On Monday morning of last week, the Michigan State University community (faculty, staff, and students) was greeted with the unfortunate news that ANGEL (our campus wide course management system) was ...

Emerging media and highly interactive technologies raise the bar for the development efforts vendors must make to remain current in a growing eLearning environment. Possibilities for improved user ...

Not sharing the CMS is a missed opportunity to bridge some of the gaps between instruction and administrative areas. For over a year I have been asking colleagues at universities around the country a ...

The CMS became widely available in 1997, and its popularity and use have increased dramatically ever since. These software solutions have been widely marketed to and adopted by colleges and ...

Molly Tipton failed at her first try last winter at putting classroom resources and homework assignments online—via a class MySpace page—after parents said they feared their children might get into ...

LectureShare has released an update to its free online course management system at lectureshare.com. New features include enhanced compatibility with common file types, a new student comments feature, ...

Mignon Conway Austin teaches language arts at Osceola High School in Kissimmee, Fla. Using the Moodle course management system can bring literature to life. After weeks of study, students need a fun ...

Faculty members also may use a Web-based learning management system (the college currently uses Lyceum). Bates College considers its learning management system an extension of the classroom, and ...

Bomb driver as far as possible and attack each pin with a wedge in hand. That’s the bomb-and-gouge method; the one that’s been preached as the “modern way”. But the more time I’ve spent hanging around ...

[Note: A version of this post was originally published in September 2009. This information is important enough to cause us to reach into the vault and pull it back out for public consumption.—Ed.] On ...