CAS/CMS/LWS

Do you fit into a "management system"?

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How I stopped worrying and learned to love CourseWorks.

Define Terms

• CAS – Course Administration System

• CMS – Content Management System

• LWS – Learning and Work Spaces

These make up what we currently think of as a “Course Management System”

• Course Management System is made up of component parts

• These parts interact and overlap• Broader acceptance of the system

takes time (but important topic on campuses)

CAS LWSCMS

=Course Management System like CourseWorks

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Development Progress

CAS

• More development here (who, what, when, where)

• Student management (feeds, grades, tracking, access)

• Departmental concerns (shopping, accreditation, dept info, requirements, reporting)

• Course information (syllabus, schedule, course evaluation)

CMS

• Moderate development (gray = room to develop)

• Asset management (images, audio, datasets, library reserves, portable documents, text-to-speech).

• Organizing the content. Portfolios (within course, throughout career). Course “Hard Drive” on each student’s desktop

• Discussion (PDA-based, email, IM, cell phone)• Lecture Notes (synchronous auto-capture, student

question capture)• Instant incorporation of digital texts, images, A/V.• Content not tied to class (plays across sections)

LWS

• Less development• Tools (annotate, analyze, juxtapose)

– MSE– Third Space– Annotation/notes software

• Exportability of tool to work within content (Comment board embedded in text, annotate directly “on” an image)

• Manipulate previous work to inform future work

CAS+CMS+LMS

Course Management System? More than that… is it a

Learning Platform?EduOS?