ESAF Value Proposition.ESAF provides the basis for more positive learning and education outcomes. ESAF achieves demonstrable efficiency and effectiveness gains through education sector infrastructure rationalization. ESAF leads cross-sector collaboration in areas of mutual benefit and helps people comply. By becoming more integrated, connected and flexible, the sector is positioned to meet the diverse needs of all New Zealand learning communities. The requirements define the shared understanding of the business context within which ESAF will work. The agencies that make up the Working Party unanimously embrace the need for a common framework. Although it is not completely clear where ESAF begins and ends, the key issues and what to do about them — the problems and opportunities — are clear.
Realising the NetworkedLearners? vision means that education providers, learning content providers, and the central education, culture and heritage agencies must also become networked. This will enable more efficient and effective learning, content access, and administration processes. It will create opportunities for learners to become more active participants in their own education. The work programme of proposed projects will help move the sector towards the common goal of improved learning quality, raising educational achievement and reducing disparity. ESAF’s unique contribution to this goal is to make it easier, faster and safer for people in the sector to exchange electronic information in a usable form. With such a broad scope, it is essential to implement ESAF as a series of manageable chunks and to be clear How ESAF Works collaboratively with agency project teams. The implementation Success Factors revolve around managing the impact of change on the sector — building people and process capability — rather than the technology. Achieving seamless access to distributed information sources potentially raises privacy issues. The sector must explore and resolve these early in the programme. The pay-off comes in how different communities of interest can make better use of sector information resources to guide their decisions and actions. |
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