An e-Course file management system: A green campus initiative

Abstract

Most accreditation agencies require academic institutions to maintain course files as an integral part of monitoring the overall quality of the educational process and to gauge how effective the course(s) have been taught and assessed at the time of offering each individual course. The paper-based course files maintained manually present a variety of disadvantages that include physical storage, retrieval issues, and recurring paper and printing costs. Moreover, the extensive paper usage required to maintain course files poses negative environmental impacts occurring during the paper making and disposal stages of paper life-cycle. As a green campus initiative, we propose a prototype eCourse file database management system to compile and organize the course files via user friendly graphical user interfaces.

Keywords: Assessment items, Course file, Accreditation, Data sharing, Information retrieval