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Replacing UW-ACE - LMS Selection

Replacing UW-ACE - LMS Selection. David Bean (DCE), Andrea Chappell (IST). Agenda. What’s an LMS? Why switch? (with some UW LMS history) Options (including “open”) Keeping up with standards What are others selecting? Project progress to date Next steps. What’s an LMS?.

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Replacing UW-ACE - LMS Selection

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  1. Replacing UW-ACE - LMS Selection David Bean (DCE), Andrea Chappell (IST) WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  2. Agenda • What’s an LMS? • Why switch? (with some UW LMS history) • Options (including “open”) • Keeping up with standards • What are others selecting? • Project progress to date • Next steps WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  3. What’s an LMS? • Learning management system • Provides educational tools, helps manage course operations, integrates other tools. E.g.: • Ed tools: discussion forums, quizzes, assignment uploads (dropboxes), feedback • Admin tools: course content creation and delivery, gradebook, announcements, calendar • Integration tools: Turnitin plagiarism, Wimba voice recordings, iClicker, Ares e-reserves WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  4. UW History of LMSes • UWone • UW homegrown system, with vendor “back-end” tools • Ran from 2000 – 2003 • Blackboard • UW ran (as back-end to UWone) 2000 – 2002 • Some groups used Blackboard without UWone • Angel • UW ran (as back-end) in 2003, part 2004 • Ran as full system 2004 to now WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  5. UW-ACE • ANGEL 7.3 • Currently supporting: • 27,000+ faculty and students • 3,000+ concurrent sessions • ~1,200 Face to Face, Blended and Online courses running per semester WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  6. Online Learning Environment Review • A previous project, October 2008 - May 2009 • Environmental scan, internal faculty and student feedback • Conclusion: continue to run ANGEL as our LMS as there is no significant appetite to change from it • Continue to augment with other tools as needed (iClickers, Wimba, Turnitin) WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  7. Why switch from ANGEL? • 6th May 2009, Angel Learning Inc. sold to Blackboard Inc. • “Best of” ANGEL features to be incorporated into Blackboard • Not sure which, and when • ANGEL product will be supported until 2013/2014 … in some manner • So, it’s Blackboard migration, or migration to another LMS … big changes either way WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  8. What are our options? • Choose another commercial LMS • Two biggest are Blackboard and Desire2Learn • Others include: eCollege, Atutor, SharePoint, … • Choose an open LMS • Two biggest are Moodle and Sakai • Others include: ELGG, LON-CAPA, … • Go Web 2.0 – Use FB, Wiki, Blog, Twitter, ... • Not entirely practical on own, but want to incorporate WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  9. Let’s talk “open” – what’s it mean? • Open source • Access to the end product source code • Generally royalty-free • Generally has a large community of peer support • Moodle and Sakai are free, but need to assess whether additional local or purchased support required • Can purchase support and also hosting from 3rd party vendors (Unicon, rSmart, Longsight) WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  10. Keeping up with Standards • Web Standards (Beyond IE and Firefox) • W3C: HTML, WCAG 2.0 • Accessibility and Mobile computing • Avoid required plug-ins (Java, ActiveX) • Ed/Tech Standards (IMS Global) • Interoperability – Between systems • Portability – Student & Course data • E.g., Common Course Cartridge, Quizzes (QTI), LTI, LIS WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  11. What are others selecting? Look at … • Overall market share of the LMSes • Adoption trends • http://www.deltainitiative.com/picts/pdf/deltainitiativelmswebinar09-2.pdf - August 2009 • Recent LMS selection results • http://www.masmithers.com/2009/09/20/public-lms-evaluations/ September 2009 WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  12. Recent LMS Selection Results • University of Canterbury, New Zealand • Chose Moodle over BlackBoard– October 2008 • North Carolina Community College System • Chose Moodleover BlackBoard - August 2009 • McMaster University • Chose BlackBoard - April 2008 • Guelph • Chose Desire2Learn(already using in their distance dept) • Laurier is in RFP process right now • Desire2Learn or BlackBoard? WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  13. Project progress to date • UW Team selected (link) and meetings • ITMS, CTE, DCE, OPD, Library, Faculty • Charter: Make recommendation to UCIST • Time line (approx.) • Investigate options, Gather input, Host pilot, Recommend, Migrate, Deploy • Spring 2012? • Criteria • Using workflow scenarios, not just feature lists WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  14. Some Criteria • Course Administration, Assessments, Teams, Online Discussions, Gradebook, Assignments, Course content, Communications and Collaborations, System Administration, Infrastructure Integration, Accessibility, Standards compliance, Adaptability, Programmability, Automation… WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  15. Next steps • Create a Request For Proposals (RFP) • Important scenarios and critical features • Ask vendors to respond to how to support those • Who answers for the open systems? Support entities, perhaps. • Initial testing on product sandboxes • Hold campus info sessions • Open forums • Perhaps survey • Other info dissemination and feedback forums WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  16. Find out more, even get involved! • How to participate … http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/projects/lms_selection • Contact me chappell@uwaterloo.ca WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

  17. That’s it … Questions? WatITis | Strengthening Collaboration | December 8, 2009 | Replacing UW-ACE

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