The eLearning Roadmap group at Duke is examining Duke’s needs, getting input from faculty and students, and coming up with principles to make a recommendation for Duke’s next generation Learning Management System (LMS). Support for Blackboard 8 will eventually end and Duke will be required to upgrade to Blackboard 9, featuring a significantly different interface, or explore other popular LMS options. On Tuesday, December 8th and Thursday, December 10th, you will have an opportunity to see three of the available LMSs. All presentations will be in Perkins Library on West Campus in room 217.
At 10:00 am, Thursday, Dec 10, Gabriel Keith Harris, Assistant Professor,North Carolina State University, Department of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Science, is going to demonstrate his use of Moodle. He won the Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Technology Enhanced Courses. Please register for the Moodle demonstration.
At 1:30 pm, Thursday, Dec 10, we will have a remote demonstration of Blackboard 9 by faculty and administrators from Kettering University, focusing on how Blackboard 9 is used in real courses, with plenty of time for questions. Please register for the Blackboard 9 demonstration.
At 12:00pm, Tuesday, Dec 8 and at 3:00 pm, Thursday, Dec 10, we will have a demonstration of Sakai. Both presenters are instructors from UNC-CH. On Tuesday the presentation is by Josefa Lindquist from the Romanc Language department and on Thursday by Phillip Edwards, fromthe SILS program at UNC-CH. They will focus on how Sakai has been used in a course participating in the pilot program. Please register for the Tuesday Sakai presentation or the Thursday Sakai presentation.
As the work of the eLearning Roadmap group continues, we will schedule additional demonstrations of systems of interest in coming months.
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In response to the question from John: this particular set of demos focuses on three of the popular LMS products that are in use in higher education, but it is not an exhaustive list of the possible options. We expect to set up more demos in the coming months that represent the range of tools under consideration.
I’d like to put a vote in for mySakai… much nicer than the Moodle demos, and Bb to boot (please, do boot Bb). Desire2Learn doesn’t look like the right net to throw Duke into… the online demo was a toy and it’s a hard sell without actually spending some time playing with it (not watching someone else!)
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