Case Study:                 Virtual Learning Portal Project

The Task

The Department of Labor identified a need to partner with other organizations in higher education and to leverage these partnerships to promote their site and share their data sets.

The Client

The U.S. Department of Labor, America's Learning eXchange (ALX) is a national online college course catalog resource for students and people interested in continuing education.

The Situation

ALX wanted to help the Lexington Group of Virtual Universities (now known as American Council of Virtual Education [ACVE]) develop their own course offering portal containing only online course offerings.

The Action

Working along side the fledgling ACVE organization, we helped determine their goals and created a prototype web portal modeled after the ALX data structure to facilitate exchange of data. A working prototype web site with database was constructed and members' offerings were being populated into the database.

The Results

The ACVE web site and database was set up for serving their members' needs while being directly compatible with exchanging data with the ALX database.