System Design and Case Study Reporting on AQASYS: A Web-based Academic Quality Assurance System

Abstract

The demands of modern education have evolved from a teacher-centric requirement to a learner-centric requirement. Knowledge, skill, and competence are the most sought-after attributes of a graduate. Features such as the objective focus of learning, curriculum planning, a set of high expectations, and extended opportunities to the learner after completion of education are at the center of all the planning. It is all about skill-oriented, outcome-based standardization that has been infused by the societal stakeholders into the modern global education system to create a work-ready human capital. In this paper, a software product for academic quality assurance is presented. The software provides a generic framework to any educational institution that operates to implement known international standards of education. The software accepts the data and computes the quality parameters as per the selected standards. It has an analytical module that provides summary analytics and generates the course reports in the given format automatically. The software is tested with a case study and results are presented. The paper also presents the system design approach with discussion on the technologies selected for the development.