Remote Access and Course Management Software

2012 ◽  
pp. 94-107
Author(s):  
Diane M. Fulkerson
Keyword(s):  
Remote Access ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
Course Management ◽  
Management Software ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Course Management Software

In addition to electronic reserves, instructors can link database materials through course management systems (CMS). This type of software allows faculty to link articles from databases into their course materials. This chapter provides an overview of different course management software and explains how instructors or librarians can link course materials into these systems.

Student and Faculty Satisfaction with Enterprise CMS

2011 ◽  
pp. 547-559
Author(s):  
Sunil Hazari ◽  
Kristin Caverly
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Faculty Satisfaction ◽  
Faculty Training ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Course Management ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Course Materials

Course management systems are becoming widespread in colleges and universities that offer distance learning courses and programs. As a result of high costs involved in deploying course management tools, it is important to determine student and faculty satisfaction with these systems to justify continued use and pedagogical value. A study was conducted in the Business School of a large university to determine student and faculty satisfaction with the enterprise version of Blackboard course management tool. Results of the survey found that faculty and student satisfaction with the course management system is high, the system is mainly being used as a convenience tool to distribute course materials, faculty training is needed that goes beyond tool use and incorporates pedagogical issues, and use of a portal should be further encouraged among students and faculty. Results of this study should be useful to educators interested in deploying enterprise course management systems in their institutions.

scholarly journals Transitioning From Blackboard To Moodle - Course Management Software: Faculty And Student Opinions

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis L. Payette ◽  
Rakesh Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Open Source Software ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Course Management ◽  
Management Software ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Student Opinions ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Course Management Software ◽  
Software And Hardware

Colleges and universities have increasingly invested in specialized software and hardware designed to enhance and facilitate the instructional process for faculty and students. One type of technological assistance is commonly known as course management software (CMS). Once learned, these CMS packages can greatly enhance and enrich the classroom experience and provide internet based access to course materials, assignments, grades, supplementary materials, such as quizzes, PPTs, and study aids. Like all moderately complex software packages (Blackboard is proprietary software and Moodle is open source software), there is a learning curve involved in mastering the functionality of each CMS. This paper examines the process of changing from one type of CMS (Blackboard) to another (Moodle). Faulty (FT & PT) and students (graduate & undergraduate) were surveyed to obtain opinions about the transition from one CMS system to another. The goal is to identify issues that may be addressed by targeted training and insights which would improve the transition process.

Copyright

2012 ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Diane M. Fulkerson
Keyword(s):  
Remote Access ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Course Management ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Print Materials

Copyright plays an important role in not only print materials one finds in a library but also the resources accessed from off-campus through online course management systems and electronic, or e-reserves. This chapter provides an overview of copyright as it pertains to remote access of library resources.

Evaluation of using Course-Management Software

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine D. Korchmaros ◽  
Nathaniel W. Gump
Keyword(s):  
Course Management ◽  
Management Software ◽  
Course Management Software

scholarly journals Central Queensland University's Course Management Systems: Accelerator or brake in engaging change?

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne McConachie ◽  
Patrick Alan Danaher ◽  
Jo Luck ◽  
David Jones
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
Course Management ◽  
Drivers Of Change ◽  
Domestic Students ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Strategic Position

<p> Central Queensland University (CQU) is a highly complex institution, combining campuses in Central Queensland and distance education programs for Australian domestic students with Australian metropolitan sites for international students and a number of overseas centres, also for international students. In common with many other universities, CQU has recently reviewed its course management systems (CMSs). In doing so, CQU has signalled its desired strategic position in managing its online learning provision for the foreseeable future.</p> <p>This paper analyzes that strategic position from the perspective of the effectiveness of CQU’s engagement with current drivers of change. Drawing on online survey results, the authors deploy Introna’s (1996) distinction between teleological and ateleological systems to interrogate CQU’s current position on CMSs – one of its most significant enterprises – for what it reveals about whether and how CQU’s CMSs should be considered an accelerator of, or a brake on, its effective engagement with those drivers of change. The authors contend that a more thorough adoption of an ateological systems approach is likely to enhance the CMS’s status as an accelerator in engaging with such drivers. </p> <P><STRONG>Keywords: </STRONG>Australia, course management systems, enterprise systems, open and distance learning, teleological and ateleological systems<BR> </P>

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