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Building A More Solid and Comprehensive ICT Infrastructure

for Enhanced eLearning Delivery: The St. Paul University

11th National eLearning Conference

7-8 December 2012
Bethel Guest House & Silliman Universi
Dumaguete, Negros Oriental

Remarkable
Innovations

Server
Virtualizat
ion
Technolog
y
Mesh
WiFi
Network

server(s) provisioned as virtual

machine(s) in a single host
machine
increase in space utilization
efficiency at the data center
lower number of physical
servers
seamless roaming across WiFi
access points (AP)
BYOD-enabled wireless
environment is as stable as a
wired network
best traffic paths when
congestion occurs

Building A More Solid and Comprehensive ICT Infrastructure

for Enhanced eLearning Delivery: The St. Paul University

11th National eLearning Conference

7-8 December 2012
Bethel Guest House & Silliman Universi
Dumaguete, Negros Oriental

Conclusions
1.

2.
3.

Maintenance of e-learning service demands stable and solid ICT infrastructure. This is only made
possible through management and ICT unit collaboration. Top management actually defines the
direction of e-learning service development as this entails big financial investment. Readiness of elearning is therefore largely channeled to top managements support and openness to technological
advancements.
On the other hand, solid ICT infrastructure does not singly define effectiveness of e-learning services to
clients. Utilization of LMS demands human resource training. This is a responsibility that requires strong
support from the academics department specifically by the distance education unit.
The utilization of e-learning services defines the return of investment on ICT infrastructure
enhancement (from deployment to sustainability), manpower capability building, and other incidental
costs of implementation.

Recommendations
1.

Before offering e-learning services, it is necessary to conduct institutional capability assessment along
ICT infrastructure and human resource competence. Failure to do so may lead to sporadic and less
effective e-learning delivery.
2. Institutional policies and guidelines must be established to facilitate standard utilization of e-learning
services. This will consequently determine fees and its subsequent collection scheme that ensures
return of investment on ICT infrastructure development and human resource capability training
expenses.
3. Ideally, a data center must be established to centralize operations and monitoring of all ICT equipment
pertinent to e-learning delivery. The absence of which may at least be compensated with an enterprisegrade server, smooth internet connectivity, scalable network switches, and remote monitoring and
management of ICT resources and operations. Redundancy can be deployed if budget fits the
requirement.
4. A disaster recovery plan (DRP) relative to e-learning services must be established. This is imperative to
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