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The LMS group is enjoying a short lull from the hectic meeting schedule of the past two months.

The lull in meetings does not mean progress is being made. One Wednesday, January 17th faculty were emailed a survey to help the group better understand needs and experience with LMS. (contact James Fadden for access to this survey)

The results of the survey and knowledge gained at the Nercomp SIG on Moodle will be the topics of discussion for our meeting on Jan. 30. The meeting will start at 9:45am in Murray 116.

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We have spent the last four weeks looking at Moodle, Desire2Learn, Angel, and Sakai to build a common understanding of the tools and experience to guide the rest of the process.

In the coming meetings the group will focus more on the process including...
* How to confirm faculty needs and use of LMS?
* How to involve faculty effectively in this learning and decision process?
* Discuss reactions to options to this point to determine if we are ready to limit the field or continue evaluating 4 packages. A subpoint of this discussion is what do we need to learn to narrow our field and of the narrowed field to make a decision?

Well there is a little time to think about this as the next meeting is January 3rd at 10:00am in Murray 120.

Posted by James Fadden at 4:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The next meeting is 11/28/06 in Murray 116.

The agenda for tomorrow:

* discussion of our impressions of Moodle
* discussion of what we want Rick to announce at the faculty meeting about the group.

As I have not heard buzz about the Minutes Susan took I published them and they are now available online. lms: Minutes of 11-14-06 Meeting.

Posted by James Fadden at 4:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The LMS group will meet again on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 11:00 in the library conference room.

The meetings' agenda is:

1. discussing preliminary findings for Angel, Desire2Learn, Sakai and Moodle
2. confirming the time line
3. topics from those present

Posted by James Fadden at 11:24 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The group meets in the Library Conference Room at 11:00am to cover as much of the following as possible.

* Timeline - distribute as a draft that we can finalize at our second meeting
* Stakeholders - discussion who needs to be integrated into the decision
* Defining ourselves - we were each picked for a reason. what do we think we can bring to this process?
* Leading candidates - is it worth talking about everyone's gut feelings on which tools to even consider?
* Overview of issues from NITLE symposium? - faculty and student involvement, longevity, interoperability and scaleability, open/community source vs commercial, conversion and training
* Discussion of logistics and communications - Blogging, email, and meeting times
* Items from the Groups

Posted by James Fadden at 9:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The first meeting of the LMS group will be October 31, 2006 in the Library conference room from 11:00 to Noon.

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