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EDUCAUSE Live! August 5, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT)

Selecting and Implementing a Course Management System for Your Campus

Special Guests

View Event Archives Clare van den BlinkClare van den Blink
Assistant Director, Faculty Support Services Academic Technology Services and User Support, CIT
Cornell University

Clare van den Blink is the assistant director of faculty support services for teaching with technology within Academic Technology Services and User Support, Cornell Information Technologies, at Cornell University. She is responsible for managing academic technology services and programs offered centrally to campus. She directs the implementation of pilot and research projects for new technologies and manages the services, programs, and staff for course technologies, including the Faculty Innovation in Teaching Program, CyberTower, and other instructional projects. Van den Blink has expertise in instructional technology development and the evaluation of instructional technology within a learning environment, as well as experience teaching in both traditional classroom and online formats. She has a BA in economics and an MA in adult education and is currently pursuing a PhD in education at Cornell.

Patrick MassonPatrick Masson
Chief Information Officer
SUNY College of Technology at Delhi

Patrick Masson is currently serving as the chief information officer for the State University of New York, College of Technology at Delhi. As CIO, Masson facilitates collaboration, emergence, and agility within Delhi's Campus Information Services (CIS), supporting enterprise and desktop applications, technical centers and labs, server and systems administration, network and telecommunications, online and distance learning, and the campus print shop, as well as user support services such as the help desk and training. His interests include agile methods (agile software development, Enterprise 2.0, agile project management), openness (open-source software, open educational resources, open standards, open governance), and online learning, as well as a variety of national and international projects including LAMS, Moodle, Sakai, Jasig’s uPortal, Bedework, OpenVES, the LMOS Project, and Eduforge. Masson has presented on agile methods, openness, and online learning at various events and conferences.

Donna C. LlewellynDonna C. Llewellyn
Director, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
Georgia Institute of Technology

Donna Crystal Llewellyn is the director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Georgia Tech, a position she has held since July 1999. She received her BA (major in mathematics and minor in economics) with high honors from Swarthmore College in 1980. She went on to earn an MS in operations research from Stanford University in 1981 and a PhD in operations research from Cornell University in 1984. Llewellyn then studied in Bonn, West Germany, with a National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship while on leave from a tenure track position in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech. From 1994 to 1999, she served as an associate chair of ISyE. Her current interests center around education issues in general and on increasing the participation of women and minorities in engineering and science in particular.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Clare van den Blink, Patrick Masson, and Donna Crystal Llewellyn, and the topic will be "Selecting and Implementing a Course Management System for Your Campus."

The course management system has become an integral part of institutional technology and academic operations, such that institutions invest a significant amount of time and effort in identifying, selecting, and implementing a CMS that best serves their needs. In this session, presenters from three different institutions will discuss why one chose Moodle, a second picked Blackboard, and a third selected Sakai. Each will discuss lessons learned in implementing and operating the chosen CMS, providing a basis for comparing and contrasting the three.

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Additional Resources

Blackboard at Cornell

Georgia Institute of Technology

SUNY Delhi
 
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