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Moving to an Open Source Course Management System

Session Details

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
2:40 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Meeting Room B, Level 3

Session Type: Track 1

Speaker(s)

Damon Blanchette, Database Programmer / Animator, Smith College
Joanne Cannon, Asst. Dir Educational Technology Services, Smith College
Session convener: Anne Scrivener Agee, Vice-Provost for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, University of Massachusetts Boston

Abstract

Smith College moved from Blackboard Basic to Moodle, an open source course management system. This session will discuss why we switched systems, how we evaluated options, who was involved in the decision-making process, how we implemented the change from semester to semester, and the results to date.

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