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A Change on the Horizon?

Dive into the evaluation process of Moodle, Sakai, and Blackboard CMS platforms at East Carolina University. Learn about the challenges, lessons learned, and faculty support strategies. Discover the results of the comprehensive platform comparison survey.

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A Change on the Horizon?

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  1. A Change on the Horizon? EDUCAUSE  June 2, 2008 East Carolina University

  2. East CarolinaUniversity • Presenters • Biwu Yang • Sharon Collins • Ginny Sconiers • Matt Long • Agenda • Purpose of the CMS Platform project • The process • Experiences Introduction

  3. East CarolinaUniversity • Presenters' comments reflect their experiences with each platform and this presentation is not designed to promote one platform over another. Fine Print

  4. East CarolinaUniversity • Review the features of CMS platforms • Blackboard Version at the beginning of the study was 6.3 • When? • Before major upgrades, the last time was 2004 • Why? • Two recommendations under the PACE study • Choices? • Bb and two front runner open source platforms Purpose of the CMS Study

  5. East CarolinaUniversity • Faculty • Seek faculty to participate • Ask them to teach one platform for a semester long course • Give them training • Technical • Setup servers, we support all three in our campus • Wrap up • Conduct survey at the end of semester and at the end of the project The Process

  6. East CarolinaUniversity Survey Sample

  7. East CarolinaUniversity • Spring 2007 • Set Up Moodle & Sakai Server Timeline • Summer 2008 • A Recommendation • Will be Made • Summer 2007 • 1st Moodle Faculty • Group Timeline • Spring 2008 • 2nd Sakai Faculty Group • Blackboard 7.3 Deployed • Final Comparison Survey • at end of Spring 08 • Fall 2007 • 1st Sakai Faculty Group • 2nd Moodle Faculty Group • Blackboard 7.1 Pilot Group

  8. East CarolinaUniversity Technical Support • Administrator for each platform • Student support for each platform • Virtual Servers  • ITCS Systems support

  9. East CarolinaUniversity • Group training sessions for each platform • One-on-one training as needed • Sakai/Moodle/Blackboard Cafe! • Email Follow Up • CMS platform website Training and Support

  10. East CarolinaUniversity • Time and Effort for all participants • Buy in from Academic and ITCS • Elmer Poe, Associate Vice Chancellor • Faculty participation long term • 18 months • Response time for issues • Upgrades • Blackboard mindset • Course design Challenges

  11. East CarolinaUniversity • 2006 • ECU begins using Moodle in 2006 with a request from faculty members •   5 members • 2007-2008 • Current course base including CMS project users • Approximately 130 courses • http://moodle.aos.ecu.edu Moodle

  12. East CarolinaUniversity Moodle Statistics

  13. East CarolinaUniversity Moodle Survey

  14. East CarolinaUniversity • Challenges • Support was a challenge • This is not the only thing we do • Instructional design for faculty Moodle-Challenges

  15. East CarolinaUniversity • Lessons Learned • Moodle is used because of “social” feel • Organization of material and the look and feel of content presentation • Obtaining faculty participation can be difficult • Need a good conversion tool • Faculty need assistance in reformatting their course for Moodle Moodle-Lessons Learned

  16. East CarolinaUniversity Sakai • Sakai 2.4 offered Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 • Project Sites for research and collaboration  • My Workspace area for personal file storage • Blackboard Conversion Tool to transfer content and Test/Quizzes • More Information: http://sakaiproject.org

  17. East CarolinaUniversity Sakai Survey

  18. East CarolinaUniversity • Assignment Feature • Resubmission • Ownership of Content • Tests/Quizzes • Feedback • Retake • Student Submission • Importing Issues • Ownership of Pools • Settings/Scores Sakai - Challenges

  19. East CarolinaUniversity • Communication, Communication… • Training is so important • Flexibility is a necessity • Faculty want consistency Sakai – Lessons Learned

  20. East CarolinaUniversity • Bb 7.2 • ECU upgrade policy • Production, Test, and Staging • 23 Courses,18 Faculty F2F and Online • Expectations - Full Use Blackboard

  21. East CarolinaUniversity • Faculty and Student support • New features training and support  • Updating the course sites w/ current enrollments • TA and GA support • Export/Import of courses Blackboard - Challenges

  22. East CarolinaUniversity Blackboard – Lessons Learned • Lessons Learned - 7.3 was much better than 7.2 • Biggest challenge was re-training faculty on the threaded discussion tool • Easy upgrade for students • High adoption of features

  23. East CarolinaUniversity Blackboard • Eventually moved production to 7.3  over the holiday break • Archived all sites and moved to 7.3 production for backup and use for any incompletes

  24. East CarolinaUniversity Blackboard Survey

  25. East CarolinaUniversity                           Three CMS Platforms Comparison Final Survey

  26. East CarolinaUniversity                           Three CMS Platforms Comparison RESULTS

  27. East CarolinaUniversity                           Three CMS Platforms Comparison RESULTS

  28. East Carolina University                           Three CMS Platforms Comparison RESULTS

  29. East CarolinaUniversity • Presentation to Associate Vice Chancellor • Presentation to DEAC • Presentation to IRCC Next Steps

  30. East CarolinaUniversity • It's funny because I really kind of liked Moodle equally as well as Blackboard, but find Bb much more intuitive and easy to use. I think it's because I haven't had enough time to play around with and really get to know Moodle. With that time, I might have ranked them differently. • While quantitative values are used, I found little difference between Moodle and Blackboard after one semester of teaching. • I had a little trouble with assessment tools in Moodle and Sakai so I didn't pursue their use. • I found Moodle very hard to use. • Many students have commented that they prefer moodle's layout because they can see the topic contents without the need to enter a specific folder. • Moodle is by far the most user-friendly and intuitive! • I HATE the gradebook in Sakai. It is not easy to use or intuitive. I felt as if there were several steps needed to accomplish one thing. • The gradebook for Moodle and Sakai was not used- external software gradebooks were used with ICTN3530 and ICTN3540. I have never used groups in any CMS. Comments from Faculty

  31. East CarolinaUniversity • I could never get the gradebook to weight the different types of assignments in either sakai or moodle, so used the blackboard grade book and reentered the data. • I explored the create/manage groups in Moodle and Sakai, but did not actually use them! • Moodle was by far the most flexible with regard to Content Organization and tools. • I found Moodle clunky when uploading content, but I probably don't know the shortcut. This deficiency is not enough to prevent me from using Moodle in the future. • I did not have any experience with RSS feeds, and I'm not sure about the HTML editor. • The communication features were the best part of Moodle and allowed me to highly individualize the course. I loved that! • Students were less likely to use Sakai's communications features. Students used Moodle's email and forum features extensively. • There needs to be a N/A category on here. • Moodle's email is problematic when there are a large number of students. The screen hangs until the emails have been sent- recommend the email module is backgrounded so the process is not visible to the instructor. More Comments

  32. East CarolinaUniversity • I only learned about the use of Blogs and Wikis; I did not use them. • I really liked the discussion forum grader in Moodle and found it easier to use than even the updated Bb7. •  All of my experience with Assessment has been with Blackboard only. However, I ranked Moodle / Sakai based on other features within the CMS. • I did not do alot of fancy testing, it was difficult enough to just get the basic test set up the way that you wanted. The test set up in moodle was difficult to navigate, but the feedback options to the students after the test was better. Sakai seemed to give us difficulty when students actually did the testing. • Assessment wasn't used in Moodle or Sakai, but Blackboard's assessment feature is very powerful. • Haven't really used a survey function! Thanks for doing this, and for all your help throughout the semesters! More Comments

  33. East Carolina University • Blackboard Contract is Up for Renewal • Blackboard will be continued • Academic Outreach will continue running multiple platforms • Courses run in Moodle for Summer 08 • Several projects will use Sakai Conclusion

  34. East Carolina University Questions ?

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