Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Sunday, May 12, 2002

http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6334

Approaching Academic Digital Content Management
Stephen R. Acker, Ohio State University

Content management systems can be used not only to publish and maintain course content electronically, but perhaps more significantly, to help coordinate the use of learning objects across disciplines or levels and to tailor content to meet individual student needs. An increasing amount of digital content—from individual simulations on cellular biology to complete online courses—is being produced by higher education institutions. There is an unprecedented opportunity to reuse or share this content between course sections, in other courses, and even among institutions. Yet, regardless of the model used to generate the digital content—whether created by faculty, by instructional design teams, or through departmental templates—most institutional structures and even course management systems have typically facilitated content sharing only within individual course boundaries....

 



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