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Changing to a New CMS: Short-Term Pain or Long-Term Suffering?

Session Details

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
10:30 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Room W224CD

Session Type: Enterprise Systems
Content Level: Intermediate
Intended Audience: Campus administrators, Frontline technology practitioners, IT directors and managers

Speaker(s)

  • Stephen Simon, e-Learning Systems Manager, Empire State College SUNY
  • Evelyn Kay Ting, Executive Director, GPC Online, Georgia Perimeter College
  • Session convener: Bill Balint, Chief Information Officer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

How do you move a thousand courses and 350 faculty, as well as countless processes and procedures, from one CMS to another? Also, how do you go about managing the yearly upgrades? We'll share our conversion and upgrade experiences: what worked, what didn't, and what we would do differently next time.

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