Title: DSS for academic workload management

Authors: Dejan Zilli, Nada Trunk-Sirca

Addresses: Nova Vizija, Information Engineering and Consulting, Vrecerjeva 8, 3310 Zalec, Slovenia. ' Faculty of Management Koper, University of Primorska, Cankarjeva 5, 6104 Koper, Slovenia

Abstract: Data from academic information system and other sources can be transformed and integrated into a data warehouse for the use of measuring, evaluating and planning academic workload. Our implementation case study involves a faculty with yearly workload of over 100,000 working hours. Results show that the process of academic workload management can be considerably improved with the use of an equity-weighing-based decision support system.

Keywords: academic workload management; DSS; decision support systems; management in education; data warehousing; WPS; workload planning system; academic information systems; higher education; university management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2009.025274

International Journal of Management in Education, 2009 Vol.3 No.2, pp.179 - 187

Published online: 18 May 2009 *

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