Online Enrollment System Chapter 1-3

Chapter 1

The Problem and Its Background

Introduction

Advancements in modern technology are at their highest peak. Along these advancements, the Internet has emerged as a powerful tool in dealing with information management. Nowadays, Web-based applications are widely used due to their ubiquity. “The Internet is neither an extraordinary communications tool nor revolutionary. It simply represents the current stage in the development of human capabilities through written language, which itself derived from the spoken form”. Given its current and potential growth, the Internet has become an avenue for e-commerce, offering transaction convenience and service efficiency. (Holmes, 2006).

Enrollment is an exciting day for every student in elementary, high school, or colleges. It is the most expected activity after summer vacation.  But contrary to the expectations of the enrollees, enrollment has posed problems and hassles because it has become tedious and taxing. Sometimes the students’ leave it to their parents and other members of the family to enroll them. The unsystematic procedure of school during enrollment is now dreaded by them. Instead student enrollees have to stand and wait of finishing it in an hour or two, sometimes students are made to come back the next day or even after a week so that they can be officially enrolled.

According to Forman (2007)” in his article “New Research Perspectives on

Mobility, Organizations, Systems and Technologies,” continuing innovation in technologies can lead to organizational changes that range from improvement of day-to-day operation and for easy access it provides for the end users. Many schools today have adapted this innovation in the offering of their services.

Among the Web-based services are Online Class Scheduling and Online Course System offered by the Western Mindanao State University (http://www.wmsu.edu.ph/) and Online Enrollment System of Cavite Maritime Institute and of Far Eastern University...