Category Archives: Course Management Systems

LMS Systems – Syllabus

Learning Management Systems: Are We There Yet?: Syllabus Interview with Ira Fuchs discussing learning (a.ka course or academic enterprise) management systems and the rationale behind the Sakai project. Just bookmarking this one..

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A Planning and Assessment Model for Developing Effective CMS Support

Doug Johnson of The University of Florida contributes a nice summary of support considerations for a course management system in the Spring 2004 Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration: A Planning and Assessment Model for Developing Effective CMS SupportThe journal … Continue reading

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A prescriptive study of early trends in implementing e-learning in the UK Higher Education Sector

From Distance Educator Daily News… A prescriptive study of early trends in implementing elearning in the UK. Will look at this later… just gathering the link.

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VLEs: Beyond The Fringe… And Into The Mainstream

Cool! I had not seen this online conference… 28 January – 4 February 2004 Online Ferl Conference Ferl: VLEs: Beyond The Fringe… And Into The Mainstream

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Paper on LMS & Libraries

Martha Whitehead, the Head of our Library’s Information Services Unit and a new weblogger on the UBC scene, has put forward a short paper called “Connecting Learning Management Systems and Libraries: Issues and Progress“, posted through her weblog “Libraries and … Continue reading

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New Tool: Online Users for WebCT

Development of tools that enable interesting new ways of supporting online teaching and learning is an area that in which UBC is strongly engaged. From the Admin side of the house comes a tool that will interest the WebCT support … Continue reading

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Stephen F Austin Faculty Development Article in Technology Source

I saw the link to this article in Online Learning Update… The latest Technology Source (Nov/Dec 2003) contains an excellent article by Gail Weatherly and Randy McDonald of Stephen F Austin: Where Technology and Course Development Meet http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=951 The authors … Continue reading

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WebCT Vista and SCORM: press release

Just a follow up to the posting of yesterday on WebCT Vista 2.1 and SCORM LMS-RTE3 — WebCT has issued a press release about the certification from Plugfest. What I found interesting is the teaser about their direction of compliance … Continue reading

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WebCT Vista 2.1 now a SCORM certified product

WebCT Vista 2.1 is now listed as SCORM certified (LMS-RTE3) on the ADL web site. See http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=certprodresults&certid=33.

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Digital Games Paper

From NAWeb comes a paper from Bonita Bray and Bob Boufford entitled, Having Fun: Using Games in CMS training workshops. Bonita and Bob have been conducting workshops with a Games flavour for several years now — always entertaining and quite … Continue reading

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