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Battle of OSU's online resources - Katelyn Jackson, OSU Lantern
There's a new woman in town and she's taking online education by storm. Carmen, the newest addition to the Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR) family at Ohio State, debuted this summer. It offers students and teachers a variety of new features including: virtual chat and office hours, a personalized profile, as well as a preferences option that can change the format in which users view course e-mail or discussion pages. "Carmen's biggest advantage is that it's easy for people to use," said Joanne Dehoney, director of eLearning-TELR at OSU. "With WebCT, the usability characteristics were not as evident." Aside from being difficult to master, WebCT did not have "LOR," Learning Objective Repository, which allows users to manage content from one central location, Dehoney said. Unlike WebCT, Carmen was built on international standards that lets users transfer information across course management systems world-wide. Carmen also has a mechanism that automatically converts to the newest version of Carmen at each log-in.
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