{"id":19,"date":"2016-01-14T19:37:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T02:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/violaetec565a\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2016-03-30T06:28:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:28:45","slug":"delivery-platform-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/violaetec565a\/delivery-platform-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivery Platform Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reflection<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I found this weeks assignment to be very interesting. Working in groups can always pose challenges &#8211; time, availability and willingness to compromise are typically key factors to the success of a group. I feel that our groups worked extremely well together, using our strengths to benefit the group, allowing others to lead when appropriate and creating a positive atmosphere where each individual felt like their opinion was valuable.<\/p>\n<p>With respect to the actual creation of an LMS rubric, I found the assignment very rewarding. Professionally we just went through this process and we would have had a much better experience had we used such an evaluation criteria when we vetted possible LMS platforms. Bates and Poole (2009) provide a great general criteria for any piece of educational technology because it forces us to consider every facet of education when evaluating technology. By considering the LMS from a teacher&#8217;s, student&#8217;s, IT, administrative, and parent perspective it helps to identify they value of a piece of technology. Perhaps the most crucial finding was from &#8216;Selecting a Learning Management System&#8217; by Wright, Lopes, et al. (2014) which noted that the most crucial step in any selection process is to identify the key requirements which were non-negotiable, and other features which are not as essential. Too often we can become enamoured with some specific features of a new piece of software that we forget what we actually need the software to do. If we do not identify these &#8216;must-have&#8217; features at the onset of a search, we are bound\u00a0 to be unsatisfied with the result of the search.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bates, T., &amp; Poole, G. (2003). <i>Effective teaching with technology in higher education: Foundations for success<\/i> (1st ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wright, C., Lopes, V., Montgomerie, C., Reju, S., and Schmoller, S. (2014). Selecting a Learning Management System: Advice from an Academic Perspective. <i>Educase Review. <\/i>Retrieved from: <a href=\"http:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2014\/4\/selecting-a-learning-management-system-advice-from-an-academic-perspective\">http:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2014\/4\/selecting-a-learning-management-system-advice-from-an-academic-perspective<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection I found this weeks assignment to be very interesting. Working in groups can always pose challenges &#8211; time, availability and willingness to compromise are typically key factors to the success of a group. I feel that our groups worked extremely well together, using our strengths to benefit the group, allowing others to lead when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15818,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/violaetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/violaetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/violaetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/violaetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/violaetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/violaetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/violaetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/violaetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}