EDUCAUSE Review Articles, Instructional Technologies, and CMS

"Digital media can bridge these gaps between tradition and innovation. The Internet can support traditional methods of instruction by capturing lectures using streaming video and thus making the classroom available to students anytime and anywhere. But students need more than a simple duplication of their lectures. They need new study methods. "

The author makes the case for implementing web 2.0 features into course management systems (CMS).

Reflecting on their recent research study, a systems designer, a pedagogist, and a learning researcher discuss the advantages and shortcomings of learning/course management systems and also what faculty, students, and administrators want from the next-generation e-learning environment.

An e x c e r p t from the book Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy Patricia McGee, Ali Jafari, and Colleen Carmean, eds. The contemporary CMS is both a blessing and a curse for our evolving understanding of the value of e-learning technologies. A capabilities approach to learning can provide a forceful and intuitive means for envisioning what the next-generation CMS might look like.