Open Meeting on Learning Management Systems (LMS): Open Meeting on Learning Management Systems (LMS) Instructional Technology Assistance Center April 24, 2006


Why an open meeting?: Why an open meeting? To communicate what ITAC has learned about products and needs To involve Faculty in product reviews or pilots To hear Faculty input and request feedback on other products


Faculty Survey 2005:Are you satisfied with Blackboard?: Faculty Survey 2005: Are you satisfied with Blackboard?


Comments from 2005 Faculty Survey (95 respondents): Comments from 2005 Faculty Survey (95 respondents) Positive Helpful Communication Tools - 20% Great Distribution Device - 17% Serves the Need - 12%


Comments from 2005 Faculty Survey (95 respondents): Comments from 2005 Faculty Survey (95 respondents) Opportunity for Improvement: Grade Book - 19% Quizzing - 14% Navigation - 8%


Would you be in favor of moving to a different course management system?: Would you be in favor of moving to a different course management system?


Current Blackboard Successes: Current Blackboard Successes Popular with students and faculty High adoption rate (1000+ courses) Easy to use / small learning curve Reliable system Good toolset


Current Blackboard (Basic) limitations: Current Blackboard (Basic) limitations No integration with campus systems No single sign-on No integration with add-on products Limited user role controls Limited file management Grade book limitations Quizzing complaints Dropbox limitations


Options: Options Commercial Product Blackboard Enterprise Desire2Learn Angel Open Source Moodle Sakai (Developer) ($$$$) Blackboard Basic


Open Source: Open Source Open Source is provided freely as Open Source software It is copyrighted Can copy, use and customize so long as we: provide the source to others not modify or remove the original license and copyrights apply this same license to any work we do


Criteria for LMS: Criteria for LMS Product must have: Wide toolset/features Intuitive design Ability to import Blackboard content Ability to integrate with campus systems Capability for single sign-on Hooks to Oracle portal system Reasonable price (TCO) 24/7 technical support Comparable administrative support requirements Product must be reliable, sustainable, secure


Comparison of LMS: Comparison of LMS Feature review at: http://www.edutools.info/course/compare


Plans for Coming Year: Plans for Coming Year 2006-2007 2007-?? Test Now-December


Moodle - www.moodle.org: Moodle - www.moodle.org Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment Started August 2002 by Martin Dougiamas of Australia Shared (community) development Extensive documentation and active support from community of users Open Polytechnic of New Zealand handles 45,000+ students and 6,500+ courses registered No cost for software but requires programmer/developer expertise Hardware costs remain


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Sakai - www.sakaiproject.org: Sakai - www.sakaiproject.org Open source Started January 2004 by Michigan, Indiana, Stanford, MIT Currently 70 partner schools Shared (community) development No cost for software but requires programmer/developer expertise Hardware costs remain No product support or training - although 3rd party consulting is possible


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What’s next?: What’s next? Test products Create Focus Group Collect additional feedback from faculty