Western Governors University

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The Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications was selected by the Western Governors Association to perform several tasks in support of the Western Governors University’s (WGU) mission to use advanced technologies to deliver educational programming and services. Tasks previously completed by the Western Cooperative are reviewing the “Best Practices in the Implementation of Advanced Educational Technologies” and developing an RFP soliciting educational programming.

The current contracted activities are the creation the specifications for WGU’s “Smart Catalog/Adviser” and the identification of the appropriate student services to be offered by the WGU. In defining the Catalog/Adviser, it became quickly apparent that an extra step was needed. The entire network that connects and serves all of WGU’s departments, local centers, education providers, and third-party service providers had to be defined. The Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications created the design specifications for this Campus Wide Information System (CWIS). This web-based network satisfies the needs of WGU users’ communications via a common wide area network (WAN) utilizing the Internet.