A Cat-Herding Tale: Forging a Single Course Management System

Session Details

Speaker(s)

• Paul Bergen, Senior Director of Academic Technology Services, University of Chicago
• Nick Brown, Senior Technical Project Manager, Harvard University
• Abdul Shibli, Instructional Technologies Specialist, Harvard University

Abstract

For the past three years an effort has been under way at Harvard to consolidate best-of-breed instructional tools from around the university into a single, integrated course management system. Harvard's schools are sharing resources; librarians and instructional technologists are cooperating; faculty are enthusiastic. How did we accomplish this? This tale will tell all.