Administrative Systems for Universities Should Be More Than Just a Spreadsheet

Abstract

Abstract. The paper describes new approach in making the university better by IT, by deploying information system that allows every member of the academic community to create data, to find out information, to work with primary data and use information sources directly. Our experience comes from developing IS Masaryk University in Brno, with 20 thousand active users, 160 application packages and 100 thousand requests per day. The paper depicts the changes in the university life towards the information society, including the concept of student-driven education.