Abstract
Agriculture education in India is unique with a flexible course credit system.The workflow behind this unique education system needs customizededucation management information software for educational planningand management with a reduced process time in education workflow. Thispaper put forth a prototype of the Education Management InformationSystem (EMIS) developed for Forest College and Research Institute (FCRI),Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Mettupalayam. Three-tier architectureis used for FCRI-EMIS to be an effective distributed client/server system.The development is carried out in an open-source development platform.FCRI-EMIS is developed with four modules namely: College ManagementInformation System, Degree Management Information System, SyllabusManagement Information System and Student Management InformationSystem to access, generate a report and analyze the identified entities. Thedeveloped prototype is executed and found an effective tool for decisionmaking towards education planning and management
Highlights
Agricultural education in India develops human resource capabilities to meet the future challenges of the agricultural industry
Education Management Information System (EMIS) data may be used at all administrative levels in various types of decisions such as situation analysis, target setting, budget preparation, formulation and appraisal of projects, textbooks purchase, construction of classrooms, staring of new programs, and provision of basic facilities
The majority of data users at all administrative levels were satisfied with the quality of EMIS data, level of satisfaction with quality of data varied across administrative levels
Summary
Agricultural education in India develops human resource capabilities to meet the future challenges of the agricultural industry. Decision making and planning process plays a vital role in educational planning and management to strengthen the education system (Hollands and Escueta, 2020). The decision-making process is data driven (Husein, 2014). The data pertained to education workflow has to be collected, organized, stored, analysed and made accessible to all the functionaries involved in the education system (Vijaya et al, 2016). Education institutions aim to provide advantage for the students through the education planning and management by analyzing the data in hand. To develop a prototype of management information system that collects, stores, processes, analyses and disseminates FCRI education workflow information for educational planning and management.
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