronic automated area project which aims at using electronic systems and
administrative techniques, and using e-mail between different sections in the
region. There is also an e-mail project through the adoption of electronic
correspondence between its various directories,… everyone get an e-mail.
It also aims at converting textbooks and teachers ' guides' to electronic form
deployed on the Ministry's website by electronic curriculum project. The
Electronic culture project aimed at raising awareness and technology
implementation allowing the educational district to select nature of this
project, in accordance with the privacy of each region targeting all segments
including parents.
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