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The strategy meets the needs of a number of audiences. It defines standards for how the various parts of the sector will do business with each other. It gives individual agencies and sector participants the flexibility to make business decisions that best meet their own local needs and priorities. It raises their awareness of what’s already in place or planned.
It helps all classes of Networked Learners to:
- make better, more informed decisions
- see issues from a broader sector perspective
- consider the wider impacts of local decisions
- understand one another’s roles and responsibilities
- play by the rules and adhere to the standards
- Learners and potential learners
- Learners have access to super-services integrated around their needs. Better access to information about available options allows learners to choose better learning pathways. More consistent terminology across providers raises information quality and enhances learners’ confidence in the sector.
- Tertiary education institutions
- Better information helps providers extend their reach—improve the match between offerings and learner needs. It helps them deliver better outcomes through better fit of students to courses. It lowers transaction costs in dealing with central agencies and allows more flexible learning processes.
- Owners of processes that cross organisation boundaries
- Process owners can find out how to access information and link different process strands together. It facilitates more efficient investment in information management, enables cost savings and avoids cost shifting. It supports unified data collection and distribution.
- Holders of shared information sets
- Information owners can find out how to gain reciprocal value by collaborating, interoperating and exchanging information with others. It supports the shift from separate organisational databases to linked sector databases. It gives a wider range of people access to tertiary sector information.
- Researchers and other consumers of tertiary information
- Information consumers can find out where information of interest is held and how they can access it in a convenient form. It makes it easier to join information from multiple sources to reveal patterns of meaning. To consumers, tertiary information appears to come from a single source.
- IT governance boards and Chief Information Officers
- People with IT governance responsibilities can ensure their own agencies’ initiatives comply with sector policy directions. It helps them meet local and sector-wide standards. It gives them a framework for promoting and achieving common interoperability principles.
- IT planners for tertiary education providers
- People with IT planning responsibilities can use the strategy to decide how to make their own data available to, and how to access data held by, others. It informs their IT investment strategies and priorities. It enables them to make available and access currently hidden data sources.
- Central government monitoring agencies
- The strategy can act as a model for other sectors to use. It shows how to develop and implement a collaborative approach to information sharing. It leads to simplified programme and strategy evaluation. It improves the quality of evidence, making it easier to evaluate and report on policy outcomes.
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