From the beginning this selection and evaluation process was going to be needs driven: by faculty, support staff, students. It is cruicial to involve the user community - how could we choose a product that is used in every Faculty across campus without consulting the very people that use it? On top of that, we have technical and administrative challenges in that a new LMS must work with the University's infrastructure, procedures and policies. In addition to that is the challenge of finding an LMS that not only has the flexibility to cater to different learning styles, but one that can then be managed efficiently. We don't want to spend all of our time running an LMS and no time interacting with those who use the sytem.
We have now started the process of creating surveys for faculty, staff, students, administrators and technical staff. Each of the surveys draws on the extensive feature list in the RFI. Wayne is busy investigating the use of an open source software package so that we can deliver the surveys online. Development may be a bit slow since we are going to be working away at the LMS evaluation process on top of our regular responsibilities. Despite that, we have a very talented group - I think we'll manage nicely.
Laila Bastedo
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